Kate Brown United Kingdom
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 practice is grounded in rhizomatic thinking, where ideas emerge through relationships between material, memory, and place rather than linear progression. Making is my primary mode of enquiry; knowledge is generated through process rather than predetermined outcomes.
Working on highly absorbent cotton rag paper, I allow ink and pigment to seep, pool, and disperse across the surface, relinquishing mastery to the material and embracing its capacity to shape the work. This shift between control and contingency becomes a way of thinking through making, where meaning develops in response to material behaviour.
Copper leaf lines are introduced in response to these material encounters. Drawn from the mind maps and rhizomatic diagrams that underpin my research, they trace connections across the surface, offering temporary structure to what has emerged. Rather than resolving uncertainty, they hold multiple readings simultaneously, reflecting the interconnected nature of thought.
While my practice has previously taken the form of installation and performative works, it is not fixed to a single medium. Instead, form emerges in response to research, material processes, and lived experience. Rooted in transience and grief, my practice continues to evolve through an ongoing dialogue between intention and chance, where materials act as active collaborators in the generation of meaning.
