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Painting (MA)

Kathy Bailey

a patch depicting an image from star trek is attached to fabric with painted swirls

Kathy Bailey (b. 1992, London) is a London-based artist who works across painting and installation using found-objects and textiles. She completed her BA in Fine Art at Brighton University in 2018 and MA in Painting at Royal College of Art in 2023. She has exhibited across the UK, including Bristol, Manchester and London.

Degree Details

School of Arts & HumanitiesPainting (MA)RCA2023 at Truman Brewery

Truman Brewery, F Block, Ground, first and second floors

Through shrine-making I embrace different types of ritual and sacred practices. Building an alter imbues objects with feeling and meaning, a process which materialises intangible thought. My work is archival. It uses objects gathered over a lifetime, which hold memories and are part of a home I have built for myself. I collect pieces of personal importance that connect me to subcultures and the supernatural. 

These bibliographical altars draw from science fiction television fandom. Building these altars help bring ownership over my personal world-building. They act as constellations of desire, living things loaded with divinity and queer collective memory.

A collection of objects on painted wooden blocks, a hat and photographs from early childhood
a collection of objects on painted wooden blocks, photographs of childhood and star trek magazine
a collection of objects on blocks, photographs of childhood and star trek magazine stuck to window glass

Medium:

Found objects, painted wood, photographs, plastic flowers
swirls of paint on fabric surrounding the image of a scene from star trek featuring two women kissing.
swirls of paint on fabric surrounding the image of a scene from star trek featuring two women kissing.

Medium:

Fabric, Acrylic paint, plastic flowers

Size:

240 x 183 x 51 cm
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A collection of objects including star trek fandom, religious objects and plastic statues on a rug
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image shows two darts stuck into a wooden block from the top angled down. The background is made from plastic
a handmade star trek costume hanging on a wall, below a wooden block with a paper collage with a portrait attached to the wood
wooden blocks stuck together with printed paint marks. Fabric attached to make a curtain and a photographic image

Medium:

acyclic paint, found objects, memorabilia, carpet, photographs, painted wooden blocks.
A fabric work, swirls of paint on fabric surrounding the image of a scene from star trek featuring two women kissing.

Medium:

Fabric, Acrylic paint, printed textile patch, wooden blocks

Size:

240 x 183 x 51 cm
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Charcoal covering the fabric in repetitive mark making. with religious symbols and a star trek photograph at the top
Charcoal covering the fabric in repetitive mark making. with religious symbols and a star trek photograph at the top

Medium:

fabric, charcoal, photographic print on fabric

Size:

150x120 cm
A noticeboard based on the community centre with portraits of the artist pinned as different irish singers

Medium:

Photographic prints, felt noticeboard, foil curtain, lipstick, metal pins, chalk

Size:

150x120 cm
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