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 (2024, 2023), Fisher's Ghost Art Award (2024) 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.