I make hand-built ceramic self-portrait vessels. Vessels have been a symbol of women’s bodies throughout art history, and as a woman, I feel that heritage along with the added societal pressure of maintaining my “useful body” to unrealistic standards of beauty. The clay material and the shapes of the vessels look lifelike in their imperfections: the dimpling of my fingerprints resembles cellulite or subtle movements like breathing and the sagging caused by gravity often creates a contrapposto gesture. The vessels’ interiors are painted with a pink, interior-flesh-looking glaze, referencing the shameful imperfections, functions and pain of our bodies that women are expected to conceal. The vessels explore the tension that exists between our exterior selves that we present to the world and our interior worlds of our feelings and thoughts. I write haikus to correspond to each vessel based on the experiences and emotions that inform my sculptures. The immaterial nature of the poetry is a counterpoint to the heavy, monumental qualities of the ceramic objects. Through creating this ongoing body of work, I come to terms with my experiences of anxiety, awkwardness, pain and humor that comes with navigating the world inside of my body.
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Born in Baltimore, MD 1989. Lives and works in NYC.
INSTAGRAM: KATEBANCROFT_
katebancroft@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
2013 M F A Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
2011 B F A Painting and Art History, College of Fine Art, Boston University.
2010 Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France.
RESIDENCIES:
2018 The London Intensive. The Slade School of Fine Art and Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (forthcoming).
2014 Centro Cultural Andratx. Collaboration with Miko Veldkamp, Mallorca, ES.
Selected Exhibitions:
2018 London Summer Intensive Open Studios, The Slade Research Centre. London.
2018 London Summer Intensive Work in Progress Showcase, Camden Arts Centre. London.
2018 Conveyor, Morgan Fine Arts Building. Youngspace. Curated by Kate Mothes. New York.
2017 Welcome Home. Housing Association. Curated by Chloe McClellan. London.
2016 Dear Kate, we were thinking that wallpaper, your painting and that video of you dancing: you remember the one? Love, Rope. Rope. Baltimore.
2015 Winter Show/Group Show. CCA Andratx. Mallorca, ES.
2013 In the House, Bethnal Green. London.
Publications:
2018 Art Maze Magazine: Issue 8. London.
2014 The Other Studio. London.
Born in Baltimore, MD 1989. Lives and works in NYC.
INSTAGRAM: KATEBANCROFT_
katebancroft@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
2013 M F A Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
2011 B F A Painting and Art History, College of Fine Art, Boston University.
2010 Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France.
RESIDENCIES:
2018 The London Intensive. The Slade School of Fine Art and Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (forthcoming).
2014 Centro Cultural Andratx. Collaboration with Miko Veldkamp, Mallorca, ES.
Selected Exhibitions:
2018 London Summer Intensive Open Studios, The Slade Research Centre. London.
2018 London Summer Intensive Work in Progress Showcase, Camden Arts Centre. London.
2018 Conveyor, Morgan Fine Arts Building. Youngspace. Curated by Kate Mothes. New York.
2017 Welcome Home. Housing Association. Curated by Chloe McClellan. London.
2016 Dear Kate, we were thinking that wallpaper, your painting and that video of you dancing: you remember the one? Love, Rope. Rope. Baltimore.
2015 Winter Show/Group Show. CCA Andratx. Mallorca, ES.
2013 In the House, Bethnal Green. London.
Publications:
2018 Art Maze Magazine: Issue 8. London.
2014 The Other Studio. London.
