PAINTING
‘She stretched langoriously, consuming me wholy in one bite.’ (aka the Operatic Hippopotamus)
Kate Howe, 2023, oil and oil pastel on linen board, 13 x 18 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments’ (title From The Tempest, by Shakespeare, said by Caliban)
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 13 x 18 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘unrelenting as the curse of love permanent as my errors’ (From "A woman speaks" by Audre Lorde)
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 20 x 30 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘Naked as paper to start.’ (title from The Applicant – Sylvia Plath)
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 20 x 30 cm. Collection:Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘Just because its good doesn't mean its healthy’
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 20 x 30 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘I am not one piece of myself’ (From a quote by Audre Lorde)
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 13 x 18 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘I, being born a woman and distressed’ (title from work of the same name by Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 13 x 18 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘QueenBitch_12’
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 13 x 18 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘The blushing Buddha of Shame and her lover’
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 13 x 18 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘which me will survive / all these liberations’ (After a quote by Audre Lord from her poem "who said it was simple")
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 20 x 30 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.’ (title from The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 20 x 30 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘Unfolded’
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen, 5 x 5 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘Lick’
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen, 5 x 5 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day’ (text From The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman )
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen, 10 x 7 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘Now you are a broken seal: A scarlet stain upon the earth.’ (title from Fragement of a poem by Sappho)
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 13 x 18 cm. Collection:Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation. kill off the emotional parts, and come with me.’ (title inspired by the writing of ‘Bell Hooks’)
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 13 x 18 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘But baby, don't get it twisted.’ (title from lyrics by Rihanna)
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 13 x 18 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘Didn't they tell you that I was a savage?’ (title from lyrics by Rhianna)
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 13 x 18 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
‘Suck up’
Kate Howe, 2023, oil on linen board, 20 x 30 cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Painting.
DRAWING
‘it is midnight, and the time is passing, but I sleep alone.’ (title from fragment of a poem by Sappho)
Kate Howe, 2023, ink on paper, 9 x 14cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Drawing.
‘here there is no place/ that does not see you. You must change your life.' (title from Rilke’s ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’)
Kate Howe, 2023, ink on paper, 9x14cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Drawing.
‘The edges make a line I can follow, a fold I can slip into , an opening that was always there, and only just appeared.’
Kate Howe, 2023, ink on paper, 9x14cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Drawing.
‘Self Portrait as Human’
Kate Howe, 2023, ink on paper, 9x14cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Drawing.
‘Caught’
Kate Howe, 2023, ink on paper, 9x14cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Drawing.
‘Oh if we can just quiet the world for a moment. And listen within. There's a voice guiding you. I promise it's there. And until you can hear it, I'll be it for you.’ (title from I, Joan by Charlie Josephine)
Kate Howe, 2023, ink on paper, 9x14cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Drawing.
‘i want to be so complete i could light a whole city’ (From Being Independent - Rupi Kaur)
Kate Howe, 2023, ink on paper, 9x14cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Drawing.
‘Reach for divinity, but do NOT bother the bag.’
Kate Howe, 2023, ink on paper, 9x14cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Drawing.
‘Don't get ugly with me, gurl.’
Kate Howe, 2023, ink on paper, 9x14cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Drawing.
‘ingress’
Kate Howe, 2023, ink on paper, 9x14cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Drawing.
‘and sometimes trembling’
Kate Howe, 2023, ink on paper, 9x14cm. Collection: Erotics of Power, Drawing.