Kat Honey 'Spiked + Striped' Print Available

Artist: Kat Honey
Title: Spiked + Striped
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 30 x 40 Inches
Edition: 3
Prices: $1,250 CAD

 Toronto-based mixed-media artist Kat Honey remixes fashion magazines into razor-sharp collages that expose the cracks beneath glossy ideals. Born in 1966, she spent two decades as an award-winning graphic designer before a 2009 camper-van sabbatical convinced her to trade client briefs for gallery walls. Honey now slices, tears and re-orders luxury adverts until perfect faces become fragmented masks, then enlarges the fragments until printing dots and ragged edges loom like topographic maps of consumer desire.

Her process of hand-cut at magazine scale, digitally blown up to mural size magnifies every pore, tear and halftone, turning slick marketing into tactile evidence of manipulation. Solo shows at Red Head Gallery, Quest Art and Station Gallery, plus a 2024 takeover of every corridor in Toronto’s renovated Union Hotel, position her collages as both decor and dissent. A permanent neon piece at Gladstone House and three suites in Newmarket’s Postmark Hotel translate her aesthetic into glowing signage and hospitality art

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Off the wall, Honey co-hosts the free monthly Virtual Collage Jam on YouTube, nurturing a global scissors-and-glue community featured in Kolaj magazine. She teaches online and at Haliburton School of Art + Design, arguing that creativity is learned, not bestowed. Cycling between studio, classroom and gym, Honey pedals the city she critiques, continually peeling back layers of identity, commerce and belonging.