Kate Daw
Australian artist
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Kate Daw (1965 - September 2020) was an Australian visual artist and former Head of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.
Kate Daw | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1965 Esperance, Western Australia, Australia |
| Died | 7 September 2020 (aged 55) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Spouse | Robert Hassan |
Career
Kate Daw was born in 1965 in Esperance, Western Australia, and her family moved to Sorrento when she was five.[1] She initially studied art at the Western Australian Institute of Technology but dropped out when she was 18.[2] After moving to Melbourne, Daw graduated in Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 1989,[1] and began exhibiting work extensively from 1992.[3]
Her work incorporated canvas, ceramic, fabric and paper, though she later moved away from painting. She began a Master of Fine Arts degree at Glasgow School of Art in 1995, completing it back in Australia at RMIT University,[1] and also had several international artist residencies through the 1990s and 2010s.[4]
She collaborated with Scottish artist Stewart Russell on a series of works beginning in 2007,[4] including a residency at the Melbourne Cricket Ground,[5] where they developed Two Homes, Another World (2016), a project with Indigenous Australian football player Liam Jurrah,[2] and the installation Civil Twilight End (2011) at Melbourne Docklands.[4]
In the 2000s, Daw taught Painting at VCA, where she also begun her Doctorate,[1] with the thesis titled The Between Space: narrative in contemporary visual practice.[6] After five years as Head of Painting, she was made Head of Art at the VCA in 2018.[4]
After undergoing treatment for cancer, Kate Daw died 7 September 2020, aged 55.[1][3]
Selected exhibitions and works
- Work: four recent projects (1997), William Mora Galleries[7]
- The Between Space (2006), Art Gallery of Western Australia[8]
- Civil Twilight End with Stewart Russell (2011)[5]
- Green Lamp (2014), Biennale of Sydney[1]
- Lights No Eyes Can See (2015), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art[9]
- Love, Work (prelude, aftermath, everyday) (2020),[10] All That Was Solid Melts group exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery[11]
- Reverse Anthem with Stewart Russell (2021),[12] Rising (previously part of 2016's Two Homes, Another World)[13]
Collections
Kate Daw's work is held in several galleries and museums in Australia.
- Art Gallery of Western Australia[14]
- Australian Sports Museum[15]
- City of Melbourne[16]
- National Gallery of Victoria[17]