Kathrynn Crook

Hello Lovelies! I'm Kate and I am a photographer and digital artist based in the West Midlands.

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‘WE ARE NOT TABOO’ (2020) Collaboration Publication

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I wanted to get creative again during lockdown So i created this packaging design for LUSH’s Christmas gifts. I wanted to create a design that reminded me of my own Christmases at home as a child. Making gingerbread with my mom every year, putting up the multicoloured lights on the tree and even remembering even the stitching details of the stockings hanging on the fireplace. However, I wanted a LUSH twist when it came to the baubles taking inspiration from my favourite lush Christmas bath bombs.

I have incorporated a gold foil inlay into some one of the baubles as well as the yellow lights in order to add a textural element and to give a feeling of luxury to the product, therefore grabbing the customer attention over the Christmas period. I have added a tag design. I wanted it to be something with multiple uses, such as a knot wrap or wrapping paper within stores. 

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Personal Memoirs: Judgement, over sexualisation and censorship of the female form. 

 DISCLAIMER: Occasional use of explicit language.

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I did a project with Birmingham Homeless Charity to create a design and a few products to sell at events to raise money for the charity. After meeting with the founder i decided to use elements from the Big Issue magazine and created the We Are Here movement. 

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In conversation with my Grandad about memories from his past. (2019)

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Judgment and Over-Sexualisation of the Female Form via socail media.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13cJGd9mMF_ZmApW2bC7gU2hoaeMpUQt6/view

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Muses & Female Power.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t0UeFXDirGaZ2nD0E9HHhONuGBVIVw5G/view

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CV 2020.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XqugAD4yqhN7XDZY326uyVhZZdBIh6XH/view?usp=sharing

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Helpful Eco Robots.pdf

With the help of the Cubs I then created a zine to be displayed in the local community centre to show off the students inventions, imagination and outcomes. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14kM7nFIP2lwZ5aladV85geokIYZPLZi9/view?usp=sharing

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Robot colouring book.pdf

I created a colouring book using the children's drawings to create the book illustrations 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LB1n9qdVsIPx0Qo0vyL2rXqaoupwqJAR/view?usp=sharing

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Recycling Robots Workshop

I created multiple workshops for the 1st Lower Gornal Cub scout group to teach them about the importance of recycling and to get them to invent their own helpful robots to help within the local community. 

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Looking into the taboos of periods and the vulva, how we have been educated during childhood and how that can change our views as adult. How knowing more about our bodies can help with earlier diagnosis and treatment.

A how to origami guide has been created and uploaded to my Instagram and Tumblr, for the event I was going to do an origami vulva workshop however I managed to do this digitally with people via Microsoft teams and Instagram.

Origami vulva workshop participants.

We made vulvas via video chat and talked about sex education and female heath. Teaching origami via video is difficult though as you can’t see exactly what the there person is doing, It is my only option at the moment with Covid-19 but after I would want to do some real workshops and after the positive response i got from it i think people will be really interested.

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I have been working with Studio 62 for a number of years doing interior photoshoots and I was also asked to create their latest logo, flyer and livery design. 

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The Lady of the Seine’s story and how she has transformed throughout the decades. The macabre history of her made me question why she was such a popular muse in the late 19th and early 20th century. Nicknamed the ‘Drowned Mona Lisa’ her facial expression captured something that inspired many creative people. Her latest transformation was into the Rescue Annie CPR manikin; therefore, my first idea was to create a form of Artificial intelligence that saves lives. This idea then transformed again into looking into how a female muse can transform. The lady of the Seine has inspired the creative industry over many decades.

During my initial Photoshoot in the studio I added lipstick to create a tongue in cheek reference to ‘The most kissed Women in the world’  I decided the model should be nude from the shoulders up as a reference to the years the Lady of the Seine has been a Muse and to nod to ‘Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?’ by Guerrilla Girls. 

I created and completed a successful workshop where members of the public interacted with my current artwork and responded to it, the female muse transformed again. My processes were mainly digital or had digital elements such as the acrylic etchings were taken form STL, three- dimensional data and then laser etched. The digital medium was used as a way of bringing the traditional female muse into the current art world. I wanted to create a visual representation through my artwork using her image. The CPR mask of her face is the last thing that she has transformed into until this project, we primarily learn CPR within primary or secondary education.

By using technology to glitch her image and scrambling code with her narrative shows a how little is known of this woman. Her own story changes her image. Within my work this year I want to communicate how the female muse has always been a subject of inspiration for male artists. I now have an established question, ‘Can a forgotten female muse have a place within the current contemporary art world?’. I feel like this question is the current title of my work as I haven’t yet answered it and the work, ’ve created is not final.

Within primary education an overhead projector was used to display text and images to students, this is why I have used it to create my work. The work will be interactive, I want people to be able to move the acetate sheets around, transform the work again and create new outcomes.