Katy Dove
In tasting shapes, hearing colours or smelling sounds, perceptual
logic is riven with ambiguity. Yet, as the gliding ballet and sonic
geometry of Katy Dove's animations show, these confusions can
sometimes render oblique relations curiously transparent.' (Dan Fox)
Katy Dove's mesmerising kaleidoscopic compositions - a combination of
the handmade and the digital - are a contemporary echo of the early
20th-century abstract films of Viking Eggeling, Oskar Fischinger and
Len Lye. A common interest that runs through the work of these
pioneering filmmakers is that of constructing visual languages
analogous to those of music, or combining sound and image into a kind
of synaesthesia.
Much of Dove's work too takes the form of a visual and audio
representation of an idea, emotion or perception using animation to
reduce experience to its basic state. In a film screening to accompany
the Ladies Rock group show in Stirling, Dove included works by
Fischinger and computer-art pioneer John Whitney, and more recently
she has exhibited alongside Len Lye, a major innovator in abstract
film.
Dove's films at first appear to be more akin to a merging of drawing
and experimental film rather than 'animation' per se. However, as
Simon Yuill writes, 'with the exception of the background landscape in
'Melodia' (2002) – which in any case is a found image, a watercolour
by her Grandfather – there are no singular images in Dove's
animations, no definitive compositions. Instead she works with series
of mobile components, visual 'phonemes', assembling and disassembling
them. Similar components and assemblies recur across different works,
not as quotations or repetitions, but rather as rediscoveries, as
though there is some underlying syntax shaping each unique utterance'.
(Simon Yuill, Instabilities: animation and utterance in the works of
Katy Dove, Pumphouse Gallery, 2005)
Education and Exhibitions
Katy Dove was born in Oxford in 1970 and studied at Duncan of
Jordanstone College of Art. She has exhibited internationally
including Venice Biennale (2003) and Prague Biennale (2003) and has
been selected to be part of the 'Artist Statements' with Hales
Gallery, London in Art Basel 2005. She has exhibited at Tate Britain
as part of their Lightbox, Art Now series (2003) and has had solo
exhibitions at Transmission, Glasgow (2002) and Collective Gallery,
Edinburgh (2000). She lives and works in Glasgow.
To see this artist's CV, please visit, http://www.halesgallery.com/artists/_KATY%20DOVE/_cv/
Shown by
Hales Gallery, London
logic is riven with ambiguity. Yet, as the gliding ballet and sonic
geometry of Katy Dove's animations show, these confusions can
sometimes render oblique relations curiously transparent.' (Dan Fox)
Katy Dove's mesmerising kaleidoscopic compositions - a combination of
the handmade and the digital - are a contemporary echo of the early
20th-century abstract films of Viking Eggeling, Oskar Fischinger and
Len Lye. A common interest that runs through the work of these
pioneering filmmakers is that of constructing visual languages
analogous to those of music, or combining sound and image into a kind
of synaesthesia.
Much of Dove's work too takes the form of a visual and audio
representation of an idea, emotion or perception using animation to
reduce experience to its basic state. In a film screening to accompany
the Ladies Rock group show in Stirling, Dove included works by
Fischinger and computer-art pioneer John Whitney, and more recently
she has exhibited alongside Len Lye, a major innovator in abstract
film.
Dove's films at first appear to be more akin to a merging of drawing
and experimental film rather than 'animation' per se. However, as
Simon Yuill writes, 'with the exception of the background landscape in
'Melodia' (2002) – which in any case is a found image, a watercolour
by her Grandfather – there are no singular images in Dove's
animations, no definitive compositions. Instead she works with series
of mobile components, visual 'phonemes', assembling and disassembling
them. Similar components and assemblies recur across different works,
not as quotations or repetitions, but rather as rediscoveries, as
though there is some underlying syntax shaping each unique utterance'.
(Simon Yuill, Instabilities: animation and utterance in the works of
Katy Dove, Pumphouse Gallery, 2005)
Education and Exhibitions
Katy Dove was born in Oxford in 1970 and studied at Duncan of
Jordanstone College of Art. She has exhibited internationally
including Venice Biennale (2003) and Prague Biennale (2003) and has
been selected to be part of the 'Artist Statements' with Hales
Gallery, London in Art Basel 2005. She has exhibited at Tate Britain
as part of their Lightbox, Art Now series (2003) and has had solo
exhibitions at Transmission, Glasgow (2002) and Collective Gallery,
Edinburgh (2000). She lives and works in Glasgow.
To see this artist's CV, please visit, http://www.halesgallery.com/
Shown by
Hales Gallery, London
