Kate O'Connor
Mixed Media
Maker Member
Kate O’Connor (TopSugar Creative) is a multi-disciplinary creative professional, living and working in the village of Binalong NSW on Ngunnawal Country.
Kate has a visual arts practice. Engaging and developing her personal practice has been beneficial in balancing a creative life of service and one of her personal pursuits. Developing a platform and medium to explore her own stories, and express and share these ideas. Kate employs mediums from painting, photography, enamel, spray paint, texta, oil and acrylic on a myriad of surfaces.
“I paint to express thoughts, ideas and memories that belong to another place. Distant, and at times a very close set of realities that do not belong to the here and now. - I continue to discover that my creative practice is not only an occupation but an occupational therapy and most importantly, a bridge between places in my mind and widely held perspectives of reality.”
O’Connor’s work presents with a pop aesthetic, however is layered and deeply expressive. Playful truisms, shifted perspectives, comedy, melancholy and empathy are perennial in her unique vernacular. Kate uses a bold, expressive, colourful, humorous and poetic language which aims to challenge the way we look at, and talk about, insights in our human condition.
Online Resource:
Website: https://kateoconnor.com.au
Instagram: @thetopsugar@artbyKO.x
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kate.oconnor.98229/