Kafka sees her practice, the language of painting and sculpture as a way of making sense of the world: a process driven inquiry into colour, form, and surface. Guided by intuition and a deep sensitivity to process.

Kafka’s work begins with experimentation and research -collecting images, surfaces, and colours during travels and in everyday life. These encounters inform a process rooted in intuition and material exploration. Her paintings evolve through a visceral, repetitive act of layering, painting and sanding. Paint mixed with feldspar potash creates a smooth tactile surface with the marks almost buried in the material. Each layer becomes an opportunity for transformation, where composition shifts organically and unpredictably. The outcome remains deliberately illusive until a subject emerges.

Based in the Northern Rivers on Bundjalung Country, Kafka is an emerging artist and a 2024 graduate of the Byron School of Art. She was awarded the Byron School of Art Graduate Prize: a solo exhibition at the Tweed Regional Gallery in 2025 and was also a 2024 finalist in the Wollumbin Art Award.