Riverbed

Kate Dirks

Exhibition

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After going through several major life changes this past year, I decided to spend my final semester of art school creating something entirely different from my other work. I chose to focus on self-expression and experimentation. My goal was to make something true to myself, and to embrace vulnerability and imperfection in my work. What I ended up creating is Riverbed, a short book that is somewhere between a comic and a poetry collection. It features three poems, illustrated with graphite from a single mechanical pencil on recycled sketchbook paper.


2024 collaged zine

2026 picture book spread, photoshop

Kate Dirks

Kate Dirks is a Vancouver-based illustrator, writer, and friend. Her work reflects her passion for nature and outer space, settings which she uses as a vessel to express themes of grief, memory, and the beauty of every-day life.

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