QG Focus: Katherine Hattam

Exhibition dates: Jul 17 – Aug 4, 2025

At once playful and also filled with small tensions, Katherine Hattam shines a light on lived-in spaces, busy with everyday objects. We are present in the push and pull and drama of home versus the demands of the artist’s working life. Clocks are ticking, time is precious. Table settings speak of reading, thinking, and mandatory cups of tea, two chairs face each other or face away, single chairs take us to a more interior place.

In Hattam’s Of Tables and Chairs, the exhibition of works evoke moments in time, and past events or conversations about to happen. They conjure the warmth and familiarity of our domestic settings, populated with chairs and tables, cups and books, pictures on walls, views through windows, and the ever-present visiting birds.

Hattam’s art practice brings images and materials to life through her signature explorations in painting, printmaking, drawing and collage. The world she creates is sometimes lively, sometimes contemplative, but always layered.