Lot 433 - Kate Burling - Cloud Head

Watercolour on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Hannah Tilson

About
Kate Burling’s work explores the human/animal experience of exponential change. The paintings are a meeting point between soft, stable insides, and harsh, unknowable and ever-accelerating outsides. Through flooding fluid compositions with swarms of mechanical objects, and considering the impact of sharp externalities on a soft, warm core, the paintings allude to narratives of biblical disaster, climate collapse and the rituals we might turn to in order to maintain sanctuary within our bodies.

Education
2019-2022
BA in Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell College of Art, London

2018-19
Foundation Diploma in Fine Art, The Art Academy, London

Solo Exhibitions
2024
Softness as a Torrent, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK

2023
The Rain has Changed, Nosbaum Reding Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2020
Eclipse of a Dodgy Lamp, Guts Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions
2024
Vigil: Death and the Afterlife, Semester 9, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Future of Loneliness, Guts Gallery, London, UK

2023
Chasing Elsewhere, Fiumano Clase, London, UK
All the Small Things, Soup Gallery, London, UK
Goodeye Project End of Residency Show, Christie’s, London, UK

2022
Second Expression - SPLIT Gallery, London, UK
Nothing has Changed, Everything has Changed - Elysium Gallery (BEEP Painting Biennial), Swansea, UK
Un/Sense - Christie's, London, UK
A material World - Liliya Art Gallery, London, UK
Sugarcoated - Changing Room Gallery, London, UK
In Awe of You - Lililya Art Gallery, London, UK

Public Collections
The Tom and Chai Hall Collection, Hampshire, UK

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
The first postcard is a propeller study, a recurring motif in my paintings which represents a hybrid between sharp, mechanical objects and fluid bodies. Here it shown at a rain-like angle against the ground, as if it has been caught mid landing.
The second shows two arched passages which frame a fire and the head of a boy. The bowed head of hair is shaped like a smoke cloud, so the boy is both part of and separate from the fire. The arched passages start and lead nowhere. The painting evokes ideas of merging, coming apart and travelling in cycles.