Collected From Nature, Crafted by Hand
I’m Katherine Cosgrove, a mixed-media artist born in Kazakhstan and now based in Melbourne, Australia. My work explores the connection between nature, architecture, and human presence — the delicate balance between organic forms and the structures we create around ourselves.
I studied painting, sculpture, and industrial design at the Stroganov State Academy of Art in Moscow, later working as a Professor of Graphics and 3D Design before founding my own architecture and interior design studio. Over time, my practice evolved through mosaics, stained glass, glass fusing, and metal plating into the mixed-media process I use today.
Since moving to Australia, I have been deeply inspired by the native landscape, botanicals, and wildlife. Walking through nature became an important part of my process and storytelling. Through my artworks, I try to capture moments where humanity and nature feel interconnected — sometimes fragile, sometimes powerful, but always deeply connected.
A full-time artist since 2016, my work has been exhibited at different galleries, and is held in private collections across Australia and the United States.
Three decades, three working languages.
The practice has gathered tools rather than swapped them. Everything I learned in print, paint and glass is still in the studio — it just sits behind the copper now.
Painting & print
where the work began
Linoprint, acrylic and oil, murals at architectural scale. The early years of my practice — and still the daily exercise that keeps the hand honest before any of the slower techniques begin.
Glass
mosaic, stained glass, lampwork, fusing
Glass came in through the architecture studio and stayed. I cut, score and fuse — sometimes for a single panel, sometimes as a small constellation set into a copper plate. The cut edge is a signature I have never wanted to grind away.
Copper & mixed media
the current practice
Oxidised copper, hand-cut glass, ink and pressed Australian botanicals — the four materials the studio runs on now. Each piece is the slow argument between what the landscape gives me and what the materials agree to carry.
I came to Australia and the landscape rewrote what I was making. The work has been finding its way back to nature ever since.
Exhibitions, practice and training.
The full record, kept short. Three views — switch as needed.
Works held in private collections across Australia and the United States.
Selected works available through Saatchi Art and Bluethumb.