Kate Puxley
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love
about
Kate Puxley is an artist based in Montreal, currently working mostly in taxidermy (predominantly roadkills) and charcoal. She is known for her unique ability to combine everyday objects and “found animals” to create works that challenge the viewer to think about the relationship between the natural and man made worlds. Kate has painted with in Art Battle 4, as well Art Battle 48, and tonight we welcome her back to the easel for Montreal’s very first Art Battle, AB53.
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Her work concerns animals and humans, specifically the use of the former by the latter in the representation and exercise of power. She works chiefly in drawing and sculpture, but the artisanal techniques of taxidermy are central to her practice. With these media, she creates a sort of mythological theatre where the beautiful and the grotesque commingle, and where human conventions of power and violence can be exposed and examined.