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McLeod
Kate
Kate McLeod is a New Zealand full time mixed-media visual artist working across a wide range of mediums including oil, acrylic, resin, pigments, metal leaf and hand crafted timber frames.
Following her graduation in 2005 from Canterbury University (BA, Art History and Sociology), Kate’s life twisted and turned, with jobs as a TV set designer, art teacher, advertising account manager, creative software executive and restoration project manager giving her licence to explore a wide range of creative disciplines.
Along the way, Melbourne, Auckland, Ankara, London, San Francisco and Sydney have all been called home. In 2015, Kate came full circle, putting down roots in her home town of Ōtautahi. She then set about creating a purpose built studio and environment to support her career as a full-time artist in Ilam.
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The desire to mould and sculpt raw materials into something new started early. As a baby she took the only malleable, viscous substance she could get her hands on and painted her cot. Today she creates large scale paintings in oil and acrylic and makes assemblage from recycled found items. Copper and gold foil also feature heavily in her work along with other mixed media, nothing is out of bounds.
Kate’s current gestural, lyrical abstraction focuses on being attuned to the rhythms of life. Her work is imbued with a sense of immediate, fluid movement that invites an emotional response from her audience. Grounded by her deep fascination with colour, each work is a performance that captures a fleeting moment, a memory of a feeling.
Kate is on a mission to move one human at a time: “I hope you feel the physical, explosive energy of my movement. As if you were there the moment it was created”
See her website here
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