kate shields.

Kate Shields is a multi-disciplinary artist, currently based in Brighton, studying Fine Art. With a background in life drawing and portraiture, her work is mostly focused on the figure, the body, and how it relates to gender, sexuality, as well as perceptions of beauty, the self and others. ​To contact Kate please email: [email protected].

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‘OBJECT’

A series of screen prints, created for my 2017 exhibition, ‘Objects’. 

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‘#dancingontheinternet (Rosas Danst Rosas)’

Four smartphones playing my performance of ‘Rosas danst rosas’ simultaneously, displayed on four wooden chairs.

Installation at uni, May 2018

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‘#dancingontheinternet (Rosas Danst Rosas)’

Four smartphones playing my performance of ‘Rosas danst rosas’ simultaneously, displayed on four wooden chairs.

Installation at uni, May 2018

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#dancingontheinternet on show at PopUp Brighton. March 2018.

Four smartphones, simultaneously playing four videos of me performing Pina Bausch’s ‘Nelken Line’ along Brighton beach. The videos are played on a loop, giving the illusion of a never-ending dance.

This piece is part of an ongoing project, #dancingontheinternet, wherein I have learning and documenting choreographed dance. I have chosen to show these dances on smart phone handsets.

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'The desolation of small things’

Mixed media installation.

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'The desolation of small things' is based around a passage from The Well of Loneliness, the book I took from my friend Phoebe's bedside after she passed away in June. The passage mentions the power that small objects take on after we lose someone, and I included small photos and oil paintings of objects that either belonged to her or remind me of her. I added bunting and balloons, as I never want to forget the amount of joy and fun she brought to everyone around her.

#art #phoebecoulton#installation

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‘Clubbing exposures’

Photo paper

2017

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I’m taking part in this exhibition next week in Brighton.

More details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/382953062124869/?ti=icl

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‘the desolation of small things’

colour film

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something I am working on at the moment, about the loss of a friend.

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Panoramic shot of ‘In Colour’ by Peter Hudson, at Fabrica gallery, Brighton. Taken on my iPhone just before I life modelled for Jane Fordham’s experimental drawing class.

This wonderful exhibition is on for one more week and it’s been a real pleasure to volunteer and work alongside it. 

I’m currently coming to the end of my placement at Fabrica, where I have been designing a project to get young LGBTQ people into performance art, and learning to write a funding application for it. I’ll be applying to a funding body at the end of October, and even if I’m not successful, it’s been great to learn such a valuable skill.

More about my work at Fabrica can be found on the right hand side of the page.

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‘Drag hag (work in progress’

Weaved wig hair, human hair, false nails, underwear, ribbon and thread.

Kate Shields, 2017

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‘teacup in transition’

2017

porcelain and teacup.

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‘history brick’

At this years Brighton Pride, I carried around a brick, to acknowledge those who started the riots that started what we now call Pride, back in 1969.

Because history is important, but also heavy.

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A ‘pillow book’ designed around my affection for early 90s teen films, created whilst recovering from a period of ill mental health.

Made using embroidery, mono printing, screen printing and typewriting.

Photographed as an installation at uni in May 2017.

More photos:

http://kateshields.tumblr.com/bechdel

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Femme/Butch

35mm Film

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Working on my 2nd year project at the moment...here's an early image. My laptop succumbed to an accidental spillage, which has slowed me down digitally. Hence using my old typewriter. More soon #bechdeltest

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‘Self portrait with iphone light’

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‘Untitled (analogue iPhone selfie)’

Black & white photograph.

I created this image using the light from my iPhone, to expose a 35mm negative of a self-portrait.