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About the art and the artist

Curriculum Vitae

Contact
Name: Kat P Saunt
Address: 194 Mowbray Street, Heaton, Newcastle-Upon –Tyne, NE6 5PA, England
Email: velvetbird (at) hotmail.co.uk
Mobile: 07867880361

Art Practice
I am devoted to the 2D image and preoccupied with the status of the image in the age of digital reproduction and tend to work from photographs and found images while my own involvement as a filter is evident in what I choose to leave out or obscure. Maintaining tension and balance is a constant theme in my work - between the whimsical and the menacing, the dumb and the thoughtful, the transparent and the ambiguous.

Qualifications

• A level Art, Government and Politics, Philosophy and AS-level History and Psychology from Wyke College, Hull 2002
• Foundation Degree in Art and Design from Hull College, 2003
• Fine Art BA Hons Northumbria University, 2010

• 2009 – Everything I Ever Told You is a Lie, Including This. Gallery North Project Space, Northumbria University City Campus.
• 2010 – Fine Art Auction 2010 Preview Exhibition Gallery North Project Space, Northumbria University City Campus.
• 2010 – Degree Show 2010 Squires building, Northumbria University City Campus

Other Work Experience
2009-10: I was employed as an illustrator and created a series of comic strips for Northumbria University’s Psychology and Sports Sciences department.

2009-2010: I was one of several students who organised an art auction and other fundraising for our degree show. Aside from raising a lot of money it was also a great learning experience and I’m glad I was involved; I’d be keen to take on a project like this in future. I also created the website for the auction and will maintain the domain nortumbriafineart2010.com as a web presence for our year group’s post graduation projects.

2006-7: I volunteered at the Beverley Guild Hall, which is both a working civic building and a community museum. I did a variety of work such as researching, writing literature about the museum and it’s collections of civic items and artwork and providing illustrations for an exhibition about the history of crime and punishment in Beverley.

Biography
After getting my foundation in Art and Design in Kingston upon Hull I will graduate with a BA (hons) in Fine Art from Northumbria University in 2010. Although I was forced to take 2 years out due to health problems I have otherwise had a great time getting my BA which has left me confident in my practice and eager to develop my art career further. I was born in Grimsby in 1984 but did most of my growing up in Beverley, East Yorkshire. After my art my main interests are computers and the internet, fashion, photography and horror fiction. I also do my best to maintain a healthy social life and have recently started learning to play bass.