All this fleeting time., 2024

In my work, I often try to capture the sensations of a moment in time, and I return to rivers often as symbols of time in visual form. Looking back in the studio, attempting to capture my feelings in the past and how the light and landscape felt around me in the instant I chose to document the scene.

Melbourne-based Australian artist Katie Daniels is a landscape painter with a distinctive colour palette who aims to capture the essence of the landscape. In her paintings, Katie expresses joy and appreciation for nature and the environment via bold colour and her gestural treatment of the subject matter. Katie interprets her paintings as methods of record keeping, not only of her own experience of transformative feelings, but of the environment depicted. It is not lost on her that landscape painting is a way of safeguarding the collective memory, keeping a visual history of nature, and preserving the environment she witnesses and experiences for the future. Ultimately, Katie’s hope is that her paintings resonate with the beauty that she witnessed in the presence of their subject and that they speak of her appreciation for nature and the unique landscapes she visits and inhabits.

Katie is originally from the Illawarra region of New South Wales. She holds a BCA with First Class Honours from the University of Wollongong and a Masters in Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne. She has previously been a finalist in several National prizes, such as the Wynne Prize in 2018, the National Emerging Artist Prize in 2021 and the Calleen Art Award in 2021 and 2022. In 2021, the Cowra Regional Gallery acquired her entry for the Calleen Art Award for their permanent collection.

Katie currently lives and works in Melbourne.