Kate Kessling

Education: MA Goldsmith College (Postgraduate study involved a British Council scholarship to work in the studio of Magdalena Abacanowicz  Poland)

Button Series

Kate Kessling is an exciting new artist working in a broad range of media. She has long been fascinated with buttons and has one of the largest collections of buttons in the UK. Her ' button pieces' are vast mosaics; each piece containing over two thousand individually sewn buttons. 

Using the latest in high resolution digital printing, Kate Kessling has discovered a new and vibrant technique with which to produce her button images. Each print is produced in a small edition on Fine Art paper to Archival standards by Contrary Press. 

Kate Kessling  is currently working on a set of prints for Habitat which will be launched in 2008.    

Sculpture
The Dog  series evolved from constructed textiles sculptural form metamorphosed from wood, clay, paper, silk and earth pigment.

The delicacy of these sculptures, brought about by the alchemical process by which she arrives at form and texture, have led Kate Kessling to search for different ways in which to make her work more permanent.

The source material for most of the work is anthropological:  "I find inspiration in the skills and invention of early man."

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'Black Dog' from the Button Series - sold