"Kaidi Dunstan�s art practice encompasses drawing and painting alongside wood/wax and bronze sculpture and makes use of found images/objects obscured yet familiar within a language of figurative forms. By a process of making and honing, established relationships are often sacrificed and reworked leading to a layering of decision, a palimpsest state of temporary balance.

In this series of mono prints Dunstan uses stencils to improvise linkage, movement and rhythm.
The simplicity of stencils allows intuitive freedom of play and surprise.

Dunstan is largely self taught in the arts with a skillset based in building musical instruments and furniture. Her early life in rural Wyoming, USA was a fruitful period of being left to one�s own devices with freedom to wander in the sagebrush and woods, engaging with animals and insects.
She spent 2 years up until Covid taking printmaking classes from Katherine Jones RA at the Art Academy in London. She lives and works in London.

Thicket of bafflement, bafflelonia
aboutness
gingerly
feast of problems
to further the projects
coarse patchwork points
tenacious grafters

palimpsests re scratched
rinsed erased patched
reach down to touch the heat

lexicon
pejorative deadpan
shake a stick at it

discrete entity
darker living
marginal
mercurial
ad hoc
mutable

surefooted
flippant
hatched attached patched matched
homo spatial
invent small resources
taken into the wastes
stubborn
sprinkle, awaken the inexorable

swing the hoard onto the shoulders, tinkering
glue wash cull
return alive to settle
in the weeds
reach inside ones chest

shadow banning
printmaking
palimpsests

looking into the valley
the stone wrapped with a dent
in the weeds
searching for distorted abstract
layers of subterfuge
boredom as muse
a wandering"