Description
‘Jörgmandur’ by Kate Balfe
Artist: Kate Balfe
Title: ‘Jörgmandur’
Medium: Water soluble oil and watercolor pencil on clayboard
Dimensions: 13″ x 10″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
Artwork Will Ship From: USA
About the Artwork:
I live with a constant sense of dread that feels like it’s just out of reach. I like to think of it as an anthropomorphism of the entirety of forces that are completely out of my control, so inconceivably huge but very deft at hiding itself. It delights me to think that it might perpetually be behind the trees, just over that next hill.
I have also always been a person who struggles with seeing details. I’m someone who sees the forest but not the trees, in a way, so in my art practice, I enjoy fixating on irritating things like scales wrapping around a form. In a way, it helps me feel the illusion of control. Which I suppose is all we ever have. – Kate Balfe
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
I grew up in Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of an American Mom and a British Dad. I attended Sheridan college in Oakville (briefly) before transferring to the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where I earned a degree in Classical Animation. I have worked in the game and entertainment industry as a designer, concept artist, and art director. I art directed the Award Winning VR film “Arden’s wake,” which won the first Venice Film Festival Lion ever to be granted to a VR project. I’ve always had a fine art practice but have devoted myself to it full time for the last 18 months.