Wednesday 5 March, 2025 | Join us for a conversation between artists Bronwyn Katz and Kat Lyons, moderated by author Daisy Hildyard. The discussion will centre on the artists' respective practices, and how they connect to the ecologist and philosopher David Abram's ideas explored in the group show Each Place Its Own Mind at Edel Assanti.
About Bronwyn Katz
Incorporating sculpture, installation, video and performance, Bronwyn Katz’s practice engages with the concept of land as a repository of memory, reflecting on the notion of place or space as lived experience, and the ability of the land to remember and communicate the memory of its occupation. Working with found natural materials such as iron ore, or used man-made objects, Katz’s approach to making is driven by storytelling and intuition. Conceptually, the artist's sculptures refer to the political context of their making, embodying acts of resistance that draw attention to the social constructions and boundaries that continue to define our environments.
Bronwyn Katz (b. 1993, Kimberley, South Africa) lives and works in Cape Town. She studied at the University of Cape Town, where she was also awarded the Simon Gerson Prize. Recent solo exhibitions include stone's embrace, a love spiral of erosion and renewal, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa (2024); Kaeen-de-haree, Lively sunshine, Andrew Kreps, New York, USA (2023); Tus tsĩ | xurub, Rain and drought, MASSIMODECARLO, Paris, France (2023); I turn myself into a star and visit my loved ones in the sky, White Cube, London, UK (2021); Salvaged Letter, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany (2019); / // ! ǂ, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa (2019); and A Silent Line, Lives Here, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2018).
In 2022 Katz was selected as a protégé for the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, set to work with El Anatsui over a period of two years. She was shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize in 2021 and received the First National Bank Art Prize in 2019.
About Kat Lyons
Kat Lyons’s practice explores the complexities of earthly life to question the limitations of human categorisation and understanding. Drawing from an extensive research practice which references fables, medical and scientific documentation, contemporary advertisement, and personal experience on a livestock farm, Lyons' work offers a multifaceted approach to the category of "animal." Lyons’s interest in histories of nonhuman use for human advancement seeks to reckon with our current and future relations, including: biomedical studies, agricultural modifications and technological explorations.
Kat Lyons’s practice explores the complexities of earthly life to question the limitations of human categorisation and understanding. Drawing from an extensive research practice which references fables, medical and scientific documentation, contemporary advertisement, and personal experience on a livestock farm, Lyons' work offers a multifaceted approach to the category of "animal." Lyons’s interest in histories of nonhuman use for human advancement seeks to reckon with our current and future relations, including: biomedical studies, agricultural modifications and technological explorations.
Kat Lyons (b. 1991, Louisville, KY) lives and works in New York. She completed a BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019) and the Shandaken Paint School (2020). Recent solo and group shows include Herd, Pilar Corrias, London, UK (2024); CYCLES, TANK, Shanghai, China (2023); PRESENT ’23: Building the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA (2023); A Journey, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China (2023); Au-delà, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France (2022); Fire Figure Fantasy, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, USA (2022), and Early Paradise, Pilar Corrias, London, UK (2021).
About Daisy Hildyard
Daisy Hildyard is author of two novels – Emergency (2022) and Hunters in the Snow (2014) – and one work of nonfiction, The Second Body (2017). She lives in the north of England.
