Kate Serebrianskaia
Biography
Kate Serebrianskaia is a Siberian born emerging artist based in Auckland. She graduated from AUT with a Master of Creative Practice in 2024, and also holds Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Art from the Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and attended the Summer Programme at St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts.
Serebrianskaia’s application of staining paint into (rather than onto) the canvas unifies the materials and surfaces of her images, mediating a balance between process, intention and intuition. Working at scale and taking colour and form as her subjects, Serebrianskaia’s fields of colour bleed and fray into one another, disrupting the flatness of the painting’s plane giving the illusion of depth, volume and illumination.
Her iridescent surfaces are optically charged and seductive, challenging our perception of space and movement. Kate’s soak-stain approach of spilling, staining, tinting, creates floating fields of translucent colour which the explore the interplay of physical and metaphysical realms, reflecting on presence, essence and absence.