Kate Dorrough
Artist - Edge of the Wedge
62 Kate Dorrough Sydney
a River Vessel - Songs and Echoes of an Ancient Landscape 2024 $3600
b River Vessel - Calligraphic Marks of an Ancient River 2024 $3600 both hand built stoneware ceramic with glaze
c River Theatre 2024 video
d River Vessel, a collaboration with choreographer Kristian Chan, 2024 video
Dorrough comes from a painting background. Her coiled hand built stoneware ceramic forms are applied with painterly layers of glaze and slips combined with an unorthodox approach to multiple firings - a fusion of glaze, clay and the gestural mark. These vessels speak of the archaic, with an inferred language or script, acknowledging our need to understand and decipher the river in order preserve this precious resource.
Her Riverscape videos accompanied by soundscapes, are projected onto groupings of ceramic vessels. Kate’s recent collaborations with choreographer and dancer Kristina Chan, have led to further experimentations where the sentient vessels become actors on a theatrical stage. A dialogue is established between the female body as a representation of fertility, the ceramic forms and the river.
Kate is represented by Arthouse Gallery, Sydney.