Kate Ballis
Born 1985, Melbourne, Australia
Lives & Works – Melbourne (Ivanhoe East, Wurundjeri)
Kate Ballis is a Melbourne-based fine art photographer creating unique, colour-drenched images using infrared technology. She employs photography as a conduit into the unseen, straddling the empirical and the magical. Her photographs capture invisible energy, mystifying the mundane and rendering the familiar foreign, prompting the viewer to question conventional associations of colour as we see the world – quite literally – in a new light.
Ballis released Infra Realism with Manuscript Publishing in 2017 profiling her photographs journeying through Palm Springs and Joshua Tree in California. She has been a finalist in numerous art prizes including the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize (2023) and The Kings School Art Prize (2022) Her work has been exhibited throughout Melbourne, Sydney, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Miami, and at various art fairs across Europe.
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Arthouse Group Show
Summer – Part 1 9 - 27 January 2024Arthouse Gallery is delighted to begin 2024 with 'Summer' featuring a selection of new and exciting works from our stable of artists. This coming year features solo shows by newly–represented,...Read more -
Arthouse Group Show
Sydney Contemporary Collection 2023 – Booth F12 7 - 10 September 2023 -
Kate Ballis
Before Time 2 - 23 February 2023Kate Ballis employs photography as a conduit into the unseen. Straddling the empirical and the magical, her photographs capture invisible energy, mystifying the mundane and rendering the familiar foreign. 'I...Read more -
Kate Ballis
Hyperphantasia 13 - 29 February 2020Kate Ballis employs photography as a conduit into the unseen. Straddling the empirical and the magical, her photographs capture invisible energy, mystifying the mundane and rendering the familiar foreign. ‘I...Read more
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Kate Ballis announced as a finalist in the Omnia Art Prize 2024
Smith Hall, St Kevin’s College, Toorak, Victoria 30 April 2024Kate Ballis has been announced as a finalist in the Omnia Art Prize 2024 for her stunning work 'Infrabotanica Papaver Rhoeas'. The Omnia Art Prize...Read more -
Michaye Boulter and Kate Ballis announced as finalists in the Ravenswood Art Prize
Ravenswood School for Girls 4 April 2024We are thrilled to share that Michaye Boulter and Kate Ballis have been announced as finalists in the Ravenswood Art Prize alongside some incredible finalists....Read more -
Arthouse Gallery artists part of Women for Change
Sibyl Centre, Womens College at the University of Sydney. 6 February 2024Arthouse Gallery is delighted to be participating in a major fundraising event for Women for Change. The inaugural IGNITE Art Show is a silent auction...Read more -
Several artists announced as finalists in the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize
Manly Art Gallery & Museum 24 June 2023Manly Art Gallery & Museum Curl Curl Creative Space and Mona Vale Creative Space Gallery 4 — 27 August 2023 We are delighted to announce...Read more
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Kate Ballis & Amelia Lynch selected as finalists in Omnia Art Prize
St Kevin's College, Toorak 19 May 2023KATE BALLIS Paros II, archival inkjet print on cotton rag paper, 103 x 153 cm (framed) The Omnia Art Prize is an annual art competition...Read more -
Kate Ballis Exhibition Relaunches David Jones Gallery
25 April 2022Kate Ballis' exhibition, 'Wonderworld' debuted at the newly relaunched Gallery at David Jones in Sydney this April. The David Jones Gallery, created by Sir Charles...Read more -
Kate Ballis Finalist in William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
5 December 2021William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 9 September 2021 to 5 December 2021 Over the last 16 years, the Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as...Read more
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The Pink Print
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Kate Ballis – Creative People
Elle Murrell, Design Files, 19 June 2017 -
These Dreamlike Photos Show California In A Surreal New Light
Georgia Murray, Refinery29, 1 August 2017 -
Kate Ballis: Infra Realism
Art Almanac, 29 October 2018 -
Hyperphantasia: A trip through the California desert – in pictures
The Guardian, 15 February 2020 -
Kate Ballis Featured on Belle Magazine Cover
Judy Pascoe, Belle Magazine, 1 October 2022 -
A Magical, Layered Melbourne Garden
Bea Taylor, Design Files, 13 December 2022