Kate’s practice involves the use of a combination of mediums and processes. Central to her work is the compression of ideas and mediums into a new image or form, with influences including pattern, repetition and the hand made. Working in both 2D and 3D, Kate creates forms that are often detailed, graphic, and ambiguous in their materiality.
Kate often begins by creating digital or physical collages from her own photographs and collected imagery. From those she constructs paper sculptures and re-photographs them, using the resulting images as sketches for paintings and drawings. The characteristics of paper and the printed image, as well an exploration into colour, pattern and proliferation, are reoccurring themes in Kate’s work.
Through the process of transforming and re-contextualising source imagery, she breaks narrative elements down into colour and form, releasing new meanings in the process.
