KATE DORROUGH

MY ART PRACTICE HAS UNDERGONE numerous changes and trajectories. Initially I was influenced by a figurative painting tradition, then residencies including one at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, and the experience of working with an archaeological drawing team in Tarone, Greece had their profound effects.

For some years now my work has focused on landscape painting, specifically an exploration of what I think of as “the inland river in an enduring Australian landscape”.

The river is to me a source of fertility, a vital and pivotal life force with its cycles of renewal and destruction. In our nation’s psyche, limited water resources,