Kat Grow
Hi! I am Kat, a visual artist from Manila, Philippines. My creative practice is focused on the processes involving art technology: pigment-making and materials research. These further play into my fascination with biomorphic designs, sacred geometry, and Islamic illumination.
Biography
Katrina Gosiengfiao, more known by her artist name Kat Grow, is a Filipina visual artist from Laguna, Philippines who has been exhibiting (group and solo shows) in galleries nationally. She is a graduate of the University of the Philippines, Diliman where she received her cum laude award and bachelor’s degree in fine arts, major in Painting. She was recipient of the grand prize for the Shell’s National Student Art Competition for the sculpture category in 2013 and the Artery Mentorship Program in 2014. She was named one of today’s leading abstract artists in Manila in a book published by Art Plus Magazine in 2021.
Kat arrived in London with a great zeal and affinity for art technology, historic pigment-making has been her entry point into the traditional arts. She has been researching about it and has been making pigments in collaboration with indigenous communities in the Philippines since 2016. This ongoing love for traditional crafts led her to pursue her Masters in Traditional Arts in the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts. Now she is in a love affair with a multitude of art forms namely: arabesques and biomorphs, sacred geometry, ceramics, Tezhip and Islamic illumination, and Turkish paper marbling. She is currently exploring the subtleties of art-making and personal spiritual growth with themes from Philippine myths and Mindanao manuscripts.
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