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My work explores a movement from the familiar into something more atmospheric. Hovering between abstraction and landscape, Tender is a celebration of both nostalgia and the unfamiliar. Something continually felt and reshaped rather than fixed.

I’m interested in fleeting moments of place and memory, and how these can be translated through colour, gesture, and atmosphere as both response and reflection. This body of work marks a shift in my practice, becoming more fluid and expressive, with a focus on connection through colour and space.

Across the works, I explore human connection and the quiet weight of emotion. How moments of joy and sadness can exist symbiotically. When there are no words, there is colour.

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ABOUT KATE PAEA

Kate Paea is a Sydney-based contemporary artist whose practice operates between memory, atmosphere, and form. Working across painting and sculpture, her work moves fluidly between abstraction and landscape, with an emphasis on colour, gesture, and emotional resonance.

Her recent works shift away from defined figuration toward a more expansive, expressive language. Through subtle spatial relationships and restrained palettes, Paea explores the tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar, capturing fleeting states of place, memory, and connection.

Paea completed her honours in ceramics at UNSW College of Art and Design before working as a graphic designer in London. She now maintains an independent practice alongside selected commercial and teaching work.

She lives and works on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.