Tracing Stillness

In ‘Tracing Stillness’, Georgie Kite presents a contemplative body of work that explores the landscape not as a static subject but as something experienced through quiet, sustained attention. Since relocating to Yuin Country in 2016, Kite has immersed herself in the rhythms of the coastal environment. This lived engagement informs her distinctive visual language, shaped not by dramatic vistas but by the slow unfolding of detail.

Drawing on a background in photomedia and literature, Kite’s practice is grounded in observation and reflection. Her paintings develop gradually, layering colour, form, and texture to create surfaces where motifs such as vessels, headlands, and native flora seem to emerge and recede. These works are less representations of place than meditations on how place is perceived — how time, weather, light, and mood shift the way we see and understand the world around us.

In this context, “stillness” becomes a mode of heightened awareness