Katharine Weston Smith is an artist living and working in East Sussex. She graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art Practice (University of Brighton) in 2021.

Katharine 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 and the remembered are questioned.

Choice of material and process depends on the specific nature of her enquiry. She works with still and moving images, digital and analogue projection, and LED lights. Materials include acrylic sheet, lighting gels, compostable cellophane, wax, silk, wood, glass, steel and paper.

Katharine also has a research focus on poetics. She is interested in the parallels between poetry and art and, in particular, qualities of ambiguity, simultaneity, obscuration and the process of gradual apprehension and partial comprehension. Her work is a response to a coalescence of ideas about memory, poetics, image and material. 

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

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