Kate Boucher
b. 1972, UK. Lives and works in the UK
“In experiencing places, we simultaneously encounter two closely related but different landscapes. The one lying beneath our feet, […] the other is the perceived landscape, consisting of sensed and remembered accounts.” Muir.R.
KATE BOUCHER’s work is created in response to landscapes that are in some way, transitional. These landscapes are recorded in the liminal states of twilight and daybreak, where the separation seems thinner between the real, the sensed and the remembered. Boucher responds to these landscapes through a drawing and making practice, exploring this tension between the sensed and the known.
She records these complex responses to her chosen landscapes through intense study, habitual practices and serial working, travelling through them, on repeated and habitual routes. Procedures created by her for each site, outline methods for recording through sketchbooks, photography, drawing and assemblage.
Each piece in a series attempts to better express or expose the underlying reason, whilst lost in thought and immersed in the landscape, her attention might have been drawn to one thing over another. The works are not intended to be portraits of a place but rather to capture a more universal, emotive response to landscape.
KATE BOUCHER studied at Chelsea School of Art in the early 1990s, graduating from West Dean College with a Master of Fine Art 2016. She is a QEST Scholar and has received several awards. Her work has been exhibited with that of David Nash RA, Alice Kettle and Tai Shan Schierenberg and held in private collections internationally.
Selected CV
Education
Master of Fine Art, with Distinction (Dissertation: On Residency), West Dean College, 2014 -2016
BA (hons), Public Art, Chelsea School of Art, 1991-1994
Exhibitions (selected)
2021 Forces of Nature, Gallery 42, Glyndebourne 28th June -18th September
2020 Summer Exhibition, Zimmer Stewart
Lost in Thought, South Hill Park Gallery, Bracknell.
2019 Works in Progress, Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone
Shelter for the individual and collective dreams, West Dean Gardens, Chichester
Edition(s), Unit 1 Gallery|Workshop, London
If not now, then when, Stiwdio Maelor, Corris
2018 Summer Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery|Workshop, London
Temporal Connections, Maltings Gallery, Farnham
2017 Good Nature, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester
Continuum, Menier Gallery, London
Inarticulate Landscapes, Unit 1 Gallery|Workshop, London
Chalk, Flint, Clay, Shore, Gallery 57, Arundel
2016 Celebration of Craft, Victorial and Albert Museum, London
The Mediated Landscape, Connect, London
Publications
2021 Right to Roam, Inside the Outside Photographic Journal
2020 Issue 01, Black River Photographic Journal
Awards (selected)
2018 Stiwdio Maelor Residency Bursary
2016 QEST/Radcliffe Scholar
2015 Edward James Foundation, The Anniversary Scholar
2014 Coats Foundation Bursary
Commissions/residencies/competitions (selected)
2020 Artist-in-residence, Caervallack, Cornwall
Artist-in Residence, Mawddach Cresent Residency
2019 Artist-in-residence, Stiwdio Maelor
2017 Artist-in-residence, Candida Stevens Gallery