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Kathie Najar

Shield in a field of dreams (blanket)

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Waste papers, acrylic paint, flower petals, glue, 132 X 78 cm, 2024

I consider what the future will look like. What will remain? What are our needs? What will be useful? Will we be nomadic?
I have created a series of artworks made from rubbish; waste paper, house paint, cotton threads, petals that blow into my studio, and more…
This artwork is one of a series of experimental forms that are a response to meeting our basic needs for survival and finding some pleasure in the rubble of the traumatised, broken urban landscape. Being part human: a wish for survival; part dwellings: a home for survival; part protection: warmth for survival. They are not framed as precious objects for longevity, they are utilitarian and designed to fold for convenience and mobility.

Kathie is an artist and curator living and working on Cammeraygal Land in Sydney, NSW. She holds a BFA and Masters of Arts Administration from UNSW.

For the past five years her focus has been on art making, research, and exhibiting. She has won art awards and residencies nationally and internationally for her handpainted tile, sculptural and watercolour artworks. She was selected to exhibit in Hazelhust Art on Paper Award in Gymea, Glamfest Residency and Laneway Festival in Broken Hill NSW, Hidden at Rookwood, and Eden Unearthed North Ryde. Most recently Kathie was selected for SWELL Sculpture Festival Currumbin Beach.