Hello my name is Katharine Wade. I am a graduate in Fine Art at Birmingham institute of Art and Design. My practice mainly focuses on the Everyday. I am very interested in art focusing on capturing aspects of ones day to day life, data collecting and archiving.

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Using the experiences of myself and the human beings around me I create a variety of work focusing on memories, voices and opinions of myself and others and the power of relatively simple gestures.

I have this desperate need to document my existence through a variety of media, to capture the smallest moments rather than the large ones. I create my practice from what is around me. Reality. Human beings, faces, conversations, routine and emotion.

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For me, it is the mundane, seemingly unimportant moments in life that I value. If my life changes beyond imagination tomorrow I know it will be the forgotten moments, gatherings of class mates in the studios, conversations around the dining table, the glance at a boy, the smell of shampoo, it is these memories will be missed most of all, these are the moments that will be thought of fondly in times of reflection.

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This is what my practice is about: the art of existence. The everyday is always there, hiding in plain site. I want to take these humdrum moments and place them on a pedestal, displaying them for all to see, as though to say: Here is life. You are in it just as I.