The Garden Party
Looking at the notion of bringing the inside out, an extension of the house, together with research work based around Nuclear Testing and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Second World War, Katrina has created a body of work that gives an impression of heat and the fusion of glass.
The work consists of a number of fused glasses and bottles set out on a table, and also scattered around the site as if in celebration: A Garden Party hinting at underlying violence and extreme heat.
Katrina feels it is important to add an element of childhood in all her pieces of work, emphasising the innocence of victims of war, arms testing and genocide.
Utilising the idea of a childhood game of marbles, the work creates an essence of this game through a small glass marble ring, fused by the force and violence of heat created from nuclear weaponry.
Added to this is a glass jar of marbles, melted and fused together, and a small glass cup: possibly belonging to the young child whose presence is fused amongst the remnants of an innocent game.
Exhibited at;
Wirksworth Festival Sculpture Trail
2006