Kate Temple
,-2008-(1).JPG "I had dreams of flying then (detail), 2008")
'cocktail sticks, plastic bags, plastic balls, plastic shot glasses, plastic tumblers, straws, q-tips, sticky-backed plastic, balloons, ice cream cones, plastic tubing, fabric, plastic counters, muffin cases, hair grips, earplugs, string, tape, stickers, wooden skewers, lighting gels, lamps, paint, paper…'
'I had dreams of flying then' was originally made in 2008 while on residency at the Sølyst Centre in Jyderup, Denmark. This piece suggests prior and impending activities, encounters and actions. Processes of making and materials are manipulated to convey a sense of the provisional and theatrical. The installation assumes the impression of having been designed or staged. Revelations are brought about by arrangements of things and the arrangement is staged as a performative gesture and act.
My practice investigates the relationship and exchange between object and language systems - the object of language and the language of objects. I make mixed-media installation environments that comprise a dialogue between object, image and word. Internal relations between compositions of found and made objects, texts, videos, photographs, sounds and drawings are scrutinised and manipulated.
Kate Temple studied Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art/ The University of Edinburgh and Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Her practice incorporates installation, sculpture, drawing, video, writing, performance and design. She is based in Edinburgh and exhibits in Scotland, UK and overseas.