Opening celebration on Saturday 5th July 3.30 - 5.30pm

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Underneath over the top 

Clouds hover 

And bones

Garnish the land 

Threads of veins in leaves

Circulating the trees

Holding up the sky

Capturing water 

Trickling the versant

Etching stories 

Of time 

Into rock 

The face of our life

Is written in clay 

In mountains

In our form

Kate Elsey 2025

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Kate Elsey is renowned for her lyrical paintings, where spirited explorations of texture and colour trace meandering pathways across the canvas. At first glance, her works appear as bold abstract gestures, yet a closer look reveals a deep poetic connection to the natural world.

From her studio in outer Melbourne, surrounded by native flora and fauna, Kate immerses herself in a meditative creative practice. She approaches painting with the sensibility of a sculptor, intuitively layering pigment with a palette knife—smearing, scraping, moving in rhythmic cycles. Through this process, a dynamic interplay of colour, texture, and form emerges, culminating in a moment of perfect balance.

Her latest body of work pays tribute to the natural world she inhabits, capturing both the intimacy of our entangled relationship with nature and the awe of its lifeforces. Nature Script marks Kate Elsey’s24th solo exhibition and a decade of showing with cbOne Gallery, formerly Eastgate Gallery. Her solo exhibition Bass Lines (2020) was an immersive response to the natural wonder of Kakadu, NT, followed in 2023 by a major commission for The Ritz-Carlton Melbourne - a large-scale poetic landscape of moonlit Birrarung Marr waterways.

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