Kate Paea is a Sydney-based contemporary artist whose practice operates between memory, atmosphere, and form. Working across painting and sculpture, her work moves fluidly between abstraction and landscape, with an emphasis on colour, gesture, and emotional resonance.

Her recent works shift away from defined figuration toward a more expansive, expressive language. Through subtle spatial relationships and restrained palettes, Paea explores the tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar, capturing fleeting states of place, memory, and connection.

Paea completed her honours in ceramics at UNSW College of Art and Design before working as a graphic designer in London. She now maintains an independent practice alongside selected commercial and teaching work.