Honoured to be a finalist in the first Pymble 2025 Values Art Prize with my piece, SHARP EDGES.
Cut paper, silkscreen, paint and dye mounted in a clear perspex box frame.
STUDIO EDITION GAZA M.A.P.
A small studio edition in support of Medical Aid Palestine, available directly from the studio HERE.
25% of the purchase price will donated to MAP. After purchase, I will donate and send a copy of the receipt to the purchaser. Alternatively, if the purchaser wishes to donate directly, then please contact the studio to reserve a screenprint and then send a copy of the donation. A discount code for 25% will then be sent to complete the purchase.
The two prints are Ritual 1 and Ritual 2, each an edition of 10, handprinted in the studio with hand mixed colours. Slight variances in each piece as each is a hand made artwork.
FISHERS GHOST ART AWARD
Honoured to be a finalist in the Fishers Ghost Art Award in Campbelltown NSW with my painting TURMERIC.
Looking forward to seeing the exhibition in the beautiful gallery, always great to be amongst such great company with wonderful curation.
Exhibition Opens to the Public: Saturday 27 September – Sunday 16 November
Award Announcement Party: Friday 31 October
GLOVER LANDSCAPE ART PRIZE TASMANIA
Honoured to be a finalist in the 2025 Glover Art Prize for Landscape with my small silkscreen painting Aurora Australis.
I watched the Aurora Australis through my screen, as friends in Tasmania captured its undulating iridescence—filming and photographing in awe of something that promised a glimpse of magic. I was mesmerized, yet a part of me felt a quiet disappointment. Even though the images resonated to me, I couldn’t escape the feeling that the true experience could only be fully realised in person. To witness the aurora with my own eyes, grounded on the earth, gazing upward in wonder—that was where the magic lived. The beauty was overwhelming, and I tried to recreate it. But it never felt right, never felt honest, until I rendered it in black and white. I wasn’t there, but I long to see it for myself—pulsing, vibrant, in all its unfiltered glory. This piece is the preparation for that joy.
Burnie Printmaking Finalist
I’m very honoured to be a finalist in the Burnie Printmaking Prize with my piece ‘BackHipsBonesLips’.
Handpulled silkscreen on paper - 10 layers, 10 colours
1/1 and 1 artists proof - 56cm x 72cm soft white archival Stonehenge printmaking paper
The shapes are pulled from outlines of life drawing from my own body, entwined and meshing, evoking tumbling hormones and dizzying vertigo. The drawings go through multiple process 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.
The intricacies of organs and veins, saps and plasma thrown together as an ornate decorative topology - a map. Pulsing with energy, thriving bacteria and beautiful in its harmonious tension, reflecting the complexity of human anatomy and its raw vitalityy. It speaks to the inherent power of the body to regenerate, adapt, and thrive, even in the face of uncertainty. The work becomes a celebration of the beauty found in flux and change, where chaos and order exist in an intricate, symbiotic relationship.
For any enquiries please contact @curatorialandco
SOLO SHOW// BACK HIPS BONES LIPS
Please join me to celebrate the opening of my solo show at Curatorial&Co William Street, Woolloomooloo on the 21st of August 2024.
For details and catalogue enquiries please contact the Curatorial Gallery directly or contact me through the contact page on this website.
Photo London Art Fair 2024
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.
Melbourne Design Week 2024
I was very honoured to have shown in the Villa Alba residence as part of Matters, curated by Marlo Lyda for part of Melbourne Design Week in May with the National Gallery Victoria.
A series of small aluminium sculpture maquette stained with coloured pigment and two light reflective artworks are showing. The sculptures are my experiments in composition and colour application, raw pigment, ink and spray.
What happens when one is sprayed in front of another?
When colour wiped off and reapplied. How do they age?
As a series, they’ve answered many of my questions and made me come to realise that what matters to me is the making and the raw spontaneity that is captured in a study or experiment.
MATTERS is a collaborative platform and exhibition host that advocates for time and intention in the design process, prompted by the question “What matters to you?”
This event is part of Melbourne Design Week and the Victorian Design programme are initiatives of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2023
I’m very happy to be amongst a wonderful group of artists showing at Sydney Contemporary this year at Carriageworks, Sydney. Showing with Curatorial&Co from the 6th -10th September at booth A01 in the First Space section. I have a selection of new sculptures, most one of a kind in perspex and aluminium. These works have been small maquettes in the studio for a long time so to have finally realised and shown them in such a great setting is special. My sculptures are being shown alongside Tiarna Herczeg , Isabelle De Kleine and Lilli Waters.
The works are derived from small life drawing portraits distilled to graphic shapes. I’m interested in interpretations of how people interact with one another and how energetically and physically they meet and leave an impression. Some of these works incorporate silkscreen patterns and spray paint. The facade of the perspex overlaid by visible texture and colour, a soft imperfect gradient of a lasting impression. Fleeting, colourful and changing with light.
Many thanks to the collectors and supporters who have stopped by or sent me messages, its very much appreciated!
All work in Australia is available through Curatorial&Co, Sydney.
STUDIO EDITION
Three new studio editions available directly through the STUDIO STOCKROOM.
Three boxed sets, limited edition of 15 of each, containing three hand printed silkscreen prints aprox A4 in size. Printed with hand mixed colours and handcut to size, packaged in a handprinted folder.
$50AU of each direct purchase price will be donated to Australian charities.
COS COLLABORATION
Very honoured to have been asked back by COS for the second time to collaborate with their team on a picnic blanket to celebrate the very late arrival of summer in Australia. Using one of my collages as a starting point and incorporating the current seasons colour palette we created a piece that looks equally good on the wall, as a picnic blanket or an impromptu test for dog boundary training.
Thanks to COS for the opportunity to show my work and the behind the scenes video, Two Birds Talking for facilitating and Jacky Winter for my ace producer, Ree.
PUBLIC ART SCULPTURE - IN PROGRESS
Two years working with a superb team are coming to an end with the installation soon of my 30 metre wall sculpture. These pictures are of sections being sprayed before assembly. Custom aluminium tubes fabricated with bespoke fixings and hand spray finished with a five colour gradient.
I’ve learnt such a huge amount working with everyone across so many wide ranging disciplines it been a joy.
Really excited to see it being installed later this year.
Public Art Curator & Producer @authoritycreative
Engineering and fabrication @tiltindustrialdesign
Client VIMG
Builder @allianceprojectgroup
📸 @adamscarfphotography
Powerhouse Museum//Sydney Design Week
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. Work sits alongside a Lavastone chair by Tom Fereday, Glass table by Marcus Piper and powder coated lights by Skeehan Studio.
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
SOFT LANDING // Solo Exhibition July 2022
I'm excited to have a solo exhibition at Curatorial&Co in Redfern, Sydney.
STUDIO 1, 175 CLEVELAND STREET REDFERN SYDNEY
Open from the 13th of July to the 23rd July, with opening drinks on the 14th July from 5-8pm.
This will be the first new body of work I have shown since 2019 and is titled SOFT LANDING.
“The exhibition reflects on the artist’s interactions and correspondence with loved ones, as well as her own thoughts on the ageing process in recent times. Banazi was especially interested in the world view which captured people through frames, visual apertures, prisms and veils. Her lived experiences were shaped by portraits, maps and floating windows and physical bodies abstracted through filtration, glitches, and the internet.
Banazi says the body of work holds together a document of experiences interacting and overlapping to reflect her own thoughts on her changing emotions during this time of disconnection: from quiet contemplation to enraged fury; from a deep sense of loss and loneliness to overwhelm and apathy.
This series reflects a space of contracts: comparisons of day and night; city and country; distance and connectivity; time and space. The exhibition culminates in the artist’s revelation that this moment in time was everything and nothing all at once.”
Gabby Wilson 2022
COS SHOWCASE
In celebration of the Australian online launch of COS, I was given the opportunity to showcase my work and design a silkscreened artwork to decorate a custom shoulder bag made of recycled yarns and fabrics.
Brookfields property
Many thanks to Brookfields property Sydney, who have given me the opportunity to show my sculptural perspex works in their newly opened building in Brookfield Place, Wynyard.
As part of their reactivation programme after the Covid lockdowns, I have their two main lobbies for a month as an installation exhibition space welcoming back clients to offices and meeting spaces.
Presented by Curatorial&Co
Momentary Modulation
I have a small selection of sculptures at Curatorial&Co created during the lockdown in Sydney in 2021 within Diana Millers solo painting show.
COLLAGE
Sydney has gone into a lockdown again but I am grateful to have been able to work from home the past few weeks.
I’ve been spending the time fulfilling commissions and developing new work partly off the back of utilising silkscreen offcuts and found paper elements I’ve collected over the past few years.
The small assemblages have taken on their own lives and interact with one another with colour and composition play.
I’m enjoying with the dynamics and weights between them and interested as to how these will develop further.
Some of these are available via the stockroom with 25% donated to charity.
RAVENSWOOD Art Prize
SAFE KEEPING.
I’m very honoured to be amongst an inspiring group of artists as a finalist in the Ravenswood Art Prize 2021 .
The past year has been one of drawing my family and friends through a computer screen rather than from life with the digital connection adding another layer to not only my process but also to our relationships creating a new intimacy and care for each remarkable character in my life. The remnants of raw planning are left visible, notes of what was intended but was suddenly left open rather than filled. It is a layered and visceral celebration of relationships and touch, movement, shadows and colour. Interlocking shapes are pulled from life drawings and portraits and used as a repeated graphic motif to rebuild abstracted bodies as a glitching connected mass - every one nuanced and flawed, lightly held together but always ready to fall away.
Mixed media on linen, 200x160cm.
ArtAid
I’m really happy to be a part of ARTAID, an art driven social enterprise by Authority Creative.
Empowering artists and collectors to respond to humanitarian and ecological issues co-existing around the world through the sale of art by partnering with not for profits and charities.
I have given a series of 4 hand pulled silkscreen prints, each one having only a small edition of 5. Printed in the studio in Sydney with unretouched silkscreens, they are the first limited edition prints Ive done this year.
www.artaid.com.au - Online store launching 23rd May 2021
Contributing artists are
Kate Banazi @katebanazi
Unwell Bunny @unwellbunny
Lauren Carney @dizzylittledotty
Bart Celestino @bartcelestino
David Cragg @davidcragg
Claire Foxton @claire_foxton
Jack Fran @_jackfran
Rhys John Kaye @killjohnkaye
Lisa King @artoflisaking
Justine Mcallister @justinemcallister
Jason Parker @jasonparkerart
George Rose @george_rose
David Lee Pereira @davidleepereira.art
with more to be announced at launch.
Photography by Billy Zammit