A contemporary artist and educator living on Yaegl country, Kerrie describes her art practice as a constant creative journey into the natural landscape to produce her art, thus creating lifelong connections to country and a personal sense of wellbeing.
Kerrie explores mixed media materials across 2D and 3D forms. Her process can be experimental however she is innately drawn to using many layers and many mediums often at once. Conceptually she continues to explore themes linked to her relationship with the ocean, rainforest and riparian environments close to her childhood home in Iluka NSW, a small coastal fishing village surrounded by world heritage littoral rainforest.
‘My art practice like myself, is a work in progress, constantly changing and adapting to what life presents’. Symbolic and abstract in style she explores themes around human existence and relationships to the natural world, often mimicking the beauty and mystery in nature, experienced and felt whilst in the landscape.
As a mother artist she has a colourful creative background as a secondary art teacher, community art facilitator, creative projects director, gallery owner and exhibitions curator.
Byron Shire
