Kate Brinkworth
Brinkworth undertook her artistic training at Nottingham Trent University, and graduated in 2000 with first class honours.
She rapidly began exhibiting her work, and her first major solo show took place in 2001 at Britart Gallery, London. Her success led to further exhibitions across the country and abroad, and she began featuring regularly in several international art fairs and won numerous awards. These include the Westgate Prize (2004), and a commission from GUS headquarters in Mayfair.
Brinkworth’s style uses the language of film, advertising and photography to create these unique images; her visits to Las Vegas have developed her interest in the representation of objects associated with vice. Painted in varying degrees of focus, her expert technique deceives the viewer into believing the work is a photograph, due to the realism of her subject matter and style, and the thin application of paint which gives a smooth, glossy finish. It is only on closer inspection that the viewer realises the work is entirely painted by hand.
Brinkworth lives and works in Birmingham; alongside her studio practice she teaches painting techniques to students in a local college, and holds a long-term artist in residence position. She exhibits regularly both in London and internationally, and over recent years has built a strong reputation in both the primary and secondary markets within the contemporary art scene.