Kate Burling

Kate's work explores the ephemerality of life and the certainty of death. She explains how her work is a reaction to her fear of the ability of sharp hard objects to puncture the body. ‘I’m interested in the difference between the soft inside of the body and the hard outside.’ It reminds her of the fleeting nature of time, the inescapability of the materiality of the body, and the possibility of the outside coming in. 

Kate creates soft, hazy images by rubbing paint with her hands into the canvas, using a latex glove. By only using her fingers, the distinction between the object, subject and surroundings becomes even more fluid.