Public Servants

In Public Servants, Kate paints transitory, fleeting events in which road workers employ strange, often quite archaic equipment to repair and maintain the urban environment – painting yellow lines, dismantling bus shelters, constructing kerbs, sandbagging against floods.

Exploring the paradox of the invisible hi-vis, Kate  uses oil paint to make their fluorescent clothes competing with equally vibrant surroundings, the workers subjugated by their surroundings, and to celebrates the unnoticed work that produces the public realm.

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