Title: Palm
Size: 60cm 80cm
Medium: Photo-Screenprint
Katherine Penney
Artist Status:Potential Commission
About This Work
This piece is one of a series using photography to create images of parts
of the body as if seen through gauze, thereby creating a shadowy, passing
effect. The original photographs were then treated and made into screenprints
to further enhance the impressionistic effect of the graceful movement
of a dancer's gesture, the slightly sepia/charcoal colouring adding
to the antique quality of the print. Seen in the original print, the images
in this series are particularly striking.
Artist Background
Born in Northern Ireland in 1982. Katherine studied in Germany before
graduating in Fine and Applied Art from the University of Ulster in
2005. She was regarded as one of the finest students in her year group
and has since pursued a career as a professional artist, curating the
Mullan Gallery in Belfast where her work is also exhibited. Katherine
was commissioned by Arts & Business Northern Ireland to produce
work for RHM Commercial LLP, a new commercial property consultancy based
in Belfast, held a one year bursary with the Belfast Print Workshop
2005-2006, and is currently working on commission and purchase works
with Ulster Hospital's research department. She is primarily a printmaker,
working with photo-etching, silk screen printing and traditional etching
techniques, but also makes jewellery and is an accomplished painter.
- Other Works by this Artist
- Feet
- Space
- Light Dance
- Hands I
- Hand II