Davidoff Art Initiative Residency Programme
St. Andrew, Jamaica. 1986
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Katrina es graduada con honores en Artes Textiles y Fibras (2008), y posee un certificado en Estudios Curatoriales (2009) de Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. En 2013, Coombs consiguió un MFA en Práctica Creativa del Transart Institute, vía la Universidad de Plymouth. Coombs tiene pasión por las fibras y por entender la sensibilidad de los hilos y la tela, que ha trascendido el diseño hacia formas escultóricas. Su práctica está enfocada en el impacto del Otro en el “yo”, a través de diferentes teorías psicoanalíticas y de teorías esenciales de políticas de género y la otredad. El trabajo de Coombs ha sido presentado en “3 Generations of Textile and Fibre Arts”, en Grosvernor Gallery, Jamaica, en 2017; “Dimensions of Womanhood” en el festival de Arte Urbano Kingston on the Edge (KOTE), en 2016; “Young Talent 2015” en la National Gallery de Jamaica; “Re-Frame” en Manila en 2016; London Biennale Pollination, Phillippines; y ha expuesto en la Bienal de Jamaica en 2014 y 2017 en la National Gallery de Jamaica.
She holds a BFA with Honours in Textiles and Fibre Arts (2008) and a Certificate in Curatorial Studies (2009) from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. In 2013, she obtained an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute via The University of Plymouth. Coombs has a passion for fiber and an understanding of the sensitivity of threads and fabric which has grown beyond design and into sculptural forms. Her practice focuses on the impact of the Other on the “I”, through various psychoanalytical theory and the quintessence of gender politics of the Other. She weaves and stitches fibres and textiles into tactile and sometimes large-scale sculptural forms, engaging the sometimes ambivalent and stigmatizing ways society engages the female persona. Coombs’s work has been featured in many exhibitions such as; “Young Talent 2015” at the National Gallery of Jamaica, “Re-Frame Manila”, 2016 London Biennale Pollination art project in the Philippines, “Dimensions of Womanhood” at the 2016 Kingston on the Edge (KOTE) Urban Arts Festival, the “Jamaica Biennial” in 2014 and 2017 at the National Gallery of Jamaica, “3 Generations of Textile and Fibre Arts” in 2017 at the Grosvenor Gallery, Jamaica and, “Voyaging Towards The Future: Living Sculpture III” ICE 2018, CAG[e] Gallery, Jamaica. Coombs is also one of the co-founders of a new art initiative in Jamaica, Blaqmango Consultants, aimed at re-energizing the Jamaican art scene through exhibitions, residencies, artist career planning and the development of young upcoming artists. She is the current recipient of the Davidoffe Art Initiative Residency at FLORA ars+natura Bogota, Colombia. She lives and works in St. Andrew, Jamaica.
