Contemporary, coastal fine art for your home. Bring the Australian Coastline into your home with a unique piece constructed using Australian native shells.

Native Australian Shells. Coastal Contemporary Fine Art. Phillip Island.

Kate is an emerging contemporary artist, who creates shell artworks inspired by the coast, marine life and the natural forms found along Australia’s southern shoreline.

Kate collects native Australian molluscs and bivalves from the Victorian coastline under a permit issued by the Victorian Fisheries Authority. Each shell is carefully selected before being meticulously prepared for use in her work.

Every piece is composed by hand in her studio on Millowl (Phillip Island), using natural materials arranged in repeated forms, circles and patterns that highlight the subtle variations in colour, texture and shape found in each species.

Designed as original works of contemporary fine art, each piece transforms small and familiar elements of the shoreline into something refined, tactile and distinctly Australian. Kate’s work became commercially available in September 2026.

Selected Works

A selection of works chosen for upcoming curated exhibitions, art prizes and public gallery shows.

Unsold works will be available for purchase online at the conclusion of each show.

Contempora Exhibition

Selected works will be available for purchase at the curated PICES Contempora Exhibition.

Bernineet Art Gallery. Cowes, Victoria.

16th January - 31st January 2027.

Shell art formed with native Australian black nerite shells, paired with tall, ribbed limpets shells from Bass Coast.

Tall Ribbed Limpet + Black Nerite Shells #1

Patelloida Alticostata + Nerita Atramentosa + Nerita melanotragus

50cm x 50cm

$850

Stunning fine art piece created using the inner spirals of Australia's native Wavy Turban shell, found along many southern beaches in Australia.

Wavy Turban Shell Spirals #1

Turbo (Subninella) Undulatus

50cm x 50cm

$850

Two similar but distinct species of Victorian nerite shells are featured in this monochromatic, contemporary artwork created in Gippsland.

Black Nerite Shells #1

40cm x 40cm

$700

Nerita Atramentosa + Nerita Melanotragus

A circular art piece with a center of white shells surrounded by a ring of pinecone scales, all framed in a white square frame.

Lineated Cominella + cone shape hoof shells#1

Cominella Lineolata + Sabia Australis

40cm x 40cm

$700

Intricately constructed artwork featuring hand sanded lineated cominella shells, found in South Gippsland and lovingly made on Phillip Island.

Cominella Lineolata

Lineated Cominella shells#1

50cm x 50cm

$850

A favourite shell of those visiting Phillip Island. These beautiful Jewel top shells create a rainbow of colour.

Beautiful Jewel Top Shells #1

Prothalotia Pulcherrima

40cm x 40cm

$700

Small Works Show + Prize

Selected works will be available for viewing and purchase at upcoming CNG Art Advisory small works show + prize.

Ladder Art Space, Kew. Victoria

3rd December - 23rd December 2026

Iterations of the Wavy Turban Shell

Turbo (Subninella) Undulatus

Created in response to the exhibition theme Emergence, this series explores the Wavy Turban Shell through the forms that reveal themselves as the shell decomposes. Each work focuses on a different component as it emerges from the breakdown of the original structure, drawing attention to the unexpected beauty found in transformation. Together, the works consider emergence not as a beginning, but as something that can also occur through decay, change and the afterlife of the living shell.

Framed artworks 173mm x 173mm (no glass)

$200 each