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Kate

Power

My work focuses on gesture and shifts in energetic intensity, attuning attention to conscious and unconscious sensation. I seek to render subtle phenomena—temperature changes, chest flutter, saliva, micro-affects—more perceptible through sculpture, sound, text, and performance. I am interested in the gaps between language and gesture, and between the performative and the social, considering how minor embodied events shape psychological and physiological experience. My process is driven by interaction with materials as agents of transformation. Working experimentally with wax, paper pulp, and metal casting, I observe how matter responds, shifts, and becomes expressive. These processes form a studio ecology in which material behaviour becomes a way to think about perception, structure, and bodily response in relation to architecture and social systems.

Disciplines: Installation

Location: Glasgow

@kate___power

My work focuses on gesture and shifts in energetic intensity, attuning attention to conscious and unconscious sensation. I seek to render subtle phenomena—temperature changes, chest flutter, saliva, micro-affects—more perceptible through sculpture, sound, text, and performance. I am interested in the gaps between language and gesture, and between the performative and the social, considering how minor embodied events shape psychological and physiological experience. My process is driven by interaction with materials as agents of transformation. Working experimentally with wax, paper pulp, and metal casting, I observe how matter responds, shifts, and becomes expressive. These processes form a studio ecology in which material behaviour becomes a way to think about perception, structure, and bodily response in relation to architecture and social systems.

Previous Experience

Glasgow based artist Kate Power has presented work at David Dale Gallery (Glasgow), Art Gallery of South Australia, Outerspace (Brisbane), Vitalstatistix (Adelaide), Gallery Sejul (Seoul), NARS Foundation (Brooklyn), BLINDSIDE (Melbourne), among others. She has undertaken residencies at Fonderie Darling and Gare de Matapedia in Quebec, British School at Rome, NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, and SIM in Reykjavik. Kate was a 2020 recipient of the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship.

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