KATE MCCARTHY
  • painting
  • raster drawings
  • Video and new media
  • sculpture
  • CV
  • artist statement
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  • painting
  • raster drawings
  • Video and new media
  • sculpture
  • CV
  • artist statement
  • in the news
  • contact
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CURRENT & UPCOMING:
Metamorph at No Vacancy,
Melbourne
July 1- Sept 30 2020

For the Deckade by Fort Heart at No Vacancy, Melbourne
Nov 4- 8 2020

In the past few years, Kate has exhibited in Berlin, London and the Gold Coast, Melbourne, Hobart, and in Chicago. With a history of focussing on painting, Kate has directed her work into modern soft sculpture, incorporating traditional embroidery, reflecting the role of the traditional within contemporary art.


She has been the recipient of Arts Tasmania’s Artsbridge program twice, to hold an solo exhibition in Chicago at Matthew Rachman Gallery and to travel to Kuala Lumpur to hold workshops, as well as a finalist in The Bay of Fires Art Prize 2012, Lethbridge 10000 Award 2018, Clayton Utz Art Prize 2017, and The Henry Jones Art Prize 2018, among other achievements.


She holds exhibitions at least every eighteen months, two of these in Italy; with her latest being Panpsychism with Adelaide artist, Dan Withey, preceded by a duo show with Ben Ely from Brisbane, both at Penny Contemporary, Hobart. Group exhibitions include the Polygon Project, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart (2016). This show included thirty artists from across the globe such as Lori Nelson and Danielle Krysa; Red, curated by Richard Denny, Sofitel Gold Coast (2015) and a show curated by Juan Arata at Michael Reid Berlin Gallery (2015) and The Plasticine Factory in London (2016).


McCarthy clearly trusts her instincts and is not afraid to go in a new direction, guided by her skills and a delirious, flexible lexicon of shapes and colours. Andrew Harper, review for tasweekend, 2016


With childlike shapes and mysterious figures, there is something uncanny about her paintings. They are at once familiar and strange. They feel cozy, they appear wrapped up like a gift, and they are definitely hiding something.
Kristin Farr, Juxtapoz, 2016




 
KATE McCARTHY CV 2018

Born Brisbane, Queensland. Lives between Melbourne, Victoria and Hobart, Tasmania.


REPRESENTATION

Mathew Rachman Gallery, Chicago, USA                             www.matthewrachmangallery.com
​Penny Contemporary, Hobart, Australia                               www.pennycontemporary.com.au
CSArt, Reggio Emilia, Italy                                                      www.csart.it


ACHIEVEMENTS

2020 Finalist Southern Buoy Portrait Prize

2019 Rimbun Dahan Artist Residency 

2018 finalist Henry Jones Art Award (Award TBA)

​2018 finalist Lethbridge 10000 Award

2017 finalist Clayton Utz Art Prize

2017 Recipient of Arts Connect Grant, Arts Tasmania, for travel support to facilitate workshops in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2017 Recipient of Arts Connect Grant, Arts Tasmania, for travel support to travel to USA for solo show in Chicago

2014 Finalist, LCH Art Prize, Launceston

2013 Finalist Bay of Fires Art Prize

2012 Finalist DHG Art Prize (mural design), Prato, Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Panpsychism with Dan Withey, Penny Contemporary, Hobart

​2020 Bizzarre!! with Ben Ely, Penny Contemporary, Hobart

​2018 Dumbo! Penny Contemporary, Hobart

2017 The Fantastic Nest, Mathew Rachman Gallery, Chicago, USA (
with kind thanks to Arts Tasmania and the Minister)

​2016 Big + Little, Penny Contemporary, Hobart

2014 The Small Things, Penny Contemporary, Hobart

2012 Fun With Words, Penny Contemporary, Hobart

2011 Sydney Fringe Festival, New Town, Sydney

2009 Self, The Wall Exhibition Space, Arts Tasmania Arts Centre Hobart

2010 Chux Redux, CSart, Reggio Emilia, Italy.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2017 Chain Gang, Lot 19, Castlemaine

2016 Plasticine Art Factory, London

​2015 Co-curator of group show Editions #1 at Penny Contemporary with Laura E. Kennedy

2015 Pop-up show curated by Juan Arata at Michael Reid Berlin Gallery, Berlin

2015 Sofitel, curated by Richard Denny, Gold Coast

2015 To Be Edited, Penny Contemporary, Hobart

2014 Under 1 Roof, Group Show, New York

2011 On the Wall with Leeloo and Finders Keepers, Carriageworks, Sydney

2011 An Indispensable Item, Gilligan Grant Gallery, Collingwood

2010 Aussie Girls, CSArt, Reggio Emila, Italia

2010 On the Wall, Finders Keepers and Leeloo, CarraigeWorks, Sydney

2010 Art Melbourne 10, Retrospect Galleries, Melbourne, Australia

2010 Who Got The Bunny, GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY, Collingwood Australia

2009 Petit Travaux, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia

2009 Art Melbourne 09, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2008 BSG Small Works (finalist)


PUBLICATIONS, BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS

Controlled Chaos, Andrew Harper, tasweekend for The Mercury, May 28-29, 2016

Juxtapoz Online, March 4, 2016


Artescape Magazine 2015

Big Kids Magazine 2015

2014/2015 We Are Hobart artwork feature

2013 Illustrated John D. and Me by Sonia Penny, project ongoing

2013 RAH Collective

2011 The Sunday Age Newspaper Magazine, June 19th, 2011
  • painting
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