Kate Ballis – DYGA
This work, DYGA, comes from Kate Ballis’ Before Time series, exploring the rainforests of far north Queensland. Through her transformative process rich siennas and burnt umbers coat the landscape in a palette that removes them from our reality altogether.
- 1 Nov 2024
The series recalls the deep time of earth when Gondwanaland was the supercontinent and prehistoric creatures roamed. Each photograph becomes, in the artist’s own words, “a memory you can’t quite pinpoint”. These lucid images offer a point of reflection for us to consider the history of these places and the vitality of protecting them into the future. Traversing the World Heritage rainforests along the north-east Queensland portion of the Great Dividing Range the series includes fleeting moments captured in Babinda Boulders, Millaa Millaa Falls and the Daintree National Park.
Artists Biography
Kate Ballis is a fine art photographer based in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia. Her work explores the themes of seeing the unseen and she is frequently traveling to destinations that already feel otherworldly and making them seem even more foreign to the earth we know. Kate came to a full-time art career after studying Arts and Law at the University of Melbourne and practicing as a media and entertainment lawyer while moonlighting as a photographer. She left the law practice when given the opportunity to assist Miles Aldridge in London. Kate’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Melbourne, Sydney, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Miami, and at art fairs across Europe. Her work has been featured in Aesthetica, AnOther, Wallpaper, Vogue Living, VICE, Forbes, and more.