Kate Richardson records material history through sculpture and drawing. Using clay, slip, ink and handmade paper she subjects the mediums to unconventional processes and staging to reconfigure traditional practices. Through time consuming processes, accumulating mundane material and titling she outlines a personal history that is biographical yet ambiguous.

 

The flow of the patterns and mark making reflects the movement in the process: how she must twist her wrist or climb around the piece to reach certain angles. The practice is centred around how artist and artwork interact with one another. Kate’s art practice is process led with a strong connection to her material she allows space to generate a meditative course of action that is repetitively followed to become its own autonomous process.