Kate Power is an artist and writer from Tarntanya, Adelaide and currently living and working in Glasgow. Kate’s practice embraces video, performance, textiles, sculpture, text and installation to observe coexistence and enforced social structures that can complicate the way people relate to one another. She seeks to elaborate the gaps between language and gesture, and the performative and the social to think about how seemingly insignificant moments affect us psychologically and physiologically. The ways that power can be used subtly in relationships to reinforce dominance has been the focus of her recent work. Performing micro-moments that occur between people her work encompasses a variety of shifting forms and modes from live performance to sculpture, audio-visual and text-based works.
Kate completed a BA in Fine Art at the South Australian School of Art in 2014 and is currently undertaking an MFA at the Glasgow School of Art. She has presented work at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Outerspace (Brisbane, QLD), Vitalstatistix (Adelaide, SA), Gallery Sejul (Seoul, KOR), West Space (Melbourne, VIC), NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NYC), Ace Open (Adelaide, SA), Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, BLINDSIDE (Melbourne, VIC), Paper Mountain (Perth, WA), among others. She has undertaken residencies at The British School at Rome, NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, and SIM in Reykjavik, Iceland. Kate is a 2020 recipient of the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship.