Artist Profile

A Palimpsest Effect

Essay by Emma-Kate Wilson,

Issue 75, 2026. pp122 - 125

"The slow, conscious methodology of hand stitching, coiling large clay vessels and painterly, rhythmic mark making defines Sydney-based artist Kate Dorrough’s painting, ceramic and textile practice. Her painting style renders the landscape and connection to place in expressive gestures, with line and form working quickly across the surface. Her ceramic vessels mirror her sizeable canvases, with painted glaze on clay. She uses the metaphor and physicality of the ‘river’ as a theme in her multidisciplinary works - the river as a life giver, and her seasons of womanhood as mother and artist"