Kate Pittas is a Brisbane-based contemporary landscape painter, exploring her own experiences of the Australian bush. Her work is expressive, and delves into themes of nostalgia, memory and connection.

Hitting the road and discovering or revisiting regional and remote locations in Australia provides Kate with personal experiences she can work with back in her home studio in the bushy outer suburbs of Brisbane. Having studied Visual Arts at university, Kate taught in Sydney high schools for close to a decade before transitioning away from the classroom and into her current full-time practice and career as a painter, which she relishes.

Art Prizes
2023 National Emerging Art Prize ACB Selects Finalist
2023 Finalist ‘Heart of the Bush’ – The Bush Exchange Goondiwindi
2021 Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Finalist Salon des Refusès
2020 Unearthed Art Prize Art to Art Finalist

Solo
2021 Wanderlust – Wild Canary Brisbane
2022 Solo Arcadia Street Gallery Noosa – ‘Not Far from Home’

Exhibitions
2024 Breathing Space – Wild Canary
2024 Primordial Landscapes Whitewall Art Projects Southern Highlands
2024 Brisbane Affordable Art Fair – Arcadia Street Gallery- Brisbane
2023 An Ode to Pink Corner Store Gallery Orange
2023 Sydney Affordable Art Fair Sketch Co Gallery Sydney
2022 Gather, Sketch Co Gallery Sydney
2022 Melbourne Affordable Art Fair – Sketch Co Gallery
2021 Arcadia Street Gallery, ‘The Sun Also Shines’ Noosa
2021 Wild Canary, ‘A Winter’s Walk’
2021 Wild Summer Days – Wild Canary Brisbane
2020 Wild Canary, Solo Exhibition, ‘Wanderlust’
2019 ‘Betwixt & Between’ Purple Noon Gallery Sydney
2019 ‘Landscapes’ Group Exhibitions – Conner Store Gallery Orange