Besser Blocked Sunlight began as a poem written in Boorloo/Perth in 2021. Kate Moss is an artist working with found and re-purposed materials to recall the vernacular landscape of  Western Australia. Thinking through sunlight and bricks, this exhibition highlights her explorations with sound, sun prints, ceramic and paper cut-outs.

Besser Blocked Sunlight

Besser blocked sunlight

a jogging power walker

wide legs, swinging arms

active wear

micro plastic

litter the shore

a week of easterlies

on everyones tongue

I drive a few blocks and pause to write

A kinks song in French, a sports car indicates

Wild patches of trees meet manicured lawn

how many thousands of bodies

minds

sat below these branches

Koolbardi hour

gather on sun faded grass

golden hour

architectural boxes unwanted

imprint my memory

besser blocked sunlight

fill the gaps of silence

filling gaps of silence

with idle monologues

mining company sponsored

corruption blind

shadows extend

shadows recede

About Kate Moss
Kate Moss was born in Mullewa on Yamatji (Wadjarri) country, Australia. She is based in Gässemåla, Sweden. Her multidisciplinary work utilises written, spoken and performed language and re-purposed materials, to reflect on the complexities of living in a post-colonial society.

Recent exhibitions and poetry readings include Kunsthall Olso, NO, Vandalorum, SE, Daine Singer, AU, Växjö konsthall, Alta Artspace, Malmö, Index The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Berlin Community Radio, DE, Publication Studio, Vancouver, CA, Coq Au Vin, AU, PICA, AU, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, CA.

Poetry publications include, Wild Thoughts (2019)  Daine Singer/Version Editions, Melbourne AU and Swedish Light and Other Poems (2015) Somewhat Urgent Series, Vancouver, CA.

Recent commissioned writings for Eindhoven, NL, Alta Vista Updates, Malmö, SE, Royal Academy, The Hague , NL, Southerly Literary Journal, AU Bartleby Review, CA.

Moss holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and a BFA from The Victorian College of the Arts, Naarm, Australia.