BIO
My path as an artist can be traced back to my childhood and the influence of my mother, who was an artist in Riga. I obtained my artistic training at the Art Academy of Latvia where I participated in a number of large exhibitions and important international art events. During the course of my degree, I travelled to the Berlin University of the Arts on an exchange program. I completed my degree in 2008, acquiring a Masters of Fine Arts.
My move to Australia in 2014 marked a new beginning in my career as an artist. The extraordinary beauty of the unique Australian native flora and fauna was a new and overwhelming sensory experience. It inspired me to immerse myself into the study of the interplay of light with the fluid shapes of birds, flowers and the ornamental patterns they created. I use oil and acrylic paints to try and capture the joyous and unique richness of colour of the Australian nature. My paintings can be saturated with colour or capture the fleeting moments in more muted, pastel tones; they can be ornamental and decorative or authentically realistic.
EDUCATION
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The Art Academy of Latvia, Master of Arts Degree, Fine Arts, Visual Plastic (Textile Art), Riga, Latvia.
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Daugavpils University, Master Degree in Education, Daugavpils, Latvia
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Berlin University of Arts, Erasmus program student, Germany, Berlin
EXHIBITIONS
Dec 2022- Feb 2023
Solo exhibition
Katerina Apale: Present Memories, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, Australia
2022, 2020, 2019(Commended award), 2018, 2017, 2015
Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, Australia
2022
5 Lands Walk Exhibition, Avoca SLCSC, Australia
2022
UNTAMED, The Public Art Gallery Umina, Australia
2022, 2018
Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Australia
2021, 2018
Bluethumb Art Prize, finalist
2020
Still Life exhibition, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2020
Apale:Bloomfield exhibition, M&J Becker Wines, Hunter Valley, NSW
2019
The Other Art Fair, The Cutaway at Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney (International Art Fair)
2019
Exhibition with Valentyna Crane, M2 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2019
Solo exhibition, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
2018
Bluethumb Art Prize 2018, fina
2018
Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Australia
2017
Solo exhibition, GAUGE gallery, Sydney, Australia
2016
Solo exhibition, Callaghan Art Studio Gallery, Hawks Nest, Australia
2016
Solo exhibition, Hardys Bay Club
2009
Solo Textile exhibition, Gallery Apsida, Riga, Latvia
2007
Nord-Balt-Textileart, international textile TC-1 weaving project, Kaunas Art Institute, Kaunas, Lithuania
2007
Arctic Art Week, international Art project, Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort, Lapland, Finland
Group exhibitions in galleries all over the world in countries including Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Austria, Germany, Australia (since 2002)
Public Collection- Gosford Regional Gallery
Private collections- Australia, US, Latvia, Philippines, Japan, Thailand, Spain, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, Russia, Finland, UK.