Kate Brown North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Kate Brown is a North Yorkshire-based visual artist. Grounded in rhizomatic thinking, her practice considers how memory, material, and place are carried through process. Rooted in transience and grief, her work embraces change as a generative condition. She has exhibited in the UK, Japan, and Germany and is currently undertaking an MFA.

My interdisciplinary practice is rooted in questions of transformation, duration and the often-invisible processes that underpin making. Through painting, drawing, installation, performance and material experimentation, I consider how thought, memory and embodied experience become embedded within creative processes.

My practice evolved through an engagement with botanical materials, where I began to consider cycles of change, impermanence and the transformation of energy following personal experiences of loss. The natural world became a way of thinking through these ideas, offering a framework for considering absence, continuity and the relationship between endings and renewal.

Making is central to my process. I work intuitively, allowing ideas to emerge through sustained engagement with materials before reflecting on their wider contexts through research and theory. Mapping, archival methodologies and, more recently, rhizomatic diagrams have become integral to my practice, not simply as tools for developing ideas but as ways of making visible the connections, repetitions and traces that shape my thinking.

My current research considers questions of authorship, agency and control through collaborations with living materials, including plants and mycelium. By allowing natural processes to participate in the development and transformation of the work, I consider alternative relationships between artist, material and outcome. Across my practice, I am interested in what emerges when control is relinquished, when time is allowed to shape meaning, and when making becomes a process of enquiry rather than a pursuit of resolution.