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(3.83 - 140 votes)About Kate:
Kate MccGwire’s work asks questions about the very nature of beauty. She’s intrigued by the possibility of envisaging beauty as something more complex than merely what delights the senses: beauty can be about a problem; it can be something that repels you or makes you question the status quo. The idea that it is a cultural phenomenon, susceptible to argument through the creative process, fascinates her.
Intrinsic to her method is the collecting and sorting of materials from hundreds of different sources over a period of months, even years. In turn, pieces evolve intuitively as if out of the subconscious, the language evocative rather than purely illustrative. As the work takes shape, a new, playful reality emerges, so that the object itself becomes a sort of prism, refracting the layers of meaning and cultural associations buried within, the quantity of materials used sometimes deliberately overwhelming, as if charged with a power and ambition beyond the reach they possess when seen in isolation.
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"I gather, collate, re-use, layer, peel, burn, reveal, locate, question, duplicate, play, and photograph" Kate MccGuire....
Dead Or Alive
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Feather Art
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Far as I can tell, it appears to be an installation using bird feathers attached to some sort of sub-structure, Perhaps chicken wire?
well done.
Comment by jason — May 21, 2009
stunning! this made my day.
Comment by elnellis — May 21, 2009
WHOEVER DID THIS ROCKS ITS SO COOL
Comment by JORGE:) — May 21, 2009
This is simply another example of the ‘Emperor’s new clothes’ syndrome. People don’t understand work like this, nor do they necessarily like it, but are afraid of seeming ignorant, so they accept it as art. There are definitely artistic skills that go into creating work such as this, but I think that some artists are trying so hard to have their work stand out in the crowd, that they’ve lost sight of what art was originally supposed to be, beautiful.
Comment by Woods — May 21, 2009
this looks pretty cool but i cant see the picture… what is it?
Comment by isidra — May 21, 2009
what is that!
Comment by non of your bee's wax — May 21, 2009
this is quite amazing
Comment by Anonymous — May 21, 2009
“Intrinsic to her method is the collecting and sorting of materials from hundreds of different sources over a period of months, even years. In turn, pieces evolve intuitively as if out of the subconscious, the language evocative rather than purely illustrative. As the work takes shape, a new, playful reality emerges, so that the object itself becomes a sort of prism, refracting the layers of meaning and cultural associations buried within, the quantity of materials used sometimes deliberately overwhelming, as if charged with a power and ambition beyond the reach they possess when seen in isolation.”
-That’s all well and good, but what am I looking at? What’s the medium here?
Comment by mattgreermusic — May 21, 2009
What is it I mean it looks pretty cool and all but it looks kinda like a dead bird.
Comment by Fabio — May 21, 2009
wow. beautiful.
Comment by Anonymous — May 21, 2009