Lot 215 - Katherine Perrins - Swing Time

Watercolour on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Katherine Perrins’ paintings explore the domestic spaces we inhabit and the everyday rituals that occur within them. Light captured or reflected within these interiors becomes a tool to record the passing of time and accumulation of memories stored inside the home. Produced in series, her still life paintings provide an investigation of place and time. Perrins’ current works explore the experience of maternity leave after the birth of her children. Attention is focused on the minutiae of daily routines and her paintings explore the experience of home as womb-like, a protective nest or chrysalis. Hers is a deeply intimate relationship with the domestic environment; paint is a tool to examine the overlooked. Here are areas where things have come undone or been abandoned; half-drunk coffee cups, dust under the table, scattered children’s toys. The works explore stillness and a noticing of the everyday; they express a longing for moments that have passed.

Education
2016-2017
City and Guilds of London Art School, MA Fine Art, Distinction

2008-2009
University of Cambridge, PGCE in Secondary Art Education

2002-2005
Falmouth College of Arts, BA (Hons), 1st Class

2001
Falmouth College of Arts, Foundation Diploma, Distinction

Solo Exhibitions
2024
Many Lines of Luminous Things, CLOSE, Somerset, UK

Group Exhibitions
2024
Mirrors Fog Over When I Breathe, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, UK
Drawing Now Art Fair, Paris, France

2023
GOLD, CLOSE, Somerset
Bruton Open Exhibition, Bruton, Somerset

2022
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, curated by Grayson Perry, London, UK
Somerset Reacquainted, ACEarts and Musgrove Hospital, Taunton, Somerset

Awards
2024
100 Emerging Female Artists- Hearts to Arts Project

2020
Recipient of a ‘Creative Pathways Bursary’, Somerset Art Works

2017
Shortlisted for the Art IQ Graduate Art Prize

Gallery Representation
CLOSE Gallery, Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset UK
The Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
These works explore visual elements of a children's playground. They are studies for a larger body of new work, but here I was interested in contrasting textures; the softness of the sand and shadows and waxy leaves in ‘Little Weed’ and the cool reflective metal surface of the swing's chain against the sandy floor in ‘Swing Time’.