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Katie Green
Katie Green creates intricate paintings on paper, produces large-scale mural installations, and is a mask and puppet fabricator. She uses watercolours, acrylics and gauche on a variety of surfaces including canvas, paper, and walls. Her work explores her relationship to the natural world, and concepts of growth, death, adaptation, and cooperation.
Much of Green’s work is collaborative, with public participation integral to its creation, especially with her murals. She works in tandem with collectives and non-profit organizations to alter public spaces to create physical, emotional, and imagined landscapes for specific communities. Green explores how chosen communities relate to their surrounding landscape by engaging residents and passersby into her process, sparking the imagery and narratives that lead to her concept designs. She then merges and intermingles a variety of images to create an overall narrative of the experiences in a place. Her resulting images are evocative and whimsical, giving viewers the visual and mental space and material to interpret, question, and imagine the world around them.
Green’s large-scale murals can be seen throughout Calgary, including cSPACE King Edward, The Drop-In and Rehabilitation Centre, the Bowness Public Library, and the University of Calgary’s Art Department; as well as in the USA, Germany, India, Taiwan, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Green graduated with distinction from the University of Calgary’s BFA program, and is a puppet fabricator for the Old Trout Puppet Workshop Society in Calgary.
Much of Green’s work is collaborative, with public participation integral to its creation, especially with her murals. She works in tandem with collectives and non-profit organizations to alter public spaces to create physical, emotional, and imagined landscapes for specific communities. Green explores how chosen communities relate to their surrounding landscape by engaging residents and passersby into her process, sparking the imagery and narratives that lead to her concept designs. She then merges and intermingles a variety of images to create an overall narrative of the experiences in a place. Her resulting images are evocative and whimsical, giving viewers the visual and mental space and material to interpret, question, and imagine the world around them.
Green’s large-scale murals can be seen throughout Calgary, including cSPACE King Edward, The Drop-In and Rehabilitation Centre, the Bowness Public Library, and the University of Calgary’s Art Department; as well as in the USA, Germany, India, Taiwan, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Green graduated with distinction from the University of Calgary’s BFA program, and is a puppet fabricator for the Old Trout Puppet Workshop Society in Calgary.