Katharine Lazenby

Katharine Lazenby’s work emerges from a process-orientated practice that resists pre-defined endpoints in favour of revision, construction and reconstruction. In this speculative approach work is an active dialogue between action and outcome, as manifested ‘lines of enquiry’ or streams of thought. Through various methods of appropriation and assemblage, she orchestrates her material, drawing upon visual echoes and associations resonating between disparate elements. Her practice is driven by an interest in how we ‘make sense’ of fragments, searching for connections between the part and the whole, where context informs perception and directs reading. For the viewer the work is experienced as an unfolding encounter. Whether an installation articulated across a physical space or the sequential disclosure of a time-based medium, there is both the impress of the immediate instance and a gradual comprehension pieced together. Developing the work through an attentive crafting of her chosen material, Lazenby is attuned to its sensuous impact as well as its conceptual suggestibility.

“Untitled”, Detail of slide projection installation, (acetate) 24x 36mm