Kat Shapiro Wood has a nationally renowned practice traversing multiple disciplines and media including sculpture, ceramics and encaustic ‘painting’.
In exploring the extent to which materials can express their own inherent qualities, Wood pares her work back to what is most essential. Through the minimal framework of abstraction, her process is an attempt to distil an (often) elusive emotive state of being, philosophical enquiry or spatial experience to its simplest form.
Wood studied sculpture in 2002 with renowned sculptor Tom Bass (1916 –2010), before teaching with him at his Erskinevile Studio School. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art, majoring in Ceramics, from the National Art School in 2006. Her work was chosen as a finalist in the 2021 National Still Life Award, 2022 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and 2022 Wollumbin Art Award. She has exhibited locally and internationally and was an invited artist in the International Association of Ceramics 47th Congress in Barcelona (2016).
For the past 15 years, Wood has been based in the Northern Rivers region. She currently teaches at the Byron School of Art in Mullumbimby and is represented by Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney.
