Kate Genever (Arts Award 2016) shares thoughts on her project ‘Watermark’
Visual artist Kate Genever received an Arts Award in 2016, and used it to create 3 series of new works responding to her village of Uffington (South Lincolnshire) and the people living there. Having completed her project, she reflects on what has happened
Receiving a St Hugh's Arts Award for the project Watermark has enabled Kate Genever to develop, create and showcase a significant body of drawings, prints and collages. Celebrating her village, its residents and the South Lincolnshire landscape, the works explore memory, myth and landscape construction. Utilising the village's photographic archive as source material alongside interviews with villagers and direct observation, Kate has made works that ask us to consider the layered histories and ongoing change inherent in places we see daily. Shown at a variety of venues ranging from village halls, to Nottingham Bromley House Library and The Collection in Lincoln, Kate was keen to bring diverse audiences to this contemporary work. An Arts Council Award given off the back of this project will see Kate further explore the ideas raised though her St Hugh's Award and result in further national exhibitions and an editioned catalogue. Kate said
“The award gave me confidence to make, explore and try new approaches. It also supported my ambition to share work in non-arts spaces and get contemporary practice into diverse communities. I feel proud to have made drawings of the place and people I know and love and for this work to be relevant, critical and poignant, particularly given the nature of the south Lincolnshire landscape and larger issues relating to social environmental and political concerns. Thank you.”
For more information, please visit:
Website: www.kategenever.com
Ongoing Blog: http://drawnfromthefield.blogspot.co.uk/
Read Kate's full Final Report here: http://www.sthughsfoundation.co.uk/assets/downloads/st_hughs_final.pdf