Kate Paea – Tender

Opening drinks 6–8pm Thursday 4 June

My work explores a movement from the familiar into something more atmospheric. Hovering between abstraction and landscape, Tender is a celebration of both nostalgia and the unfamiliar. Something continually felt and reshaped rather than fixed.

I’m interested in fleeting moments of place and memory, and how these can be translated through colour, gesture, and atmosphere as both response and reflection. This body of work marks a shift in my practice, becoming more fluid and expressive, with a focus on connection through colour and space.

Across the works, I explore human connection and the quiet weight of emotion. How moments of joy and sadness can exist symbiotically. When there are no words, there is colour.

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