Residency Dates
20 - 27 April 2023
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Testimonial
"Oh, how I miss Xenia - Xenia was a magical space to retreat to.
Peaceful, nourishing, sweet air, spring, intensive, restful, water running, woven shelter, pink skies, hares, spiders, birds, drawing in the rain, reading early in the morning, making late at night, talking, sharing, manifesting, thinking of futures, finding dried spiral shaped twigs, wearing costumes, stitching, thinking, sure, unsure, doubt, certainty, clarity, absolute clarity, haze, post covid, meeting, swapping, staying open, tasting, focussing, lost, holding stones, bare feet stretching, painting, maquettes, listening, stars, moon, inducing dreams, remembering to be."
Biography
Born
1982
About
Working across painting, drawing, ceramics, print, costume, performance, hand weaving and jacquard tapestry, Sarah Kate’s practice is crystallised around the notion of ‘liveness’. Using the motif of animal mimicry, she makes work that shape shifts, uses camouflage commands and mimics posture gestures to keep her work in flux and LIVE!
She employs materials that similarly appear, LIVE, such as holographic surfaces, water, strobe lights, glass prisms, ceramics for smashing, shrink-wrap, fire, text, collaborators, performers, mirrors, and a stage.
Education
Sarah Kate completed her MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2010, and received her practise-based PhD from the University of Leeds in 2017. She is a Senior Lecturer of BA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.
She has staged performances at major international arts institutions (in collaboration with the choral ensemble MUSARC); Palais de Tokyo (Paris) for the DO DISTURB Festival 2017, Royal Academy of Arts (2018), Museum of London (2016). Exhibitions include ‘Iris’, a solo project exhibited at Baltic39, Newcastle, (2016), ‘Not Painting’, Copperfield Gallery, London (2021), ‘Is the Image Even Human?’, New Dehli (2023). She Curated ‘Painting in Time’ which toured from Tetley, Leeds (2016) to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA (2016) and included, artists Yoko Ono, Polly Apfelbaum, Lisa Milroy, Hayley Tompkins.
In 2019, during a residency at the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, her research focused on the Stage Curriculum as she developed her own performances, costumes and scores. She is Artist in Residence at West Dean College, Chichester, working within their archive of Surrealist artworks, where she is producing a ‘ballet’ on the subject of animal mimicry. Having received funding from Arts Council England, she is developing a Set to ‘house’ her works in-between moments of live activation when costumed performers move her artworks.
Residency dates
21st – 27th April 2023
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Born
1982
Education
Sarah Kate completed her MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2010, and received her practise-based PhD from the University of Leeds in 2017. She is a Senior Lecturer of BA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.
She has staged performances at major international arts institutions (in collaboration with the choral ensemble MUSARC); Palais de Tokyo (Paris) for the DO DISTURB Festival 2017, Royal Academy of Arts (2018), Museum of London (2016). Exhibitions include ‘Iris’, a solo project exhibited at Baltic39, Newcastle, (2016), ‘Not Painting’, Copperfield Gallery, London (2021), ‘Is the Image Even Human?’, New Dehli (2023). She Curated ‘Painting in Time’ which toured from Tetley, Leeds (2016) to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA (2016) and included, artists Yoko Ono, Polly Apfelbaum, Lisa Milroy, Hayley Tompkins.
In 2019, during a residency at the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, her research focused on the Stage Curriculum as she developed her own performances, costumes and scores. She is Artist in Residence at West Dean College, Chichester, working within their archive of Surrealist artworks, where she is producing a ‘ballet’ on the subject of animal mimicry. Having received funding from Arts Council England, she is developing a Set to ‘house’ her works in-between moments of live activation when costumed performers move her artworks.