Writing

Kate’s essays on visual art focus on intergenerational trauma, material and visual culture, and memory in outport Newfoundland.

Publications

“Daze Jefferies’s stay here stay how stay” in Visual Arts News 2024

“Children of Fogo Island” in Visual Arts News Summer 2023 Issue

“Repeated Reflection” for Eastern Edge 2022

“Attuning to the Sonics of Revolt” for Art is a Tool for Change, Eastern Edge 2022

“I’m Screeching!: Towards a Queer Newfoundland Aesthetic” in exhibition brochure for Lucas Morneau’s Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) 2022

“Radical Hope in Shary Boyle’s Outside the Palace of Me” in Visual Arts News Winter 2022 Issue

“Untitled Essay” in Matt Williams’ Two Rivers 2020

“What Carries Us” Review in Canadian Art Fall 2020 Issue

“Memory of Roadside Flowers: Care and Kinship in the Work of Emily Critch” in Visual Arts News Summer 2020 Issue

“Affective Architectures: Ethan Murphy” in Visual Arts News Spring 2020 Issue

“With a Soft Gaze: Hazel May Eckert’s Over Time” in Peripheral Review April 2019

“Loving the Land that Created Me: Billy Gauthier’s Saunituinnaulungitotluni / Beyond Bone” in Visual Arts News Fall 2019 Issue

“All These In-betweens: Logan Macdonald” in Visual Arts News Summer 2019 Issue

“Nelson White: Kinship and Reclamation Beyond the Artist Residency” in Visual Arts News Spring 2019 Issue

Awards

Winner of the 2023 EVA Critical Eye Award

Finalist for the 2019 EVA Critical Eye Award

Residencies

Artist in Residence, Lawnya Vawnya (December 2020)

Writer in Residence, Eastern Edge Gallery (January-February 2020)

Artist in Residence, English Harbour Arts Centre (Summer 2018)

Presentations

“i remember the sound of your voice: tracing intergenerational memory through sound”, Lawnya Vawnya artist-in-residence workshop (5 December 2020, Zoom)

“Intergenerational Trauma and Material Culture in Outport Newfoundland”, Department of Gender Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland (27 March 2020, 1:15PM-2:15PM Sally Davis Seminar Room SN4087)

Artist in Residence Talk, Eastern Edge (31 January 2020)

Keynote, Atlantic Provinces Art Galleries Association (2018)

“Making Secrets: Intergenerational Trauma, Shame and Material Culture in Outport Newfoundland”, Folklore Studies Association of Canada Conference (2019)

“The Impossibility of a Future in the Absence of a Past: Drifting in the In-Between”, Philosophia Conference (2019)