'Death Throes' by Kathryn Poole

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By Signature Art Prize 2019/20
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

70 × 100 × 0.1 cm

Materials:

Pen and Ink

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Drawing

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2018
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This work is currently shortlisted for the Signature Art Prize 2019/20. If you wish to purchase this piece it will be available after the 13th February 2020. About the artist: Kathryn Poole’s practice attempts to capture and illustrate memories. Focusing on documenting the loss and death that occur in unnoticed places, she memorialises dead animals found in her commute between Preston and Southport through drawings, etchings and lithographs. Her drawings are her attempt at preserving a remnant of a life that was lost. She is interested in dissecting the boundaries between life and death, and how one sustains the other. In her drawings and animations there is always a remnant of life glimpsed through the frame of the corpse. About the work: Death Throes is one of a series of drawings from the project Bypass Wildlife where I record the animals of the roadside in the liminal space between the moments of death and disappearance. Finding dead animals on my commute between Preston and Southport the body with often stay on the roadside for hours, days, or weeks, frozen at the end of life for the remainder of its existence. My drawings are an attempt at preserving through recording, each entry an elegy to oblivion. Capturing the souls of my subjects in drawings at the moment they leave the body. Although the physical specimen may rot and fade away and my memory become unreliable, the representations I make will remain as a testament to my subjects’ existence.

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