KATHERINE BECKETT

My practice is grounded in the exploration of memories, nostalgia and regret through examining my relationships with the places and spaces I encounter on a daily basis. I am interested in the way we use our memories and emotions to help us build tangible links with our present lives, how your childhood home is more than a house, how we associate familiar journeys with our past trips there. I concern myself with how we perceive memory, the haziness of a half-remembered staircase, the contrast of lighting. I combine video installation with spoken word, aiming to create windows to another place, moulding and shaping our perception of time. Furthermore, I am also extremely engaged in how a specific space can only exist between an artist (whether that be in the traditional sense, a writer or a performer) and the viewer- how what we choose to communicate, or sometimes hold back, allows the audience to draw their own conclusions from the piece- relating it back to their own memories, finding pieces of themselves in my films.