Upstairs at The Art Shop, Cross Street

Opening SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2-4pm

paintings & sculptures

Kate’s approach to painting has always been process driven. A fast conversation between mark and response allowing subconscious narrative to bubble up through the layers. Works often teeter somewhere between abstraction and figuration, on the brink of knowable.

‘I’ve learnt my process invariably leads to a kind of enigmatic self-portrait making. The resulting work is at root my desire to render as authentically as possible what it is to be me; a human – in a house of blood and bones with its internal light show of chemicals firing chaotic highs and lows.’

Kate studied Fine Art at Cardiff and Wimbledon School of Art graduating in 1996. She paints from her home studio near Abergavenny in the Black Mountains of South Wales.

 

beautiful short loser

Stand back, I’m a loser on a winning streak.

got your wedding dress on backwards & playing air guitar on this dirt road.

I taste my mouth the most &, let me tell ya, what a blessing.

The most normal things about me are my shoulders. You’ve been warned.

Where I’m from it’s only midnight for a second the trees look like grandfathers laughing in the rain.

For as long as I can remember l’ve had a preference for mediocre bodies, including my own.

Tell me this, why is the past tense always longer?

Is the memory of a song the shadow of a sound or is that too much!

Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I imagine Van Gogh singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” into his cut ear & feeling peace.

Green voices in the rain, green rain in the voices.

Oh no, the sadness is intensitying. How rude

by Ocean Vuong (excerpt)

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