Artwork
Kate Partington’s practice explores the subtleties of touch, connection, and the spaces that exist between bodies.
A queer artist working across analogue and digital collage, Partington constructs images that hover between materiality and emotion — fragments of gesture, skin, and surface suspended in dialogue. Her work examines how intimacy can be both tender and elusive, how connection can be felt rather than seen.
Influenced by the Surrealist movement and the notion of the sublime, Partington’s compositions create dreamlike spaces where physical and emotional boundaries blur. Each collage is an exploration of intangibility — a moment caught mid-gesture, an atmosphere held between reach and retreat.
Her process is instinctive and exploratory: cutting, layering, and recombining elements to trace what resists definition. Through this, she builds visual worlds that mirror queer experience — fluid, transformative, and in constant negotiation with the unseen.
This Piece belongs to the series of work 'Desire Me' exploring themes of desire and longing. Using cut and pasted collage alongside other analogue methods this mixed-media series has been exhibited in multiplications, notably `Dazed Magazine - 2024.
This Piece belongs to the series of work 'Desire Me' exploring themes of desire and longing. Using cut and pasted collage alongside other analogue methods this mixed-media series has been exhibited in multiplications, notably `Dazed Magazine - 2024.
This series explores both classical allegory and floral abstraction through the tactile process cut and paste collage and woven paper. The woven surface becomes both image and object, a meditation on fragmentation, repetition, and the quiet geometry found in nature. Through this interplay of pattern and disruption, the series captures the transience and vitality of the natural world.
This series explores both classical allegory and floral abstraction through the tactile process cut and paste collage and woven paper. The woven surface becomes both image and object, a meditation on fragmentation, repetition, and the quiet geometry found in nature. Through this interplay of pattern and disruption, the series captures the transience and vitality of the natural world.
The series begins with hand-cut paper collage, later translated through digital editing and painting. Each work emerges from fragments of memory, traces of places that never existed, shaped by fleeting thoughts, dreamscapes, and imagined connections. Through layering and transformation, the series explores longing, touch, and the tension between what is felt and what cannot be reached. These works evoke a sense of familiarity and absence, capturing the beauty of something half-remembered.
The series begins with hand-cut paper collage, later translated through digital editing and painting. Each work emerges from fragments of memory, traces of places that never existed, shaped by fleeting thoughts, dreamscapes, and imagined connections. Through layering and transformation, the series explores longing, touch, and the tension between what is felt and what cannot be reached. These works evoke a sense of familiarity and absence, capturing the beauty of something half-remembered.
This series of collage work is based of classical mythology, specifically the Iliad, translating moments from the epic into a tactile, allegorical language of paper and form. The work seeks to inhabit moments of desire, revelation and conflict, capturing the charged exchanges between mortals and gods; the subtle tensions of intimacy, power, and the restless energy of unfolding narratives.
This series of collage work is based of classical mythology, specifically the Iliad, translating moments from the epic into a tactile, allegorical language of paper and form. The work seeks to inhabit moments of desire, revelation and conflict, capturing the charged exchanges between mortals and gods; the subtle tensions of intimacy, power, and the restless energy of unfolding narratives.