KATE KNIGHT
Contemporary Artist
1978, UK
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Historically, craft and tradition have played a vital role in establishing the feminine psyche, and it is these motifs that ferment the roots of the work.
Developments into exposing the psyche by material means, engage with specific made from scratch materials, for instance; genuine gesso is perceived and treated as the skin of the painting; and establishes an agency that operates visually in unveiling the hidden and silent self, a portrait as such...
A strong focus is placed upon catharsis and wish fulfilment. Painting out and sculpting things that are too difficult to speak of, and things that cannot be altered in this reality. Perfuming the spirit of the work, is a magical aesthetic, in which colour brings forth a witchy otherness. However, grounding the experience are gestures that physically bring us back down to earth, with bite, and hidden in the powdered plume, lays subversive form. Affording these reverent and sacrilegious acts to rub up against one another, in humming vibration.
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Dr Maria Walsh said of my work at Flowers ‘Artist of the Day’, 2010, “Knight’s work is like a feminine deconstruction of Francis Bacon, it isn’t just painting, it’s installation”.
Knight graduated with an MA (distinction) fine art from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2021, as well as, being awarded the Eversheds Painting Prize upon the BA (Hons) from Chelsea School of Art and Design in 2005.
Most notably her work was selected for Artist of the Day, at Flowers Central, Cork Street, London, as well as, selected the runner up for the Marmite Prize for Painting 2010. She was selected by Rebecca Wilson for the ‘Burning Bright’ Emerging Artists from Saatchi Online, 2012, Hyatt, London. Recently Knight was selected for The ING Discerning Eye 2020 and Delta Gamma @ Saatchi curated by Zavier Ellis for The Contemporary Art Academy 2022.
Please see CV for further information.