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Kate Walters, I can't hear you (detail), watercolour, gouache, oil and graphite on shellac, 2006.
Kate Walters works with drawing to explore the body and how it helps us to understand or give meaning to our lives.
I can’t hear you explores aspects of solitariness and the feeling of being separate: the sense of hearing, of being heard, of hearing oneself, of being able to hear another, or perhaps not wanting to hear. As she works Kate tries to inhabit a place which Agnes Martin calls "free and easy wandering"; that is, she allows her drawings to find their own way to the surface of the paper. Kate has shown extensively in the UK and she is currently developing gallery contacts in Berlin and Frankfurt. In 2004 she received an Arts Council England
Award and in 2003 her work was shown in the
Jerwood Drawing Prize. She has a BA in Fine Art from
Brighton University, and a postgraduate diploma in
Fine Art from University College Falmouth. Recent projects
include: a travel bursary from ACE and Creative
Skills to visit the Venice Biennale and Berlin; Artsway,
New Forest; Phoenix, Brighton; Cupola Gallery and
Sefton Open; forthcoming include ‘Approaching Rapture’
and ‘Art Now Cornwall?’ at Goldfish Contemporary
Fine Art in Penzance; and Todd’s Gallery in
Hastings in September.
Kate is showing at the Tricycle Gallery in Kilburn with Orly Orbach in ‘I am Thought, Shadow, Bone’ until March 3rd 2007. See www.tricycle.co.uk
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