The new work I have been doing recently is still exploring creativity and the brain but perhaps in a more abstract language as I experiment with colour, form and mark making.

I have taken some of the shapes I have created in previous paintings and began to create new dialogues around the importance of creativity to brain health and wellbeing.
I have started leaving spaces or voids in the work to suggest an emptiness that we need to fill perhaps, and one of the new pieces is a Self Portrait about my own personal journey with creativity.

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Some of these pieces were created during Kate’s art residency in Fremantle Arts centre, Western Australia. When Kate travelled to Australia, she took some digital images of the brain with her, as well as other abstract images she found interesting. She began assembling and collaging in her first week there. Given the space and freedom to experiment, ‘The work just poured out and gave me such freedom and inspiration to develop a new language, which explored connections and disconnections around neuroscience and displacement. I was able to change the pieces very quickly. I would begin a painting and then cut it up to make another if it didn’t work - I have never worked like this before and it completely changed my practice.’

Kate continued to explore brain patterns and once she returned to her studio in Sheffield continued to develop more work exploring research into people living with dementia and their brain patterns.

Each piece is inspired by the specific research from the collaboration with researchers from SITraN (Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience) at the University of Sheffield and were exhibited as part of the Festival of the mind at the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield.