Kate Hall is a Glasgow-based painter and filmmaker. She has recently graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a BA in Painting and Printmaking.

 

Hall’s practice focuses on rural landscapes, specifically those onto which agricultural and industrial architecture has been pressed into the surface. Having grown up on a small farm in East Wales, she is interested in the cultural perception of landscape as an inert pastoral background and seeks to contradict this in her work. She does this by painting into rural scenes an undercurrent of dread in the form of fluorescent grounds and darkening skies, giving her landscapes a supernatural presence.

 

Hall’s paintings express a mechanised experience of nature, paintings which give similar immediacy and fluidity as the experience of moving through the countryside, watching the landscape as if it were a film. Scenes dip in and out of view; trees jump forward and are suddenly flung back into the distance, revealing long stretches of flooded fields.