Kaisa May

Overview

Kaisa May is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, printmaking, collage and mixed media.

 

Working with a range of materials and supports, she explores the tension between abstraction and figuration through bold, gestural mark-making and a stripped- back, monochromatic palette. Her process values spontaneity, experimentation, and repetition. May regularly attends life drawing sessions, where she explores how to abstract the figure down to its most essential elements - capturing not just form, but the essence of the person. She is curious about working the space around figure, using geometry and linework to create force and tension.

 

May completed a Bachelor of Arts at California State University in 1994, with core concentration in Art History and has been exhibiting and painting full-time since 2012.

 

Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including at Liverpool Street Gallery, Duckrabbit, Hunters Hill Art Gallery and the SHAC (Southern Highlands Artist Collective). She is a resident artist at OnePlus2 Studios in Lilyfield and a member of the Glebe Life Drawing Group. 

 

May was a finalist in the inaugural Defiance Award in 2026.

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