Katika Schultz is an experimental printmaker and educator working on Dharug and Guringai country. Through playful abstraction, Katika creates visual narratives of personal identity, memory and the unconscious. Katika’s work offers a reinterpretation of space, place and experience. The mediums used in her work include collage, airbrush, etching, relief, drawing, monotype and stencilling.
Katika completed a bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking in 2020 and is currently completing her masters in Drawing, at The National Art School.
A passionate educator of print mediums, Katika runs regular workshops throughout Sydney and works closely with professional artists to expand their practice into printmaking.
Katika has been the recipient of many art grants and artist residencies and her work has been selected for many major art prizes throughout Australia.
Find out more about Katika and her work here and @skillzbykat
The shapes in my work are made from observing my surroundings, collecting found objects and by paying particular attention to shadows, negative space and textures.
I am inspired by the complexity of humans and our relationships to one another and our environments. The shapes are impregnated with texture and pigments, arranged in a collage style and put through a press, printing the impressions onto damp sized paper. I hope to spur contemplation and mnemonic cues in the viewer.
