Public Servants

In Public Servants, Kate captures 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, she paints workers subjugated by their surroundings, their fluorescent clothes competing with equally vibrant surroundings, she celebrates the unnoticed work that produces the public realm.

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