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Kate's primarily figurative work "flirts between painting and drawing". Her self-consciously decorative pieces address the ironies and contradictions of "high" and "low" art and depictions of the sexualized female image in popular culture, in particular the fetishization of the twee and the increasingly kitsch value of pornography. Her inspiration comes from images of women "culled from a glossy magazine, a fairy tale, historic art and literature, trash culture, ancient myth and coffee table erotica. Recently Kate has strayed from her favoured media of acrylic on board to monoprinting, allowing a new approach to recurrent themes in her work, primarily her love of paint's "alchemic power" to reappropriate images for consumption by a different audience.
James Stewart's training and experience as an illustrator is telling in his trademarks precision and detail of his draughtsmanship, but he is difficult to pin down both thematically and stylistically. Subject matter ranges from portraits, to landscapes, to comic icons and household items. Media encompasses enamel, oil and acrylic on board, aluminium and canvas. He claims not to have much time for signature pieces, remarking that "to me that diversity is my style". His workplace reveals that he is a great hoarder of consumer flotsam and jetsam, the broken toys and antique marketing bumph that feature so heavily in his work litter the studio. This subject matter as well as the visual in-jokes and vibrant colours reveal the influence of Peter Blake.
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