Come On Eileen

Kate Howe, 2024, oil on sutured linen. 160cm x 120cm.

“In this work, Come on Eileen, you can really still see the figure. This was still pretty early in the exploration, I think about four or five paintings in, and I was pushing and pulling her through the image as I was wrestling with the problem of how to work. She would come back with the lightest touch and dissolve just as easily. This painting is probably the one which comes closest to disclosing the ‘secret’ of how they were made in the beginning, though the way to begin is changing, and then, inevitably, the way to continue follows suit…”

- Excerpts from Howe’s writing on ‘All of the Susanna’s’.

‘Come On Eileen’ , Kate Howe, 2024, Installation View.