Experimenting with composition!

Here are a few new ideas which I am playing with for masters.

Images of Tasmania exhibition December 2012

Here are a few photos of some new work which I have at the Images of Tasmania exhibition at the Long Gallery. Its very new stuff so its sort of a sneak preview to some of my future works!

Statement:

Etching is a historic medium that dates back hundreds of years. Its history, embedded with rich ink and plate tone, has become the foundation for my practice. Evident in the atmospheric weaving of architecture, these images represent a cultural hybridity and the merging of past and present perspectives. Concerning bonds between identity and roots or ties to particular regions, my aim is to explore ideas behind migration and belonging. Layered with multiple screen prints and hand-colour, these works express nostalgia for my Polish homeland and a yearning for the past. 

'An Estranged Homeland'

By Kate Piekutowski

100 x 70 cm

Unique State

$590.00 Unframed

'Merging Homelands'

By Kate Piekutowski

100 x 70 cm

Unique State

$590.00 Unframed

'Parallels to the Past'

By Kate Piekutowski

100 x 70 cm

Unique State

$590.00

All three works on the wall in the long gallery. Two already sold! (but there are more available)

Up a bit closer!

Photo from further away!

The End.

(if interested in the works or have any questions please email: kateanna_p@hotmail.com)

New works in Launceston gallery, Gallery Pejean

Here is a link to the new gallery I am in. Its a lovely gallery in Launceston called Gallery Pejean. I will be in the next exhibition which is a collaboration of all the artists which is very exciting! I will only have a couple pieces but its great to get involved!

Link:

http://www.gallerypejean.com.au/Artists/KatePiekutowski/ViewArtwork.aspx

Memories and Narrative

Here are the new works that are going into Rebecca Roth's Gallery in Salamanca.

Each edition varies in this series, where some etchings have more colour than others.

Framed: $275

Unframed: $150

This exhibition explores small narratives of a homeland in regards to memories and the unconsciousness. Based on my travels to Europe, these works aim to express sensations of nostalgia derived through Polish diasporic experience. Dealing with migration and the struggles of cultural hybridity, the cage, mannequin, architecture and bird become vessels of the past. This romantic notion, accentuated through melancholy sepia tones, has become an outlet to discover history and heritage, with the wistful desire to return to a former time and place.

'Caged Memories'

21 x 29.7 cm

Editions of 20

Etching

Framed: $275

Unframed: $150

'A Homeland'

21 x 29.7 cm

Editions of 20

Etching

Framed: $275

Unframed: $150

'Modigliani's Lady'

21 x 29.7 cm

Editions of 20

Etching

Framed: $275

Unframed: $150

'Melancholy Robin'

21 x 29.7 cm

Editions of 20

Etching

Framed: $275

Unframed: $150

The latest from my masters..

An Estranged Homeland is a response to cultural hybridity and my questioned identity, with the perspective of Arcadian homelands and their deformed histories. Through a series of self-portraits, this imagery depicts personal confrontation experienced when I visited Poland - and a huge sense of rejection, displacement, emptiness, loss, sympathy and nostalgia besieged me. It considers Polish expatriation and homelessness in regards to nineteenth century artists who dealt with reconstructed identities and the creation of the idealized homeland, referencing nationalism, history and a longing for the past.

This work represents a new body of work- fresh ideas, fresh concepts. My main interest with this project has been layering and experimenting with techniques. I am so extremely excited with the potential of this project, and its only the beginning!

Experimenting with sugar-lift for buildings and intaglio for the figures.

 Three images with screen-prints and etching

This is where I am currently at. I am working on the composition to portray dark and simple forms to evoke post-war anxiety.

The layers of architecture

Experimenting with composition and different possible drawings to convert into etching. 

 The Couple

Three Peasants

The Juxtaposition between past and present: Self-portrait vs' Stanczyk

The End

New ink and water colour paintings!

Here are a few little paintings I have been working on. Some are more successful than others but it is all experimentation for my Masters. I find there is a freeness when I am painting and I have started to loosen up my wrist with these abstract elongated buildings. They also make reference to war and history in Poland with the ambiguous tone created through water colour.

My New Studio!

Yay it has finally arrived! My new studio. . .

This studio is so beautiful and it reminds of a little wooden cottage in Europe, surrounded amongst the forest. This studio is perfect for printmaking and for doing all my bits and bobs!

'Drawing on Experience' article

Published this weekend in The Mercury was a short, yet lovely article on my exhibition 'The Depiction of a Romantic'. Clyde Selby talks about the works reflecting on my Polish heritage, culture as well as the influences of history which heavily oppressed and subjugated this country.

'The Depiction of a Romantic' Exhibition at INKA GALLERY 2012

The Depiction of a Romantic

Works by Kate Piekutowski

A romantic, in a modern context, has numerous meanings. One could associate this term with love, fiction, idealism and even a desire for adventure. However I do not want these misconceptions to be associated with my work. Although one may perceive ideals of beauty, this portfolio represents rather melancholia towards Polish culture and history.

Influenced by the Romantic era of the mid-nineteenth century, these images explore the juxtaposition between lightness and darkness from both a metaphorical and physical perspective. They reflect on my Polish Heritage and a wistful desire to return to a former time and homeland. Through the traditional technique of intaglio combined with contemporary mediums, it has been my aim to find a cultural identity, where travel has become the foundation for both survival and inspiration.