Showing from Oct 22 to Nov 5, 2024
Longing is a meditation on memory, disconnection, and the pursuit of peace amid the chaos of modern life. Katherine Percival reflects on the tension between constantly being “on” and the desire to slow down. Her work is inspired by a deep personal connection to the Bruce Peninsula, which has become a frequent destination for Katherine, providing a landscape of grounding calm in her perpetual search for stillness.
The exhibition is anchored by a vivid use of colour, drawn from both memory and photographs, where Katherine captures moments of emotional resonance. The cubes in her work symbolize the pixelation of memory—the structure that remains as details fade. This struggle to preserve the essence of a moment as it slips away into abstraction reflects the challenge of grasping fleeting memories.
At the core of Longing is a reflection on the struggle to capture time and preserve moments of peace. The landscapes revisited in this work represent an ongoing pursuit of tranquility, where the need to escape the relentless pace of life is ever-present. As memory fades, colour becomes the dominant force, and the distinction between experience and recollection blurs, leaving only fragments of feeling and place.
Longing invites viewers to reflect on their own memories and consider the elusive nature of nostalgia as it shifts between what was, what we remember, and what we long for.
About the Artist
Katherine Percival is a mixed media artist whose work delves into the dynamic interplay between chaos and order. Drawing from personal history, Katherine investigates memory, emotion, and the human experience through unique "colourscapes"—emotional landscapes created by curating colours, arranging cubes, and capturing the essence of places. In her artistic practice, she collects colours from the vast spectrum of human emotions and experiences, extracting hues from moments of joy, sorrow, and everything in between. Using these vibrant, living colours as her palette, Katherine's compositions capture the essence of memory and emotion and its juxtaposition with reality and experience.
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