Using her Imagined Realities paintings as a starting point, Kate distortes the original by folding, veiling or concealing, fragmenting or reassembling, making models or projections, to create a new ‘space’.

These processes expose the ambiguity of the text, the writer’s position and the unknown qualities beyond what is described.

The paint is used as a metaphor for the understanding of text, as the artist works back and forth until a new space is revealed. She explores how we receive information; how we piece together images from words, and evoke the passing of time as our memories mix and overlap.

The Imagined Realities are paintings made from a collaborator’s written description of a personally significant place unknown to the artist.