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Kate McKenzie Lewis is a Sydney-born, Melbourne-based artist whose practice is rooted in the Australian landscape. Time spent in (Jervis Bay) and Gadubanud lands in the Victorian Otways and the Mornington Peninsula (Boon Wurrung Country) has shaped a body of work that examines the intersection of place, process and paint.
Since graduating with a Masters in Contemporary Art from the VCA in 2022, Kate has continued her exploration of bush and coast - painting en plein air as well as larger alla prima works in her Melbourne studio, blurring the line between observation and imagination.
Her manipulation of perspective, light, colour and scale creates an oscillation between real memory and imagined moments. Drawn into the oil-laden density of the Australian bush, Lewis grapples with the contradictions of this country - its vast beauty, its deep loss and the tension between love, belonging and foreignness to a place.