Kate Banazi

Kate Banazi was born in London and studied at Central St Martins. She currently lives in Sydney, Australia.

Her current work celebrates relationships, the body in space, movement, shadows and colour, interlocking shapes held together lightly but ready to fall apart. Negative space and line work map chaos, voids and beauty. Repetition and ritual, science and colour theory hold great interest and are often referenced in her work with elements exploring her own mixed heritage and familial ties.

Work is created from life drawings and self portraits dissected with singular elements pulled and repeated which are then configured recreating abstracted bodies. Sometimes these are floating in space, untethered, a seemingly simple shape asking the viewer to look closer and see more, sometimes hidden behind grids and blocks retaining control and safety behind overlaid chaos. There is always the intention for more to be seen as than an abstracted shape.

For many years she has been exploring the themes of beauty and who dictates what is its definition. Interpreting this to a raw and honest embrace of the flaws in the silkscreen - the silkscreens are un-retouched, pinholes and marks which normally would be repaired, are accepted and celebrated, contrary to the idea of printmaking as a facsimile process, utilising it is as a painting medium.

Kate has worked on a diverse multidisciplinary art based practice through painting, silkscreen printing and sculpture, to collaborations in fashion, music, illustration and advertising with explorations into light, colour and graphic motifs with an experimental, intuitive and often playful foundation.

She has exhibited in group and solo shows Internationally and her work is collected and commissioned by private, public and corporate collectors worldwide.