Kate is an artist and farmer and each affect the other in action. She works alongside the family on their traditional mixed farm in rural South Lincolnshire [UK]. She's entwinned in the daily care of animals and land. As an artist she makes sense of the world through drawing. She takes drawing to be more than a technique or process, it is rather a disposition revealing our connections with a world of materials and each other. She draws from, with and together, in places, over extended periods to consider how we improvise and imagine in response to our immediate problems.
What’s next for our countrysides? Before we even begin to consider re-scaling the rural, we must slow down and work in deep collaboration and coproduction – with all. This requires deep listening to the voices on the ground. But also trusting farmers and artists, who are skilled at working alongside and within communities, human and nonhuman. Otherwise we will continue to do the countryside a disservice, argues Kate Genever. […]
Agricultural and Rural Convention