Kate McCgwire’s “Thunch” investigates two decades of pounding feather sculptures – Huge
Although we are familiar with many birds that show bright blue hues, from the aptly named blue birds to the indigo states to various herons, this color is actually a physical trick in the bird’s feathers. While tones like red and yellow are produced by pigments, blue interacts with molecules inherent in the feather structure. It is this pleasant, elusive sheen that makes Kate McCgwire’s eye-catching sculpture perfect for it.
Next month, McCgwire (formerly) opens at the Djanogly Gallery of Lakeside Art Flash, Investigate the work of artists with feathers of moral origin. The striking frame walls conform to the undulating specimens of freestyle vitreous bodies and large-scale site-specific installations. Vintage glass boxes and dome nods heads nods to animal specimens decorating museum walls and large private houses trophy animals.
McCgwire’s studio works from Dutch barges in western West London, reflecting her interest in nature. Like water, her work flashes in light, and seems to be swirling in rotation and roil, both in frames and in snake-shaped pools, wrapped in glass. The artist encourages us to consider our emotions and evolving relationships with nature, making the inherent tension between beauty and exaggeration, life and death and captivity, and the inherent tension between wildness and captivity.
Freak Run in Nottingham from September 20 to January 4. If you are in Sag Harbour, you can also see McCgwire’s work ark At the church, curated by Eric Fischl, the church lasts until September 1. Iris Van Herpen: Engraving SenseIt lasts until August 10 at the Artscience Museum in Singapore to Kunsthal, Rotterdam, and will open on September 27. Find more information on McCgwire’s website and on Instagram.
