Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Katherine Bull

Katherine Bull - is a visual artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Educated at Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, Katherine has been the recipient of several awards, most notably ABSA Atelier and the Artists in Residency programme from the Africa Centre.

Education
She obtained her Master of Fine Art degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town with distinction in 1998, for her master’s installation and thesis titled Positioning the Cape: A Spatial Engraving of a Shifting Frontier (1996-8). Since then Bull has produced five solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally.

Employment
In February 2004, Katherine started working as a lecturer in the department of Visual Arts at the University of Stellenbosch, one of the biggest and most well-known universities of Stellenbosch. Katherine worked there for seven years, after which she became a lecturer at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. Besides having worked at several different universities teaching printmaking and drawing, she is also an artist, educator and a creative therapist. She likes to view her work as a therapist as “her transformation through creativity”.

Awards & Prizes
In her career as an artist Katherine has received several prizes and awards. Between 1994 and 1997 she received the Mclver Scholarship at the University of Cape Town. In 1995 she was placed on the Dean's Merit List. In 1994 she was also awarded for the Art Bursary 1992 – Class medal, University of Cape Town.

Exhibitions
Bull has produced five solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. In 2004 a public sculpture project titled Come to Pass was unveiled, produced in collaboration with artist Fritha Langerman as winners of the 3rd Cape Town Public Sculpture Competition 2002.

In her most recent solo exhibition data capture: LOST & FOUND Bull inverts her digital drawing process by using a traditional drawing media and made the digital media the subject. The gaze of the artist as mediator of a contemporary cultural landscape of the television series (LOST Seasons 1-6) is played out as an ethnographic study in which a material archive of time-based media is created. This was placed in a dialogue with the performance of FOUND in which she explores the boundary of self-representation.

Before LOST & FOUND, she created a beautiful other solo exhibition: a muse,Blank Projects in Cape Town in October 2008. The exhibition consists of a serie of digital drawing performances in the gallery of male artists to model naked in the mode the life drawing class. She created a situation in wich the observer can see the artist and the model through the window of the gallery. The observer can only see what Katherine is seeing/doing trough a projection mirroring from her laptop workspace. In this exhibition she brought her interest for the physical and the virtual together. {image}

Before a muse Katherone created “new print works by Katherine Bull’’, solo exhibition at The Association for Visuals Arts Metropolitan Gallery in Cape Town. In this exhibition she brought the traditional interaction of the artist and the sitter in portraiture together, with more current the ‘meeting’ of the computer, which she uses as a drawing tool, and the digital print as outcome, as product.

Nowadays, Katherine is working on a series of painting. She is developing paintings from animations created from images sourced in Google Images searches.

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