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a white sculpture sitting on top of a wooden table in front of a gray wall

All Visual Arts is a contemporary art gallery and collection representing seven artists, as well as engaging in direct commissions with leading and emerging artists. AVA moved to its permanent 5,000 square foot gallery space at 2 Omega Place, Kings Cross in 2010

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Widely-renowned British artist Kate MccGwire uses an unusual medium - hundreds and hundreds of bird feathers - to create her unique sculptures. By meticulously layering the feathers side by side, she creates swirling, tactile and snake-like compositions that look disturbingly alien.

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an animal that is laying down on the ground in front of a book shelf with many books

Based in west London, artist Kate MccGwire is known for her serpentine feather sculptures and discomfiting artworks that coil and ooze in every direction. A recent installation follows in that tradition as it pours down like a massive gush of water from a built-in bookcase. Composed of approximately 10,000 pigeon feathers, “Discharge” stands nearly fiveContinue reading "10,000 Pigeon Feathers Cascade from a Bookcase in Kate MccGwire’s Latest Installation"

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a close up of a flower on a black surface with dark background and white petals

Kate MccGwire's practice probes the beauty inherent in duality, exploring the play of opposites - at an aesthetic, intellectual and visceral level - that characterises the way we conceive the world. She does this by appealing to our essential duality as human beings, to our senses and our reason, and by drawing on materials capable of embodying a dichotomous way of seeing, feeling and thinking. The finished work has a consistent 'otherness' to it that places it beyond our experience of…

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