Katherine Kennedy

Katherine Kennedy is an artist and writer. She graduated from Lancaster University, UK with a degree in Creative Arts; her combined major of Fine Art and Creative Writing helped develop her keen interests in both visual and literary pursuits. She has won multiple awards for her artwork and writing in her home Barbados, and has exhibited internationally in London. Since returning home, she has remained immersed in creativity, completing a local artist residency, contributing to ARC Magazine by writing for their online forum and assisting the Editor-In-Chief, and  working with the Fresh Milk Art Platform as Assistant to Director. Her visual practice is heavily tied to a sense of place, and often deals with interplay between found organic and inorganic objects, used as a way of asserting cultural identity in different environments.

Katherine traveled to the Instituto Buena Bista (IBB), Curaçao  in November 2012 to take part in a two week collaborative project between the IBB and Fresh Milk, and undertook a residency at The Vermont Studio Center in May 2013. Most recently, she took part in an intensive week-long mentorship programme at Casa Tomada, Sao Paulo, Brazil in September 2013. From September to November 2014, she will represent Fresh Milk on a three-month fellowship to Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany awarded by ResArtis.