Kate Georgallas
Kate Georgallas has been an active artist since returning to Nova Scotia in 1986. Her work has been shown in galleries across Nova Scotia (both as Kate Brown and Kate Brown Georgallas).
Kate Georgallas has been an active artist since returning to Nova Scotia in 1986. Her work has been shown in galleries across Nova Scotia (both as Kate Brown and Kate Brown Georgallas). She has had solo and group shows at The Duke of Argyle in Halifax, The Carriage House inWolfville, Lyghtsome Gallery, Antigonish, The Anna Leonowans Gallery in Halifax, and the StFX. Gallery, in Antigonish.
An extensive display of Kate’s work; both etchings and originals are continually shown at Down To Earth Art & Fine Framing. You can view some of Kate Georgallas’s pieces on our website. www.downtoearth.ca In theatre, Kate has designed and painted the sets for the production of Brigadoon (March,2001) and West Side Story (March,2002) at Theatre Antigonish.
She also painted the backdrop for the award-winning set of For the Pleasure if Seeing Her, produced by Festival Antigonish, summer 2001.
She has produced some colorful and dramatic murals, which decorate popular spots in Antigonish. These include The Dragon on Main Street Antigonish, The Pastoral Scene inside The Sunshine Café and The Entrance Mural of the Bauer Theatre on the StFX. Campus. Along with all this she has also illustrated a children’s book, Sandy Chisholm’s Chanter Lessons, by local writer and bagpiper Scott Williams. Kate has been a member of the StFX. Art Department since 1987. She has taught many workshops and courses in fine art, both for Extension and for university credit.
For several years she was the Coordinator of the Fine Arts Program for Continuing Education at StFX.
More About Kate
Kate’s work can be called expressive realism. She has a love of simple, elegant line, and bright, pure colour. She strives to create a sense of presence and a captured moment in her work. Kate’s work includes small delicate prints, large oil and acrylic paintings, and watercolour sketches.
Kate’s paintings and prints have been shown in maritime galleries and abroad. She has also been highlighted as a feature artist in the literary journal ‘The Antigonish Review’. Kate’s most recent project was a show of new works at STFX art gallery and only months before in the fall showed at the Peoples Place Library in a two person show with her mother Marg Brown. Prior to those shows she had completed a 60 foot key-note Mural for The PEOPLES PLACE LIBRARY, a new state of the art, green building which features Art work from Artists across Nova Scotia.
Kate has been exhibiting with the Nova Scotia Print-making Society since its inception with recent showings in Halifax and Ithaca, New York. She is also a member and acting secretary of her local print-making society, The Antigonish Society of Printmakers. She has given workshops in etching and printmaking across the province. Kate is an avid drawer of the figure and attends life drawing classes regularly. She is a faculty member of STFX University teaching both drawing and painting to undergraduate students.