Katherine Harvey
The artist creates wire sculptural birds by simply twisting, shaping and binding the wire around itself. The wire sculptures are the artist’s interpretation of wild birds. She compares her work to drawings in pencil on paper; the wire to three-dimensional pencil lines and the white plaster bases, on which the birds sit or stand, to paper. She uses nickel silver labels, attached to the birds’ legs, to name and tag the birds. Many of the birds are displayed in domes, like taxidermy – the way in which birds are preserved and displayed in museum collections. Katherine has exhibited throughout the UK.