Kath has a tactile, embodied and socially sensitive way of making. She explores places where meanings are unclear and boundaries undefined; how we try to control our shifting identities and the impossibility of doing so.
Textiles and their associative connections map the transitional times which impact us all. Kath embraces the everyday in her work; pre-consumer waste wet-wipes, second-hand yarns and clothing are the found materials which she uses to create meaning. The challenge of living through transitional times is explored through drawing and textiles. The motion of stitching could be seen as a violent act from which something new is made.
Kath’s work is about women’s hidden labour and how inequality sometimes comes from within. Sustainability is at the heart of Kath’s practice; she reuses the waste of modern life to create work which is both beautiful and the abject.
Selected exhibitions, publications, performances
December 2020: Lovett.K, ‘Wipe Away’, ed. Earley R., Research Circles, Centre for Circular Design
November 2020: Finalist in the Mother Prize, Cromwell Place, London
August 2020: Public Notice: An Exhibition, Grace and Thorn, Hackney
July 2020: Nominated for the Arts Foundation Futures Awards (AFFAs) 2021 for Materials Innovation.
June 2020: Birth Rites Collection Biennale finalist
February 2020: Visual essay in Filler Zine
January 2020: Depictions of Living, The Art Pavilion, Mile End
January 2020: Solo show - Black Box Gallery, UCA Farnham
June 2019: Shirt Stories performance, Centre for Circular Design, University Arts London
March 2019: Interview with BBC Radio on wet wipe activism
March 2019: There and Back Again conference, Center for Circular Design, University Arts London
February 2019: Nominated for the Tiffany X prize
August 2018: Sunlight, 508 Gallery, Chelsea
June 2018: The Art of Making Sense, Chelsea Triangle Gallery
March 2018: Against Static, Wimbledon Space Gallery
March 2018: Refusing to Play Cabaret, Performance, Chelsea College of Art
Qualifications
MA Textiles, UAL Chelsea, 2019: Distinction
Postgraduate Certificate in Drawing, UAL Wimbledon, 2018: Distinction
Kath is also an experienced teacher and workshop facilitator. She is currently Head of Art in a London secondary school.
Contact details
Instagram: kath_lovett
