Kate Harding
Artist
Kate finds inspiration from everyday 'stuff.' Seemingly banal and often over looked objects become transformed into art objects through her application of traditional techniques in highly original ways. Found objects become deified, having their portraits painted in oils and sliced bread into romanesque mosaics. After her interdisciplinary grounding at Winchester School of Art she is comfortable working in an eclectic way with drawing, painting, video and sculpture featuring with equal weight in her porfolio. Her sculpture develops from conversations with friends as in 'Mothers Pride - A Slice of family Life' an installation about three generations of sons from a local family, their military service and the implications of this on the home. Video installations spring from hypothetical design briefs for psychiatrists couches as in 'Projector Seat'. This work gained her first class honours in her degree. Large scale drawings originate from box brownie images from the past lives of others found in flea markets. Physically immmersive camera obscuras, a series of installations titled 'ICON', reference the relationship between the physical (objective) and spiritual (subjective)establishing an enquiry into the very reality of making art and the perception of the finished 'art object'.
'Host' a site responsive installation, exhibited in Winchester Cathedral as part of the 'Re-imagining Treasures of Hyde Abbey' or Hyde 900 arts initiative was made by printing onto sliced white bread to form a mosaic. The piece was conceived to describe the spiritual as well as the literal food provided for the community by the monks at the Hyde Abbey nine hundred years ago. It is a monumental piece which delighted the public, also bringing her extensive media attention. This piece is now installed at the University of Winchester continuing to enrapture its viewers with the improbability of it existence.
Time and time again the works develop from three siginificant themes. The body, our physical relationship to space and time, a desire to describe a further 'spiritual' dimension through the work and mans relationship to nature. On this site there are a selection of images illustrating recent key works.
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