By utilising key aspects of photography, focus and light, Kathy Prendergast has created a series of ethereal watercolours for her exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery this June, writes Judith Wilkinson
In response to an invitation by the Douglas Hyde Gallery in 2003 to contribute to a publication entitled 33 Happy Moments Kathy Prendergast began thinking about her favourite time of day. Between 4a.m and 7a.m she has always been her most creative, the artist told me on a recent visit to her Hackney studio. In these stolen hours just before dawn everything appears in flux – a time when crimes are committed, love affairs are conducted and morning prayers are attended to. Taking this mystical time as her point of departure Prendergast began to explore the artistic possibilities of this intermediary space. Observing how the objects in her East London flat altered as the morning light enveloped them she proceeded to document the subtle tonal changes that emerged
