Kathryn is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Lekwungen Territory/Victoria, BC, whose creative practice is heavily influenced by her connection to land and living things. While her vivid paintings often verge on abstraction, she strives to balance the aesthetic with an underlying sense of environmental advocacy and awareness towards nature. Her recent work investigates the human experience of nature through an analysis of cultural and psychological factors. Utilizing her background in neuroscience, Kathryn’s oil paintings offer a critique of our cognitive and visual experience of nature by illuminating attentional biases we may hold against plants. Her creative process involves collaging, distorting, and manipulating imagery of nature, to question what we pay attention to and what we recognize. Kathryn is also interested in the status of nature within Western culture, and her work often references imagery of digital culture, consumerism, and the domestic. Her paintings shed light on the ways we consume and encounter nature, and by doing so, attempt to foster more mindful relationships with our natural environment.
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Education
2021 B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting, OCAD University, Toronto
2016 B.A. in Psychology and Neuroscience with a Minor in Art History, Dalhousie University, Halifax
Solo Exhibitions
2022 but you can't breathe their exhales through a screen, 4 Corners Community Collective, Victoria, BC
Group Exhibitions
2022 The Practice, Habit Coffee Chinatown, Victoria, BC
2021 The Meta Biennale, virtual exhibition hosted by ArtGate VR and Sweetpea Gallery
2021 reVisiting, Esquimalt Community Arts Hub, Victoria, BC
2021 From the Ground Up, Between Pheasants Gallery, New Liskeard, ON
2021 Keep it Alive, Gallery 1313, presented by Sweetpea Gallery, Toronto, ON
2021 GradEx 2021, OCADU Digital Exhibition
2021 Display Case at Cedar Hill Arts Centre, Saanich, BC
Awards
2021 Drawing and Painting Medal, OCAD University
2021 Nora E. Vaughan Award, OCAD University
2021 John Madott Fine Art Award, OCAD University
Press
2022 Unwritten: Stories of Significance, Rogers TV Interview
2021 CBC Hi, Art Weekly Newsletter
2021 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 2021 TD Artist Guide
Projects and Collaborations
2022 Interior lobby display at SLATE Asset Management, Toronto, ON
2021 Beer label design for Collective Arts Brewing, Toronto, ON
2021 Toronto International Design Centre's "Back to School" Design Fair, Mississagua, ON
Collections
2022 RBC Corporate Arts Collection