Sculptor Kate Ellis lives and works in Melbourne. She completed a Bachelor of Applied Science at La Trobe University’s Lincoln Institute in 1989 before completing an Advanced Certificate of Art and Design at Prahan College, Melbourne in 1990 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 1995.
Ellis has held several solo exhibitions at Melbourne galleries 1st Floor and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and in 2006 held a solo show at Arc One Gallery as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
Ellis has also participated in a number of group exhibition since the early 1990s including A Taste in Art , Sotheby’s Australia, Melbourne (1997); Alter Point (Next Wave Festival), 1st Floor, Melbourne (1998); Darebin La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize , Bundoora Park Homestead, Melbourne (1999); Animal Magnetism , Platform 2, Spencer Street Station, Melbourne (1999); Oblique Shadows: Asian influences in Australian Sculpture , Sculpture Square, Singapore (2001), VCA Gallery, Melbourne Mornington Regional Gallery(2002); wall/paper , Australian Galleries, Melbourne (2003); Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects | Store 5 | 1st Floor , Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2005); You’re so Vain: 5 contemporary sculptors , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2005); and Unsettled Boundaries , the Melbourne International Arts Festival touring show that travelled to Geelong Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, La Trobe Regional Art Gallery and Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (2006).
Among her various achievements, Ellis has been the recipient of the Darebin La Trobe Art Prize (1999), the Linden Post Card Show, Donlevy Fitzpatrick Award (1999) and the National Women’s Association Award (1992).
- Writers:
- Woodbury, Karen
- Date written:
- 2008
- Last updated:
- 2011
