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Finalist Petite Pieces Aspire Gallery 2024 Q.L.D
Finalist Unveiled October Aspire Gallery 2023 Q.L.D.
Finalist Petite Art Collection 2023 N.S.W.
Finalist 'Heysen Landscape Prize' Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf, SA.
Finalist All connections to Unley Art Prize at the Hughes Gallery, Unley Council, S.A.

Since a small child I have always loved the natural world and would often get lost in my daydreams whilst playing in the hills or at the beach with my beloved grandmothers, who instilled a great love of colour, poetry and the Arts.

The ‘Flora and Fauna Australiana natives series’ established in 2017 is a vibrant representation of the environment and bird species including found gems I have collected along my journey. Through artistic conventions that include colour contrasts, metallic and fluorescent light sources, these natural narratives illuminate from the plywood surface which the paint is splashed upon. The main inspirations stem directly from purely Australian organic forms, endangered , extinct wildlife species and in particular birds.

Katie paints from her Mitcham studio run a her art business Katie Sandison Fine Art with art products, art prints, teaches adult art workshops in galleries and art schools runs Kds Art Adelaide a children’s art school in Eastwood, Mitcham and paints everyday. Her work is stocked in 18 gift shops and galleries throughout Australia.

Katie is passionate fine artist and teacher who captures past and present native endangered, extinct and common Australian flora and fauna species, though vibrant water colour/acrylic paintings depicted on wooden surfaces. She creates a crucial connection between the ordinary birds like the familiar iconic magpie and more rare extraordinary species hardly seen any more, in a unique and distinctive style of painting. This purposeful documentation of whimsical scale distortions highlights the importance of individual species exposing an illusionary world stemming from exotic colour schemes and the metallic reflections.

‘To capture the essence of beautiful forms within the natural world macro or micro, in order to engage and inspire an audience is a wonderful thing for an artist to give to the world.’

Katie studied Visual Arts at North Adelaide School of Art at the age of 16 and continued on to receive a Bachelor of Visual Art and A Bachelor of Education Post graduate in Secondary Visual Art and Design in 1999.

Curator and Exhibition
2024 Petite Pieces Aspire Gallery, Brisbane Q.L.D.
2023 Bluethumb Gallery Kingwilliam Road Goodwood, S.A.
2023 Aspire Gallery Paddington, Brisbane, Q.L.D
2023 Xmas Petite Collection, Sydney, Mia Oakley N.S.W.
2023 Painter Sweet and Sour’, Petite art Collection Sydney, Mia Oakley N.S.W..
2023 Curator/ painter Sense of Place Impressions of Australian landscapes 16 artists Adelaide Airport S.A.
2022 Curater/Painter ‘Abstract Expressions-Figurative Impressions an art exhibition 16 female painters at Adelaide Airport S.A.
2022-21'Natives' a solo art exhibition by Katie Sandison at the Adelaide Airport Dec-Mar Qantas and Virgin gates. S.A.
2021 'Illustrious Icons' Solo art exhibition at The Uraidla Hotel SALA Festival 2021. Uraidla, S.A.
2020-22 Fleurieu Art House featured artist McLaren Vale, SA.
2020 ‘Golden Treasures’ Solo exhibition at The PaintBox, Hahndorf, SA.
2020 SALA Smartart Gallery, College Park, SA.
2019 'Fora and fauna endeavours' Solo exhibition Tinariba Gallery, Hahndorf, S.A.
2019 'Spring Art Show' Loretto College Marryatville, SA.
2019 Smartart group exhibition’, SALA festival smartart, College Park, SA.
2019 VAESA SALA festival members exhibition, UniSA SA.
2019 Adelaide remakery Exhibition SALA festival, Young street, Adelaide, SA.
2019'Hills Collective' SALA festival Tineriba Gallery Hahndorf,
2018 Spring Art show Loretto College Kengington,SA.
2018 ‘Smartart group exhibition’, smartart, College Park, SA.
2017 ‘The Hills Collective’, SALA festival Tineriba Gallery Hahndorf, Adelaide, S.A.
2017 ‘Moth Migration Project’, Hilary Lorenz’s installation, Albuquerque New Mexico, U.S.A.
2017 ‘Threatened species of the Otways’ Art and Ecology exhibition, Mornington Peninsula, VIC.
2017 ‘Reclaim Repurpose Renew’, Yewth mag, South Australia Living Artist Festival, S.A.
2015 ‘Daubism group show’, Driller Jet Armstrong, Sugar Nightclub, Rundle Street, Adelaide, S.A.
2012 ‘The Eclectic Collection’, ‘Tineriba Gallery’, Hahndorf Adelaide, S.A.
2008 ‘Art Showing’, NEXIS Gallery Multicultural Centre of South Australia, S.A.
2005 ‘Fringing’, Prince Alfred College Adelaide Fringe Festival, S.A.
2006 ‘Influx’, Curator and exhibitor at ‘Sym Choon Gallery Rundle street Adelaide, S.A.
2005 ‘Brown Gallery group exhibition’, Sugar Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.
2004 ‘Bloom II’, Kintolia Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.
2002 ‘Omnific’, TAP Gallery Darlinghurst, NSW.
2002 ‘Up Start’, Solo exhibition Port Adelaide, SALA Festival.
2001 ‘Bloom’, Kintolai Gallery Hindley street Adelaide.
2001 ‘Opulent Options’, Curator and exhibitor of South East Artist Studios and Gallery, S.A.
2000 ‘unprocessed-reprocessed’, Curator, Adelaide Fringe Festival, S.A.
1999 ‘Mentoring’, South Australian Visual Artist Educators Association, Prospect Gallery SALA, S.A.
1999 ‘Clutter’, Curator, University of South Australia former art museum, S.A.
1995 ‘Intermedia’, Crown & Anchor Hotel, Adelaide.
1995 ‘Exit’, graduating student’s exhibition, The South Australian School of Art, Underdale, S.A
1991 ‘Natural Revelations’, Belchev and Martin Gallery, Unley, Adelaide.

Awards, Grants and publications:
2001 Curatorship grant e/merg Projects for Australia Council for the Arts, S.A.

Public Art and community murals:
2020 Feathered friends yr 10 bird portraits Seaford Secondary College.
2018 ‘War on Wast Hive’ mural 11 mtre Brighton High School, Brighton, SA.
2018 ‘Stobie pole project’ Ocean View College, year 10 mural of native flora and fauna. Port Adelaide & Enfield Council Power SA.
2015-2017 Aboriginal murals painting facilitator with Aboriginal artist Kym Mitchell, Ocean View College, SA.
2014 Sculptural mural for Adelaide Special Education Centre, yr 10 mural Ocean View College.