KATE COLLYER

Kate Collyer (she/her) is a United States-based visual artist, educator, and PhD candidate at the Burren College of Art. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the State University of New York at New Paltz (2015) and a Bachelor of Arts in Art Studio with minors in Art History and Wilderness Education from SUNY Potsdam (2011).   

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Her work has been exhibited widely across the United States and internationally, with solo exhibitions at institutions including the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Group exhibitions have placed her work in venues spanning Japan, Poland, Switzerland, Portugal, Australia, Ireland, and Canada, including the Swiss Museum for Paper in Basel and the Krakow Printmaking Triennial.

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Her research proposes a methodology in the creation of works of art that encompasses walking, printmaking, and participatory experience, using the International Appalachian Trail as a case study that connects terrain across continents. Drawing on theories of place attachment, phenomenology, and psychogeographic principles adapted to on-trail environments, her work investigates how psychological responses to ecological spaces can foster an individual's sense of place.  Introducing this as a new art-making methodology: Ambulatory Aesthetics.