Kate Rohde completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001. Since then she has become known for her intensely detailed and colourful sculptural object and immersive installation based practice. The over-arching themes of Kate's work is the human relationship to nature and animals, with a particular emphasis on the collecting of animals, but also how they have frequently been used as the basis for decorative arts design, and feature prominently as motifs in historical art movements such as Rococo and Art Nouveau.

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Working across a number of mediums, her various skills and interests have seen her work in a number of creative arenas, including collaborating with Australian fashion house, Romance Was Born on their Renaissance Dinosaur collection in 2010, to running skills development workshops in the Torres Strait islands.

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Recent exhibitions include Luminous Realms,a solo survey of her work since 2006 at Craft, Magic Object; the 2016 Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 21stCentury Heide at Heide Museum of Modern Art, and Obsessed: Compelled to make at the Australian Design Centre, which is touring several venues around Australia from 2018 – 2021. In 2015 she was a finalist in the Rigg Design Prize at the National Gallery of Victoria. Her work is held in the collections of several institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia and the Museum of Applied Arts and Science in Sydney.

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The piece Black Mirror was originally created for the 2018 group exhibition 'Odile' and takes its inspiration from the black swan in Tchaikovsky’s classic tale Swan Lake.