Katie West
Australian artist
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Katie West is a Western Australian interdisciplinary artist. Her work often features dyed textiles and native plants, creating multi-sensory installations.
Early life
West grew up in on a farm on Noongar country, north of Perth, and is of Yindjibarndi descent.[1]
Art practice
Her exhibitions often feature dyed textiles and native plants, sewn and woven.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] She exhibits multi-sensory installations.[9] She documents the processes of her work as a form of storytelling.[10] She often uses motifs such as baskets or digging sticks as critical commentary on how museum collections show "cultural objects and their makers as fixed in time".[1]
Recognition and awards
West won the Falls Creek Resort Indigenous Art Award[11] and Dominik Mersch Gallery Award in 2017.[11][12]
She was chosen as a participant in the Kickstart program in 2015 and exhibited at the Next Wave Festival in 2016.[13]
In 2023, her work Fence lines & Digging sticks was selected as a finalist for the Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia.[1]
