Kat Shapiro Wood, Untitled (mine, yours), 2023. Encaustic and gouache on board, ceramic, 36 x 56 cm each (diptych). Courtesy: the artist and Tweed Regional Gallery, South Murwillumbah.

Northern Rivers artist Kat Shapiro Wood traverses multiple disciplines in her practice with an intense exploration of materiality and its inherent qualities.

Through the materials of encaustic, ceramic, and plaster, the works in Precipice: The Edges of Things tease out relationships in the way the light travels over a form or the edges of a painting.

“Transitions, boundaries, meeting points and the charged dynamic of the threshold, that precipice where both potential and surrender are at play.”

Shapiro Wood’s sensory attention to colour, surfaces and their margins invoke an intimacy of bodily relationships, while the quietness of her works invites closer inspection.

A Tweed Regional Gallery initiative.

Kat Shapiro Wood is represented by Chalk Horse Gallery in Sydney.

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