DR KATHRYN BLUMKE · ARTIST · POET · SCHOLAR · MEANJIN

QUILTS

GEOMETRIC ABSTRACT LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOURS

Dr Kathryn Blumke

ARTIST, POET, SCHOLAR — MEANJIN

Kathryn is a visual artist, poet and scholar based in Meanjin/Brisbane. Her watercolour practice centres on geometric abstract quilts — paintings that thread encounters with the Australian landscape into structured fields of colour, geometry and line.

Drawing on Rosi Braidotti’s posthuman feminism, her work has been shown in more than twenty solo exhibitions across Australia and is held in public and corporate collections in Queensland. Her latest solo, Swamp Quilts, runs at Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, until 24 May.

RECENT WORKS

SWAMP QUILTS

2026

Threading the swamp into geometry — encounters with the Australian wetlands rendered as fields of watercolour. Showing at Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, until 24 May.
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GEOMETRIC ABSTRACT WATERCOLOUR QUILTS

2025

Blumke's Doctor of Visual Arts Exhibition, investigating geometry and watercolours as the non representational landscape — exhibited at Brisbane Institute of Art.
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WATER QUILTS

2023

The series investigates abstraction, and the watercolour, and the quilt — encounters with the Australian waterscape threaded into geometric form. Glass Box Gallery, Griffith University.
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