Kate Just b. 1974

  • Artist
Kate Just is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne who creates highly personal mixed media installations and sculptures around themes of feminism, womanhood, identity and personal narrative within the context of history and mythology.
creator of
Postscript: A Burial Suit
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Hand knitted bamboo and merino yarns, wood, steel, paint. Digital Print on dibond aluminium.

Postscript: A Burial Suit (2013) consists of a life-size image of the artist wearing a handmade knitted burial suit, and the physical suit itself. The suit is covered in symbols representing different aspects of her life and experiences.

 
creator of
The Skin of Hope
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Mixed media including knitted sculpture, resin sculpture, photographic works.

This work is a mixed media work, consisting of sculptures and photographs, and was produced while Just was on an Australian Council residency in Barcelona. It is an exploration of the ways in which she relates and bonds with her adopted daughter at a skin level. Each of the pieces in terms of use of media have conceptual relations to skin, such as knitting or clay.