Through experimental analogue and digital photographic techniques, Kate explores unseen yet felt phenomena relating to healing and connectedness within environmental community contexts. She works with camera-less photographic methods and with photographic processes that can act as a receptacle for absorbing and understanding imparted information, rather than merely a mechanism for capturing a descriptive likeness. By attributing agency to materials and matter, Kate explores notions of perception and feeling in image-making.
Areas of interest that currently inform her practice include how conceiving the photographic medium as a living and feeling entity, as opposed to being a descriptive mechanism, might reveal more embodied visual outcomes, as well as considering the social and environmental ethical impacts of creating and disseminating images.
Exhibitions include Stargazing, Museum of Australian Photography (2024); From All Points of the Southern Sky: Photography From Australia and Oceania, Southeast Museum of Photography (2020); Recording the Medicinal Plants of Siwai, Bougainville, Jarvis Dooney Galerie (2018) for European Month of Photography; New Matter, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2016); The Alchemists, Australian Centre for Photography (2015); Garnkiny to Ganyu: Artists who capture the night, GYRACC, Katherine (2015). She has exhibited in Australia, Papua New Guinea, America, the United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, China and New Zealand.
In 2018, Kate's work was published in a book titled Kuna Siwai Pokong, which has been accessioned into the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery (PNG), Australian Museum (AUS) and Field Museum (USA). Her work is held in numerous collections, including The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AUS), Southeast Museum of Photography (USA) and Center for Creative Photography (USA).
She lives on Wadawurrung country, Australia.