ABOUT

Kate Yesberg is a Pākeha New Zealander with ancestral roots in the UK, Germany and Sweden, and an abstract painter living and working in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington.

She is represented by {Suite} Gallery.

Her paintings are elaborate compositions of colour and strong geometric form, and are often large-scale. She names each series for its intrinsic energy; a mood, feeling, or experience that she is exploring and trying to capture in her work.

“The ideas come into my imagination. Usually colours, combinations of colour, or simple shapes or compositions. But mostly I feel them, I feel the energy I want them to carry.”

The paintings are built up layer by layer from a black canvas as an act of devotional labour that is performed by hand, without tape. The effect is striking geometric patterns which from afar suggest hard lines and manicured structures, though up close reveal the hand that rendered them and its human imperfection.

As an artist, Kate is self-taught. She holds degrees in Anthropology, Religion and Law (First Class Hons), and a Masters in Law (with distinction) from New York University, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar.

Kate also runs Join The Renaissance, helping serious professionals get seriously creative. And you can find her on-stage and in your ears as part of the pop punk band Love Party.