Previous AA2A Artist

Kate Owens

Artform:
Photography, writing, books.....
Year:
2010-11
Location:
Ross-on-Wye
Influences:
Roni Horn
Email:
kate@kateowens.com
Project summary:

With a background in photography my work increasingly incorporates other media including animation and text. Drawing from a personal archive, and through the interweaving of textual and visual language and autobiography I make projects which escape the confines of traditional linear narratives by using more cyclical or chaotic patterns to describe experience.

In the past these projects have usually culminated in series of photographs. I am now keen to archive my previous and current photographic and text based work in book form. The AA2A scheme will provide me with an opportunity to do this. In so doing I will be keeping my work in the active form rather than in the definitive. Through the re-working of my archive and the re-representing of past works I am showing that memory constantly shifts and changes as do the meanings we bring to past events and experience. As Roni Horn says ‘Identity is a river.’

One of the new series I am working on is a photographic and text based project called ‘Memory Book’ which is about my mother’s early onset Alzheimers Disease. For this I am combining large format photographs of the woods where my mum lives with edited texts from the diaries that the carers keep at her house. Whilst working on my archive I will also be working towards the completion and publication of this series.

 I am going to participate in a book event at the Arnolfini in April 2011 and will be showing my book archive there. The Courtyard in Hereford are holding two exhibitions of my work in 2012, one of which will be my Memory Book series. Diemar Noble in London have expressed an interest in exhibiting my Memory Book.  At the Rhubarb Rhubarb photography review 2010 for which I won a bursary, I received interest from other arts organisations about my Memory Book series and other projects. This scheme will enable me to prepare my work to re-present to these organisations with a view to publication and exhibition.

With a background in photography my work increasingly incorporates other media including animation and text. Drawing from a personal archive, and through the interweaving of textual and visual language and autobiography I make projects which escape the confines of traditional linear narratives by using more cyclical or chaotic patterns to describe experience.

In the past these projects have usually culminated in series of photographs. I am now keen to archive my previous and current photographic and text based work in book form. The AA2A scheme will provide me with an opportunity to do this. In so doing I will be keeping my work in the active form rather than in the definitive. Through the re-working of my archive and the re-representing of past works I am showing that memory constantly shifts and changes as do the meanings we bring to past events and experience. As Roni Horn says ‘Identity is a river.’

One of the new series I am working on is a photographic and text based project called ‘Memory Book’ which is about my mother’s early onset Alzheimers Disease. For this I am combining large format photographs of the woods where my mum lives with edited texts from the diaries that the carers keep at her house. Whilst working on my archive I will also be working towards the completion and publication of this series.

 I am going to participate in a book event at the Arnolfini in April 2011 and will be showing my book archive there. The Courtyard in Hereford are holding two exhibitions of my work in 2012, one of which will be my Memory Book series. Diemar Noble in London have expressed an interest in exhibiting my Memory Book.  At the Rhubarb Rhubarb photography review 2010 for which I won a bursary, I received interest from other arts organisations about my Memory Book series and other projects. This scheme will enable me to prepare my work to re-present to these organisations with a view to publication and exhibition.

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