Scenes of an Untold Story by Kate Florence
Kate Florence applies her signature line drawing style onto canvas to create artworks redolent of Matisse for her solo show Scenes of an Untold Story at Saint Cloche gallery.
Words: Hande Renshaw | Photography: Claudia Lowe
3 Faces of the Same Coin by Kate Florence from her current exhibition Scenes of an Untold Story at Saint Cloche. Photo: Claudia Lowe
Still Life 1 by Kate Florence from her current exhibition Scenes of an Untold Story at Saint Cloche. Photo: Claudia Lowe
Photo: Cassidy Jackson
Originally born and bred in the UK, Kate Florence studied Fine Art at the Winchester school of art, specialising in sculpture, textiles and installation.
Her signature line drawing style was intimidated from free machine embroidery, first realised from her days as a student and still features heavily in her work.
“I was immediately mesmerised with how you could freely create anything through stitch, you don't have any time to think about what you are drawing, you just do it,” says Kate.
Today, Kate spends the majority of her days working from her Brunswick studio. It was here she created her latest body of work Scenes of an Untold Story, which opened at Saint Cloche gallery in Sydney earlier this week.
The paintings in the exhibition are a lively exploration reminiscent of post modern expressionism and Matissian composition. Stills that are encompassing layers of form, snippets of a story, with no beginning and no end; moments of play and energy, joy and tenderness.
This series is a celebration of the beauty of figurative and human life, a marriage of the classical and abstract, with conversations between the two and three dimensional.
In each piece Kate explores soft, large areas of colour, layer over layer of paint, each one a building block in time, capturing a moment, before moving, evolving into something new.
Here I am Grounded by Kate Florence from her current exhibition Scenes of an Untold Story at Saint Cloche. Photo: Claudia Lowe
Tropicana by Kate Florence from her current exhibition Scenes of an Untold Story at Saint Cloche. Photo: Claudia Lowe
Finding Freedom by Kate Florence from her current exhibition Scenes of an Untold Story at Saint Cloche. Photo: Claudia Lowe
Scenes between the Trees by Kate Florence from her current exhibition Scenes of an Untold Story at Saint Cloche. Photo: Claudia Lowe
“I was mesmerised with how you could freely create anything through stitch, you don’t have any time to think about what you are drawing, you just do it.”
VISIT
SCENES OF AN UNTOLD STORY BY KATE FLORENCE 10TH MARCH - 21ST MARCH 2021 SAINT CLOCHE 37 MACDONALD STREET, PADDINGTON, SYDNEY