Artist's Profile
Katrina's work covers mixed media including moving image, photography, sculpture, painting and installation. Past work utilizing hair, latex, tissue, and a staining process combined with light and photography.
Her ideas and work are created through inspiration from a number of areas in life: dreams, beliefs, vision, a desire to rework and re-form, investigating the depiction of surface; physical surface, spiritual surface together with the elusiveness of those surfaces within the realm of reality, time and space.
Attempting to portray the mental and physical complexities of the human spirit, and the splintered, dissection and distortion of visual perception. The presence of death and experiences of loss: loss within family, communities and cultures as a whole through the use of banal everyday objects.
Inspiration not only comes from other artists and their work, but more importantly it comes from within: a desire to translate a vision or thought into physical form.
For every action there is a reaction. For every subject there is a material for response.
About Katrina
Katrina grew up in a small railway village, Stirling North Railways, just outside the South Australian country town of Port Augusta.
She has lived in various regions of Western Australia, including Kalgoorlie, Laverton, Yalgoo, Perth and Albany, before moving to the UK in 1998.
Katrina’s extensive travels throughout Australia, bought her here to the UK and her explorations into photography through further education at Tamworth College.
She gained Distinctions within her City & Guilds course, also being nominated for a Golden Award of Excellence for her reticulated photographic work ‘Broken Landscape’.
She decided to pursue a more concentrated art based path: entering the Advanced Art & Design course at Tamworth College.
Katrina embarked on the Photography Degree at University of Derby, graduating in the B.A. (Hons) Fine Art in 2005 with a First Degree: having shifted to Fine Arts in 2004
Katrina completed her education on the MA ADAPT at University of Derby in 2007.