Kathryn McGovern

Gallery

KATHRYN McGOVERN Bye Baby Bunting 92 x 73cm Pen ink watercolour and gouache on 640gsm Arches paper $1,200.00

KATHRYN McGOVERN Cracking the Whip 76 x 56cm Pen ink watercolour and gouache on 640gsm Arches paper $900.00

KATHRYN McGOVERN Bye Baby Bunting 92 x 73cm Pen ink watercolour and gouache on 640gsm Arches paper $1,200.00
KATHRYN McGOVERN Cracking the Whip 76 x 56cm Pen ink watercolour and gouache on 640gsm Arches paper $900.00

Bio + CV

BIOGRAPHY

Kathryn has completed a Masters in Visual Arts (MVA) through Monash University GCAD, Victoria.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice focuses on traditional materials used in a manner to convey drawing and painting as a conceptual process – exploring the nature of meaning making – as a form of reverie …. the art of making meaningful marks. My work responds to and represents the passage of time through the layering of materials and meticulous detail. When I work I try to see and represent forms as if discovering them for the first time. I use my imagination and play with metaphor and illusion to create surrealist imagery. I’m interested in looking for shared patterns across different natural forms and mixing imagery together. Intricate multi-media drawings and large scale paintings are slow-paced re-enactments of what is seen in a photograph, observed or experienced. Subject matter can be light-hearted and even humorous but other times may offer comments advocating for social change.

Kathryn McGovern CV

News

Kathryn working in her studio
Headshot of Kathryn McGovern
MAY 2017
Finalist in the Pro Hart Outback Art Prize with her artwork Mildura Line-Up
OCTOBER 2016
Finalist for arc Yinnar Drawing Prize with her artwork Tumbling Four
SEPTEMBER 2016
Kathryn’s work Stories Of The Sea was been shortlisted in the ANL Mission to Seafarers Art Awards
JULY 2016
Awarded Finalist for the Brisbane Art Prize, themed ‘the meaning of life’ with her work Hold On To Your Heart
MAY 2016
Winner of Ipswich Art Awards - Drawing Category, titled Underground, artwork by Kathryn
MAY 2016
Finalist of Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards with her work I Think I Love You
MAY 2015
Winner of the John Villiers Outback Art Prize with her work Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
2015
Finalist for KAAF Art Award with her artwork Selfish One Size Fits All