Katy Woodroffe is an Australian artist who lives and works in Hobart. Her work has been featured extensively in solo exhibitions both within Australia and overseas.
Travel has been an important influence on her arts practice and she has been awarded many international residencies, including Paris (twice), Greece, India and Spain.
into the Light
Handmark Gallery
September 24 – October 13
International Exhibition
Into the Light
Keg Expo Gallery
Schijndel
The Netherlands
July 23 – August 28 2021
Occupation and Loss
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
32cms x 25cms (150cms fully extended
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
49cms x 47cms
Acquired for the City of Schijndel Municipal collection
Now part of the Australian Ambassador’s collection in his residency in the Hague (this is the third Embassy residence displaying Katy’s work)
Work displayed in the Australian Embassy residence in New York
Forbidden Fruit: Only the Cool Water of the Lily Pond can Subdue our Desire
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
150 x150 cms
Recent Exhibitions 2021
Poimen@20
Poimena Gallery, Launceston
“It’s a marvelous night for a moon dance, With the stars up above in our eyes”
2021
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
97cms x 97cms
Handmark gallery
Moonrise. Treasure Island
2021
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
100cms x 100cms
Short listed exhibitions 2021
Colonisation by Seed: Adventure Bay 1788, 2019
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
150cms x 150cms x 4cms
Short listed exhibitions 2020
A Corona Dream
2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
96cms x 85cms
Bird Call Theatre: The Inheritors Act 1 and 2 (diptych)
2019
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
100cms x 100cms
From the Tide Pool to the Stars and Back Again 2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
150cms x 150cms
Major work heading to New York
2018
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
150cms x 150cms
Recent exhibitions at Handmark Gallery, Hobart 2020
Summer Salon
The Power of a Dream
2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
96cms x 85cms
Landscape exhibition
2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
75cms x 69cms
2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
27cms x 76cms
Still Life exhibition
2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
35cms x 26.5cms
#lockdownchallenge
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
35cms x 26.5cms
Recent Exhibitions at Clarendon Arms, Evandale, (Handmark) 2020
Spring Salon
Pop Up Christmas Exhibition
Dreaming of Spring 2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
96cms x 85cms
Treasure Island 2020
Acrylic and ground pigment on paper
68cms x 68cms
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We are incredibly blessed to welcome this beautiful little baby boy into our lives. Congratulations to our amazing daughter Polly and partner Matt for giving us another grand baby to spoil!
Excited to be back in the studio as the exhibition ends @handmarkgallery - with John Berger helping to get me started!
Today @hadleysorienthotel
So good to spend a day at Mona today with a very discerning three year old!
Last few days of “Into the Light” @handmark. A huge thank you to the terrific team at the gallery and to all those who visited or sent messages of support. We have such an amazing community here in Tasmania ❤️
So putting the library books into the shute is a lot of fun 😊 #thanksforthephotosuzie
The exhibition has a week to go @handmarkgallery A big thank you to the great team @tasweekend for the article #intothelight #exhibitionofnewwork #contemporaryart #katywoodroffe #tasmanianartist #hobart
A massive thank you for all the lovely birthday wishes yesterday. So good to be reminded of all the wonderful people in my life 🥰 #grandparentingisthebest
Zooming into the opening courtesy of the MooiSchijndel newspaper. A big thankyou to @mariellevandenbergh for sending such a fabulous box of goodies ❤️
So good to get my art journals back from the Netherlands today! #vandiemensland #exhibition #thenetherlands #katywoodroffe #tasmanianartist #hobarttasmania
Into the Light opens tomorrow @handmarkgallery between 5 and 6.30pm. Love to see you if you’re in Salamanca 😊
Farewell Buddy - the commandant of the house! You used up all your lives today and we will miss you very much❤️
The fire screens are finished! A big thank you to @wagner_framemakers for taking them on 😊#newexhibition #intothelight #handmarkgallery #katywoodroffe #hobarttasmania
Less than two weeks to go! So relieved to have all the work in the hands of the fabulous team @wagner_framemakers #upcomingexhibition #intothelight #handmarkgallery #contemporaryart #katywoodroffe #hobarttasmania
The Van Diemensland exhibition in the Netherlands has now finished. So grateful to @mariellevandenbergh and @melsdees for all their hard work in making it such a success. And very honoured and thrilled to have Tiger Moon heading up to the Australian Ambassador’s residence at the Embassy in The Hague today!#internationalexhibition #kegexpo #schijndel #thenetherlands #katywoodroffe #tasmanianartist
Wednesday #backinthestudio #contemporaryart #tasmanianartist #hobart
Winter is done courtesy of library Woody and early nights! #bookstack #readersofinstagram #bibliophile
Last week of poimena@20. A big thankyou to @psnell1 for finding my special life member glass! #groupexhibition #contemporaryart #poimenagallery #launceston
Such a wonderful farewell for my sister today. Travel gently over that rainbow Lizzie ❤️❤️❤️
Such a wonderful celebration of friendship and fun over the past 20 years in Poimena. So good to catch up with so many fabulous people ❤️#poimena@20