Katya Petetskaya - Forms of Flight, 4 to 27 April, 2025

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Katya Petetskaya

Forms of Flight : The act of painting in Petetskaya’s practice is visceral—tangible, physical, personal. It is not an intellectual analysis but an embodied insight, capturing fleeting moments of perception through gesture and pigment. Through layers of colour, the interplay of solid and negative space, and the dynamic tension between form and movement, these works trace the unseen forces that shape our reality.   

Katya Petetskaya is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance and visual art based in the Blue Mountains. Growing up in the former Soviet Union during the turbulent 1990s shaped her critical approach to narratives about the status quo. Katya’s work explores alternative forms of knowledge and modes of existence. Through performance and visual art, she examines expanded ways of perceiving and engaging with the world.

Petetskaya holds a Master of Art with Excellence from UNSW Art & Design and is currently undertaking a PhD in interdisciplinary art practice at Macquarie University. Her artistic research focuses on more-than-human choreographies and extended mind theory, investigating the creative potential of human and non-human entities in collaborative and performative contexts.

Since 2015, her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, as well as performance art events in Australia and internationally. She has been a finalist in prestigious art awards, with works held in private and public collections in Australia and overseas.