https://www.kathienajar.com/work daily 1.0 2025-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/059f547d-0575-4829-b1e0-d8c9f328269a/46847-IMG_2990.jpg Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1599963110792-SDL4KMK6OZQVIS7JELRH/P1010191.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1599964187835-88LIBIDGRRBE0023H597/IMG_5878+2.jpg Work - DJ OSCAR JAMO DJ OSCAR JAMO performing under the Solar Junk Chandelier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1599963965325-8FWSKPF56IAQWD3Q3Q2O/SJC+4.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1597216727080-IQVDWPZQ16E03X78AFLV/Najar%2C+Departure+Pool%2C+2019%2C+Handpainted+tiles+marine+ply+acrylic+mirror.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1654123394296-HWZLPYHFK2EMGH5QUK3R/Najar%2C+Feathers+and+bones%2C+2020%2C+pen+and+watercolour+on+paper.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1654124026190-E5256L82XFJ80HBYLFVN/Kathie+Najar_Cradle+Mountain+Creek_72dpi.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1629003112595-8T8G98J8PAM1IOLPUWWI/Donut+day+dreaming+2+low.jpg Work - Donut Day Dreaming (detail) - Soft Rocks Series Drawing and sewing pins, fabric, feathers, velvet ribbon, sandpaper, fill, 41 x 27 x 7cm, 2021 As the Delta outbreak of the Carona Virus sent us into lockdown for the second time, my dreaming of zero new covid cases (donut days) infiltrated my making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1530508193106-VY6147RITCDWVYY0TL37/turkish-gardens-x6.jpg Work - Turkish Garden series Hand painted tiles with gold, 13 x 13cm each tile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1595574585256-VQLMSLOQ0FPXYOI58SQJ/Tasmanian+Laurel+border.jpg Work - Native Arabesque Drawing Workshop Join artist Kathie Najar in this drawing and watercolour design workshop. Learn how to stylise native flora to create beautiful contemporary artwork based on traditional Arabesque patterns. Two-hour workshop $66 (includes all materials) Ages 13 to adult Saturday 17 October 2 pm – 4 pm BAROMETER GALLERY, 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW 2021 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL IMAGE CREDITS: Kathie Najar, Tasmanian Laurel, 2020, watercolour and gold paint on paper, 25 x 25cm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1689915176585-GNJ57T8XSWATD87OGV0S/PADA_Residence38_Photography03Edit.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1712715660059-9JDUMJE3ZA41SB0PKYN9/Peace_KN_+3_sm.jpg Work - Sunrise at Maroubra Beach Photo by Tanjia Bruckner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1549864542846-VGU71PBFER0SJYI6TWA5/Paradise+Garden+front.jpg Work - Paradise Playground Artworks by Johanna Hildebrandt and Kathie Najar. Ridge Street Window Art Space, North Sydney, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7104ae9f07f5099fb4f51d/1750741334724-KPDHFLRYV9HD85FLVOK3/Kathie+Najar_Exhausted+Tent_Waste+papers%2C+acrylic+paint%2C+cotton+thread%2C+glue+_50x50x94x8hcm_2024.jpg Work - Exhausted Tent Repurposed papers, PVA, cotton twine, acrylic paint, 2025. My work explores imagined futures shaped by climate crisis, wars, displacement, and the fragility of urban life. I ask: What will remain? What will we need to survive? What will still bring us joy? Will we become nomadic? This series of artworks are created from salvaged materials—discarded paper, house paint, cotton thread, and wind-blown petals that find their way into my studio. They emerge from the debris of the everyday, reconfigured into experimental forms that reflect both resilience and impermanence. Each work is a meditation on survival. They are not made to endure as precious heirlooms, but to be useful, adaptable, and mobile. They reference the kind of makeshift architecture or clothing one might carry while moving through uncertain terrain. Rather than mourn what’s been lost, I search for fragments of beauty and meaning in what remains. Through this practice, I reflect on how we might live lightly, with care, in a world that feels increasingly unstable—and how art might quietly support that existence.