Kate Elsey

Kate Elsey resides in Melbourne, Victoria. She has been a practicing painter for almost two decades. She studied a Bachelor of Art [Graphic Design] at Curtin University, Bently, WA. Elsely has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia. She has been a finalist in several award exhibitions including, National Outback Art Award, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, NSW, 2005 & 2006 and the Water Authority Art Award, Western Australia, 1995, 1996 & 1997. In 1997 she was awarded an Artists Acknowledgement Scholarship, Fremantle, Western Australia. Kate Elsey's work is part of public and private collections nationally.

Kate Elsey applies her oil paint thickly in order to sculpt the medium to reveal the textural composite of a landscape. She scrapes away layers of colour to show glimpses of another. Her series of rock landscapes are inspired by the Lancefield area of Victoria, where boulders 135 million years old, are static, balanced and teetering in fields of green. The light that contrasts the surface and shadows is forever changing and acts as a quite and powerful reminder of ancient times.