kate brinkworth: all or nothing
DESCRIPTION
Catalogue of works to accompany the exhibition Kate Brinkworth: All or Nothing, held at Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London.TRANSCRIPT
KATE BRINKWORTH
Alon Zakaim Fine Art
KATE BRINKWORTH
Alon Zakaim Fine Art
30 Cork Street, London, W1S 3NG
Tel: +44 (0)20 7287 7750Fax: +44 (0)20 7287 7751
Email: [email protected]
www.alonzakaim.com
Front cover: Ten and Eight Ball (2008) (detail)
Opposite page: Sapphire Blue (2010)
The artist in her studio
Kate Brinkworth undertook her artistic training at Nottingham Trent University, and graduated in 2000 with first class honours. She rapidly began exhibiting her work, and her first major solo show took place in 2001 at Britart Gallery, London. Her success led to further exhibitions across the country and abroad, and she began featuring regularly in several international art fairs and won numerous awards. These include the Westgate Prize (2004), and a commission from GUS headquarters in Mayfair.
Kate Brinkworth’s painting stems from her curiosity in films, particularly those directed by or in the style of Hitchcock. She is particularly inspired by effects created through experimentation with focus, and repeatedly photographs her still lifes with various shutter speeds, camera angles and lighting to find the optimum composition. Brinkworth’s style uses the language of film, advertising and photography to create these unique images; her visits to Las Vegas have developed her interest in the representation of objects associated with vice. Painted in varying degrees of focus, her expert technique deceives the viewer into believing the work is a photograph, due to the realism of her subject matter and style, and the thin application of paint which gives a smooth, glossy finish. It is only on closer inspection that the viewer realises the work is entirely painted by hand.
Brinkworth’s works challenge our perceptions of the image; in our contemporary world inundated with visual stimuli, she painstakingly labours over her compositions to make us look at these familiar objects in a new way. In a parallel challenge to contemporary conventions her technique mirrors the Renaissance mural technique of the ‘cartoon’, a drawing which would be pricked along the lines and dusted with charcoal to transfer the skeleton of the image to the wall. Brinkworth similarly maps out her photographs onto both sides of sheets of paper and rubs the reverse to move the image onto the canvas. Once the composition is mapped out, she begins working into the picture in oil using her distinctive technique.
Kate Brinkworth lives and works in Staffordshire; alongside her studio practice she teaches painting techniques to students in a local college, and holds a long term artist in residence position. She exhibits regularly both in London and internationally, and over recent years has built a strong reputation in both the primary and secondary markets within the contemporary art scene.
Bank of England (2009). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm California Dice (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm
Tennessee Gold (2010). Oil on canvas. 120 x 80cm Green Six (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm
Welcome to Vegas (2010). Oil on canvas. 180 x 135cm Five Coke Bottles (2009). Oil on canvas. 170 x 115cm
Four Four Jack (2008). Oil on canvas. 90 x 135cm
Harvey’s 1860 (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm
Jelly Belly and Cola (2008). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm Sapphire Blue (2010). Oil on canvas. 120 x 80cm
Blue Dice (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm Red Spotted Coke (2008). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm
King (2008). Oil on canvas. 120 x 180cm
Purple Four (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm
Ten and Eight Ball (2008). Oil on canvas. 163 x 224cm
Tall Coke (2009). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm Golden Dollar (2010). Oil on canvas. 180 x 135cm
Rolling Green Dice (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm Triple Distilled (2010). Oil on canvas. 130 x 90cm
MGM Grand (2009). Oil on canvas. 163 x 224cm
Hard Rock, Lady and the Joker (2009). Oil on canvas. 90 x 135cmCoca Cola Logo (2010). Oil on canvas. 35 x 50cm
Coca Cola Mark (2010). Oil on canvas. 35 x 50cm
Rolling Rock Stars (2010). Oil on canvas. 135 x 90cm
Golden Coke (2009). Oil on canvas. 170 x 115cm
£50 (2008). Oil on canvas. 50 x 75cm
The Imperial Palace (2009). Oil on canvas. 162 x 244cm
Bags of Jelly Belly Beans (2008). Oil on canvas. 150 x 195cm
Bad to the Bone (2009). Oil on canvas. 120 x 120cm
Selected Exhibitions
September 2010 All or Nothing, Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London
May 2010 Occidental Dimensions, Brighton University
May 2010 Chicago Art Fair, Mark Jason Gallery
May 2010 New York Art Fair, Mark Jason Gallery
January 2010 London Art Fair, Mark Jason Gallery
May 2009 New York Art Fair, Mark Jason Gallery
January 2009 London Art Fair, Islington, Mark Jason Gallery
October 2008 AAF London, Mark Jason Gallery
October 2008 Guilty Pleasures, Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London
September 2008 Envie D'art Gallerie, Paris
June 2008 AAF New York, Mark Jason Gallery
May 2008 AAF New York, Mark Jason Gallery
March 2008 Art London, Chelsea, Mark Jason Gallery
January 2008 London Art Fair, Islington, Mark Jason Gallery
Alon Zakaim Fine Art
30 Cork Street, London, W1S 3NG
Tel: +44 (0)20 7287 7750
Fax: +44 (0)20 7287 7751
Email: [email protected]
www.alonzakaim.com