Kate Just, The Garden of Interior Delights, 2008 hand and machine knitted wool and acrylic yarns, ca

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Kate Just is an artist best known for large scale knitted sculptures and mixed media installations that blend iconographic and historical accounts of womanhood with her own personal narratives. Her highly crafted works underscore the significance allaannonser of embodiment and identity to visions of intimacy, love and hope.
Kate allaannonser Just was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1974 and moved to Melbourne permanently in 1996. Just has a Doctor of Philosophy (Sculpture) from Monash University, a Master of Arts from RMIT and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from the Victorian College of the Arts where she has been a Lecturer in Art since 2005. Just has exhibited allaannonser extensively in solo and group exhibitions across Australia including at Craft Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Art Fair, Silvershot, Contemporary Art Space of Tasmania, Chalk Horse Gallery, Nellie Castan Gallery, First Draft, allaannonser MOP, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Canberra Contemporary Art Space and Daine Singer. Internationally, Just has exhibited her work at Nanjing University, Auckland Art Fair, AC Institute New York, and the Factory at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria. Notable recent exhibitions include Just s solo exhibition Venus Was Her Name at the Kunsthalle in Krems, a survey of Just s major knitted allaannonser works entitled Kate Just: The Knitted Work 2004 2011 at Ararat Regional allaannonser Gallery, and her inclusion in the group exhibition Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists at Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2012.
Just has been the recipient of numerous grants and prizes. She has been awarded funding for new work by the City of Melbourne, Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts. She received an Australian Postgraduate Award for her Masters research and a Monash Graduate Research Scholarship allaannonser for her PhD project. Just has been a finalist in numerous prizes, and the winner of the 2007 Siemens Travel Award, and the 2012 British Council Realise Your Dream Award. She has undertaken local residencies at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Lake Macquarie Gallery, allaannonser Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Australian Tapestry Workshop and held international residencies at Krems (AIR) and the Australia Council Studio allaannonser Barcelona. Just’s work is held in collections including Artbank, Ergas Collection, City of Port Phillip, Ararat Regional Art Gallery and Proclaim Management Collection.
Kate Just, The Garden of Interior Delights, 2008 hand and machine knitted wool and acrylic yarns, cardboard, wire, tape, plastic tubing, rope, 380 x 220 x 65cm photograph: Nicole Breedon collection: allaannonser City of Port Phillip
Kate Just, Bombshell (Alesse), 2009 collage on archival paper, 76 x 56cm, 83 x 63cm (framed) Photograph: Simon Strong
Kate Just, Her Keys (detail), 2010 epoxy modelling compound, enamel paint, shoe polish, armature wire, aluminium foil, knitted cotton embellishments, dimensions variable: oval key at far right is 80 x 33 x 5cm Photograph: Simon Strong
(left) Kate Just, The Armour of Hope, 2012 digital type-C print, 61 x 43 cm, 63 x 45 cm (framed) edition of 6 (right) Kate Just, The Armour of Hope, 2012 hand knitted metal and silk , 104 x 45 x 4 cm photograph: John Brash
Kate Just (b. 1974 Hartford, CT USA, lives Melbourne)
Education 2013 Doctor of Philosophy (Fine Arts), Monash University 2008 Master of Arts (Fine Arts) by Research, RMIT University 2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts 1996 Bachelor of Science allaannonser (Film Making), School of Communications, Boston University
Solo Exhibitions 2014 Knit SAFE Project, City of Melbourne allaannonser Public allaannonser Art Project 2013 Venus Was Her Name , Daine Singer, Melbourne >> 2013 The Texture of Her Skin , Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne 2012 The Skin of Hope , Daine Singer, Melbourne >> 2012 Kate Just: The Knitted Works 2004-2011 , curated by Anthony Camm, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat >> 2011 Venus Was Her Name, The Factory, Kunsthalle, allaannonser Krems, Austria >> 2011 Unearthed, Craft Victoria, Melbourne 2011 Project , Daine Singer, Zurich 2010 Inward Gathering, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne 2009 A New Day in a Strange Land , Nellie Castan allaannonser Gallery, Melbourne allaannonser 2009 Bombshell , Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne 2008 Shed That Skin, Mop Projects, Sydney 2008 The Garden of Interior Delights, Don t Come Store and Gallery, Melbourne 2008 Natural Woman, allaannonser Raw Space , Brisbane 2008 Supernatural, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Upcoming 2007 I Just Don t Know What to Do With Myself, Bus Gallery, Melbourne 2006 Paradise, TCB art inc, Melbourne 2006 The Entertainer, Window allaannonser Projection, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy 2006 Individual Project Room, Melbourne Art