Katherine Marmaras is a multidisciplinary visual artist, who lives and works in Naarm, and is best known for her intricate mark-making. Her practice spans collage, printmaking, textiles, ceramics, and assemblage, transforming objects found in nature and collected materials into works that blur the boundaries between craft and contemporary art.
Influenced by her Greek heritage and guided by memory, material, and cultural inheritance, she reinterprets traditional handicrafts through a contemporary visual language. Her ongoing curatorial practice explores sustainable practice in contemporary craft and informs her approach to materials and spatial relationships.
Katherine holds a Diploma of Visual Arts (Printmaking) from RMIT. Her work has been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize and the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, and is held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia.
Katherine’s work is textured and highly detailed, which evokes a feeling of intimacy and a desire to touch.
/ Rachel Keir-Smith, Curator, Town Hall Gallery