Kate Shooter

These Ghosts, Like Something Poured

Jackson's Art Prize 2025
Acrylic, Oil
Panel
49 x 49 cm

“Often during the making a painting I’m reminded of mining or excavating. It’s like searching for a very particular thing that I don’t have a reference for, but I know along the way I’ll find pretty, shiny bits and pieces that will have to be discarded and that’ll be a wrench. Agonising in fact. I like the idea of unearthing the final work whilst it’s in flux. I choose to stop at that moment and to let it sit on the surface, but the image is in a state of precarious change. In this way I’m less of a painter but more voyeur. I’ve uncovered an image at a very private moment of finding or still searching for itself. It’s a curious, even perverse activity.”