Katelyn Geard is an emerging artist working in nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania, who completed their Bachelor of Fine Arts at The University of Tasmania in 2021. Working across multiple mediums from drawing and painting to textiles and digital photography, the young artist’s works are mostly representational and introspective explorations of embodied identity, experience, and emotion. The human body and its various gestures – especially those of the hands – become potent symbols in their work, with natural forms rendered in a monotone palette through steady linework, soft graphite, pinpricks and more. In late 2018 – whilst still at college – Geard was awarded the Abel Tasman Art Prize for a self-portrait, which saw them travel to the Netherlands the following year. They have also been a finalist in the Tasmanian Portrait Prize and the Henry Jones Art Prize, and in 2021, created a public artwork in Hobart on behalf of Equality Tasmania. Due to complete their Honours degree at the end of 2022, Geard is only just getting started.
Featured Image:Katelyn Geard, I Appear Missing, 2022. Graphite on paper, 200 x 110cm. Courtesy: the artist.