Group shows | Articulate

Opens on Aug 2 until Aug 24, 2025

To garden ..."kneeling between the scale of seeds and the scale of stars, touching evolutionary time and the cycle of seasons at once, you find yourself rooted more deeply into your own existence - transient and transcendent, fragile and ferociously resilient - and are suddenly humbled into your humanity”(1)… to find the way HOME.

1. Maria Popova, 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Gardening, The Marginalian https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/07/writers-artists-gardens/

Kathryn Cowen is an Eora/ Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice integrates painting, installation, new media and experiential approaches to art making. Recent installations include"Serendipia" (2024), made in collaboration with sound artist Gareth Jenkins, for Yarilla Arts and Museum, Coffs Harbour and "Remember Casablanca" (2024), for Cementa24. In 2023, Kathryn was included in the survey exhibition "Painting Now 2023" at Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney. Kathryn has been a finalist in numerous art prizes, including the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize, the Fisher's Ghost Art Award (2021, 2019, 2015), the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award (2019), the Green Way Art Prize (2021), the Calleen Art Prize (2018), Waverley Art Prize (2015), Little Things Art Prize (2021, 2020) and the Portia Geach Memorial Award (2006). She has participated in residencies at the Wayout Artspace and Cloudbough Art Residency in Kandos, NSW, the Gunyah Artist-in-Residence Program, and the NAS Artist-in-Residence Program in Hill End. Kathryn has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across a variety of commercial, artist-run and institutional galleries since graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the National Art School in 2007.

Kathryn Cowen

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