Kat Shapiro Wood

Kat Shapiro Wood

Born 1980 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Mullumbimby, Northern NSW

 

Kat Shapiro Wood’s practice is centred around the medium of encaustic (based on beeswax and natural resin), and spans the disciplines of painting, sculpture and ceramics, often drawing on the form and materiality of found objects and substrates.

Through the minimal framework of abstraction, her work will often draw on such parameters as the repetitive stripe or colour field, within which she may tease out the nuances of the medium and harness a luminosity that gives substance to space. In reaching towards the complexities of human experience, choices are made that may viscerally and intuitively define the elusive yet essential nature of those observations. Colour, however restrained, is a potent consideration in the process. Gesture comes into play in painterly application and form, in an attempt to distil an emotive state of being to its simplest form. There is a constant investigation into materiality, and into the sensorial potential of surface, tactility, translucency, opacity, depth, weight and light; the painting then asserts itself as something more akin to an object in its physicality.

I’m interested in pushing the level of refinement and subtlety while exploring the medium’s inevitable rawness and sensory aliveness; the potential of stillness and quietness to contain a rich and evocative dynamism is endlessly exciting.

Shapiro Wood has held solo and group exhibitions at Chalk Horse Gallery, in the Byron School of Art Project Space in Mullumbimby, the Tweed Regional Gallery, ArtState Lismore, Flinders Lane Gallery, and as an invited artist to the International Association of Ceramics 47th Congress in Barcelona in 2016. She lived and worked in Amsterdam and Berlin in 2016-17. She teaches sculpture, ceramics and drawing at the Byron School of Art, and has taught sculpture in studio schools over the last 15 years. She is a 2006 graduate of the National Art School majoring in Ceramics, where her work with encaustic became a strong part of her focus.

Artworks

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Untitled (don't talk)

Untitled (don't talk) - side view

Untitled (inne)

Untitled (inne) - side view

Untitled (matter, ether)

Untitled (matter, ether) - side view

Untitled (Octavio’s tears)

Untitled (Octavio’s tears) - side view

Untitled (and the land it swallowed the sky)

Untitled (and the land it swallowed the sky) - side view

Untitled (rising, disbanded)

Untitled (rising, disbanded) - side view

Untitled (fleet)

Untitled (fleet) - side view

Untitled (de wijde-wijde wereld)

Untitled (de wijde-wijde wereld) - side view

Untitled (to hold your gaze)

Untitled (sentry) - side view

Untitled (caress)

Untitled (caress) - side view

Study 1

Study 1 - side view

Study 2

Study 2 - side view

Study 3

Study 3 - side view

Study 4

Study 4 - side view

Untitled (sentry) - side view

Untitled (sentry)

Gravitations #1

Gravitations #2

Gravitations #3

Gravitations #4

Gravitations #5

Gravitations #6

Gravitations #7

Gravitations #8

Gravitations #9

Gravitations #10

Gravitations #11

Untitled (unfurl)

Untitled (lustre)

Untitled (surrender)
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CV

Education

2006
BFA with distinction, Ceramics Major. National Art School, Sydney
2002
Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School, Sydney. Full-time one year Scholarship
2000
Meadowbank College of TAFE, Sydney. Certificate IV in Fine Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2020
'Gravitations', Chalk Horse, Sydney
2018
'Broken Together, Mended Apart' (Joint solo with Susie Duggin), BSA Project Space, Mullumbimby
2017
'Float Forms: Fitting Pieces', The Trailer Project. Invited by Pierre Chevalier and ArtState Lismore
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Group Exhibitions

2019
'True Nature', Chalk Horse, Sydney
'c.a.s.e.Postcard Show', Byron School of Art, Mullumbimby
2019
'c.a.s.e. Postcard Show', Byron School of Art Trinda Wall
'An Invitation Not a Command' (curated by Christine Willcocks), BSA Project Space
'A Series of Parts', (curated by Susi Muddiman), Gallery Downtown M|Arts, Murwillumbah
2017
;We’re Closer Than You Think', Old Lismore Regional Gallery, curated by Natalie Bull and Zoe Robinson-Kennedy for ArtState Lismore
'30 x 30 Art Prize (Winner)', Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby
'A Fabled Object' (curated by Susie Duggin), BSA Project Space
'The Writing’s On The Wall: Works on Paper', Art Piece Gallery
'Mapping, Journeys, Footsteps', Gallery Downtown (Tweed Regional Annex), M|Arts, Mur'bah
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Prizes | Awards

2017
Joint Winner 30 x 30 Prize, Art Piece Gallery
2006
ADFAS Award
Mura Clay Gallery Award
Inner City Clayworkers Gallery Award
NAS Academic Achievement Award

Publications

Artist Profile, 50th Issue Feb 2020, profile by Sebastian Goldspink
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Gravitations

Kat Shapiro Wood
30th April - 23rd May 2020