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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Collingwood Premiership Cabinet 1990 in the wonderful Gay Hawkes exhibition The House of Longing @tmag
Getting started on new work @handmarkgallery #studioday
Ukrainian pianist Alexey Yemtsov playing Prokofiev’s War Sonatas @tmag #incredible
The fascinating artist Hiromi Tango welcomed us into her vibrant playground Rainbow Dream Moon Rainbow today #suchpositiveenergy #twodaysinarow #darkmofo2022
Fabulous night of art, music, food, wine and friendship@darkmofo2022 #soproudtolivehere
Finished - and more than five metres wide!#probablywontdothatagain #legacyofempire #singaporeexhibition #tasmanianartists #2023
The Butterfly Effect at Poimena Gallery has now gone live - with all proceeds going to the Unicef Ukraine emergency appeal. Silent Vigil frame size is 146cms x 104cms #katywoodroffe #poimenagallery #launceston
Fabulous shells at Shelly Beach!
A fun night at the Bay of Fires art prize last night. Congratulations to the major prize winner Stephen Lees for his beautiful painting Remembering Goomboorian @panoramahotel Loved the warm and sunny weather! #bayoffiresartprize #sthelens
So good to meet up with the fabulous John Lendis at his exhibition Snow Falling into Stars @handmarkgallery last week #contemporaryartist #newexhibition #hobart
Nelly excited about her Friday night pizza crust 😊
So grateful to the fabulous team @wagner_framemakers for getting Paradise Lost ready for the Bay of Fires Art Prize. Also a big thank you to Midland Freight and Quickfr8 for managing to get it to St Helens! Opens June 10 #newwork #handmarkgallery
Keeping warm in the studio with great great Aunt Susan #newwork #legacyofempire #singaporeexhibition #triptych3
The legacy of great great Aunt Susan #newwork #studioday #singaporeexhibition
Our beautiful Bay of Fires tapestry highlighted by a cosy autumn fire on a cold Hobart night! #mariellevandenbergh #tapestry #thenetherlands #vandiemenslandexhibition
And she thought all swans were white #newworkinprogress #greatgreatauntsusan #apslawn1829
Finally got everyone together!
Nothing like a week’s isolation with Covid! #finallyoutandabout #nowbacktoreality
Looking forward to teaming up with great great Aunt Susan again #newexhibition #tasmanianartists #singapore
We are so thrilled to welcome Darcie Rose Woodroffe into our lives 🥰 Huge congratulations to Ben, Leeza and Henley! Another beautiful grand baby to love ❤️