b. 1982 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works on Gubbi Gubbi land (Sunshine Coast)
Kate Mitchell is a multidisciplinary artist working across moving image, installation and participatory practice. She brings together seemingly disparate frameworks, allowing their collision to reorient how we see and move through the world.
Her practice is informed by a mycelial understanding of existence, the recognition that we are part of an interconnected web where every action has consequence. From this perspective, Mitchell considers our responsibility to the spaces we inhabit and the systems we are part of.
Often playful in tone yet conceptually rigorous, her artworks hold lightness and seriousness in tension. Recent works take the form of devotional systems, fields of objects, gestures and materials that operate as both representations and acts of care. Grounded in embodied processes, these works exist as both objects and actions, inviting audiences to reconsider their position within a shared, living network.
Mitchell’s work is included in leading public and private collections across Australia including: Kadist Foundation, Paris and San Francisco; Michael Buxton Collection, Melbourne; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. In 2019, Mitchell was included in ‘Enter’ at the Lyon Housemuseum. In 2020, she was commissioned to create All Auras Touch, an expansive installation at Carriageworks. In 2022, she was selected as part of the Adelaide Biennial for her work Open Channels. In 2025, her large-scale video work In the Eye of the Giant was commissioned for the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Naala Badu atrium, and further of her work is showing this year at the Art Gallery of NSW for Hive Festival.
Her work is held in the Kadist Foundation in Paris and San Fransisco, Michael Buxton Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, and private collections in Australia and internationally.
