Katharine Weston Smith is an installation artist, living and working in East Sussex. She is interested in interactions between perception, attention, emotion and imagination in the encoding and recall of human experience. She explores the fallibility and fragility of psychological processes by combining the ethereality of light and projected images with the solidity of sculptured and found forms. Relationships between the real, the imagined, the remembered and the misremembered are questioned. Experience and memory of space and place are explored. Some of her work is site-specific.

Katharine works with LED lights and digital projection. Choice of materials depends on the underlying concept and, increasingly,  the importance of environmental sustainability. She often uses translucent, transparent and ephemeral materials such as compostable cellophane, wax, silk, reclaimed acrylic panel and paper. Light, shadow and image interact with these materials to probe the interaction between the mind and the material world.

Katharine is interested in connections between poetry and art. She uses ambiguity, simultaneity, obscuration, gaps and pauses to embrace concepts of uncertainty, alternative possibility and gradual apprehension.  

“The exact rock where his inexactness Would discover, at last..”

From The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain by Wallace Stevens