Hip Sway

Hip Sway - The Beam Series

Hip Sway is part of Kate’s ongoing Beam Series, an intimate body of work carved from reclaimed elm ceiling beams salvaged from her childhood home in Dorset.

Kate refers to her process as a dialogue with the material, transforming these once-structural timbers into tactile, abstract forms. The grain, knots, manmade notches and nail holes are all intentionally embraced as traces of the beam’s past life. In Hip Sway, these marks sit alongside flowing curves and a subtle sense of movement, balancing the solidity of the wood with a newly found lightness and rhythm.

“I love to work with the authenticity of whatever material I am working in, none more so than wood. Celebrating the inherent qualities whether natural or from a previous life … the grain, the knots or the nail holes and cut notches …any and all perceived imperfections are important to me and will both inform the initial direction of a piece and give it it’s final personality.” KH