Kate Peters

Artist Statement

I have a great interest in the spaces and places we inhabit on physical, psychological and emotional levels. It is this fascination with the decisions we make in constructing the space around us that has informed much of my current practice, from the placement of an object on a mantle piece in a home to the organisation of a shop window display. The series 'Home' forms an exploration of the home as a site of experience, looking at absence and memory within the domestic environment. These are images of interiors taken in homes experiencing a period of transition. The owners have moved on leaving behind traces of their lives. The images act as a record of human activity, they are evidence of human inhabitation, signs that we exist. I am very interested in the past and how a photograph can operate as memento mori, I am drawn to the history of a place or object, however mundane, and how these objects become embedded with the experiences they have bared witness to, by choosing to photograph them I attempt to reveal some of their past. The images from 'Stranger Than Fiction' aim to explore this notion, whilst also looking at the way we design our surrounding environments. After time a place will build up a history of it's own, and the 'Stranger' series aims to evoke some of that. Each image becomes it's own story, a kind of suspended narrative where reality has created it's own fiction.