Kathryn Desforges
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Kathryn Desforges is a UK-based printmaker who creates process-driven, contemporary artworks which explore her preoccupation with ordinary, overlooked and in-between places.
Her work germinates from a fragmented collection of drawings, photographs, memories and lived experience, and evolves through printmaking processes such as etching, lithography and woodcut, which enable a unique visual language.
Material is important - carving, scratching and sanding back metal and wood reveals and covers up, helping to piece together fragments of ideas, distill and refine, and keep the physical act of making at the core of her practice. What results are re-imaginings – pieced together from snippets and fleeting glimpses of her everyday.
Recent work sees Kathryn exploring woodcut, using repetitive, meditative mark-making to reflect movement and fluidity, and exploring three-dimensional space - allowing the work to come off the wall and exploiting the natural movement of washi paper.
Kathryn’s work is held in public and private collections in the UK, including the Tate Library artist book collection. She trained at Kingston University, and has undertaken artist residencies at Intaglio Printmaker, UK, Mi-LAB, Japan, and a Post Graduate Lithography Fellowship at Leicester Print Workshop. Ever-hungry to learn and develop new print processes, her practice has developed through a symbiotic relationship with her career as a printmaking technician and tutor.
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Kathryn Desforges is a UK-based printmaker who creates process-driven, contemporary artworks which explore her preoccupation with ordinary, overlooked and in-between places.
Her work germinates from a fragmented collection of drawings, photographs, memories and lived experience, and evolves through printmaking processes such as etching, lithography and woodcut, which enable a unique visual language.
Material is important - carving, scratching and sanding back metal and wood reveals and covers up, helping to piece together fragments of ideas, distill and refine, and keep the physical act of making at the core of her practice. What results are re-imaginings – pieced together from snippets and fleeting glimpses of her everyday.
Recent work sees Kathryn exploring woodcut, using repetitive, meditative mark-making to reflect movement and fluidity, and exploring three-dimensional space - allowing the work to come off the wall and exploiting the natural movement of washi paper.
Kathryn’s work is held in public and private collections in the UK, including the Tate Library artist book collection. She trained at Kingston University, and has undertaken artist residencies at Intaglio Printmaker, UK, Mi-LAB, Japan, and a Post Graduate Lithography Fellowship at Leicester Print Workshop. Ever-hungry to learn and develop new print processes, her practice has developed through a symbiotic relationship with her career as a printmaking technician and tutor.
Kathryn Desforges is a UK-based printmaker who creates process-driven, contemporary artworks which explore her preoccupation with ordinary, overlooked and in-between places.
Her work germinates from a fragmented collection of drawings, photographs, memories and lived experience, and evolves through printmaking processes such as etching, lithography and woodcut, which enable a unique visual language.
Material is important - carving, scratching and sanding back metal and wood reveals and covers up, helping to piece together fragments of ideas, distill and refine, and keep the physical act of making at the core of her practice. What results are re-imaginings – pieced together from snippets and fleeting glimpses of her everyday.
Recent work sees Kathryn exploring woodcut, using repetitive, meditative mark-making to reflect movement and fluidity, and exploring three-dimensional space - allowing the work to come off the wall and exploiting the natural movement of washi paper.
Kathryn’s work is held in public and private collections in the UK, including the Tate Library artist book collection. She trained at Kingston University, and has undertaken artist residencies at Intaglio Printmaker, UK, Mi-LAB, Japan, and a Post Graduate Lithography Fellowship at Leicester Print Workshop. Ever-hungry to learn and develop new print processes, her practice has developed through a symbiotic relationship with her career as a printmaking technician and tutor.
