Kathryn Sawbridge
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Kathryn Sawbridge is an experimental fine artist with a background in photography. During her fi...
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Kathryn Sawbridge
Joined In 2012
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About the artist
Kathryn Sawbridge
Joined In 2012
(16 Followers)
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Kathryn Sawbridge is an experimental fine artist with a background in photography.
During her first degree in Photography at the University of Wolverhampton, her work explored identity and how this can be obscured, and yet at the same time how semiotics can be used to give clues to that obscured identity. Her pieces examined her own identity, but the final piece for her degree used layering to add ‘personality’ to a set of family portraits, with images of animals imposed on top in order to identify personality traits which had been removed by the impersonal posing used by the photographer in the original photographs.
During her studies for her Masters in Fine Art, Kathryn continued her exploration of the building up of layers of personality, but used dress patterns and materials to create life size installations to show the impact of families and other relationships, as well as surrounding, on personality development.
Since then, as an Artist in Residence, and working on her own practice, Kathryn has gone on to develop her work within the field of collage. She has been keen to expand her work beyond the examination of her own personality, in order to make her work more accessible to the viewer, looking more at the int...
First Diploma in Media Studies – June 2008
NCFE Levels 1 and 2 Photography – June 2009
City and Guilds Level 3 Photography – June 2010
BA (Hons) Photography - June 2013 2:1
Masters in Fine Art Distinction
Gallery 9, Brindley Place, Birmingham, 2009
Birmingham Masonic Buildings, Birmingham, 2010
Morley Gallery, London, 2010
University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2012
Lake Gallery, Custard Factory, Birmingham, 2012
University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, 2013
Contact, Manchester, 2013-14
Long Island City, New York -2014
Shape, London -2015
Grand Central, Birmingham, 2016
Lighthouse Wolverhampton, 2016
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2016 (Permanent piece)
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2016
The Arches, Birmingham, 2016
The Arches, Birmingham, 2017
Lighthouse Wolverhampton, 2017
Mander Centre, Wolverhampton, 2017
The Viner Gallery, Wolverhampton, 2017
Newhampton Art Centre, Wolverhampton, 2017
Sutton Coldfield Art Trail, 2018
Direct Art Action, Sutton Coldfield, 2019
Sutton Coldfield Art Trail, 2019
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