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COVER IMAGE: The Frontiers IX 122 x 122 cm, oil on board, 2011, SOLD
Katrine Roberts
works the canvas with an intuitive action. Moments of identifiable shapes grow from the surface of the canvas, areas are reworked, and a process of adding and subtracting lead to the final appearance of something familiar yet indescribable. Colours bounce, and a mixture of application make the images flit between solid blocks and delicate translucency. The work explores the interaction between physical and metaphysical boundaries; It explores a place between lines, the space between figuration and imagination; something whole, something fragmented. Katrine is painting the impossible. Her works are an open invitation to experience an emotional response to the imagery. Katrine guides you in, to question reality, the abandonment of it, and your place within it. The works present notions of something familiar that you can't quite place. Her exploration to push boundaries has led her naturally to be a multi-disciplined artist, working in painting, sculpture and performance. The paintings manifest sculptures that feed in her installation performances. All the work is linked, yet individual.
The Frontiers & GEVULAH These two earlier series of works are about boundaries or markers. 'Frontiers' refers to the idea of boundaries both in relation to the physical process of making, and also in relation to the nature of skin as a boundary that both contains, and allows substances to pass through. These physical concepts of an edge or midway point are represented by the hard and blurred edges of the painted image. The images in this series could be described as ‘boundary creatures’ which are cross-breeds of animals, humans, and cartoons. The word 'Gevulah' comes from Hebrew, meaning 'landmark', which is described in the Old Testament as a fixed boundary marker or stone which should not be moved however, if it is moved will eventually return to its original place. I liked the idea of things having their place with various factors such as Time, Force, and Will pushing the boundaries of what 'is' only to eventually come back round to the way things were. - Katrine Roberts
The Frontiers I oil on board, 55 x 55 cm, 2011, £850
The Frontiers VII oil on board, 55 x 55 cm, 2011 £850
The Frontiers VIII oil on board, 55 x 55 cm, 2011 £850
Gevulah III oil on board, 9.5x14.5cm, 2012, £400
Gevulah IV oil on board, 9.5x14.5cm, 2012, £400
Percolate I, II, III Oil on Board, 122x183cm, 2012 ÂŁ4000 each
PERCOLATE ‘Percolate’ follows on from the Frontiers and Gevulah series' - once again referencing the permeable and fluid aspects of skin and paint. These paintings were made by preparing boards with oil based primer in order to create a hard and resistant surface so that the artist could apply and remove the paint easily while it was still wet. They are made through a process of application and removal, using cloths, sponges and various utensils to create an array of marks.
Sculptures & Installation Katrine Roberts is currently working with various mediums including sculpture, printmaking and installation. Her installation’s are a natural progression from her painted series and continue to explore the underlying concepts in her works - Boundaries, Skin, & Space. Katrine’s sculptures are three dimensional embodiments of the characters from her paintings, however taking on a far more bodily presence. As they are made from fabrics and filled with toy stuffing they reference the domestic, and relate to humans on a more physical level as they are also situated in the world as physical forms.
Orifice cotton fabric, toy stuffing & oil paint, 30x30cm, 2012, POA
Crease Acrylic on Fabric 2013, POA
Each installation piece holds itself within the space and time which it is made. I respond to the space, the walls become like skin (or a head) which I can build upon with layers of paper and paint but also which I can penetrate and tear, forever hovering between the surface boundary line. - Katrine Roberts
Paper Installation Paper and Watercolour, 2013
RECENT & NEW WORK Katrine’s most recent paintings are a result of the artists investigation into physical space and movement seen in her installation work. These new paintings continue to reflect upon the boundaries of paint, the boundaries between people, and the boundaries between the physical and metaphysical, or substance and emotion. The paintings, while often still containing faces, have moved on from the mono-faced compositions of the previous series, to more dynamic and active interactions between figures, which sit between the bodily, the psychological, and the physical processes of painting. One figure melts and melds into the other and the picture plane moves in and out of focus.
Pregnant Bubbles Oil on Canvas, 140x120cm, 2014, £3000
I Tried to Touch You Oil on Canvas, 117x90cm, 2014, £2500
Polymorphic Peeling Oil on Canvas 150x130cm, 2014 ÂŁ2750
Living Jelly Oil on Canvas 220x150cm, 2014 ÂŁ3250
Goggle Skin oil on board, 55x55cm, 2014 £850
Face BUddies oil on board, 55x55cm, 2014 £850
KATRINE ROBERTS | CV Katrine Roberts was born in 1989, in England, to Danish and British parents. She completed a BA Hons Degree in Fine Art; Painting at City & Guilds of London Art School, London, UK in 2011. Roberts’ was included in The Catlin Guide 2012, which highlights 40 of Britain’s most promising graduate artists. Her work has been exhibited across London, in York and internationally in Space K Galleries across South Korea. Roberts’ currently lives and works in London, UK EDUCATION:
PUBLICATIONS:
20013-2015 Royal College of Art Masters in Painting
2012 The Catlin Guide 2012, Featuring 40 of the UK’s most promising
2008 – 2011 City and Guilds of London Art School, Fine Art Painting,
graduate artists, selected and edited by art writer and curator Justin
First Class BA Hons Degree
Hammond.
2007 – 2008 City and Guilds of London Art School, Foundation Degree EXHIBITIONS: COLLECTIONS:
2014 Future Flesh, Gallery 223, London
Neo Bankside Development, London
2014 RCA Secret ’14, Royal College of Art, London 2014 WIP show at the Royal College of Art, London
AWARDS:
2013 Solo Show, When reason dreams, monsters are born, ASC Bond
2014 Shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries
House Gallery, London
2012 Shortlisted for the Catlin Art Prize
2013 Solo Show, The Settlers, Norman Rea Gallery, York, UK
2011 The Painters Stainers award for an outstanding Third Year Painting
2012 Project 2012, London, UK
Student
2012 ArtWorks Open, London, UK
2010 Idun Ravndal Travel Prize
2012 ‘Creative London’ Exhibition, Seoul, Gwacheon, Gwangju &
2009 Sir Roger de Grey Life Drawing Award
Deagu, South Korea
2008 The Painter Stainers award for an outstanding Foundation Painting
2012 Block 336, 1, London, UK
Student
2012 Frameless Gallery, London, UK
2012 The Catlin Guide Launch, London Art Fair, London, UK 2011 Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead Heath, London, UK, Recent Graduates Exhibition 2011 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, UK, Recent Graduates Exhibition 2011 Project 2012, Ground Floor Left Gallery, London, UK 2011 Degree Show, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, UK 2011 Art/Unity/Hope – Tohoku Earthquake Relief Fund, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, UK 2010 Vault, Group Show, Brixton, London, UK 2009 On the Vyne, Group Show, Vyner Street, Bethnal Green, London, UK CURATORIAL WORK: 2014 Co-curated Future Flesh Exhibition with Jack Spencer Ashworth, Gallery 223, London 2013 When Reason Dreams, Monsters are born, ASC Bond House Gallery, London 2012 Frameless Gallery Exhibition, London 2010 Vault Group Show, Brixton, London
BACK IMAGE: The Frontiers XIII oil on board, 122x122cm, 2011, SOLD