kate@kategenever.com
@kategenever
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I try to make sense of the world through drawing. I take drawing to be more than a technique – rather a disposition that reveals our deep connections with the world of materials, nature and each other. A drawing attention; a drawing from, with and together.
With rural and coastal communities, over extended periods, I consider how we improvise and imagine in response to our immediate problems. Resulting in the gathering together of people, stories, found things, drawings.
I advocate for sustainable, strength-based, co-production approaches. I use process-led practices, often working in collaboration with artists, organisations, researchers and curators. I’m a trained Restorative Justice Facilitator and am experienced in supporting people, communities and organisations to imagine and shape the future.
Commissions and exhibitions include: We believe in love, not luck (2023/4/5); Encyclopedia of Us (2019 – ongoing); A tentative piece of ourselves we stake at the boundary Tomar, Portugal (2024); We have found in the ashes what we lost in the fire METAL (2024); Drawing Paper Show (2023) Newspaper and Bridewell Studios Liverpool; Together we are powerful (2023) National Centre for Craft and Design; Nothing, will be the last forever (2022) Shining Cliff. Derbyshire; The John Ruskin Prize (2019); Who Cares? (2018/19) Lakeland Arts; Leap of Faith (2018) Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Manchester Met University; Museum of Contemporary Farming (2018) Museum of English Rural Life.
I showcase international artists work on a notice board and flag pole in my front garden @noticeboardunited
I presented papers at Into another Intensity (2023) OSR Projects, Re-Scaling the Rural (2022) Denmark and Assembly (2021) a-n/Haarlem Artspace.
My work has been included in publications such as: Locating the Self – Welcoming the Other (2022 Peter Lang Publishing), and I have contributed chapters to Re-imaging Rurality (2018, ORO Editions) and The Journal of Arts and Communities (2016, Intellect Books).
My approach principles are here
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