This work is part of Kate Banazi’s 2024 solo exhibition, Back Hips Bones Lips.

Says Kate, “This body of work is a self-portrait based on drawings of my own body. After so many years of basing my ideas on the drawings of others, it felt apt to focus on my own form as I entered the next phase of my life. My body is changing and the relationship I have with it is being pushed into unlearning.

“The shapes are pulled from the outlines of these drawings, entwined and meshing, evoking tumbling hormones and dizzying vertigo. The drawings go through multiple processes to get to graphic linear motifs and then again to be transferred to silkscreens. Each step is a move away from the source material thrust into isolation and brought back to an integrated form.”