Kate Riley

Kate Riley is a multi-disciplinary artist working between Cammeraygal land and
Gumbaynggir country on the mid-north coast of NSW. Growing up in the Gumbaynggir
rainforest of the Dorrigo plateau Kate has always drawn creative inspiration from her
environment. Kate is highly motivated to work sustainably and focuses on using found and
salvaged objects and materials. She draws and paints imagined 3D objects and then builds
them out of papier mâché, cardboard, soft sculpture and other found materials. This
becomes a cyclical process allowing the objects and paintings to become self-generative and
self-referential. Kate has focused on the regions in her art practice and her career, working
remotely with Arnhem Land artists and within the Northern Territory arts community. Kate is now based in Sydney and completed her final year of the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School in 2022.

Exhibitions and Art Prizes:

2024: 4^th Wall Gallery solo exhibition

2024: Secret Sitter, Goodspace, Chippendale

2024: Inside Outside Sculpture Plinth, North Sydney

2024: ‘Earth’ Group Exhibition, Articulate, Leichhardt

2024: North Sydney Art Prize Finalist

2024: Drawing Walkshop, Drawspace, Newtown

2023: ‘Home’ Group Exhibition, Saywell Gallery, Marrickville

2023: Group Exhibition, LUNA Studio, Newtown

2022: Ephemeral Strokes, Group Exhibition, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville

2022: Library Inserts, Group Exhibition, National Art School Stairwell Gallery, Darlinghurst

2020: From the Edges, Solo Exhibition, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville

2019: Group Exhibition, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin

Residencies:

2024-2025: Primrose Park Artists’ Studios

2023: Artist Residency at Stonevilla Studios, Sydenham

Curatorial:

2019: Warrakan – Sculptures by Tony Cameron and Penny Wanapuynu from Gapuwiyak, Aboriginal Bush Traders, Darwin

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