Kate Maura Kilty

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Kate Maura Kilty was born and raised in Toronto and enjoyed a decade long career in business as a Management Consultant and various roles in brand management with consumer packaged goods companies. After having her third child Kate changed course and focused full-time on raising them, living in both Ontario and Alberta. In Alberta, she began taking art classes in a college certificate program, and encouraged to apply to art school, she moved back to Toronto in 2016 to attend OCADu. Kate is a recent graduate from the BFA in the Drawing and Painting program. Excited by the possibilities of art, she believes that creativity is the very essence of our growth as an individual.

Artist Statement:
The process starts with nature, having spent time canoe tripping in Algonquin Park and Quetico Park with Taylor Statten Camps as a youth. Her recent series has been evolving over the past year since her thesis in 2019.  Kate met a Rapids Clubtail dragonfly while drawing plein air in the Oak Ridges Moraine, which began her fascination with this creature.
The dragonfly has lived on this planet for almost 350 million years and is a metaphor of transformation and self-realization across many cultures. Mining biology of wings from 100 year old books and the most recent digital technology, and her research in philosophy, mythology, poetry and her own life drawings of human figure,  Kate creates a stylized visual language of imagined transformations. Using the Procreate software on an iPad, Kate collages, distorts, recolours refines and adjusts opacity of her photos and hand drawings with a variety of  marks that reflect both traditional and contemporary ways of making.  She continues to reuse and reimagine the original images of wing and figure that become something completely different as they are once again transformed from the last reiteration. The process itself is transforming and Kate will again work overtop the printed imagery with coloured pencil, soft pastel or paint depending on the medium, to signify the importance of combining technology with our in life hand in order to move toward a better future, and take charge to redefine who we really are and not be confined to who we are told we should be.
Kate Maura's art on this site is available at the prices indicated as limited edition giglee framed.  Other original works also available for sale DM Kate through her sites for more information.

Website: www.katemaura.com
Instagram: @katemaura
Works Available for Purchase at: Propeller Online Shop