About Katy Gardner

Katy Gardner is a London-based painter and printmaker with a strong focus on the fusion and progression of materials. Gardner’s practice works with notions of memory, dreams and the nocturnal, and in particular the transitional space between reality and imagination. She lets the materials take partial control of her output, so that each piece is a collaboration of intentional and unpredictable imagery.

“Every evening as the sun sets, there is a small interlude between the clarity of day and the heavy blackness of night. The encroaching darkness presents a transient state where imagined forms can intermingle with familiar surroundings to briefly create a new, uncanny space.” – Katy Gardner

Through her practice, Gardner seeks to unlock the space between the familiar and the unknown. A constant yearning to understand dreams, distant memories, and mutating shapes in the dark informs the process-led development of each artwork, resulting in images that present a collaboration of subconscious thinking and external forces. While the artist alludes to fluid, natural formations in these works, they are also abstract and compositionally elusive. The viewer can distort the piece to fit their own perceptions: a process that Gardner explicitly and actively invites.