Kate Little is a painting and textiles artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. She is a recent graduate from University of South Australia, Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting). Kate studied and practiced medicine prior to becoming a visual artist. She commenced post graduate study in the field of bioinformatics, using computer based mathematic models to determine risk in health. During this time, she worked at a craft publishing house in the editorial, executive and creative departments. Her recent practice combines techniques from mathematics, textiles and music to create a controlled system that becomes a platform for exploring chance occurrences caused by the properties of materials. Little is currently a PhD Candidate in the School of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia.
Artist Statement:
Kate Little’s practice is situated within the field of contemporary painting. Using a systematic pleiodisciplinary methodology, she combines pattern, randomisation and emergent properties of materials and data to offer new ways of thinking about creative processes and experiences. Little draws on the systematic methodology of post minimalist conceptualism combined with late abstract expressionist exploration of material properties. The grid as a framework facilitates transfer of information and process. Data sourced from the prediction of chance operations is plotted and manipulated, using symmetry and repetition processes common to music composition and the repeat pattern of textiles. The relationship between digital and analog is explored through the use of punched, gridded paper evocative of the Jacquard weaving loom, pianola music rolls and early punch card computers. The site becomes a surface to observe the interplay of materials, spatiality, and the tension between order and chaos.
Artist Statement:
Kate Little’s practice is situated within the field of contemporary painting. Using a systematic pleiodisciplinary methodology, she combines pattern, randomisation and emergent properties of materials and data to offer new ways of thinking about creative processes and experiences. Little draws on the systematic methodology of post minimalist conceptualism combined with late abstract expressionist exploration of material properties. The grid as a framework facilitates transfer of information and process. Data sourced from the prediction of chance operations is plotted and manipulated, using symmetry and repetition processes common to music composition and the repeat pattern of textiles. The relationship between digital and analog is explored through the use of punched, gridded paper evocative of the Jacquard weaving loom, pianola music rolls and early punch card computers. The site becomes a surface to observe the interplay of materials, spatiality, and the tension between order and chaos.