vomiting life 2016 mixed media W38 x D34 x H110 cm My art practice often starts from an emotional experience which could not be verbally processed, and hence had remained unresolved. I am interested in how materials, colour, surface and form translate this non-verbal experience into a physical reality which can be shared with the […]
Chelsea Arts Club Trust/Barry Flanagan Award for PhD study I have been artist in residence in the architect Erno Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower and my research project is an unofficial account of the past, present and future uses of what to some is an architectural paradigm and to others a monstrosity. “The funding from the Trust […]
Chelsea Arts Club Trust Research Fellow at CHELSEA space 2014 – 15 “I am extremely grateful for the opportunity afforded to me by the Chelsea Arts Club Trust to professionalize my activities over the last 12 months. It has enabled me to find a way of working in which I can make my participation within […]
Chelsea Arts Club Trust Roboz Scholarship The Roboz Fellowship has been an amazing opportunity; by receiving this award I have been able to explore and develop as a painter and I am now able to contextualise my practice as an artist within contemporary Visual culture.
Chelsea Arts Club Trust/Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Studio Award – Fashion Studio While at Central St. Martins, I specialised in using traditional, hand-craft techniques such as knit, hand pleating, smocking and crochet. My research over my past three collections has focused on ideas of Sunday Best, children’s clothes and interesting fabric manipulation. In all […]
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea/Chelsea Arts Club Trust Studio Award Since graduating from the Royal College of Art it has become increasingly difficult for me to keep moving forward in my career as an artist, given how much time I have to spend making money to support my practice and remain here in the […]
An amalgamation of moving image, text and research, my practice interrogates the universally central roles of labour and language. It operates as an open and multi-faceted study that poses questions and maps associative elements to articulate both subjective ideas and objective information. Combining familiarity, alienation and humour my work aims to generate a conversational relationship […]
My work explores the interaction between representational and abstract painting. Formally speaking, I use forms and shapes found in the everyday living environment and exploit the alienation effect that these forms have during the painting process. Painting allows for questions pertaining to illusion, isolation and imitation to be asked. What do we know about a […]
Title: Found Made Date: 2015 Medium: C-type print Dimensions: 30 x 40 x 15 cm www.katjalarsson.com
I seek to explore concepts of the abstract maternal and the continued lack of feminine definition of female experiences, through the medium of paint. Nightmarish and uncomfortable, the visual landscape within my painting is the resting place of sororal characters born from imagery found in photographs from my own childhood, old Hollywood glamour film stills, […]
