Kathryn Dolby

Kathryn Dolby is a visual artist who paints from her home studio in the Northern Rivers, on Bundjalung land, NSW, Australia. Through an intuitive, playful and emotionally charged approach to colour and line, Dolby creates psycho-geographic paintings of the landscapes around her. Through gesture and abstraction, her landscapes explore the connections between the subconscious, the everyday and the sublime. In 2014 she completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts at SCU in Lismore and was awarded the Lismore Regional Gallery Graduate Award. As a result of this Kathryn had her first solo exhibition in the Lismore Regional Gallery in 2015. During her time at university she was awarded the Camera House Visual Arts Scholarship and the Kaske award for printmaking.

In the subsequent years Kathryn has been a finalist in the Wollumbin Art award, Omina Art Prize, Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, The Waverley Art Prize and was the winner of the BAM art prize for 2020. She has exhibited in various regional galleries, for Amber Creswell Bell and Michael Reid Gallery in Sydney, Berlin and The Southern Highlands. Kathryn is represented by Otomys in Victoria and the UK.’