Katie Lake

Biography

Katie Anne Lake’s diverse practice, which includes sculpture, installation, painting and photography, explores thoughts and feelings based on passed events and personal experience through the juxtaposition of objects, and spacial relationships. After studying Fine Art, and focusing mainly on sculpture, Lake has recently devoted herself entirely to painting. She attended the School of Arts in Wolverhampton, while maintaining a strong connection with the inspiration that came from her home in Cheshire, but soon began to develop her own set of subjects based of what she felt left viewers feeling a powerful sense of the uncanny. In her work, the juxtaposition and synchronisation of objects create a format that is relative to each viewer’s past and present experiences. Her subject-matter ranges from sources as diverse as British Literature and form seen in contemporary design Katie Anne Lake’s fascination with providing new ways of looking at the seemingly familiar is perhaps most clearly shown in her work ‘The Spaces In-between’. Here she visibly aims to connect large scale installation pieces with their backdrop or surroundings, using shadows and reflections to transform an exhibition space into the artwork itself. More recently, in her paintings, Lake has explored the relationship between manufactured form through symbols and organic matter