Kate Price

Shared Grounds is a social art gardening project led together with Guillem S. Arquer, in collaboration with Rib art space. Centered around a semi-neglected area of ​​the Gouwplein public park in Oud Charlois, this project aims to work in dialogue with the existing garden and its human and more-than-human inhabitants/users/neighbors to develop alternative/experimental ways to relate and “manage” a green public space within the Rotterdam urban context.

The Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie's Grondstoffenstation collects waste materials from the Rotterdam South Market, from wood and cardboard to left over fruit and vegetables for further recycling ventures. Invited to consider the collected food waste and experiment with alternative ways it could still be used, I have been researching these possibilities, whilst also collaborating with other artists and makers to develop events and workshops reconsidering our relationships with waste.

Invited by the Garage School to host their underground fermentation bar (as part of the exhibition 'RADICAL SYMBIOSIS: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF MICROBES') we took the opportunity to introduce participants to the complexities of soil. Borrowing from wine tasting instructions we used our noses to distinguish the characteristics of a selection of composts/soils collected around Rotterdam, encouraging us to engage our different senses as we interpret and understand the world around us.

Rotterdam soils are constantly shifting: some being excavated to make room for new underground household “waste” containers, others being carted in as foundations for new parks. Some, if too polluted, into depths distant from human bodies. Together with Guillem S. Arquer we invited participants to jump on their bikes and be guided through and among the trails of soil movements in the city of Rotterdam, visiting the Gemeente Soil Bank and Voedingstuin garden along the way. Image: Liza Wolters

Presentation of 'Composting Structures' in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer in Booth P, curated by Leana Boven for Springboard Art Fair. Installation comprising HD video loop of footage taken during site visits and shelf of growing compost samples as comprised/gathered within our recent research residency 'Investigating: Humus communities in Rotterdam'. Photo: Silvia Arenas

Inclusion of ceramic plant marker pieces in collaboration program 'Groene Vertanglelingen' of Gemaal op Zuid and Botanische Tuin Afrikaanderwijk in Rotterdam. Photo: Eden Calgie

Inclusion of my work 'sunbed' in group exhibition 'Perspective' at the Heemtuin in Leidendorp. The piece comprises a custom built outside lounge chair that holds a print within the frame at its foot-end. The print developed for this exhibition stems from a watercolor rendering of a sunflower image exchanged between the artist and her Mother, from their respective locations, and that of their gardening practices, in Rotterdam and Melbourne.

Invited by Rotterdam Reading Room to facilitate a workshop in response to the book 'the Politics of Permaculture' at neighborhood garden Botanische Tuin Afrikaanderwijk. The workshop guided participants through a series of observational exercises with the plants and other beings inhabiting the garden, followed by a sharing of simple propagation techniques and plant and soil care considerations that can be apply at home with your own or future green kin. Photo: Silvia Arenas

Exhibition of ceramics and accompanying reading with Shop called LIFE, hosted at the allotment garden community Spoortuin in Rotterdam. A series of stoneware ceramics detailing an ensemble of information and stories about particular plant 'weed' species were nestled in amongst the garden plots. An accompanying reading took place in which the audience was wandered through the garden to the locations of different ceramics, reading aloud the narratives inscribed upon them. Photo: Silvia Arenas

End public presentation of our residency period at the Goethe Institut in Rotterdam, which involved a relaxed talk about the varying aspects of research explored during the period. Photo: Silvia Arenas

'sharing humusities: a group reading session' was organized in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer at Goethe-Institut Rotterdam for Art Central Rotterdam XL 2023. The reading group session was organized as part of their research project, 'Investigating: Humus communities in Rotterdam '. The gathering revolved around the notion of humusities, being understood as a term that brings together the many entanglements between humans and humus. Photo: Silvia Arenas

Together with Guillem S. Arquer, this three month collaborative research residency aimed to work with the collective knowledge of the peoples of Rotterdam involved in compost making in order to learn from their positive relationships with soil. This project constituted an attempt to raise awareness of the potential of city generated organic waste as an important and beneficial medium through which to re-evaluate the relationship between human and more-than-human agencies in urban ecologies.

Piet Zwart Institute Master of Fine Art graduation exhibition. Multi-disciplinary presentation of divergent 'seeded' promptings and situated reflections as experienced within gardening contexts to explore how gardening practices can facilitate moments of exchange, reciprocity and relationship fostering. Of ongoing interest is how divergent stories and knowledges can embed themselves in these moments, where actions, spoken words, reflectivity, history and memory intermingle. Photo: Steven Maybury

Group exhibition of current Piet Zwart Institute MFA students, curated by Shimmer (Rotterdam) as part of 'Personal Structures' organized by the European Art Centre, Venice to coincide with Venice Biennale.

Master's thesis, self-published

Group exhibition of fem-identifying artists.

'turning the compost pile', audio piece composed together with Guillem S. Arquer, included in 'The Interludes', Good Times Bad Times Radio at The Radio Paleis Maashaven, Rotterdam.

Residency period at the KKV workshops in Bohuslän, Sweden in as part of GIBCA extended program. Culminated in end of residency group exhibition together with the other participants. I engaged with the screen printing and ceramics workshops to develop an artist note book and ceramic floral motifs that were installed in the end exhibition on wooden stone working benches together with objects and flora gleaned from the local area.

Workshop organized and conducted together with Guillem S. Arquer at Piet Zwart Institute demonstrating and discussing composting methodologies culminating in a lunch formed from the produce of our communal garden.

Talk with Yoeri Guépin as part of GRoW elective, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam. Within this lecture we discussed our individual artistic practices as connected to gardening and reflected upon the work we had engaged together on the rejuvenation of the Piet Zwart Institute studios communal garden.

Working period conducted within the communal glasshouse of allotment garden community SNV in which seeds and plants collected from member of the garden were given to me to grow and redistribute to other gardeners from the glasshouse over the course of nine months. A small garden containing a combination of some of these plants was also established within the glasshouse during the working period.

Solo exhibition of painted paper and cardboard works exploring architectural assemblage and idiosyncratic decision/mark making.

Solo exhibition of watercolor and gouache works installed in wooden structure produced in response to time spent in the Netherlands observing the behavior of home window adornment.