About
Kate explores perception and illusion through experimentation with the camera, using different techniques to obscure and restrict her body. Kate uses the body as a way of questioning her identity in the contemporary world, physically, sexually, virtually and digitally: often creating a tension between a position of sexuality and one of vulnerability. Feminism and female solidarity have become an important part of Kate's practice, as well as the adverse effects of isolation and helplessness. The body is increasingly represented to us through digital mediation. Kate's practice focuses not only on embodied experience but also the manipulated and processed image and the mutability of identities in this increasingly mediatised society. Devices and digital technologies provide new ways of seeing, as well as being seen, changing the way we relate to the image and, ultimately, each other. Hito Steyerl’s The Wretched of the Screen, in which Steyerl articulates the relationship between the new materiality of digitisation and the precarity of life, resonates with Kate deeply. She is also concerned with the experience of the viewer haptically, a phenomenological notion of ‘embodied spectatorship’, using a hand-eye element to feel the sensation of touch solely through the act of seeing.
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A creatively and intellectually ambitious person with a Masters Degree in Fine Art with Distinction from the Winchester School of Art. Kate was selected as one of the best graduates for inclusion in Platform, a project in association with five galleries: Aspex, De La Warr, Turner Contemporary, Milton Keynes Gallery and Modern Art Oxford. Kate's practice has seen her work exhibited in the U K, Irland, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Shanghai and Los Angeles. Kate is part of the DYSPLA (a Development & Production Studio of Neurodivergent Storymakers), Filiart (Feminism in London) artist group and the Nasty Women Movement. Recent projects to note include the Nasty Women Exhibition London, Artist Residency at OVADA Oxford, video art screening at the Institute of Contemporary Art London and The Old Fire Station - Oxford Together Stories commission. Kate was also awarded the 2020 Supporting The Arts Award.
Exhibitions
Oxford Through Our Eyes. Old Fire Station, 40 George St, Oxford OX1 2AQ. 06/2022
Nasty Women Revive. Open House Hackney, 5 Prince Edward Rd, London E9 5LX. 03/2022
The World of Light. Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. 10/2021
Text Me When You Get Home. The Impulse Movement. Online. 08/2021
Supporting The Arts. Online. 08/2021
The Portrait Within. The House Of Smalls. Online. 02/2021
Hope. Original Magazine. Online. 02/2021
The Living Record Festival. Living Record Productions. Online. 01/2021
The Neurodivergent Artist Magazine. Magical Women. Online .01/2021
Supporting The Arts. Online. 12/2020
Facing it. The House Of Smalls. Online. 12/2020
Being Human 2020: Covid-19 - Apart but together. Queen Mary University of London, London. E1 4NS. 11/2020
Oxford Together Stories. Online. 10/2020
Coantivirus. Online. 09/2020
TOUCH ME. Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Vauxhall Station, London. SE11 5HL. 09/2020
PART OF YOU. The Winchester Gallery, Winchester. SO23 8DL. 09/2020
The Oxford Workshop Display. The Oxford Workshop. Oxford. OX4 2JZ. 11/2019
FiLiA 2019 Conference Showcase. Bradford. 10/2019
Presence. Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot. OX11 7NE. 8/2019
WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL PRIDE? Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. L3 1BP. 7/2019
Oxfordshire Artweeks. The Jam Factory Oxford, OX1 1HU. 4/2019
CHROMANTICS. Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot. OX11 7NE. 4/2019
FiLiArt100. Atelier Tammam, Bloomsbury, London. WC1H 9PZ. 3/2019
FiLiArt100. São Paulo, Brazil. 11/2018
FiLiArt100. The Lighthouse Venue. Manchester. M50 1RE. 10/2018
FiLiArt100. Bloomsbury Festival. WC1H 9PZ.10/2018
Autumn Fine art. The Jam Factory, Oxford. 10/2018
The Great Divide. Ovada, Oxford. OX1 1NJ. 09/2018
The Persona. The Winchester Gallery, Winchester. 8/2018
Self Protection Manifesto. The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. 8/2018
Living Portraits. Grow Festival, Corby. 7/2018
Living Portraits. Hat Fair, St John's Chapel, Winchester. 6/2018
Oxfordshire Artweeks Life Story exhibition. Magdalen Road Church Hall, Oxford. OX4 1RB. 5/2018
Oxfordshire Artweeks. The Jam Factory, Oxford. OX1 1HU. 4/2018
Nasty Women Portugal. Anjos70 Regueirão Dos Anjos 70, Lisbon, Portugal. 4/2018
DYSPLA International Moving Image Festival (DIMIF). The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Parish Church, London. NW1 2BA. 3/2018
Nasty Women Liverpool Exhibition. Constellations, Baltic Triangle, Liverpool. 3/2018
Fighting Talk. 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield. S1 2PD. 3/2018
Experimental Film Festival. RAOB Club, Middlesbrough. TS1 3QB. 12/2017
Are you still Nasty? Thought Foundation, Clarity House, Durham. DH3 2TB. 11/2017
Pink Season. LAB Brighton, 76-81 Kings Road Arches, Brighton, East Sussex. BN1 2FN. 11/2017
EVE (Experimental Video Evening.) Bloc Projects. 71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield. S1 4RB. 11/2017
Filia Art. Institute of Education, Bedford Way, London. 10/2017
Tour Art. Glyndebourne, New Rd, Lewes. BN8 5UU. 10/2017
Nasty Women Exhibition: London. Black and White Building, 74 Rivington Street, London. EC2A 3. 09/2017
SENSE & SENSIBILITY // SUGAR & SPICE. The Winchester Gallery, Winchester. SO23 8DL. 09/2017
MA Fine Art Degree Show. Winchester School of Art, Winchester. SO23 8DL. 09/2017
MODA360. International Exhibition: Los Angeles. New Mart Building, 127 W 9th St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA. 08/2017
Recurring Patterns - Kate Aries & Victoria Day-Wilson Joint Exhibition. Turner Sims, Salisbury Road, Southampton. SO17 1BJ. 07/2017
Videovada. Ovada, Oxford. OX1 1NJ. 06/2017
Pass it On. The CAA Gallery of Shanghai Institute of Design, Shanghai, China. 06/2017
MM / 2: Archipelago, outside the circle. ARTHOUSENTH, Toluca, México. 05/2017
MA Interim exhibition. Winchester School of Art, Winchester. 05/2017
Small Faces. Rex, Bristol. 05/2017
Nasty Women Cambridge. ArtWorks, 5 Greens Road, Cambridge. CB4 3EH. 04/2017
Pass it On. L'Hybride, 18 Rue Gosselet, 59000 Lille, France. 04/2017
Nasty Women Exhibition Newcastle. Headlam Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE6 2. 04/2017
Escape. The Spark. E Park Terrace, Southampton. SO14 0YN. 03/2017
Small Faces. Showcase Gallery, 157-187 Above Bar St, Southampton. SO14 7NN. 03/2017
Man! I Feel Like a Woman. Margate Arts Club, 276 Northdown Road, Kent. 03/2017
FiLiArt 2016. Oxford House, Derbyshire St, London. E2 6HG. 12/2016
MABA Show. Winchester School of Art, Winchester. 12/2016
Pass it On. The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Johanna Westerdijkplein 75, 2521 EN Den Haag, Netherlands. 11/2016
An exhibition accompanying BBC's 100 Women. BBC Radio Theatre, London Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London. W1A 1AA. 11/2016
Artist Night, alongside BAS8. Southampton City Art Gallery, Civic Centre, Commercial Rd, Southampton. SO14 7LY. 11/2016
Pride Of Place Project. Caravan Gallery. 108 East Street, Southampton. 11/2016
Pass it On. CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, 5 Wandesford Quay, Cork, Ireland. 11/2016
Bring Your Own Beamer. K6 Gallery, 40 Terminus Terrace, Southampton. SO14 3FE. 10/2016
ArtCarPark. Guildhall Square, Southampton. 10/2016
The Material World. The Photo Rooms, 81 Bedford Pl, Southampton. SO15 2DF. 10/2016
Beyond the Edge. Brighton Photo Fringe. Edwin Budding Gallery, Brighton Rd, Hassocks. BN6 9LY. 10/2016
Platform 2016. Aspex Gallery, Gunwharf Quays, The Vulcan Building, Portsmouth. PO1 3BF. 10/2016
Brains & Lip present 'Miss Behaviour'. Bones & Pearl, 60-68 Markfield Road, London. N15 4QA. 09/2016
Pass it On. Showcase Gallery, 157-187 Above Bar St, Southampton. SO14 7NN. 09/2016
Civilized? Hoxton Arches, 402 Cremer St, London. E2 8HD. 07/2016
Flukt. Kragero Philosophy Festival. Kragero, Norway. 06/2016
Degree Show. Southampton Solent University, Southampton. 05/2016
F.A.C.E. Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton. 04/2015
Mid Year Show. Southampton Solent University, Southampton. 02/2015
Cake - Alongside Louise Bourgeois. Turner Sims Concert Hall & Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton. 03/2015
Oxfordshire Artweeks. Ovada, Oxford. OX1 1NJ. 05/2013
FMP. OCVC, Oxpens Rd, Oxford. OX1 1SA. 05/2013
Education
Winchester School of Art. 09/2016 - 09/2017, FT MA Fine Art Distinction
Southampton Solent University. 09/2013 - 06/2016, FT BA (Hons) Fine Art First Class Honours Degree
Oxford and Cherwell Valley College, Oxford Campus 09/2012 - 07/2013, FT Foundation Diploma (Art & Design) (QCF)
Residencies and Commissions
Oxford Together Stories. Commission. Arts at the Old Fire Station (AOFS) and Oxford Hub. 2020
Presence. Commission. Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot OX11 7NE. 2019
OVADA Summer Residency. Ovada 14a Osney Lane, OX1 1NJ. 2018
Living Portraits. Commission. Winchester, Hat Fair. 2018
Christmas Lighthouse. Commission. Winchester, Woolly Hat Fair 2017. 2017
TNCE International Summer Residency. Showcase Gallery, Southampton. 2016
ArtCarPark.Commission, Guildhall Square, Southampton. 2016
The Material World Commission. A BAS8 Fringe Southampton. 2016
Employment
Assistant Events Manager/ Marketing Manager @ The Jam Factory, Hollybush Row, Oxford. OX1 1HU
In-Venue Researcher @ Morris Hargreaves McIntyre, Oxfordshire GLAM Venues, Oxford.
Workshop Facilitator @ John Hansard Gallery, 142-144 Above Bar St, Southampton. SO14 7DU
Hat Fair - Digital/ Visual Artist @ The Live Theatre Winchester Trust, Jewry St, Winchester. SO23
Arts Project Assistant @ 'a space' Arts, Tower House, Town Quay Road, Southampton. SO14 2NY
A BAS8 Fringe Southampton Associate @ Culture Southampton, Tower House, Southampton. SO14 2NY
Assistant @ The Photo Rooms, 81 Bedford Place, Southampton. SO15 2DF
Gallery Invigilator @ Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton. SO14 2DJ
Volunteer @ Arts at the Old Fire Station, George Street, Oxford. OX1 2AQ