West Norfolk Artists Association

Kate Kelly

Paintings

Artist's Statement

Statement Of Practice: A Collaborative Practice.

Portraits, people, painting, audio, voice, narrative. Navigating the spaces women occupy.

The foundation for my work begins with intersectional feminism and biographical experiences, incorporating aspects of both my research and practice. The women I represent are active, with a voice and given physical space for their narratives. I'm exploring the female experience through visual and audio representation, integrating elements of subjects' identities using patterns, tattoos and jewellery. Using photography and drawing as a prompt to capture staged and natural moments, my paintings are about subjective embodiment, featuring a person as an individual instead of an object.

I integrate biographical experience with social criticism, using feminist theory to underpin and critically evaluate.

For me, re-examining and giving a platform to the female experience from women's perspectives is still radical.

Through anchoring myself to a specific field via targeted projects such as SURGE III and Women of the NHS, I have developed a wider range of methodologies. However, process and materiality are significant. Working with egg tempera, watercolour and coloured pencils, I allow the viewer to see the journey of the painting and the movement of the line’s underneath, leaving some areas 'unfinished' while others are more laboured: creating a space for imagining new feminist possibilities to continue.

Contact this Artist

Email: katekellyart@hotmail.com

Web: www.katekellyart.co.uk

Instagram: Katekelly5015