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Artists in Residence: Katherine Sullivan

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As an artist I have always been fascinated by the question of identity and the way we portray this in the world through the forms of our clothing and our architecture. Both are seen as metaphors for the body and for human experience. Dress both defines and de-individualises us and, in this sense, stands upon the dangerous margins between self and other, inside and outside and private and public.

My experience as a costume maker and my subsequent translation of textile processes into sculptural elements within my work places me in an excellent position to investigate this relationship. I examine the structural elements of both clothing and architecture in relation to their fabric.

I often experiment with building and engineering materials whilst employing techniques found in the textile industry in order to create sculptural fabrics of my own. It is my aim to lift the decorative elements from clothing and buildings and turn them into the constructive elements within my sculptures.

Fel artist, mae cwestiynau sy’n ymwneud â hunaniaeth erioed wedi mynd â’m bryd ynghyd â’r ffordd rydym yn darlunio hyn yn y byd trwy ffurfiau ein dillad a’n pensaernïaeth. Mae’r ddau’n cael eu gweld yn drosiadau i’r corff a phrofiad dynol. Mae gwisg yn ein diffinio ac yn ein dadunigoliaethu ac, yn yr ystyr hwn, mae’n sefyll ar yr ffiniau peryglus rhwng yr hunan a’r arall, y tu mewn a’r tu allan, y preifat a’r cyhoeddus.

Golyga fy mhrofiad fel gwneuthurydd gwisgoedd a’r ffordd rwyf wedi trosi prosesau tecstiliau i elfennau cerfluniol ers hynny, fy mod mewn sefyllfa ragorol i archwilio’r berthynas hon. Rwyf yn archwilio elfennau strwythurol dillad a phensaernïaeth mewn perthynas â’u defnyddiau.

Rwyf yn aml yn arbrofi â deunyddiau adeiladu a pheirianyddol wrth ddefnyddio technegau a geir yn y diwydiant tecstiliau er mwyn creu fy nefnyddiau cerfluniol fy hun. Fy nod yw codi’r elfennau addurniadol o ddillad ac adeiladau gan eu trosi i ffurfio’r elfennau adeiladol yn fy ngherfluniaeth.