Contemporary Art Festival
Stoke-on-Trent

Kate Lynch is focusing attention on buildings involved with the Conjunction 08 festival. These buildings are the Regent Theatre and Victoria Hall, Bethesda Chapel, The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Airspace Gallery and Staffordshire University.

The work for 'Conjunction 08' deals with the study of colour and pattern and the displacement of these to different sites. One aspect of this is the displacement of colour and pattern from a 'modern' building, to a building with historical features, and Vice-versa.

For example, Kate is currently working on the piece of Artwork that will be exhibited in the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery which involves printing a pattern seen on floor tiles in the Bethesda chapel onto the 'modern' floor tiles in the exhibition space at PMAG. This will bring elements of character and history into the 'plain', modern, space and will wear away as visitors walk over the floor, reflecting ideas of weathering and ageing.

Print blocks
 

These images show the development of the pattern studies, from images of the original feature to the hand carved pattern and the printed pattern.

This process of copying and then transferring the pattern onto new surfaces also deals with ideas of distortion and replication. The copied pattern becomes a new version of the original, as outlines are traced and emphasised. any mistakes made in the process of cutting or printing the pattern add a new 'history' to the pattern.