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August 21st - September 7th 2024

Install photography Anne Graham

This body of work is a self-portrait based on drawings of my own body. After so many years of basing my ideas on the drawings of others, it felt apt to focus on my own form as I entered the next phase of my life. My body is changing and the relationship I have with it is being pushed into unlearning.

The shapes are pulled from the outlines of these drawings, entwined and meshing, evoking tumbling hormones and dizzying vertigo. The drawings go through multiple processes to get to graphic linear motifs and then again to be transferred to silkscreens. Each step is a move away from the source material thrust into isolation and brought back to an integrated form.

In May, I showed at the PhotoLondon Art Fair with Gina Cross Projects in Somerset House, London.

In an expanded section of ‘Discovery’ encapsulating photography outside of the traditional definition, curated by Charlotte Jansen , I showed a series of Perspex Boxes hand silkscreen printed and layered within perspex frames alongside Christine Wilkinsons cameraless colour fields, Jo Bradfords Digital photographic manipulations and Gina Cross’ experiments with sculptural paper and photography. Sadly I wasn’t able to be in London, but the fair looked incredible from afar with a diverse and exciting group of presentations across the medium.

A collaboration begun in 2020 with Australian flooring company, Signature Flooring , the first of a series of wool rugs based upon a series of my silkscreen prints ‘Cryptic Colouration’. The rest of the collaboration to be released later in the year.

Memphis show at Canberra Glassworks

Photography Brenton McGeachie for Canberra Glassworks

I’ve worked with a superb team to create and install my 30 metre wall sculpture on the side of the residential development ‘parkSide’ at Macquarie Park, Epping Road, Sydney. Beautifully custom engineered aluminium tubes fabricated with bespoke fixings and hand spray finished with a five colour gradient facilitated by Tilt Industrial Design whose in depth knowledge advice and support throughout the past two years has been invaluable.

I’ve learnt such a huge amount working with everyone across so many wide ranging disciplines it been a joy and I’m really excited to see it once all the scaffolding has come down throughout the whole development.

Public Art Curator & Producer @authoritycreative

Engineering and fabrication @tiltindustrialdesign

Client VIMG

Builder @allianceprojectgroup

📸 @adamscarfphotography

A collaboration with COS clothing for their launch of online retail in Australia. A bag and a picnic blanket based upon two of my paintings reflecting routes and maps and the connection of people.

Situated at the base of the 1906 sandstone station on Eddy Avenue in front of Sydneys Central Station, a presentation of art and design for Sydney Design Week presented by the Powerhouse Museum.

These four double height interconnected galleries retain their 1950s Mondrian style paintwork which forms the backdrop to individual but inter related installations.

Curated by designer and creative director Emma Elizabeth of Local Design who from 2016 -2019 pioneered Australian design with multiple shows during Milan Design Week and now post Covid is gathering the creative community in her home city of Sydney.

This show is presented by the Powerhouse Museum https://sydneydesign.maas.museum

SOFT LANDING

SOLO SHOW AT CURATORIAL&CO SYDNEY 2022

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. ~ Agnes Varda

My experience of the past few years, isolated from my family and especially my son, thousands of kilometres away yet immediately accessible through a camera, has amplified my feelings of disconnection with a veil, filtering the information and nuance of my interactions with them.

Many of these pieces are portraits, screen-grabbed and deconstructed then reassembled as glitched topography glimpsed briefly through windows and apertures, screens and cameras, some muted and obscured some crisp but textured.

I’ve long been interested in what would normally be rejected as imperfect or imprecise, to instead be embraced and included. Graphic motifs extracted from drawings of bodies and machines are repeated and layered, codes that tie us together.

KATE BANAZI ~ JULY 2022

Photography by Anne Graham

A selection of perspex small sculptures , available from Curatorial&Co, Sydney

Hand pulled silkscreen elements interact with colour overlays and intersections.

When Sydney went into another lockdown at the beginning of July 2021, I packed a few things from the studio and brought them home.

Saved silkscreen trims and misprints that would normally be used for pattern development or sketchbook experiments have taken a life of their own, a medatitve process that has become its own reward. Some collages are available with 25% of the purchase to go to charities. Please contact me if they are of interest and not available in the stockroom.

During the initial COVID start, with the opportunities to show work overseas suspended, I went back to the painting work I had initiated in 2018 but had not yet expanded on. I was lucky enough to have this time as an opportunity and one I haven’t taken for granted. Painting was just one of the avenues that 2020 took me exploring down.

These sculptural paintings are born from mapping routes of places from events in my life, a mixture of a diary entry and a self portrait distilled to the simplest geometrics. Utilising the transparent properties of the coloured perspex as a shifting overlay dependent on light source, the paintings become kinetic under sunlight and time of day and season.

A sculpture and printed fabric collaboration with Tom Fereday, Industrial Designer. Presented at AltMaterial 2021 exhibition in Melbourne hosted by The National Gallery, Victoria for Melbourne Design Week.

The solid wooden sculpture was carved with a linear grid repeat representing my diary inputs from the start of Covid, depicting the digital influence over our new physicality - screen glitches, genome sequencing, barcodes, QR codes and a gently fading repetition and permanent stain.

At 150cm high and 100kg in weight, the sculptured was used as a rolling press to print a linen length with wood stain by turning it by hand having the only smallest inkling (and hopes) of how we could control the outcome and how it would print with just one coating of wood stain.

Instigated by Local Design for part of the ‘Brisbane Art Outside’ programme, a series of projections and posters as a collaboration with Alexander Derlot creating artworks from his award winning QTZ chair technical drawings.

Posters were displayed on static lightboxes and a repeat design tile was projected onto the William Jolly Bridge for February 2020.

Photograph © Jennifer Tunny

Banazi looks to our constant pursuit of perfection and the price we pay for this unattainable goal. A reflection on the fluctuating value of our own self-worth, Currency examines imperfection in a world lost amid the noise of impossible ideals. Ideals imposed by our environment and, more importantly, ourselves.

Currency features a collection of hand pulled silkscreen prints on Perspex. Refraining from retouching any of the silk screens, Banazi accepts the artworks in their unedited beauty. Celebrating blemishes, praising flaws and enjoying the unpredictable process of creating the work — an experience that was both challenging and liberating.

An exploration of tessellating shapes and curves, each print is layered with a variety of patterns that blend and mesh, coming in and out of focus as the viewer moves throughout the space. The sum of these individual elements elicits a visceral sense of awe and respect for each piece’s uniquely flawed beauty, allowing Banazi to play upon the notion of what our aesthetic ideals are and who gets to decide them.

Shena Jamieson Lamington Drive 2015

Shown as part of the CornerShop curated windows, a personal project using family photographs across India, Pakistan and London.

Handpulled Unique State silkscreen prints on paper.

I was invited to collaborate with Berlei’s design team for 2017 and 2018 as part of their special Artist Editions to celebrate their centenary.

I created a series of custom silkscreen prints to be interpreted onto their sports collections using the influence of movement, colour and power.

NOT YOUR BOX TO TICK // Exhibition at Project Gallery, 90 Oxford Street, Paddington, hosted by Curatorial & Co June 6 - 11th.

Opening 6th June 6-8pm

A selection of Unique State silkscreen prints and plexiglass sclulptures exploring the overlap of shape, colour and light drawn from conversations with friends.

A textile art installation from the collaboration between multi disciplinary artist Kate Banazi and artist and textile researcher, Joanna Fowles.
Utilising Kates linear graphics drawn artwork elements with Joannas extensive research and knowledge into locally sourced extracted botanical colourants, they have created a series of art textiles with non polluting and non toxic dyes.

The organic cotton from India, a country where both Kate and Joanna both have familial roots, is hand scoured and pressed, then hand silkscreen printed with extracted plant tannins from barks, fruit skins, naturally derived metal salts and fruit acids.
The process is done intuitively as the mordant which the dye adheres to is colourless.
The lengths are then dyed, dunged and finally washed to reveal their colours - an unexpected reveal.
The colour is alive - it evolves through time, light affectation and washing. It can be replenished, reinvigorated and recoloured.

Joanna’s research questions the contemporary applications of naturally dyed material and pushes to the return of sourced material and plants foraged from the local area. She utilises materials from plant and food matter to create colour into a print medium.

Kate’s artwork is a randomly repeated graphic element extracted from female form life drawing, which has gone through a transformation to a graphic lyrical and rhythmic line.
Elements overlap and fade; an interaction of bodies, relationships and nature.

Gargalesis (The Heavy Tickle).

An ongoing series of hand-pulled silkscreen prints disassembled and reassembled into three dimensional forms evoking the spontaneity and joy of the hard tickle.

After the sudden death of one of my oldest friends, a while later I wanted to acknowledge my grief and remember the joy of having him as part of my life for so long. The music, the dancing, the laughter and the little ball of furious love I hold tight.

The chaos and playfulness of friendship is underpinned by shadows cast that change, grow and retreat through day to the night. Artificial light can enhance them, fix them at a certain point or bleach them out entirely but they will always remain, potentially let loose by a shaft of sunlight, never wholly controllable.

Shown with Curatorial&Co

Currrently on display in the Qantas Melbourne Business class lounge.

A series of interlocking plexiglass wall mounted sculptures exploring shape, colour and light.

A selection of new coloured acrylic and cast Jesmonite Marble Granite, exploring the link and overlap of colour, shape and light.

The UMBRA collaboration with Industrial design studio RYE design.

Utilising lasercut repurposed perspex shapes, silkscreened and reconfigured, to create a wall light with an external back light.

Shown at Milan Design Week 2017 as part of the LocalDesign Group.

Introduced through LocalDesign, Kate Banazi and Ryan McGoldrick have similar ideologies on re-use, distortion and the manipulation of substrate and light. The concept of the collaboration piece was to create a sculpture of two halves, where thejuxtaposition of our two practices and personalities meet, whilst not compromising our individual voices and focusing on local and hand made.

For Kate, this was an extension of her hand silkscreen printed perspex and paper artworks which reference identity, interlocking shapes, relationships and shadows cast. For Ryan, focused on the process behind the manipulation and control of light, density and reflection whilst building relationships and mentorships within a new design community.

Photographed by Fiona Susanto

An ongoing exploration utilising dichroic film and plexiglass.

Shown at Milan Design Week 2018 as part of LOCALMILAN hosted by LocalDesign and MB Fashion Week Australia 2018.

A new series of puzzles by myself , Karan Singh and Marc Martin for the launch of the new Jacky Winter Signature Edition circular puzzles. Packaged in a unique octagonal box and printed in Germany by a world renowned puzzle maker.

Available from Jacky Winter and Art museums across the world.

A promotional series of hand pulled unique state silkscreen prints in collaboration with furniture designer Tom Fereday. Used to promote his new Crawford range manufactured by Stellar Works exclusively for Lane Crawford HK.

Award winning furniture designer Tom Fereday And renowned artist Kate Banazi have collaborated over the past 8 years to develop artworks that iconise major furniture design releases of Fereday’s work through limited edition artwork series.

Each collection is distilled and iconised through a series of experimental screen printed artworks that celebrate the furniture design and are exhibited alongside the designs as a celebration of each piece.

I’m really honoured to have collaborated with The Social Outfit for their Spring/Summer collection 19. The Social Outfit are a registered charity whose purpose is to employ and train people from refugee and new migrant communities. This season, the print collaborations are with young women from the new migrant and refugee communities in Liverpool, in partnership with @westernsydneymrc @_studio_a_artist #AnnetteGalstaun and myself. 

Campaign photography styled by @petersimonphillips photographed by @levonbaird

They have just moved to beautiful new premises at 188 King Street, Newtown, Sydney. Their work is accredited by Ethical Clothing Australia. 
Follow them here @thesocialoutfit 

Photography @levonbaird / styling @petersimonphillios / hair @petelennon / makeup @raemorrismakeup / models @kawaniprenter / @zoemccracken / @nmmwl / @nadinebush

These pieces reference my exploration and research into the engagement and overlap of colour. Reflections of thrown colour move with light throughout the day and adjust the perceived shapes of the pieces.

Opacity and translucency, rhythm and movement coexist with our interlocking and repeating relationships, joined, fragile, sometimes jarring often complimentary.

A selection of limited edition silkscreened posters in collaboration with Tom Fereday using his working drawings for his range of SP01 outdoor furniture.

Award winning furniture designer Tom Fereday And renowned artist Kate Banazi have collaborated over the past 8 years to develop artworks that iconise major furniture design releases of Fereday’s work through limited edition artwork series.

Each collection is distilled and iconised through a series of experimental screen printed artworks that celebrate the furniture design and are exhibited alongside the designs as a celebration of each piece.

THROUGH THE SQUARE WINDOW.

An ongoing exploration of multilayered hand silkscreen printed wall sculpture.

Playing with depth, shadow and colour these pieces are hand silkscreen printed embracing the process as a painterly one. Every flaw is celebrated against the synthetic substrate, a grounding human touch.

Silkscreen elements overlaid digitally and manipulated for textured art prints.