Kate Wallace

Within her diminutive paintings Kate Wallace works with depictions of interior and natural environments to explore aspects of memory, solitude, and impermanence. Developing from photographs captured in periods of stillness and transit, her paintings belong to places both personal and communal, be it a small detail of a place once lived in, or a window unconsciously passed by daily. Utilizing techniques such as manipulations of light, scale, repetition and obscuring, Wallace translates an essence of our psychological construction of the past through attention to the quiet details that compose our intimate reality, counter to the accelerated and frenetic pace of contemporary experience.

Kate Wallace (b.199, Melbourne, Australia) currently lives and works in Melbourne. Wallace completed her MA in Contemporary Art in 2018 at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Previously she graduated with an MA in Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne in 2015 and a Bachelors (Fine Art) from RMIT University in 2012. Wallace’s previous exhibitions include: ‘Details of a room and other places’ (solo), LON Gallery, Melbourne, 2024; ‘the curve that warms’ (solo), Leila Greiche, New York, 2023; ‘Melbourne Now’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2023; ‘Outdoors, Nowhere, in Nothing’, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, 2023; ‘Making the invisible visible’, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne, 2023; ‘Spring 1883’, LON Gallery, Melbourne, 2023; ‘Three Hares’, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, 2023.

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