Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Year 1 Pathway Leader)
Kate Street is a UK-based artist, curator, and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at UCA Farnham, where she oversees the Year 1 pathway. Her work spans various mediums, including collage and sculpture, often exploring found imagery and objects to uncover hidden narratives related to gender and commodification. Kate is actively involved in the art community, contributing to exhibitions and collaborative projects, and regularly participates in public talks and international exhibitions.
Bio
Having studied at Winchester School of Art and Royal College of Art London, she has since gone on to exhibit, teach and curate internationally. At present she is an active member of Art Space Portsmouth and contributes to their public exhibition and artists talk program.
Recent shows include Weirder Science on Artsy, curated by Karen S David, Multiple Universe at Union Gallery, The Cutting Room at Leeds Arts University, Horror Show at Somerset House, If These Walls Could Talk at Parlour Gallery, and Pretty Ugly at Thameside Studios. She is a regular contributor to Revolve:R, a collaborative book project that initiates and records non-verbal image based exchanges as a form of non-verbal dialogue.
Research statement
Street’s practice explores found imagery/objects as a vehicle to uncover hidden narratives around entrenched ideologies and systematic commodification of the female form. Drawn to analogue publications and cast-off relics by their physical presence, she allows the image/object to lead the formation of works. Drawing upon figuration, landscape, hobby craft, cultivation and erotica, the work manifests itself through collage and sculpture, creating a new set of suggested narratives from the original sources. Delicate details from the pages become sinister through a Frankenstein approach to collaging; this coupled with domestic remnants, such as hooks, necklaces, razors, and nylon create familiar, yet uneasy, objects.
- 2022 – Re-Ignite: public engagement project in Portsmouth City center commissioned by Ports Fest
- 2021 – Vexations: Edition print to celebrate 20 years of Blyth Gallery at Imperial Collage London
- 2021 – Aspex and Art Space Portsmouth at 40: Curatorial project exploring Aspex Portsmouth archives and presented in exhibition format
- 2020 – We Believe: Portsmouth Creates Arts Trail throughout the city
- 2020 – Select Dream: Portsmouth City Council public art commission in central Southsea