Kay Cohen is a Victoria-based artist whose practice centres on the use of epoxy resin across casting, pouring, and layered painting. Her work emerges from a design background that informs both the precision of her material choices and the structural clarity of her compositions. This dual influence allows her to fuse technical innovation with a sensibility for surface and light, creating works that are at once rigorous and sensuous.

Central to Cohen’s practice is an ongoing exploration of how resin can embody both solidity and fluidity, transparency and opacity. She is particularly drawn to the medium’s ability to capture and refract light, producing surfaces that shift in tone and depth as the viewer moves. Her practice engages with both formal structures and abstraction, distilling geometry into luminous, shifting fields. Motifs of cubes stacked planes, and strata often appear, evoking architectures and cityscapes that feel simultaneously futuristic and unstable.

Her recent series incorporates fluoro and metallic pigments that intensify these optical effects, producing fields of colour that glow, fracture, or dissolve depending on the angle of view. The resulting works oscillate between the organic and the digital, between the language of modernist abstraction and the aesthetics of technological display.

Cohen’s practice speaks to broader questions of beauty, human achievement, and the potential dystopias inherent in rapid transformation. By pushing resin beyond its conventional uses, she creates visual spaces that ask the viewer to consider how materials can both mirror and distort contemporary experience.

She lives and works in Mount Macedon, Victoria, where her studio practice continues to develop new methods of layering, colour, and surface in pursuit of the luminous and the unresolved.