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Kate Slowey

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

“Creation as a means of expression”. Kate Slowey is an ultra-contemporary visual artist based in Sy...

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Kate Slowey

Joined In 2022

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About the artist

Kate Slowey

Joined In 2022

link - Showed at the The Other Art Fairlink - Artist featured in a collection

(8 Followers)

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“Creation as a means of expression”.

Kate Slowey is an ultra-contemporary visual artist based in Sydney. She primarily works in two distinct styles. The first, involving figurative depictions of faces and figures evolved from one-line drawings. The second, involving sculptural and abstract paper cut outs of the female form.

Self-taught, she began by adapting the line drawings of greats such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse but, with time, her practice has developed to draw inspiration from various movements including cubism, post-impressionism and pop-art. She is increasingly drawn to the conceptualist practices of artists such as Damien Hirst and Lee Ufan.

Kate has always used creation as a means of expression and each collection is just that: an expression of central themes in herlife at that moment. ROUND 2 focussed on desire, love, and the introspection that comes with discovering new aspects of yourself through relationships. Move Me: the Prelude drew from loss and grief in a call to action to boldly inhabit the body – to move, to create, to live. Kate’s work is visually unified through the colours and shapes I return to and grounded in emotional depth.

Although autobiographical in nature, just as the personal is polit...

Move Me: The Prelude - Sydney, 2024 and Melbourne, 2025
Figures - Newcastle, 2024
ROUND 2 - Sydney, 2023
Untitled - Sydney, 2022

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