KATHLEEN MOORS

Kathleen Moors is passionate about capturing the land as an archive, aware of the temporal nature of ‘place’. The daughter of a military father, road trips, paper maps, and many departures contributed to narrative works based on themes of identity, memory, nostalgia, and grief. Paintings, over time, shift in media and subject matter, but consistently explore light, atmosphere, and moments in time.

Kathleen’s art is currently a result of a research-based walking practice spanning twenty years. The ritual of daily walking and revisiting one place over time, informs the multiple layers so evidenced in the work.

Returning to AUArts through global pandemic, Kathleen investigated issues of orientation, women’s labour as it informs feral landscapes, and the walking through grief, time, memory, and place. Cartographic explorations are becoming more and more questions in her work.

Settling into a studio practice at 500 Collective, Kathleen delights in the company of a group of inspiring individuals. Hers is a life of being in awe of the ordinary. Every moment holds fleeting surprise. She cherishes the practice of moving through land edging on local wetlands, the Bow River, and currently, near her home by the Elbow River.