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Cate Maddy is an Australian artist recognised for her evocative abstract landscape paintings that capture the vitality and rhythm of the natural world. Over the course of her career, she has established a strong presence in leading galleries across the country, with her work regularly featured in both solo and group exhibitions. Her distinctive practice continues to attract the attention of collectors, curators, and galleries nationwide, reflecting her enduring contribution to contemporary Australian art.
2004 Bachelor Fine Art with Distinction, RMIT
2005 Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training
1999 Diploma Visual Art, Box Hill Tafe
2024 Garden of Eden, AKBellinger Gallery
2024 Gentle Choir, Grainger Gallery
2023 Sublime, AKBellinger Gallery NSW
2023 Shifting shadows, Grainger Gallery ACT
2022 Expecting flowers in the sky, Grainger Gallery ACT
2022 My heart beats faster, Fenton & Fenton Gallery
2021 I didn’t come here to stay, Grainger Gallery ACT
2021 Questionable arrangements, AK Bellinger Gallery
2017 Loud & Lunatic, Anthea Polson Art, Queensland
2012 Static gesture, Spiro and Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane
2012 Best Imitation, Anthea Polson Art, Gold Coast
2010 Hyperballad, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2005 Dominant, Submissive, Red Gallery Melbourne
2025 Waverley Art Prize
2025 Onmia Prize
2025 Australia all over, AK Bellinger gallery
2025 Modern Love exhibition, AK Bellinger gallery
2025 Landscape exhibition, Grainger gallery
2024 Affordable Art fair, Grainger gallery
2024 Floriade exhibition, Grainger gallery
2024 Landscape exhibition, Grainger gallery
2024 Summer Salon, Art Images Gallery
2023 Floriade exhibition, Grainger gallery
2022 Affordable Art fair Melbourne, Fenton & Fenton
2022 Opening exhibition Fenton & Fenton Gallery
2020 Feel Good Exhibition, Fenton & Fenton
2018 AKBellinger gallery
2016 ‘Reanimating the Inanimate’ Morton Bay Regional Gallery, Queensland
2011 New works, Colour and Form, SGAR Art Rooms, Brisbane
2009 Art Sydney, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2025 Waverley Art Prize
2025 Onmia Prize
2024 Finalist Omnia Art Prize
2023 Finalist Omnia Art Prize
2022 Finalist Omnia Art Prize
2021 Finalist St Kevin’s Art Prize
2019 Finalist St Kevin’s Art Prize
2018 Finalist Kennedy Prize
2017 Finalist St Kevin’s Art Award
2011 Finalist Prometheus Award, Queensland
2010 Finalist Redlands Art Award, Queensland (withdrawn)
2010 Finalist John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Gallery, Sale
2009 Finalist Williamstown Contemporary Art Award
2007 Finalist MLC Art Prize
2006 Finalist John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Gallery, Sale
2004 Awarded the 2004 Siemans RMIT Fine Art Travel Scholarship
Artbank - Sydney
Mater Private Hospital collection, Brisbane
St Kevin’s Toorak
Tolarno Boutique Hotels Melbourne
Private collections Australia, London and America.