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Work Type:	painting
Date of work:	1998
Materials:	medium: oil support: canvas
Measurements:	height: 68 in width: 48 in
Style Period:	contemporary art
Subject:	non representational, painting, process
Technique:	painting

Description:	At first glance, irreverent, unabashed gestural marks, splodge, drip and ripple their way across the surfaces of Katie Pratt's paintings. Events in paint are then highlighted by a language of small strokes and dashes that act as a forensic study of the initial painting. Like a pseudo-scientific diagram, they highlight the creases and imperfections of paint, translating them into a strange analytical shorthand that is then reclaimed by the ground from which they came. [MORE] [LESS] At first glance, irreverent, unabashed gestural marks, splodge, drip and ripple their way across the surfaces of Katie Pratt's paintings. Events in paint are then highlighted by a language of small strokes and dashes that act as a forensic study of the initial painting. Like a pseudo-scientific diagram, they highlight the creases and imperfections of paint, translating them into a strange analytical shorthand that is then reclaimed by the ground from which they came.

Source:	From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence. “New Contemporaries 99”, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1999.

Date of source:	1999