Kathryn Maple (b. 1989, Canterbury) is an artist specialising in
drawing and painting. Her large-scale paintings feature urban,
suburban and rural landscapes which are frequently populated by
human figures. Her work is distinctive for its use of intensely
layered mark making, lending the work both urgency and intimacy.
The places and people depicted, rendered in a range of painting and
drawing materials, are frequently afforded a sense of wildness or
mystery by dint of their colour palette, collage-like compositions
and recurring motifs such as wind-blown trees and winding pathways.
This, her first monograph, features 379 images, many of which are
reproduced for the first time. These include the presentation of
her recent major series of oil pastel on paper works 'A Year of
Drawings', alongside reproductions of her mixed media works on
paper, as well as large oils on canvas. An essay by Kathryn Lloyd,
writer, artist and Contemporary Art Editor at The Burlington
Magazine, offers insight into Maple’s impulse to explore the
world around her through her work. Large-scale paintings, replete
with dense layers of marks, are constructed by means of personal
encounter, memory and imagination. Details of man-made objects,
tree bark and human skin, for instance, become composite, crucial
in capturing fleeting experiences of place and of people. Lloyd
brings out the symbolism of Maple’s work, making art historical
comparisons while connecting these to the specific local
characteristics of Maple’s familiar South London landscapes and
the importance of walking to the artist’s practice. An interview
with independent curator and critic Anneka French is focused on 'A
Year of Drawings', a series of 365 drawings made daily since
January 2022 outside the artist’s studio. They discuss the
process, materials and art historical and literary influences upon
Maple’s work, with a focus on how her drawing and painting
strands of work impact each other. Their conversation provides an
insight into the thinking of the artist at a crucial stage in
Maple’s career. Taking its title from the lyrics of The Cure’s
A Forest (1980), Editor Matt Price’s essay 'Into the Trees'
offers an introduction to, and an overview of,' A Year of
Drawings', discussing examples of the works and considering aspects
of the series ranging from art historical precedents to themes,
recurring motifs and interpretation. The monograph is published to
coincide with the exhibitions: Under a Hot Sun, by Kathryn Maple,
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 11 February – 30 April 2023 and
Kathryn Maple: A Year of Drawings, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London,
1–17 March 2023. It has been edited by Matt Price, designed by
Anomie Studio, printed by Mixam, Watford, and published by Anomie,
London. Kathryn Maple was born in Canterbury in 1989, and lives and
works in South London. She graduated in 2011 with a degree in fine
art printmaking from the University of Brighton, before undertaking
a postgraduate programme at the Royal Drawing School in 2012–13.
Maple has featured in exhibitions at venues including Barber &
Lopes at the British Art Fair, London, The Royal Academy, London,
Beers London, Messums Wiltshire, Flowers Gallery, London,
Frestonian Gallery, London, Christies New York, Kristin
Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, and Drawing Room, London. Maple was
the winner of the Times Watercolour Competition 2014 and 2016, and
The John Moores Painting Prize 2020. Her exhibition Under the Hot
Sun at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2023, was awarded to
Maple as part of her prize for winning the latter.
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