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ART AND PLAY

with Kate Howe

6pm-8pm
£20 / £18 members

Join artist Kate Howe to hear about their creative process, play with a range of materials and learn new techniques. Their floor-based installation The Moving Line (Shingle Coast) is part of our current exhibition, The Open: Odyssey.

Participants will explore the tactile nature of waxed Kraft paper and aluminium armature wire, using these materials to create unique forms which can be lit with LED lights. This is a unique opportunity to chat with the artist directly.

Come and play with Kate’s favourite material. Industrial waxed Kraft paper is not the most obvious go-to as an art making material – after all it is designed as a barrier (for shipping oily machine parts).

Embedded within this material is the presence of labour; it evokes longs shifts at mills, the careful construction and servicing of machines meant to automate our lives – creating time. But we now know that “creating time” through automation does not lead to leisure – more work rushed in to fill the gaps, and we are all busier than ever.

Working with a glue gun, aluminium armature wire, and waxed Kraft paper, we will find the whimsical side of this relentless production. Smashing the paper to make it subtle, shaping it by hand, each participant is invited to delve deeply into the nature of material. Participants will come away with their own sculptural item and a deeper understanding of how curiosity leads to creative breakthrough in relation to materials.

Come dressed to get waxy! All materials are provided.

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MEET THE ARTIST

Kate Howe

Kate Howe (American) is an artist, writer and post-graduate researcher at the University of Leeds where they are pursuing a Ph.D. in Practice-led research on socialisation of gendered violence with the museum as the mediating factor.

Howe says “My practice is grounded in painting and wanders from the painted surface to theater, installation, performance, and social practice. Always present are investigations around identity, time, memory and epistemological systems.”

Howe holds an MA from Kingston University in Creative Writing, an MA from the Royal College of Art in Painting, a BA from Arizona State University in Art History, and an AA from Foothill College in Technical Theatre. Howe is also a fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Florence, 2026.

Howe is the Founding Director and Artist in Residence at RuptureXIBIT, an inclusive, artist-run residency based practice incubator located in South West London, and has shown at the Aspen Art Museum (US), Hastings Contemporary (GB), Lychee One Gallery (London, GB), The Crypt St. Pancras (London, GB), Mile End Art Pavilion (London, GB), as well as Orleans House Gallery (London, GB).