Category Archives: Works

Uphill downhill series No 1

Title: Uphill downhill series No 1
Date: 2017
Medium: Monoprint and acrylic paint on plywood with bespoke macrocarpa frame
Size: 630 x495mm
Status: $1200

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Uphill downhill series No 2

Title: Uphill downhill series No 2
Date: 2017
Medium: Monoprint and acrylic paint on plywood with bespoke macrocarpa frame
Size: 630 x495mm
Status: $1200

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Uphill downhill series No 3

Title: Uphill downhill series No 3
Date: 2017
Medium: Monoprint and acrylic paint on plywood with bespoke macrocarpa frame
Size: 630 x495mm
Status: $1200

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Uphill downhill series No 4

Title: Uphill downhill series No 4
Date: 2017
Status: Sold
Medium: Monoprint and acrylic paint on plywood with bespoke macrocarpa frame
Size: 630 x495mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Uphill downhill series No 7

Title: Uphill downhill series No 7
Date: 2017
Medium: Monoprint and acrylic paint on plywood with bespoke macrocarpa frame
Size: 630 x495mm
Status: $1200

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Uphill downhill series No 6

Title: Uphill downhill series No 6
Date: 2017
Medium: Monoprint and acrylic paint on plywood with bespoke macrocarpa frame
Size: 630 x495mm
Status: $1200

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Uphill downhill series No 5

Title: Uphill downhill series No 5
Date: 2017
Medium: Monoprint and acrylic paint on plywood with bespoke macrocarpa frame
Size: 630 x495mm
Status: $1200

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Axis

Title: Axis
Date: 2017
Status: SOLD
Medium: Acrylic painting on plywood floating board
Size: 600 x 460mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Arrival

Title: Arrival
Date: 2017
Status: SOLD
Medium: Acrylic painting on plywood floating board
Size: 600 x 460mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Big dreams

Title: Big dreams
Date: 2017
Status: SOLD
Medium: Acrylic painting on plywood floating board
Size: 600 x 460mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Shortcut

Title: Shortcut
Date: 2017
Status: SOLD
Medium: Acrylic painting on poplar floating board
Size: 600 x 1000mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Inside spaces outside spaces

Title: Inside spaces outside spaces
Date: 2017
Status: Sold
Medium: Acrylic painting on poplar floating board
Size: 600 x 1000mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Pillow talk

Title: Pillow talk
Date: 2017
Status: $1800
Medium: Acrylic painting on poplar floating board
Size: 1000 x 600mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Don’t walk on the grass

Title: Don’t walk on the grass
Date: 2017
Status: Not available
Medium: Acrylic painting on astroturf
Size: 2300 x 1900mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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All aboard

Title: All aboard
Date: 2017
Status: SOLD
Medium: Sumi ink and monoprint on fabriano paper in black box frame
Size: 560 x 760mm paper size

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Through the window

Title: Through the window
Date: 2017
Status: For Sale
Medium: Pentatych of acrylic paintings on poplar floating board
Size: 900 x 450mm each panel, 900 x 2800mm approx hanging together
Price:  $5300 NZ

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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New land

Title: New land
Date: 2017
Status: SOLD
Medium: Sumi ink and monoprint on fabriano paper in black box frame
Size: 560 x 760mm paper size

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Mine

Title: Mine
Date: 2017
Status: SOLD
Medium: Painted slip on red clay
Size: 140 x 280mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Always moving

Title: Always moving
Date: 2017
Status: Private Collection
Medium: Painted slip on red clay
Size: 210 x 180mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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True North

Title: True North
Date: 2017
Status: Private Collection
Medium: Painted slip on red clay
Size: 140mm round

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Deep blue

Title: Deep blue
Date: 2017
Status: Private Collection
Medium: Painted slip on red clay
Size: 160 x 200mm round

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Day by day

Title: Day by day
Date: 2017
Status: Private Collection
Medium: Painted slip on red clay
Size: 200mm round

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Finding

Title: Finding
Date: 2017
Status: Private Collection
Medium: Painted slip on red clay ceramic with copper wire
Size: 280 x 140mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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New Path

Title: New Path
Date: 2017
Status: SOLD
Medium: Painted slip on red clay ceramic with copper wire
Size: 420 x 240mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Awake

Title: Awake
Date: 2017
Status: Private Collection
Medium: Painted slip on red clay ceramic with copper wire
Size: 280 x 190mm

Description:

Someone once told me to “Get Real”. Within the context, they simply meant to get with the programme. They wanted me to be able to see and work inside parameters, to believe in a certain construct and way of thinking. What I realised was that my reality was different from theirs.

A lingering question revealed itself. What is real? Apparently, something that is true, that exists. Yet how does our personal perception sit with truth. Does everyone have their own truths?

This exhibition is an abstract chat about reality.

When I think of the real I see landscapes. So, I explored nature in a search to define the real. Instead I always found myself in nature. With these experiences in mind the resulting abstract paintings are real to me.

Katie Blundell Artist

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Totally under control

Title: Totally under control

Date: 2017
Status: For sale
Medium: Reduction woodcut on Fabriano paper
Size: 560mm H x 390mm W, 
Price: $280 Unframed $395 Framed

(Limited Edition of 5 prints)

Description:

‘Status Symbols’

Status symbols are a visible expression of social standing. Luxury goods including Art are often seen in this manner. Limited edition prints play with the idea of the multiple and are by their very nature collector’s items.

A toothbrush however, is apparently not something one normally thinks of to describe a life. Usually we see someone’s new single status on Facebook or follow a car laden with bumper stickers proclaiming the owner has a family that consists of a man, a woman, three kids and a chicken.

This series came in reaction to the shiny projections of self. Inspired instead from the banal and everyday lived experience. As one day I was struck by the sheer number of untidy toothbrushes I now live with and how that represented my family.

I was transported back to a time where keeping my pristine toothbrush alongside someone else’s was a personal big deal. This series uses toothbrushes to examine stages of my relationship evolution and hopefully opens you to think of yours.

There is no perfect arrangement, like us they belong to their environment and evolve to take on a life of their own.

 Katie Blundell Artist 2017

 

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Bending the rules

Title: Bending the rules

Date: 2017
Status: For sale
Medium: Reduction woodcut on Fabriano paper
Size: 560mm H x 390mm W, 
Price: $280 Unframed $395 Framed

(Limited Edition of 5 prints)

Description:

‘Status Symbols’

Status symbols are a visible expression of social standing. Luxury goods including Art are often seen in this manner. Limited edition prints play with the idea of the multiple and are by their very nature collector’s items.

A toothbrush however, is apparently not something one normally thinks of to describe a life. Usually we see someone’s new single status on Facebook or follow a car laden with bumper stickers proclaiming the owner has a family that consists of a man, a woman, three kids and a chicken.

This series came in reaction to the shiny projections of self. Inspired instead from the banal and everyday lived experience. As one day I was struck by the sheer number of untidy toothbrushes I now live with and how that represented my family.

I was transported back to a time where keeping my pristine toothbrush alongside someone else’s was a personal big deal. This series uses toothbrushes to examine stages of my relationship evolution and hopefully opens you to think of yours.

There is no perfect arrangement, like us they belong to their environment and evolve to take on a life of their own.

Katie Blundell Artist 2017

 

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A crowd

Title: A crowd

Date: 2017
Status: For sale
Medium: Reduction woodcut on Fabriano paper
Size: 560mm H x 390mm W, 
Price: $280 Unframed $395 Framed

(Limited Edition of 5 prints)

Description:

‘Status Symbols’

Status symbols are a visible expression of social standing. Luxury goods including Art are often seen in this manner. Limited edition prints play with the idea of the multiple and are by their very nature collector’s items.

A toothbrush however, is apparently not something one normally thinks of to describe a life. Usually we see someone’s new single status on Facebook or follow a car laden with bumper stickers proclaiming the owner has a family that consists of a man, a woman, three kids and a chicken.

This series came in reaction to the shiny projections of self. Inspired instead from the banal and everyday lived experience. As one day I was struck by the sheer number of untidy toothbrushes I now live with and how that represented my family.

I was transported back to a time where keeping my pristine toothbrush alongside someone else’s was a personal big deal. This series uses toothbrushes to examine stages of my relationship evolution and hopefully opens you to think of yours.

There is no perfect arrangement, like us they belong to their environment and evolve to take on a life of their own.

Katie Blundell Artist 2017

 

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Only eyes for you

Title: Only eyes for you

Date: 2017
Status: For sale
Medium: Reduction woodcut on Fabriano paper
Size: 560mm H x 390mm W, 
Price: $280 Unframed $395 Framed

(Limited Edition of 5 prints)

Description:

‘Status Symbols’

Status symbols are a visible expression of social standing. Luxury goods including Art are often seen in this manner. Limited edition prints play with the idea of the multiple and are by their very nature collector’s items.

A toothbrush however, is apparently not something one normally thinks of to describe a life. Usually we see someone’s new single status on Facebook or follow a car laden with bumper stickers proclaiming the owner has a family that consists of a man, a woman, three kids and a chicken.

This series came in reaction to the shiny projections of self. Inspired instead from the banal and everyday lived experience. As one day I was struck by the sheer number of untidy toothbrushes I now live with and how that represented my family.

I was transported back to a time where keeping my pristine toothbrush alongside someone else’s was a personal big deal. This series uses toothbrushes to examine stages of my relationship evolution and hopefully opens you to think of yours.

There is no perfect arrangement, like us they belong to their environment and evolve to take on a life of their own.

Katie Blundell Artist 2017

 

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… For Womankind

Title: ….For Womankind

Date: 2017
Status: For sale
Medium: Reduction woodcut on Fabriano paper
Size: 560mm H x 390mm W, 
Price: $280 Unframed $395 Framed

(Limited Edition of 5 prints)

Description:

‘Status Symbols’

Status symbols are a visible expression of social standing. Luxury goods including Art are often seen in this manner. Limited edition prints play with the idea of the multiple and are by their very nature collector’s items.

A toothbrush however, is apparently not something one normally thinks of to describe a life. Usually we see someone’s new single status on Facebook or follow a car laden with bumper stickers proclaiming the owner has a family that consists of a man, a woman, three kids and a chicken.

This series came in reaction to the shiny projections of self. Inspired instead from the banal and everyday lived experience. As one day I was struck by the sheer number of untidy toothbrushes I now live with and how that represented my family.

I was transported back to a time where keeping my pristine toothbrush alongside someone else’s was a personal big deal. This series uses toothbrushes to examine stages of my relationship evolution and hopefully opens you to think of yours.

There is no perfect arrangement, like us they belong to their environment and evolve to take on a life of their own.

Katie Blundell Artist 2017

 

 
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Together we stand

Title: Together we stand

Date: 2017
Status: For sale
Medium: Reduction woodcut on Fabriano paper
Size: 760mm H x 560mm W, 
Price: $350 Unframed

(Limited Edition of 5 prints)

 

 

 

 

Description:

‘Status Symbols’

Status symbols are a visible expression of social standing. Luxury goods including Art are often seen in this manner. Limited edition prints play with the idea of the multiple and are by their very nature collector’s items.

A toothbrush however, is apparently not something one normally thinks of to describe a life. Usually we see someone’s new single status on Facebook or follow a car laden with bumper stickers proclaiming the owner has a family that consists of a man, a woman, three kids and a chicken.

This series came in reaction to the shiny projections of self. Inspired instead from the banal and everyday lived experience. As one day I was struck by the sheer number of untidy toothbrushes I now live with and how that represented my family.

I was transported back to a time where keeping my pristine toothbrush alongside someone else’s was a personal big deal. This series uses toothbrushes to examine stages of my relationship evolution and hopefully opens you to think of yours.

There is no perfect arrangement, like us they belong to their environment and evolve to take on a life of their own.

Katie Blundell Artist 2017

 

 
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Yes

Title: Yes
Date: 2016
Status: Private Collection
Medium: Sumi ink and gold spray paint drawing on 300gm Fabriano paper
Size: 380mm x 270mm

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Mask

Title: Mask
Date: 2016
Status: Private Collection
Medium: Sumi ink, gold leaf, acrylic, pen and collage on watercolour paper
Size: 530mm x 280mm

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Crossing

Title: Crossing
Date: 2016
Status: Private collection
Medium: Acrylic and etched painting on plywood board
Size: 650mm diameter round

Description: With old wine barrel hoop frame

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The kliënt (Afrikaans) is always right

Title:  The kliënt (Afrikaans) is always right
Date: 2016
Status: Sold
Medium: Acrylic and etched painting on plywood box board
Size: 1000mm H x 1200mm W

Description: Commissioned by Lynda Mc Connell of McConnell Stafford-Bush & Associates, Chartered Accountants. The painting is called The kliënt (Afrikaans) is always right. It talks about power, money, people and hierarchy.

 

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Lady Luck

Title: Lady Luck Triptych
Date: 2016
Status: Sold
Medium: Acrylic painting triptych on plywood plus shape box board
Size: 450mm H x 450 W each piece of triptych

Description: 

The Lady Luck triptych is a building narrative.

Part A: Waiting for her man

Part B: Riding the big wave

Part C: Making their nest

 
The commission began with an initial conversation. We talked about the couple’s love of the ocean.  I was inspired by them building a life together, both emotionally and physically building a new house. A friend once told me that in order to be in a happy relationship, first you need to be happy alone. It seems to me the couple already appreciate each other for who each other are including their pre-existing passions.
 
Lady Luck starts with a Lady standing independently at the edge of a new beginning, looking forward to the future and all that is in her basket of life. When she meets her man they set off on great adventures. Mixing luck with good management they catch the great wave. Finally they settle down to build their nest together by the sea.
 
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Getting your ducks in a row

Title: Getting your ducks in a row
Date: 2016
Status: Sold
Medium: Acrylic and mixed media triptych painting on plywood box board
Size: each piece 450mm x 450mm plus shape

Description:

Idiom Definition:

To get one’s affairs in order or organised.
“Can fate use a helping hand?” Katie Blundell Artist

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Once bitten twice shy

Title: Once bitten twice shy
Date: 2016
Status: Private Collection
Medium: Handprinted limited edition of 11 reduction woodblock prints on 300gm Fabriano paper
Size: 710mm x 380mm framed

Description:

Idiom Definition:

When something or someone has hurt you once, you tend to avoid it.
“Could it work out next time? Or will fear stop us?” Katie Blundell Artist

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You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink

Title: You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink
Date: 2016
Status: SOLD
Medium: Acrylic and etched painting on plywood box board
Size: 900mm x 1800mm

Description:

Idiom Definition:

Even good circumstances won’t force one to do something they don’t want to.
“Why go that way? everyone goes that way!” Katie Blundell Artist

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Get off your high horse

Title: Get off your high horse
Date: 2016
Status: Sold
Medium: Acrylic and etched painting on plywood box board
Size: 900mm x 1800mm

Description:

Idiom Definition:

Stop acting as if you are better or more intelligent than other people.
“Did you know good things come in small packages?” Katie Blundell Artist

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A big fish in a small pond

Title: A big fish in a small pond
Date: 2016
Status: Sold
Medium: Acrylic and etched painting on plywood box board
Size: 650mm x 650mm plus shape

Description:

Idiom Definition:

A situation in which one person has more power, influence, knowledge, or experience than others within a small group.
“Would you like some more water?” Katie Blundell Artist

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Cold turkey

Title: Cold turkey
Date: 2016
Status: Private collection
Medium: Acrylic painting on plywood box board
Size: 845mm x 595mm

Description:

Idiom Definition:

Immediate, complete withdrawal from something.
“Are we all fighting something or is it just me?” Katie Blundell Artist

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