Kate Marshall, born in lutruwita (Tasmania), is an emerging artist based in naarm (Melbourne). Kate creates across soft sculpture, photography, video and installation. Engaging with play and performativity Kate’s work imaginatively interprets autobiographical experiences of intimacy, queerness, desire, and vulnerability. Kate uses colours and materials associated with their childhood home to materialise adult experiences and emotions, building sensory connections between these temporalities. Through practice, they are interested in cultivating a creative relationship with their own embodiment, expanding and queering their understanding of being in the world.

Kate is currently finishing a Master of Fine Art at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, researching how play and performativity can be methodologies for queering intimacy. In 2023, Kate presented their debut solo exhibition With Myself. This autobiographical body of work explored emerging queer desire, sexuality and loneliness. They have shown in many group exhibitions across Australia, including Walls of Skin curated by Constance ARI for Dark Mofo in 2023. Kate graduated with a combined Bachelor of Arts and Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania in 2021.