Katherine Cooper
Katherine is a Hobart based artist whose work is dedicated to raising awareness of the beauty and fragility of our wildlife and their habitats.
Her work is particularly drawn to the birdlife of our wilderness areas, islands and oceans.
She has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally since 1990 and her works are represented in corporate and private collections in Australia, UK, USA and the House of Krug, France.
Voted the People's Choice Award winner at the Wrest Point Art Award in 2017, Katherine also became the winner of the Holmes Art Prize for Excellence in Realist Bird Art in 2015, a finalist in 2016, and again in 2019, both a finalist and recipient of an Award of Excellence.
More recently, in 2019, at the Society of Animal Artists Exhibition in San Antonia Texas USA, Katherine was a finalist and her work received an Award of Excellence, the highest honor.
Winner of the 3rd round Artist of the Year with the Wildlife Art Society of Australia in 2014.
She was also a Finalist in the BBC Wildlife Artist of the year 2012 and 2011.
In 2012, Katherine traveled to the Shetland Isles to participate in a 6 month art residency and exhibition held at The Old Haa, Isle of Yell, Shetland.
