Art statement and Bio...

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Kath Bertrand  is interested  in the narrative  she creates between  her painting and ceramics, exploring a sense of place and our response to landscape especially through memory, grief, and finding solace in nature. She is drawn to the natural places on the coast where she lives in Moreton Bay with its mangroves, paperbarks, coastal banksias and other wildflowers.  Her years living on the Sunshine Coast hinterland with the lush rainforest and vegetation also features in her work as does visits to the Border Ranges and Central Australia's desert.

 

Kath has always been interested in visual arts especially water colour whilst working as a social worker, and later she completed her Diploma at Tafe Queensland South Bank in 2019. 

 

Kath's ceramic forms also explore women's stories, with creative imaginings, and on first impression- journeys of nostalgia with handmade forms ​ that feel familiar such as teapots, vases and cups that elicit memories of an earlier era particularly in hand built porcelain.

​Surface decoration is important and will often include landscape, wildflowers, trees, images of girls and older women swimming or with a dog, singing or telling a story. 

Her women's voices series aim to evoke a response about women's challenges to get their message heard and to be valued.  Kath is interested in how women artists approach and make a distinctive difference in their art practice, and to not be invisible as commonly happened in the past.

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Kath belongs to both the Redcliffe Art Society and  Redcliffe Pottery Group. She has been shortlisted a number of times for their annual shows.  She has exhibited extensively both locally and interstate. Kath's work is available through the Redcliffe Fire Station Gallery Shop and Gatakers Artspace in Maryborough, and also online with Bluethumb Art and Etsy. 

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​Recent Artistic Highlights

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2025- Redcliffe Pottery Group Clay on Display Members Show

          - Finalist Redcliffe Art Society Exhibition of Excellence, Redcliffe Regional Art 

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          - Six Artists Exhibition, Redcliffe Floral and Art Festival, Redcliffe

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​2024 - Finalist  Matthew Flinders Art Prize

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2023 - First Joint Prize Sydney Teapot Show in the category Shakespeare Inspired  

               Teapot

           -  Museum of Brisbane Ceramic Collection selected for permanent Collection

​           - Watercolour Muster Finalist QLD

           -  Redcliffe Art Society commended,

           -  Redcliffe Pottery Group highly commended

           -  Aspire Gallery Brisbane "Rustle Exhibition"

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2022 - Second Prize Hand built clay on display at the Redcliffe Pottery Group

            - Joint exhibition with Tricia Reust on Contemplating Timelessness Redcliffe

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2021  - Second Prize Hand built clay on display at the Redcliffe Pottery Group

           - Joint exhibition with Paula Wise Earthly Creations, Redcliffe

            -St Vincents Hospital Outside In, Kangaroo Point

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2020 - First Prize Overall at the Redcliffe Art Society Members Show

​            - Joint Exhibition with Paula Wise, Redcliffe

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