Kathryn Graham – Stars and Stripes

General gallery opening times: 11am – 5pm.

Opening – 8 February 2-4pm / Artist Talk – 8 February 2.30pm / Printmaking Workshop – 22 February 2-4pm.

Stars and Stripes presents a new series of works by Kathryn Graham, developed during and in response to her recent Arts council travel funded residency at Tamarind Institute in New Mexico, USA.

This body of work navigates the mythological concept of The Open Road and responds to the vast, unfamiliar landscapes of the American Southwest. Graham investigates the idea of the American Dream—its commercial construction and the notion of The Land of the Free—and the commodification of the landscape. She explores spaces of circulation, communication, and mass consumption, discovering iconographic symbols such as the road sign as both a literal and symbolic marker of direction and meaning.