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30/05/2026

In Coloured Rain, Westcott introduces engraved aluminium as a new form of mark-making within her paintings. The development emerges naturally from her printmaking background, where she has spent decades engraving copper plates for drypoint prints. On aluminium, however, the technique takes on a new role, stripping the material back to its original state and revealing something more elemental. Made as a final intervention upon otherwise completed paintings, these marks fundamentally alter each work’s visual energy.

In Westcott’s own words: “It’s not a fixed experience, it’s an unmeasured and varying state of being.”
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On view at Magma until 20 June.

Artworks:
Sentient Grove I & II, 2026.
Acrylic on engraved aluminium.
120 x 60 cm

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19/05/2026

Installation images from KIM WESTCOTT: COLOURED RAIN

7 May - 20 June

“Coloured rain explores the intertwined emotions that arise through the forest that inspires my artwork–stillness, turbulence and renewal continually unfolds and connects me with my surroundings. I create branch forms, and shifting veils of colour which echo the forest’s own cycles of coloured light and shadow. These forms absorb and release colour much like we absorb and release experiences.” art  
Visit the gallery Wednesday - Saturday or DM the gallery for the catalogue.
 Image 2: Rootlines I, 2025, Acrylic on engraved cast acrylic, 90 x 50 cm
Image 3: Coloured Rain I, 2025, Acrylic on aluminium panels, 180 x 240 (diptych) Image 04: Sentient Grove I & II, 2026, Acrylic on engraved aluminium, 120 x 60 cm Image 05: Sentient Grove I (detail) Image 06: Deep Rooted, 2026, Acrylic on engraved cast acrylic, 30 x 21 cm

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13/05/2026

Now open

KIM WESTCOTT
COLOURED RAIN

7 May - 20 June

Within Coloured Rain, a new prolific body of work unfolds like the cycle of seasons. The exhibition represents a kind of seasonal calendar of her environment. Shifts in tone, colour and mood are intimately tied to the seasons as well as the artists emotional states. The sombre quiet of a forest after rain reflects winter, or the light, expansive energy of blossoming wildflowers, the spring. Rain and colour become inseparable. In the forest, rainfall doesn’t dull the landscape, it activates it. A seemingly dull, dusty eucalyptus trunk transforms into a complex rainbow of colour, refracting and glowing when you simply add moisture. Gum trees in Australia are uniquely iridescent due to the eucalyptus oil within them, and rain intensifies this effect. This exhibition cleverly captures that phenomenon, evoking the sensation of standing within an ancient forest while it rains.

Visit the gallery Wednesday - Sunday or click the link in bio to view online.
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08/05/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the opening of KIM WESTCOTT: COLOURED RAIN.

The exhibition is now open and running until 20 June. Visit the gallery Wednesday - Saturday or explore online.
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07/05/2026

Opening tonight

KIM WESTCOTT
COLOURED RAIN

7 May - 20 June

Please join us at MAGMA from 6pm for opening celebrations.

“In the process of painting, I am trying to create a living environment: nature appears, dissolves, and re-emerges, creating a sense of movement that connects to the pulse of my immediate environment. For me, these paintings imagine rain as coloured and ever-changing - a metaphor for the shifting feelings that move through me and for the environmental changes shaping our natural world.”
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Artwork:
Birds of Feather, 2026
Acrylic on engraved cast acrylic
180 x 100 cm

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05/05/2026

Opening Thursday 🌋

KIM WESTCOTT
COLOURED RAIN

7 May - 20 June
5 Bedford St, Collingwood 3066

Please join us this Thursday from 6pm for the anticipated opening of COLOURED RAIN. All welcome.
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To receive an exhibition preview please DM the gallery.

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01/05/2026

Huge congratulations to Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro on being finalists in the Wynne Prize 2026.

“Our painting is a riff on Shikunshi(‘Chinese honeysuckle’) by woodblock artist Kōno Bairei, taken from the 1901 book Kusa bana hyakushu. The Chinese honeysuckle is an invasive species that was introduced to Australia in the early 19th century. We have painted this pretty pest onto a discarded, crushed energy drink can. It is our trashy version of a tea ceremony accoutrement. Historically, ceramic drinking vessels were decorated with picturesque landscapes or stylised flowers, designed as objects to be held and meditated upon. Our painting evokes a scene experienced while walking along the road after our car ran out of petrol.”

This artwork will be on view at the Art Gallery of NSW from 9th May to 16th of August 2026. Congratulations also to all the other finalists.

Artwork:
雀の涙 (suzume no namida), ‘a sparrow’s tear’
synthetic polymer gouache on repurposed aluminium can
12.5 x 10 cm

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24/04/2026

Upcoming

KIM WESTCOTT
COLOURED RAIN

7 May - 20 June
Opening Thursday 7 May, 6pm

“Coloured Rain explores the intertwined emotions that arise through the forest that inspires my artwork— stillness, turbulence and renewal continually unfolds and connects me with my surroundings. I create branch forms, and shifting veils of colour which echo the forest’s own cycles of coloured light and shadow. These forms absorb and release colour much like we absorb and release experiences.

In the process of painting, I am trying to create a living environment: nature appears, dissolves, and re-emerges, creating a sense of movement that connects to the pulse of my immediate environment. For me, these paintings imagine rain as coloured and ever-changing - a metaphor for the shifting feelings that move through me and for the environmental changes shaping our natural world.

The symbolism of coloured rain speaks to emotional transformation — the idea that healing and growth, like rain, arrives in waves. Branches develop and fall, rain comes and goes, and colours gather in unexpected ways. Coloured Rain is a depiction of my connection with nature and a record of shifting emotional weather through layers of paint that accumulate like rainfall.”
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Artwork:
Kim Westcott
Majesty, 2026
Acrylic on aluminium
180 x 120 cm

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15/04/2026

Exhibition Announcement 📣

KIM WESTCOTT
COLOURED RAIN

7 May - 20 June

Following her landmark presentation at Melbourne Art Fair 2025, this exhibition moves into a more intimate and experimental direction. Through painting and engraving, Westcott explores the dynamics of shifting light, colour, and perception from her studio environment immersed in the Warby Ovens National Park.

Opening Thursday 7 May at 6pm.

DM to register interest.
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22/02/2026

Final day

DREZ: ATMOSTRATA
MELBOURNE ART FAIR 2026

19 - 22 Feb | Booth G2
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Building

Visit us at Booth G2, or explore the works via the link in bio.
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