Kate Banazi is a British Indian/ Australian mixed media artist working and living on Gadigal land / Sydney.
London born, she was brought up in a multicultural creative family whose crafts of typography, sign writing, fashion, architecture and photography remain a strong influence.
She studied at Central St Martins graduating with a BA (hons) in Menswear design and created a bespoke small label before moving to Australia in 2006.
Kates primary practice is printmaking and sculpture, drawing on her experience of working with fabric and pattern cutting and her interest in the body. With the construction of a strong graphic visual language coded from disassembled representations of the human form. She is interested in the spaces where art and design collide and in elevating the profile of printmaking as a craft which can be used as experimental art medium, making one of a kind silkscreen prints as well as variable editions. Her work has been included in public spaces from digital animated projections on the William Jolly Bridge, Brisbane to a permanent 30 metre sculpture in Sydney.
Kate has exhibited in the Milan, London, Sydney and Melbourne Design Fairs, collaborated with brands and designers such as Qantas, COS, Dion Lee and Nike as well as being finalist in the Ravenswood Art Prize, Glover Landscape Prize, Burnie Printmaking Prize and the Omnia Art Prize.
Her work has been featured in publications including Vogue Living, Arts Edit, SixtySix, Wallpaper magazine, Nowness and is included in ’Silkscreen masters- Secrets of the worlds top screen printers’ and ‘Sketch Process” by Tom Skeehan.
Photography© Billy Zammit for Authority Creative , KB Studio
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I live and work on Australian First Nations land and acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, past, present and future : the Gadigal people of the Eora nation.
EDUCATION
1990 Bachelor of Art with Honours, Fashion Design - Central St Martins, London, UK
1989 Foundation in Art & Design - Middlesex University, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 BACK HIPS BONE LIPS - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2022 Soft Landing - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2020 Brookfields public installation - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2019 Public Art Commission - Authority Creative, Sydney AU
2019 Not Your Box to Tick - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2018 Paradeshee - Cornershop Gallery , Sydney AU
2015 Public Art commission Mirvac - Art Pharmacy, Sydney AU
2015 CURRENCY - Lamington Drive Gallery, Melbourne AU
2013 LightBox - Koskela, Sydney AU
2012 BodyBlow - Koskela, Sydney AU
2011 Neural Housekeeping - Lamington Drive Gallery, Melbourne AU
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Pymble Art Award – Sydney AU
2025 Pages - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2025 In Existence / Residence - BTWNLNS, Sydney AU
2025 Fishers Ghost Award – Sydney AU
2025 Burnie Printmaking prize - Tasmania AU
2025 John Glover Landscape prize- Tasmania AU
2025 New Year, New Looks - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2024 DARING - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2024 Full Circle – Seed, Auckland NZ Sydney AU
2024 Photo London, Somerset House - Gina Cross projects, London UK
2024 Matters - NGV Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne AU
2024 Omnia Art Prize - Melbourne AU
2023 Sydney Contemporary - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2023 Memphis - Canberra Glassworks, Canberra AU
2023 Darlings 4 - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2023 Omnia art Prize- Melbourne AU
2022 Powerhouse Museum Sydney Design Week - Local Design, Sydney AU
2022 Louis Vuitton , Sydney AU
2022 Darlings 3 - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2022 Mid Century Modern – Gina Cross Projects, London UK
2024 Push play – Seed, Auckland NZ Sydney AU
2021 Darlings 2 - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2021 Gravity and Levity - SEED, Auckland NZ
2021 Ravenswood Arts Prize - Sydney AU
2020 Brisbane Art outside Public Art Installation AU
2020 Point Blank – Seed, Auckland NZ Sydney AU
2024 Group Show – Seed, Auckland NZ Sydney AU
2020 Darlings 1 - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2019 PlantChroma Milan Design Week - Local Design, Milan IT
2019 London Design Week UK
2019 Sydney Contemporary, Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2019 Backwoods Gallery - Melbourne AU
2019 Woolwich Contemporary print Fair - Gas Gallery, London UK
2018 Papershrine - Lamington Drive Gallery, Melbourne AU
2018 AGM - Friends+Associates, NGV Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne AU
2018 Milan Design Week - Local Design, Milan IT
2018 Group Show – Seed, Auckland NZ Sydney AU
2024 Group Show – SO Fine art, Dublin IE
2017 Mid Century Modern – Gina Cross Projects, London UK
2017 Blurring the Lines - PlasticMurs, Valencia ES
2017 Milan Design Week - Local Design, Milan IT
2017 AAF – Gina Cross Projects, NY USA
2017 AAF – Gina Cross Projects, Stockholm SE
2024 Group Show – Seed, Auckland NZ Sydney AU
2016 Milan Design Week - Local Design, Milan IT
2016 Paper Show - Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2016 Group Show - Folonomo Gallery, Sydney AU
2015 Geometrica - MildManners Gallery, Sydney AU
FAIRS
2024 Photo London, Somerset House - Gina Cross projects, London UK
2024 NGV Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne AU
2023 Sydney Contemporary, Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2022 Powerhouse Museum Sydney Design Week - Local Design, Sydney AU
2019 Sydney Contemporary, Curatorial+Co. Sydney AU
2019 Milan Design Week - Local Design, Milan IT
2019 London Design Week - Local Design, London UK
2019 Woolwich Contemporary print Fair - Gas Gallery, London UK
2018 NGV Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne AU
2018 Milan Design Week - Local Design, Milan IT
2017 Mid Century Modern – Gina Cross Projects, London UK
2017 Milan Design Week - Local Design, Milan IT
2017 AAF - Gina Cross Projects, NY USA
2017 AAF – Gina Cross Projects, Stockholm SE
2016 Milan Design Week - Local Design, Milan IT
AWARDS
2025 Pymble Art Award – finalist, Sydney AU
2025 Fishers Ghost Award - finalist, NSW AU
2025 Burnie Printmaking prize - finalist, Tasmania AU
2025 John Glover Landscape prize- finalist, Tasmania AU
2024 Omnia Art Prize - finalist, Melbourne AU
2023 Omnia art Prize- finalist, Melbourne AU
2021 Ravenswood Arts Prize- finalist, Sydney AU
PUBLICATIONS
2018 Silkscreen Masters- John Zomurki
2016 Sketch Process - Tom Skeehan
Vogue Living - ArtEdit - SixtySix Magazine - Living Corriere - Design Milk - Wallpaper Magazine - Nowness - YellowTrace - Dezeen
COLLECTIONS
Tasmanian Government Offices
Qantas Collection
Private collections worldwide
