Kate Bones
I use experimental techniques and processes to produce work that expands the conventional language of photography, incorporating moving image and three-dimensionality. My themes relate to collective histories, ideas of cultural belonging in the LGBTQIA+ scene, and my personal experience of the Irish diaspora.
My career began documenting drag performers and LGBTQIA+ communities in London using an improvised 3d camera to make animated photographs that expanded on traditional photographic documentation. I used a painstaking method based on extensive research to help me refine my process in translating analogue captures to moving 3D digital images.
EDUCATION
BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture//First Class Degree Wimbledon School of Art
HNC Fine Art//Merit Award Kensington & Chelsea College
EMPLOYMENT & EXPERIENCE
Director/Editor/Photographer July 2012 - to date Freelance www.katebones.com
Creative Consultant
Nov 08 - July 2012
Freelance
Clients: Laura Marling (Everybody’s Management)// Cocknbullkid(Empire Management)//Marina & The Diamonds (679 Records)//Wolf Gang (Atlantic Records)//50 Bones Records// Brikabrak Records//The Golden Filter (Killer Artists).
Working with artists, their management and labels to update or create an identity to support forthcoming releases and live events. Using previous marketing experience I’m able to devise long term campaigns and ensure strategies tie in to all creative aspects. Responsibilities include:
• Art direction from initial concepts and development of ideas through to the presentation and delivery of the pitch.
• Covering all visual aspects from set and prop design through to artist and band styling.
• Creating strategies and ideas for upcoming releases that incorporate and utilise the clients strengths.
• Sourcing and managing a team of creatives and interns to produce and deliver on the live show, artwork and press photo’s.
ACHIEVEMENTS & OTHER EXPERIENCE
Winner of the Idris Pearce Prize
June 2005
Wimbledon School of Art, London
• Annual prize awarded to a BA (Hons) Fine Art student for an outstanding art work in the Wimbledon School of Art Degree show.