• Bowerbird x Mad Scientist x Textile Artist
• Teller of Stories
• Melbourne, Australia
• www.katekaraula.com.au
Having grown up at the base of The Dandenong Ranges and then spending the last 15 years by Port Phillip Bay, my work is grounded in nature and the interplay of humanity with it. I find myself obsessed with the ever evolving dynamic between the urban and natural environments and the creatures within them – harmonious, violent, symbiotic, at odds, beautiful, ugly, breathy and cramped – sometimes all at once.
Blessed with a curious mind, I have an insatiable appetite for learning and a fascination with human nature, I have explored multiple mediums, subjects and techniques over the years most of which play a cameo role at some point in my textile and fibre pieces. My formal study of Photography forms the foundation for the techniques and unique expressions that I have developed through experimentation and courses since I moved into my studio in 2016.
I work predominantly in hand-crafted, thrifted and natural materials, from deconstructed clothing and found objects through to hand-spun yarns and botanically dyed fabric (both of which I create does myself). This hands-on approach to the creation of the individual parts results in them lending their own story and energy to the work as a whole.
My current exploration, “No Safe Harbours”, is an expression of the space where urban and natural elements meet and interact; where they clash and create a whole new form together, liquid and fluid yet still bound by time, forms and laws of Mother Nature and the impact of human existence. Key to the exploration is the emotions this invokes, the conflict, the picking up and putting down of a state of being as a sea wall or tar road is crossed to the wide open water.
Invited by: Jesse Hisco
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