Kate Langrish-Smith South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
My practice sits at the intersection of art and design, exploring the fusion, balance, and harmony of textured, poised, haptic and chromatic compositions, images, and sculptural assemblages; what I like to refer to as ‘tactile tensions.’
I am interested in bodies of matter, which allude to, or exist in relation to the site of the human body, sculptural ‘moments’, some temporal, some fixed; suggestive forms that explore the desirability of materials and shape. I seek to challenge and complicate the symbolic function and value of various body related objects that draw my attention; from chance encounters and observations to more entangled and historically ambiguous forms. Within the realms of physical culture, beauty, and fashions, surprising and compelling ‘stuff’, ‘things’ and traditions are investigated. I am exploring the materiality, form and tactility of objects and their relationship to the body. How bodies of matter (both human and material) conform and perform.
