About Kathy
Kathy is a Melbourne based artist, her practice includes oil and acrylic paintings, hand painted collages and artist books. One of the central motifs of her work is the Australian landscape and the natural world. Kathy exhibits regularly both at home and abroad.
Kathy’s paintings and collages celebrate the very act of making art – colour, line, brush strokes and surface. Her landscapes and collages are as much about negative space, movement and layering as they are about birds, trees and skies. They are not photo-representative but rather an artist’s interpretation of the landscape, slightly abstracted and expressive but still recognisable glimpses of the natural world.
Kathy’s collages are created using hand painted paper which is either cut or torn and re-assembled into a new artwork. The collages are in essence paintings relying as they do on the painted surface and the use of colour in their composition. They are depictions of landscapes or elements of the landscape such as trees, flowers and birds at any one special moment in time. A wave crashes upon the shore and then retreats, a bird lands and in an instant takes off again, a flower blooms and in a heartbeat the petals are blown away by a gust of wind. Nothing in nature stays the same, these glimpses of place and space are precious in an endlessly changing world.
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Education
| 2006-2009 | Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), RMIT University |
| 1994-1999 | Visual Arts, Box Hill Institute of TAFE |
| 1993 | Certificate of Art & Design, Fremantle TAFE |
| 1975-1977 | Bachelor of Arts, History & Politics, Melbourne University |
Residencies
2019 | Artist-in-Residence Police Point Portsea, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery |
2016-2018 | Artist-in-Residence St Vincent's Hospital Caritas Christi Hospice |
2016 | Artist in Residence Arte Studio Ginestrelle Italy |
2014 | Artist in Residence Vallauris, France |
2010 | Artist in Residence Galeri Art Point, Penang,Malaysia |
1999-2000 | Artist in Residence Box Hill Community Arts Centre |
Solo Exhibitions
2022 | The Natural Shape of Things, Sea-Land-Sky, Monstalvat Long Gallery Melbourne |
2021 | Coastline, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne |
2021 | Escape, Black Cat Gallery Fitzroy |
2017 | Landscapes, St Vincent's Gallery St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne |
2017 | Upon Reflection, Tacit Gallery Melbourne |
2015 | Complementary, Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn |
2014 | Display Hutches, City Library, Melbourne |
2013 | After Rain, Louey & Lane Gallery, Glen Huntly Melbourne |
2011 | Penang and Back, Hand Held Gallery, Melbourne |
2011 | Modern World, The Glass Gallery, Northcote Town Hall, Northcote, Melbourne |
2000 | Box Hill and Beyond, Box Hill Community Arts Centre |
Recent Group Exhibitions
2023 | Blue, Bolin Gallery Melbourne | ||
2023 | Finalist, 2023 Banyule Award to Works on Paper | ||
2023 | Finalist, It's a Small World Sculpture Prize, Newstead Victoria | ||
2022 | Finalist 20th Maritime Art Prize & Exhibition, Melbourne | ||
2022 | Sage Advice to the Serious Young Artist, Whitehorse Art Space Melbourne | ||
2022 | Finalist,2021 Banyule Award for Works on Paper Finalist Exhibition, Ivanhoe Melbourne Winner of the People's Choice Award. | ||
2021 | Finalist, 2021 MSC Maritime Art Exhibition | ||
2021 | Home, Geelong Art Space, Geelong | ||
2020 | Thank you Posters, Expressions of heartfelt thanks from our arts community to the staff of St Vincent's, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne | ||
2020 | Doing it Differently, Geelong Art Space, Geelong | ||
2020 | Door to Door (Art in the time of Covid 19), online, No Vacancy Gallery Melbourne | ||
2020 | Metamorph, online, No Vacancy Gallery Melbourne | ||
2019 | WRAP Small Art Works, East Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia | ||
2019 | Motherhood Hope of the World, Central House of Art Workers, Moscow | ||
2019 | Finalist Manly Library Artists' Book Award, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney | ||
2019 | disCOVER, Amegilla Gallery, Bruthen, Victoria | ||
2018 | Residency, St Vincent's Hospital Gallery, Melbourne | ||
2018 | Poetry of Place, Town Hall Gallery Hawthorn | ||
2018 | Women in the Whitehorse Art Collection, Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill | ||
2017 | 90 x 90: 90 Artworks from 90 years of collecting, Whitehorse Artspace | ||
2016 | Artestudio Ginestrelle, Art Gallery Le Logge, Assisi, UNESCO, Italy | ||
2016 | Legacy of the Impressionts, Whitehorse Art Space, Melbourne | ||
2015 | Finalist, Manly Library Artist Book Award 2015, Sydney | ||
2014 | Exposition, Artist in Residency Program, Vallauris, France | ||
2014 | Her Presence in Colours XI, Mongolian National Art Gallery, Ulanbaatar, Mongolia |
Publications
2019 | Motherhood - Hope of the World, Catalogue, Moscow |
2016 | International Contemporary Art Guide 2016, Artestudio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italy |
2015 | Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Looking Down Under, Milan, 2015 |
2014 | Her Presence in Colours X1, International Women Artists' Exhibition, Catalogue, Mongolia, 2014 |
2012 | A New Direction, International Women Artists' Exhibition, Catalogue, Fine Arts Museum, Vietnam 2012 |
2011 | Books Beyond Words, East Gippsland Art Gallery, 2011 |
2008 | International Women's Artist Exhibition Catalogue, Dream of Peace, Beijing |
2006 | Life of Colours, Daegu Culture & Arts Centre, Catalogue, Korea |
2005 | Operation Art, Curator Dr Megan Evans, Australian Nursing Federation, Catalogue, Melbourne |
2004 | Close to the Heart, Manningham Gallery, Catalogue, Pheobe Publishing, Melbourne |
Collections & Awards
2023 | Banyule City Council Art Collection |
2021 | Peoples' Choice Award 2021 Banyule Award for Works on Paper Finalist Exhibition, Ivanhoe Melbourne |
2017 | St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne Art Collection |
2015 | Luciano Benetton Collection, Looking Down Under, Milan, Italy |
2014 | Artist in Residence Collection, Vallauris, France |
2013 | The Ken West Award, Alcove Art Shop, Melbourne. |
2013 | Acquisitive Ceramic Award, Decal Exhibition, award winner, Ceramics Victoria |
2011 | Manly Library Northern Beaches Artist Book Collection, Sydney |
2011 | City of Whitehorse Art Collection, Box Hill, Melbourne |
2011 | Merit Award, Books....beyond words, East Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria |
2000 | Box Hill Community Arts Centre Art Collection Melbourne |
