Katrina Benson
Katrina Benson has been a Melbourne-based artist and educator for over 25 years. She began her career in Western Australia, living in Fremantle before moving to Sydney and later settling in Melbourne, where she has lived for the past 20 years. She works across both art and design education with a strong focus on architecture and photography. Alongside her teaching practice, she has maintained an active studio practice and has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions, with representation and exhibition history in both Western Australia and Melbourne. Her dual engagement with teaching and art making has informed a sustained interest in process, critical thinking, and contemporary approaches to visual practice. Katrina’s current painting practice is centred on abstract oil painting, developed through a process-led approach that privileges material exploration and response over predetermined imagery. Works evolve through layers of painting, scraping back, reworking, and rebuilding, allowing images to emerge gradually through accumulation and removal. This method reflects an ongoing interest in surface, gesture, and the tension between control and accident, where each work becomes a record of decisions made in response to the painting as it unfolds. Her work now draws on the spaces around her, particularly architectural structures across inner Melbourne from her studio in Richmond, to the wetlands throughout Melbourne’s east.
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