Fremantle Design Week 2026

Kate Leslie is a Western Australian artist based in Walyalup (Fremantle). Kate maintains a dedicated studio painting practice alongside a collaborative and community-engaged practice. She works primarily with paint, applied in layers to illuminate the colour and gesture of her subject and story. She is interested in open-ended and intuitive processes within painting and is inspired by surrealism, mysticism, the natural world and the human condition.

Kate explores the seen and unseen aspects of existence, using her paintings to create atmosphere and shape reimagined worlds and dreamscapes. Her work is playful, dissolving the boundaries between self and other, human and non-human, the personal and the collective, weaving humour, melancholy and romanticism into a gentle reminder of our shared humanity.

Alongside her studio practice, Kate works as a mentor, facilitator, curator and arts consultant across community, educational and institutional contexts. She supports artists and creative organisations through workshops, professional development and collaborative projects across metropolitan and regional Western Australia.

Kate sees her studio and community practices as symbiotic, each informing the other while holding space for both personal and collective storytelling.

Contact Details

Phone: +61 450 323 405
Email: kateleslieart@gmail.com