‘The First Twenty-Four Hours (Part Two)’

Kate Howe, 2024, oil on board. 160cm x 120cm.

This work is a direct response to writing Howe’s current research proposal.

“Across my studio are strewn reference paintings of rapes, of wars, of soldiery, of horses storming gates, and massacres of innocents. These pieces we all know so well, the majority from Rubens and Titian, pieces I've stared at in person in the Wallace Collection and the National Gallery, informed my mark making, rather than obliterating the loving image I'd painted below, I felt an act of liberating, of joining my memory - of it joining hands with the marks which have entered my lexicon from so much looking…”

- Excerpts from Kate Howe’s writing. Read more here.