Kate’s works on paper – in the form of drawings, papercuts and etchings – reflect her love of flora and fauna and passion for gardens and the Australian bush. Her prints often feature plants, birds and animals and posit the garden as a site of delight and contemplation but also as a place where senescence and death might intrude. The interplay between human and non-human living things in Kate’s whimsical images is a means to explore the imaginative world of childhood, often referencing the rich symbolism of fairy tales and folk art.
For Kate, gardens are not just living places of refuge and regeneration, but also philosophically significant and symbolically laden landscapes of the mind. The works on paper and ceramic vessels might variously respond to the morphology of flowers, plants and wildlife, or the colours of foliage, fungi and seedpods, interspecies relationships or perhaps simply the play of shadows on branches.
Kate has an exhibition with ceramist Jo Davies in August/September 2024. https://gallery.baag.com.au/event/connections/
