The mystery of the Australian bush resonates in Kate's work. This same bush that has enthralled and yet intimidated us for centuries. Unlike the First Nations people who have lived harmoniously beside and within it, white Australians have continually sought to tame it.
Fortunately, there is nothing tame about Kate's paintings.
Mitchell English (Director, Arcadia Street Gallery)
Kate sails very close to abstraction. Take away her majestic representations of eucalyptuses and you are left with dreamy abstract works.
Yet it is her renditions of gum trees that bring her work back to a quasi-figuration; and a masterful figuration at that.
