Katharine Araniello, Limited Edition, 1 of 250 Photograph

Original art print of acrylic painting by Michelle Baharier. Katherine Araniello: live art, performance and video artist Katherine was probably the hardest person to paint, partly because she has died and partly because she was so unique. She has an aura that can be summed up by her cheekiness, you know, she has a wink in her eye that is hard to capture. Her performance art was so new and out there and also just very funny. I knew Katherine for many years and like when the Paralympics were on, she found that quite hard – the way that disabled people were projected in the media as ‘superhumans’. The whole notion of the ‘superhuman’ is mythological – it takes us directly into those stereotypes of the kinds of things you are meant to be able to achieve with this idea of a disabled person with a special power. She had a brilliant ability to transform her anger about disability prejudice like that into humor, which she did again and again with the videos she made. Katherine also had a great capacity to enjoy her life. She loved to party! I met her at a party and the last time I saw her was at a New Year’s Eve party at her house. So this painting of her was taken from a photograph I took at that party. Katherine was a pragmatist. She just got on with life – it was her strength of character and partly that came from her awareness of her mortality. In some ways I think that just gave her the determination to enjoy her life as much as possible and to develop artistically. It was always important to Katherine to be understood as a professional artist and she created an amazing body of work.

Photography:Ink on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:250

Size:11.7 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in

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