Kate Brinkworth: All Or Nothing

Alon Zakaim

Fine Art

KATE BRINKWORTH

KATE BRINKWORTH

Alon Zakaim Fine Art 30 Cork Street, London, W1S 3NG

Front cover: Ten and Eight Ball (2008) (detail) Opposite page: Sapphire Blue (2010)

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Kate Brinkworth undertook her artistic training at Nottingham Trent University, and graduated in 2000 with first class honours. She rapidly began exhibiting her work, and her first major solo show took place in 2001 at Britart Gallery, London. Her success led to further exhibitions across the country and abroad, and she began featuring regularly in several international art fairs and won numerous awards. These include the Westgate Prize (2004), and a commission from GUS headquarters in Mayfair.

Kate Brinkworth’s painting stems from her curiosity in films, particularly those directed by or in the style of Hitchcock. She is particularly inspired by effects created through experimentation with focus, and repeatedly photographs her still lifes with various shutter speeds, camera angles and lighting to find the optimum composition. Brinkworth’s style uses the language of film, advertising and photography to create these unique images; her visits to Las Vegas have developed her interest in the representation of objects associated with vice. Painted in varying degrees of focus, her expert technique deceives the viewer into believing the work is a photograph, due to the realism of her subject matter and style, and the thin application of paint which gives a smooth, glossy finish. It is only on closer inspection that the viewer realises the work is entirely painted by hand.

Brinkworth’s works challenge our perceptions of the image; in our contemporary world inundated with visual stimuli, she painstakingly labours over her compositions to make us look at these familiar objects in a new way. In a parallel challenge to contemporary conventions her technique mirrors the Renaissance mural technique of the ‘cartoon’, a drawing which would be pricked along the lines and dusted with charcoal to transfer the skeleton of the image to the wall. Brinkworth similarly maps out her photographs onto both sides of sheets of paper and rubs the reverse to move the image onto the canvas.

Once the composition is mapped out, she begins working into the picture in oil using her distinctive technique.

The artist in her studio

Kate Brinkworth lives and works in Staffordshire; alongside her studio practice she teaches painting techniques to students in a local college, and holds a long term artist in residence position. She exhibits regularly both in London and internationally, and over recent years has built a strong reputation in both the primary and secondary markets within the contemporary art scene.

Bank of England (2009). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm

California Dice (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm

Tennessee Gold (2010). Oil on canvas. 120 x 80cm

Green Six (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm

Welcome to Vegas (2010). Oil on canvas. 180 x 135cm

Five Coke Bottles (2009). Oil on canvas. 170 x 115cm

Four Four Jack (2008). Oil on canvas. 90 x 135cm

Harvey’s 1860 (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm

Jelly Belly and Cola (2008). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm

Sapphire Blue (2010). Oil on canvas. 120 x 80cm

Blue Dice (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm

Red Spotted Coke (2008). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm

King (2008). Oil on canvas. 120 x 180cm

Purple Four (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm

Ten and Eight Ball (2008). Oil on canvas. 163 x 224cm

Tall Coke (2009). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm

Golden Dollar (2010). Oil on canvas. 180 x 135cm

Rolling Green Dice (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm

Triple Distilled (2010). Oil on canvas. 130 x 90cm

MGM Grand (2009). Oil on canvas. 163 x 224cm

Hard Rock, Lady and the Joker (2009). Oil on canvas. 90 x 135cm

Coca Cola Logo (2010). Oil on canvas. 35 x 50cm

Coca Cola Mark (2010). Oil on canvas. 35 x 50cm

Rolling Rock Stars (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm

ÂŁ50 (2008). Oil on canvas. 50 x 75cm

Golden Coke (2009). Oil on canvas. 170 x 115cm

The Imperial Palace (2009). Oil on canvas. 162 x 244cm

Bags of Jelly Belly Beans (2008). Oil on canvas. 150 x 195cm

Bad to the Bone (2009). Oil on canvas. 120 x 120cm

Selected Exhibitions

September 2010 All or Nothing, Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London May 2010 Occidental Dimensions, Brighton University May 2010 Chicago Art Fair, Mark Jason Gallery May 2010 New York Art Fair, Mark Jason Gallery January 2010 London Art Fair, Mark Jason Gallery May 2009 New York Art Fair, Mark Jason Gallery January 2009 London Art Fair, Islington, Mark Jason Gallery October 2008 AAF London, Mark Jason Gallery October 2008 Guilty Pleasures, Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London September 2008 Envie D'art Gallerie, Paris June 2008 AAF New York, Mark Jason Gallery May 2008 AAF New York, Mark Jason Gallery March 2008 Art London, Chelsea, Mark Jason Gallery January 2008 London Art Fair, Islington, Mark Jason Gallery

Alon Zakaim Fine Art 30 Cork Street, London, W1S 3NG Tel:Â +44 (0)20 7287 7750 Fax: +44 (0)20 7287 7751 Email: gallery@alonzakaim.com www.alonzakaim.com