Kate Stewart
Lost and Found
27 April - 15 May 2022
G2
Opening Night
Friday 29 April | 6pm – 8pm
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After years of experimentation with the intersection of photography and painting, I have developed a new kind of Frottage process combining the language of half-tone with the mediums of painting and print-making. In Lost, Found digitally manipulated photographic images are triple printed in UV cured ink onto the surface of the aluminium panels before being completely erased in the studio with layers of paint. The images then re-appear through a kind of excavation, where rubbing with pigments reveal what has been hidden beneath. Here, the photographic source imagery is altered in its translation as a dematerialized, embossed surface within a painting.
My intention is to complicate the legibility between the mechanical and the handmade, the photograph and the painting. I’m interested in Photography’s complex relationship to Painting, the breakdown of truth in images and extending the ways in which a photograph can represent the hand of the artist.
About the Artist
Kate Stewart’s practice engages in experimental print-making, photography and digital image-making within the expanded field of painting. Working with a range of materials, she is exploring themes around identity and migration, networks and shared landscapes, screen culture, image mediation, and ways of seeing. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from VCA and is the recipient of the Fiona Myer award for Painting, and has been a finalist in the Ravenswood Art Prize, the Fischer’s Ghost Art Prize and the Castlemaine Experimental Print Prize. Her work has featured in solo and group shows and is in private collections around Australia.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
