KATE JAMES
Melbourne-based artist Kate James draws from a variety of media to produce objects, photographs, textile works and video. In creating her intricate, hand-crafted and psychologically-charged sculptures and objects, James employs repetitive and painstaking techniques, often adapted from uncommon, sometimes obsolete, craft practices.
In her recent work the measuring of time is counted out in tiny horsehair stitches; awkward nets of horsehair catch nothing but air in their attempt to control something unseen; funnels are both literal and metaphoric sites of transference from one state to another, or used as vessels to channel materials and change their course; objects spill out or catch substances in bulbous sacks. The introduction of a cipher symbolises juxtaposing ideas of emptiness/ fullness, nothingness/ completeness.
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