Artist Profile - Kate Mackeson
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Biography
Kate Mackeson is a Bristol based artist who graduated from the University of Wales, Cardiff with a first class BA in Contemporary Textile Practice in 2006. She has exhibited at the Art Trades Centre in Bristol and the Millennium Centre in Cardiff; since her Degree Show in June 2006. Kate is emotive in her work, and is particularly drawn to the surreal interwoven with reality and everyday life. She finds imaginative and creative ways to convey her ideas, chiefly through drawing, relying on narratives and social uniform. She cites ‘outsider’ art as a strong influence in her work.
Artist Statement
My drawings deal with suspension, emotionally and physically; they derive from uncertainties, growth, character and fallible truths. I enjoy the seduction of drawings and how they can assume any identity or idea, they interact and continually grow past and beyond the paper they were drawn on. All my drawings derive from present interpretations almost unconsciously; they deal with intensity and material. I use pattern and repetition to mimic ideas, and the irregularities of problems we pass through, though seemingly similar and attached. The hand has become a strong abstraction within my work; it interprets many ideas such as touch, ownership, personal space and articulation. Most importantly my primary tool.