Kath Fries is a visual artist based in Sydney, where she completed a Masters of Visual Art at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney. She was awarded the 2010 Japan Foundation New Artist Award, a 2011 ArtStart Grant from the Australia Council and a 2012 NSW Artists’ Grant from the National Association for the Visual Arts. Working across installation, sculpture and photography, her works range from intimately sized indoor works to extensive large-scale pieces within natural, suburban and agricultural landscapes.
"The transience of existence and fragility of life are recurring themes throughout my practice. I explore materiality, spatiality and archetypical narratives by marking a personal, immediate engagement with time, place and physicality. Working in a site-sensitive manner, I use domestic materials and natural elements to link one’s present experience to boarder considerations of humanity, history and future continuation. Viewers are invited to approach my installations from differing angles by locating something at first seemingly familiar and then slowly discovering an undertone of the strange and unexpected. A subtle awareness of other worldliness sits imminently in my work, balancing on the edge between one's immediate experience of the present and the unfurling potential of the unseen. I sometimes draw on fables, myths and legends, where everyday objects revel magical capabilities or references to nature become the pivotal points of interpretation."
Please direct all enquiries about my artwork to kathfries@gmail.com
