Kate Pelling

Kate Pelling is a British visual artist based in Germany. She has been making direct address to camera for more than ten years and is best known for video works using this convention. Kate Pelling has exhibited extensively in the UK and the USA, most notably a retrospective at the Shortini International Film Festival, Augusta, Italy (2011) and a solo show at The Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK (2014). She has also exhibited in Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal, and Switzerland. In 2013, Kate Pelling published 'A Relational [Video] Grammar: Extrapolation' which used drawing and text to edit speech generated during direct address to camera. Following her relocation to Germany at the end of 2013, Kate Pelling published '[Video] Klappe' (2014), which was both a love letter to her new environment and an examination of editing video using drawing and text. Kate Pelling graduated from Wirral Metropolitan College, Birkenhead (BA[Hons] Fine Art, 2003), Wimbledon School of Art, London (MA Fine Art: Drawing, 2004), and Birkbeck, University of London (MA Gender, Sexuality, Politics & Culture, 2008). [November 2015] She is completing her PhD at the University of the Arts London (UAL), her research explores the editing of speech in artists' direct address to camera.