Kate Street
Lives and works in Southsea, England.
Her work allows for the vestige of artefacts and related imagery to lead to the formation of new imagery and objects. Drawing upon figuration, landscape and cultivation, her work manifests itself through collage and sculpture. Small scale details from the pages become monstrous through enlargement and her Frankenstein approach to collaging and assemblage. This coupled with industrial remnants, such as hooks, clamps, reels and latex create familiar, yet uneasy, objects. Commodification of the female body is explored through a combination of image and objects. Often layered, punctured, stitched and assembled to emphasise surface and tactility, the work aims to elicit a physical reaction from the viewer.
Street’s work has been exhibited in shows across the UK and internationally, including the Torrance Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Thameside Studios, and is currently part of ‘The Horror Show’ at Somerset House, London. Her work is held in various private collections across Europe and the USA. Street is currently a senior lecturer at University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.