Kate Daudy
Kate Daudy (born 1970) is a British visual artist based in London whose interdisciplinary work focuses on the human experience in the context of the natural world.
Her first show "Written in Water" (2009) with Grant White at the Galerie Marie Victoire Poliakoff[10] in Paris examined the memories associated with items of clothing, inscribing vintage dresses with poems that reflected their identity.
[10] Yellow Mountains, Red Letters exhibited at Bonham's London 2010[7] featured her calligraphic works on photographs by Chinese art specialist Daniel Eskenazi.
She has since collaborated with Lemn Sissay, Glyndebourne Opera, Yang Lian, House of Voltaire[6], Grant White, the Southbank Centre, Poetry International, other artists and poets.
in venues around continental Europe and the United Kingdom, including the Flagey Building in Brussels, the Iglesia del Seminario and the Hay Festival in Segovia,[12] the Chiesa Santa Rosalia in Palermo, the Migration Museum,[13] the School of Oriental and African Studies,[14] the Saatchi Gallery, and St Paul's Cathedral[15] in London, and the Edinburgh Festival.
Daudy embarked upon a prolific campaign of written interventions in public and private places, across Europe, the UK and the Middle East, conveying positive, thought-provoking messages and ideas.
featuring Including Hannah Watson, Joe Boyd, Katherine Greig, Vanessa Redgrave, Alix Fazzina, and Marina Warner.
[22] In 2016/2017 her show, This is Water, an open-air display at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, referred to an essay by David Foster Wallace which alludes to how easy it is to forget what is ‘hidden in plain sight all around us.
[24] The same year, the Arts Council England commissioned the artist to create a large city-wide installation programme in Manchester called, "We Can Talk About It In The Car".
[30] This also featured a film and sound piece called, "IF YOU WANT TO HEAR SOME MUSIC, OPEN THE WINDOW: HOMAGE TO JOHN CAGE", a collaboration between Daudy, cellist Steven Isserlis, and Joanna Bergin.
[31] The two received a commission by the National University of Singapore Arts Festival at the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials titled "Light Years, Week Days", a site-specific chime installation inspired by the hypothesis of Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder surrounding the natural elements and their ability to create music.
[38][39] Daudy's thirty-eight stone portraits created space for the viewer to confront the obstacles that are faced by humankind and the ability to move forward in times of strife.
Daudy and Gautier Deblonde created a film called "ALTERNATIVE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR: THE SHEEP OF MR. CHARLES PLATTS" illustrating the participatory performance for Hay Festival.
