Melbourne based artist Kate Wallace looks to record and translate her own experience of place and urban living through the dialogue of representational painting. Using techniques such as scale, cropping, blur, repetition, montage and detail, her works are concerned with the translation of memory and construction of past through painting. Informed by photographs taken in wait or transit, Wallace considers our shared view of the world as an intimate counterpoint to the fast and constant experience of today.
Kate completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2018, receiving the Wingate Student Fellowship Art Prize. Kate has exhibited across galleries in Melbourne and is a recent recipient of a Career Development Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts.
Education
2018 Master of Contemporary Art Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2015 Master of Art Curatorship University of Melbourne
2012 Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) RMIT University
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Views To Remember, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford
Views to a room, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne
2018
Pictures, Alternating Current Art Space, Windsor
2016
In Transit, Alternating Current Art Space, Windsor
2013
Moving Still, Red Gallery Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy
Group Exhibitions
2020
New Landscapes, Lon Gallery, Collingwood
Small Mercies Fundraiser, River Studios, West Melbourne
Dimensions, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
2019
Futures, Hyper Contemporary, Preston
Coalescence, Linden Projects Space, St. Kilda
The Museum of Platitudes and Aphorisms, Rubicon Ari, North Melbourne
The “F” Word, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray
‘Love me, love me, say that you love me’, No Vacancy, Melbourne
2018
VCA Masters Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts
#fromwhereistand, George Patton Gallery, Melbourne
2017
Magic Fountain, Student Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts
2016
Summer Salon, Alternating Current Art Space, Windsor
Chalk and Cheese, Alternating Current Art Space, Windsor
Belle Arti Prize, Chapman and Bailey, Abbotsford
2015
Colour in Action, Penang, Malaysia
2014
Daylesford Group Residency Exhibition, D11, Docklands
2013
Flanagan Art Prize, St Patrick’s College, Ballarat
Brunswick Street Gallery 40×40 Art Prize Exhibition, Fitzroy
2012
Expanded Studio Practice- Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) Graduation Exhibition, RMIT University, Melbourne
Group show, Cato Gallery, The Victorian Artist Society, Melbourne
2010
Top Arts 2009, Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne
Awards/ Grants/ Residencies
2022 Nars Foundation International Artist’s Residency, New York
2020 Career Development Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
Constant Ecology At Home Residency
2018 Wingate Student Fellowship
2012 Tolarno Hotel/ RMIT Painting Prize
Kate Wallace 