Kate Murrell

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmaking)

My practice grapples with nihilism in the current political and social climate, moving between an unbounded realm of antagonism, antipathy and the non-real. My work portrays a cognitive dissonance that employs the paradox of existentialism, using printmaking and mixed media to relay the nuances of my own experience. Across my practice, I explore the space between the emphatic and the serene through a destructive and liberating abstracted process whereby I decipher ‘sense’ literally and figuratively. A subversive juxtaposition of dark, incongruous humour comes from the process of deconstructing the world around me with a combination of art historical and religious iconography.