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“It’s not a matter of painting life, it’s a matter of giving life to painting.” — Pierre Bonnard
This week we are featuring the work of Kate McCrickard, @kate.mccrickard
Kate is a British painter living and working in Paris. She studied Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh, earning First Class honours in both History of Art and Painting. In her work, she focuses on capturing the raw, messy energy of human interaction. Set in everyday spaces, from kitchen tables and betting bars to backstage rooms, her figures bring together live observation, memory, and references to art history.
Her canvases are filled with recognisable archetypes like drinkers, lovers, punks, and quiet observers. Dressed in modern clothes, historical costumes, or nothing at all, these characters mirror our noisy, screen addicted lives. They lounge, stare, and beckon, blurring the line between real people and total fiction.
What sets her work apart is its physical, unvarnished energy. Rejecting the slick, overly perfect surfaces made for digital feeds, Kate works quickly to build up rough, layered textures on the canvas. For her, paint is an unfinished medium, making it the perfect home for an imperfect world.
This week we are featuring the work of Kate McCrickard, @kate.mccrickard
Kate is a British painter living and working in Paris. She studied Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh, earning First Class honours in both History of Art and Painting. In her work, she focuses on capturing the raw, messy energy of human interaction. Set in everyday spaces, from kitchen tables and betting bars to backstage rooms, her figures bring together live observation, memory, and references to art history.
Her canvases are filled with recognisable archetypes like drinkers, lovers, punks, and quiet observers. Dressed in modern clothes, historical costumes, or nothing at all, these characters mirror our noisy, screen addicted lives. They lounge, stare, and beckon, blurring the line between real people and total fiction.
What sets her work apart is its physical, unvarnished energy. Rejecting the slick, overly perfect surfaces made for digital feeds, Kate works quickly to build up rough, layered textures on the canvas. For her, paint is an unfinished medium, making it the perfect home for an imperfect world.
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a month agoflorencepenny
I enjoyed your response @blancogallery! And I delight in what @kate.mccrickard does with spatiality; it's somehow not enough to say 'space' (tho that's clearly part of it). It opens on to reconceptualising 'what space is'.🔥🔥🔥
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