She holds a BA in Visual and Performing Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts and a wide knowledge and understanding of Australian art and painting.

Katrina became immersed in the practice of painting during a residency in Provence, France in 2022 and since then has exhibited in France, Sydney, Brisbane and regional Queensland.

She has been selected for the Curator’s Choice exhibition and prize at the 2026 Fleurieu Biennale and was a finalist in the John Villers Outback Art Prize (2026) and the Waverley Woollahra Art School 9x5 Landscape Prize (2026). She was a also a finalist in the Du Rietz Art Award (2025, 2024), Lethbridge Small Scale Art Prize, Salon des Refusés (2026, 2024), and the inaugural Noosa Art Prize 2024.

Katrina Pennock’s work embraces a strong, evocative sense of light and place, inspired by her love of European and Australian landscape painters. With respect to tradition she describes her work as modern romantic landscapes.