Kate Faulds’ practice explores material behaviour, transformation and narrative, creating object-based worlds that question the role, function and expectations of everyday materials. This exploration challenges perceptions and invites viewers to reconsider the inherent properties and potential of the materials. Drawing on both precious and semi-precious metals, found objects and recycled components, Faulds constructs collections of objects that speak to the fragility, memory and the quiet poetics of both natural and man-made worlds.

Kate Faulds’ diverse practice is thematically preoccupied with landscape—natural and man-made, interior and exterior. She searches for awe, wonder, sensuality, fragility and resilience within these spaces. Through documenting, deconstructing and re-presenting landscape across a range of materials, Faulds explores the delicate balances inherent in nature. Her work captures complexity through close attention to detail, from the bracket that supports a shelf, to the shifting light on a mountain, to the tiny fungi emerging from the bark of a tree.