Art Practice

Born in Ireland, Kate studied Media Art at TU Dublin and Fine Art & Education at NCAD, specialising in printmaking. She is a visual and sound artist, working through the mediums of print, sculpture and digital media. She is interested in revealing the intrinsic connection between changing landscapes and the human psyche, exploring social histories and the lived experience of past, present and future. 

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"Fragments of history are infolded into me, history of landscape, language, fairy tales, blood, ancestors. It’s not static, it’s a constant rolling process. Through print, sculpture and digital media, my art practice explores the symbiosis between the body and earth and the enmeshment of land and spirit. Employing technology within my work, it attempts to act as alchemy, a seemingly magical process of metamorphosis and creation, transforming an invisible pull or force between humanity and nature into a visible, malleable, sculptural material. By engaging with video and audio work, the possibility of showing something else is presented,  something more than what is, a deeper viewing or understanding, a window into numerous temporalities.

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My current art practice is a complex meditation on the relationship between place, time, history and identity, examining temporality, the state of existing within or having some form of  relationship with time and place. Through experimentation and exploration of media including drawing, print, photography, digital collage, audio and film, the work attempts to blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, leading the viewer to a mysterious, fragmented narrative and to a certain degree, fairy-tale-ish world, that can be at times uneasy, uncannny and nostalgic."