World Fine Art Professionals and their Key-Pieces: Kate Foster interviewed by Walter van Teeffelen, for Marbella Marbella
Kate Foster is an environmental artist and researcher. She is from Scotland. In 2020 she developed her interest in peat cultures as artist in residence with the Home Turf Project of Wageningen University. At the exhibition ‘Veencultuur (Peat Culture)’ in Armslag Atelier, in Renkum, she showed various results of her creative investigation. How did Kate end up on the subject of peat culture and how did she report on it through her practice-based research?
Kate Foster: My work takes different forms depending on the context. I capture the process with drawings and text. My projects have resulted in works of art, but also created networks, in which connections have been made between ecology, sustainability and creative practice…