Get Away From It All (Café Parisien) - Katie Watchorn

TITLE
Get Away From It All (Café Parisien)

ARTIST
Katie Watchorn

ABOUT THE WORK
The phrase ‘Get Away From It All’ often refers to escapism, holidays or time-off or a retreat from urban centre to the idyllic countryside. Often, the countryside is a place to pass through or a place to indulge in respite, as opposed to a being considered a highly contemporary place of labour, chaos, and technological development. Get Away From It All (Café Parisien) is a digitally layered poster of accumulated research gathered during her residency in Leitrim. Both posters consist of found imagery and text gathered from YouTube videos, books, articles and Internet forums alongside semi-fictional diary entries made by the artist during her residency, which have been blended with coincidental images taken in Belfast in Summer 2022.

DATE
2022

DIMENSIONS
Poster: 59.4cm (h) x 42cm (w)

MEDIUM
Colour digital print on 260gsm silk and coated acetate, foil sticker, jubilee clip

ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
Edition of x 8

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Katie’s practice is rooted in the rhythms of farming and land management. Primarily sculptural, she often employs fickle, agriculturally specific materials in combination with familiar rural motifs and ubiquitous objects and forms from her surrounding environs. These re-situated encounters aim to establish a new awareness of a contemporary rather than a vanished existence.

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FRAMING
Work is not intended for framing/ framing not provided