Katie Lee/ Summer Issue

Katie Lee is a Leeds-born, Liverpool-based multidisciplinary artist and creative with a BA in Fine Art: Painting from the University of the Arts London. Her practice spans painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and installation, and explores fragmented, assemblage-based, and layered approaches to image-making. Drawing on psychogeography, her work considers how experiences of space are constructed, navigated and understood.

Series of ‘States of Light’

This body of work sits at the intersection of digital and material image-making, where images are repeatedly broken down, reworked and reassembled through processes of scanning, photography, digital manipulation, digital painting, printing and further intervention. Images move through cycles of translation between photographic, digital and material forms, where no stage is fixed and each iteration becomes a new point of construction. Alongside a painterly approach to layering and surface construction, I assemble imagery from multiple forms of information, including visual fragments, sensory experience, memory and environmental conditions such as light, seasonal shifts and weather. Transient environments are understood in parallel with transient image forms, with both environments and images shifting and reconfiguring over time. Light operates as a central driver of this process, shaping both the making and reading of the work. It is captured through photography, used materially in processes such as cyanotype, and embedded within the construction of images through luminosity, shadow and tonal variation. Windows recur as structural devices, acting as thresholds through which light enters and negotiates the boundary between interior space and external environment, forming a continual light and material encounter through which each image is formed.