Katie Harvey is a multidisciplinary artist based in Eora/Sydney, originally from regional New South Wales. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at RMIT University, studied abroad at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and completed a Master of Therapeutic Arts Practice at MIECAT. Traversing between semi-figuration and abstraction, her paintings layer colour-field expanses with shifting gestures and representational image-making — exploring spatial tension, movement and the sensory experience of being. Harvey’s work explores how painting can hold traces of what is felt and embodied. She investigates visual metamorphosis and the subtle slippages between technique and mark-making as ways of tracing changing psychological and sensory states. Through a sensitivity to light, colour and gesture, she examines the unstable terrain between observing and sensing — where presence and absence can continually blur.
Photo by Traianos Pakioufakis