Introducing KATHERINE BUTCHER
Katherine Butcher (she/her) is an Australian visual artist and producer currently based between Australia and Norway. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from The National Art School in Sydney and a Master’s degree in Fine Art from Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts. With a diverse artistic practice, Katherine’s work spans various mediums, collaborations, and ‘making public’ formats.
During her residency at Eramboo Artist Environment, Kate will leverage spatial scanning as both a technique and a method for mapping and shaping space to explore the dramaturgy of artistic practice. Her primary focus will revolve around two key frames: ‘nature and destroyed landscapes’ and ‘society and concentrations’. Her work will contemplate what kind of artistic experiences and actions we can establish with inclusiveness and sustainability in mind. This contemplation necessitates an examination of the detrimental substrates created by human actions on Earth and questioning the potential risks and positive contributions that art can make in shaping future solutions that foster collaboration between human and ecological relationships.
Kate employs the ‘everyday’ languages of developers, decision-makers, and state employees – such as the ‘pitch’, architectural software, digital renderings, and building equipment – to shift the focus from envisioned economic outcomes onto who determines the shape of our environments.
In addition, Kate will continue at Eramboo to work on a durational public performance titled “Just This And Only That,” with Carlos A. Correia and Joana Bruno, initiated in Trondheim, Norway, in January this year. This project centers on the potential of artistic practice to generate networks of new thinking in the city and investigate what a sustainable work-life looks like while navigating the importance of freedom of expression, shelter, and movement.”
We look forward to welcoming the public to Eramboo Artist Environment to experience Katherine Butcher’s artistic work.
https://www.instagram.com/k.a.t.e.butcher/
https://justthisandonlythat.com/