Brisbane-based artist Kate Marek is known primarily for her stunning landscape paintings. Kate’s interest lies in colour: both its painterly application and its evocative power. A practicing artist for the past 20 years, Kate has a background education in visual arts, teaching and animation. She has been a finalist multiple times in such art prizes as Lethbridge Landscape, Lethbridge Small Scale, Harden Art Prize, Queens Wharf Art Prize and Clayton Utz Art Prize. She was selected for the National Emerging Art Prize ACB Selects exhibition (2023) and was a finalist in the Revival Art & Design Gallery's Emerging Artist Prize. She has been the recipient of multiple awards, including winning the major prize in the Facets Fairholme Art Prize (2023), the open prize at the St Sebastian’s Art Exhibition (2022) and the Green Dragon Art Prize (2005). Her work is held in private collections throughout Australia.