About
"I longed for the sincerity of painting friends and family with an unguarded intimacy. Something domestic, vulnerable, and authentic.
This desire to make a candid observation drives my most recent work, which is inspired by many years in the life drawing room. While I love and respect all the models I have had the privilege to draw, over time I grew dissatisfied working from a posing model. I want to look at people not for what they could be, but who they are—what we look like when we are not being watched."
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Kate is a painter based in regional Victoria, Australia. After completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, she has been named a finalist in numerous awards, including the Adelaide Perry Prize and the Lloyd Rees Youth Art Award. In 2025, she completed a residency at L'appartamento in Naples, Italy, and was listed in Art Edit magazine's 'One's to Watch' feature.
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Finalist
2025 — Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
2023 — Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
2022 — Editions 2022, Tacit Art Gallery
2021 — Moreland Council Summer Show, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2019 — Adelaide Perry prize for drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2019 — Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Hatch Contemporary Arts
Space, Melbourne
2015 — Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
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Solo Exhibitions
2025 — This thing flowing between us, Off The Kerb Gallery, Melbourne
2022 — Solitude (In partnership with Deb Garrett), Eltham Library Community Gallery
2019 — Decay, Montsalvat Resident’s Gallery, Melbourne
2016 — Tales of Montsalvat, The Boulevard @ Montsalvat, Melbourne
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Residencies
2025 — L'appartmento Napoli, Italy
2015-2018 — Studio Resident at Montsalvat Arts Centre, Melbourne
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Media
2024 — Art Edit - 'Ones to Watch' Feature
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Teaching
2016-2020 — Manager, Co-ordinator & Teacher Youth Art Classes; Montsalvat, Eltham
2023 — 2024, Pottery by the River (Clay classes in Mount Beauty, Vic)
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Group Exhibitions
2017 — Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2017 — Proud., Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2016 — Breadth, Montsalvat Barn Gallery, Melbourne
2015 — Beige: A Spring Show, VCA student gallery, Melbourne
2015 — Mystery Box Art Show, hosted by Fort Delta, Melbourne
2015 — Proud., Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2015 — Hands, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
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Education
2017— Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne – Bachelor of Fine Arts