"Drop | God" 2019 Digital enlargement of a photogram Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Diasec mounted under acrylic 92.3 x 92.3 cm
The Exhibition
Andrew Wiles Building, The Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
18 November – 6 December 2019
The exhibition consisted of a series of black and white, digitally enlarged photograms (photographic shadows), displaying the patterns of the natural phenomena found from a human's relationship with water and light.
The artwork was made for the mathematicians to meditate on the natural phenomena of water and light, in the light that it might inform and enlighten their understanding of nature.
The exhibition was paired with a Music & Light symbiotic event of the same name.
The artwork "Drop | God" is now in the permanent collection of the Mathematical Institute.
Gallery of Applied Pure series
"Drop | God" Photogram originally made in 2012, digitally enlarged in 2019 92.3 x 92.3cms
"Hand through developer diptych" Photogram originally made in 2011, digitally enlarged in 2019 2 x 84 x 58cms
"Hand in Developer | Primal" Photogram originally made in 2012, digitally enlarged in 2019, 73.5 x 59.1cm
"Washing Hands Triptych" Photogram originally made in 2011, digitally enlarged in 2019, 3 x 96.5 x 75.3cm
"Cecilia in the Bath | Still Life" 2019 Photogram originally made in 2012, digitally reproduced with the same scale in 2019, 143 x 51.7cms
"Shadow of Four Gold Cubes" Photogram originally made in 2018, digitally edited and enlarged in 2019, 118.9 x 43cms
"Waves | Vibe" Digitally enlarged photogram of water surface, 73.5 x 50cms
"Floating Feathers", 2019 Photogram digitally enlarged, 50 x 35.4cms
"Forget-me-nots in glass of water" Photogram originally made in 2015, digitally enlarged in 2019 50 x 36.3cms
"Blossom and Rain" 2019 Photogram, digitally enlarged, 73.5 x 50cms
"Glass of Water | Yin" Photogram digitally reproduced in 2019 50 x 36.1cms
"Glass of Water | Yang" Photogram digitally reproduced in 2019 50 x 36.1cms
"Two Glasses | Yin" Photogram digitally reproduced in 2019 50 x 19.7cms
"Two Glasses | Yang" Photogram digitally reproduced in 2019 50 x 19.7cms
Gallery of installation views
The scale of the artworks was made to fit the magnificent architecture of the Andrew Wiles Building, designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects.
Applied Pure exhibition at the Andrew Wiles Building, Oxford University, UK.
Applied Pure exhibition at the Andrew Wiles Building, Oxford University, UK.
"Drop | God" in the Applied Pure exhibition at the Andrew Wiles Building, Oxford University, UK. This piece is now in the Mathematical Institute's permanent collection.
Applied Pure exhibition at the Andrew Wiles Building, Oxford University, UK.
Applied Pure exhibition at the Andrew Wiles Building, Oxford University, UK.
"Washing Hands Triptych" and Kate Beaugié at the Applied Pure exhibition at the Andrew Wiles Building, Oxford University, UK.
“Delicious.”
Martin Kemp, art writer, historian and leading authority on Leonardo Da Vinci.
Kate would like to thank all the sponsors for their contribution in making this venture possible.
Arts Council England, Oxford Mathematics and University of Oxford, Oxford City Council, Torch: University of Oxford, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Kate would also like to thank Anthony White, Mrs Mary Esslemont and the Tory Family Foundation for their generous financial contributions.
Thank you to all who contributed to this project: Louisa Love documentary photographer & art installation assistant, David Alderman artist’s assistant, photographer & art installation assistant, Mark Doyle technical assistance.
And much thanks to Prof. Balazs Szendroi, Art Curator and Mathematics Professor at the University of Oxford, who first saw Kate's photograms in the exhibition SURFACE in 2018 (curated by Nico Kos Earle) and invited her to be a resident artist.
This project is dedicated to the memory of Kate's great-grandfather, Sidney Edmund Beaugié bn. August 21, 1879, who achieved a double first in Mathematics and French at the University of Oxford in the early 1900s.
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