At the Circus Night, 2023

Liu try to explore imaginative perception and its relationship with the aspects of art making. She prioritises the act of painting while allowing a narrative to occur during the process. The painting contains hints of narrative with “potential images” that requires the viewers’ imagination to be fully activated. The discovery of potential images often relates to psychological states, memories and experiences.

Kathy Liu is a Sydney based artist whose practice has strong emphasis on colour and composition.
Her practice explores the boarders between abstraction and representation. Driven by the sense of colour, she prioritises the act of painting while allowing a hint of narrative to occur during the process. The chance interplay of composition and mark making opens the limits of imaginative perception. Her paintings often contain “potential images” that require the viewers’ imagination to be fully activated. Her works are poetic and often in an ambiguous status between the desire for disclosure and the temptation of the void.

Liu completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School in 2022 and was awarded COSO Architecture Landscape Prize. She has been a finalist in many art prizes including Mosman Art Prize (2023, 2016), Gosford Art Prize (2023), Waverley Art Prize (2021, 2022), Calleen Art Prize (2018). She had her solo exhibitions at Sheffer Gallery, Sydney in 2021 and 2023, and her artworks are held in various private collections.