It All Starts with the Body.
Thank you for joining us at Stylecraft, Sydney! Discover how art and design intersect through process and development with designer Tom Skeehan and artist Kate Banazi as they lay their sketchbooks down and explore the parallels of their practice.
Banazi’s artwork is inherently tied to the human body. Born from life drawing sketches, the body is transformed into abstracted shapes and signature bright hues, evolving through the physical excursions of hand-pulled silk screen prints onto various materials.
Through abstraction, Banazi creates space for the body’s complexity and vulnerability to exist beyond rigid definitions. This is reflected in her diverse range of mediums, including acrylic, paper, and light works. Themes of sensuality remain central, as she deliberately subverts the expectation that women’s bodies and their artistic expressions must be ornamental. Instead, she reconfigures and exposes the body, challenging flesh and desire through graphic folds, lips, and structure. Banazi’s work offers a powerful commentary on body autonomy, self-image, and our evolving relationship with identity and form.
