Katherine C Rooney is a contemporary landscape and still life artist based in the Inner West of Sydney, Australia. Inspired by the Australian landscape her artworks are colourful & textured. Capturing the changing light & mood of the sky and land with lush layers of acrylic paint.
Studying at the National Art School, Enmore Design Centre and the International School of Colour & Design.
Rooney’s first solo exhibition in 2016 recorded stops along the Federal Hwy as postcard vignettes and larger artworks of the landscape, roadscapes & cows (cowscapes) along the way.
Selected finalist Mosman Art Prize, selected artist Salon Des Refuse 2017 (the alternative Wynne Prize exhibition). In 2023, Rooney was selected as a finalist in the Whitewall Art Projects art prize, ‘Into the Light’.