KATHRYN RYAN

Never just one.

Collecting: promise and loss – constant objects and ephemeral narratives.

'The sheer number of the things needing to be arranged and the near-impossibility of distributing them according to any truly satisfactory criteria mean that I never finally manage it, that the arrangements I end up with are temporary and vague, and hardly any more effective than the original anarchy. The outcome of all this leads to truly strange categories. A folder of miscellaneous papers, for example, on which is written 'To be Classified...'

Georges Perec 'Species of Spaces and Other Pieces'

Kathryn Ryan is an object and installation artist who uses found objects, casts and texts, and is interested in the processes surrounding documentation, collection and arrangement. She is drawn to the transformative potential of disused objects and their connections to poetry, promise and loss, and the natural world. Her forum talk on 6 May 2015 will focus on her collecting practices, the shifting spaces a practice inhabits, and how we are all, in some way, collectors.

Studio blog: http://piecesofpractice.blogspot.com.au/

Website: www.kathrynryan.net
Forum talk attached here.
Images to come.