It’s Remarkable You Continue
Katherine Spindler
Katherine's lived experience of aphantasia (an inability to visualize), and dyslexia (a learning disorder affecting reading and language skills) offer personal insight into her practice; though appearing to be paradoxical for this visual artist who loves words, it is interesting to note she approaches making not from preconceived imagined image, but rather in response to inarticulable feeling or sensation.
Her work with text is not dissimilar; photocopied onto disused notebook pages she meticulously gilds the shapes by hand. Words shimmer with a mysterious pointedness; simultaneously reminiscent of nonsense and scripture, they fill the walls of her home-studio shifting throughout the day as the light changes: “let the colours you lay on be violent”; “failures as fragments of other masterpieces”; “a small and special gift - the twig on the hedge”. Words too can function as paintings do; by means of suggestion, they can unfold this way and that. Living images.
2025
Studio note
31 x 25 x 5 cm
Framed with art glass
