Kate Ellis b. 1966

  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Sculptor Kate Ellis plays on ideas of the mutant and the hybrid. Casting wax limbs - some female, some dog - she creates scientific-like exhibits that challenge the nature of beauty and the feminine fetish as created by mass culture.
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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

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Related stub person groups
  • 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne, Vic. (associate of)
  • Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Vic. (associate of)
Related collections
  • La Trobe University, Vic. (collected in)
  • Artbank (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Donlevy Fitzpatrick Award - Linden Post Card Show (received)
  • Darebin La Trobe Art Prize (received)
  • Linden Post Card Show, Donlevy Fitzpatrick Award (received)
  • National Gallery Women's Association Award (received)
Related events
  • Unsettled Boundaries (exhibited at)
  • Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects | Store 5 | 1st Floor (exhibited at)
  • Kate Ellis (exhibited at)
  • Kate Ellis (exhibited at)
  • wall/paper (exhibited at)
  • Oblique Shadows: Asian influences in Australian Sculpture (exhibited at)
  • Animal Magnetism (exhibited at)
  • Alter Point (exhibited at)
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)
  • A Taste in Art (exhibited at)
  • The First Darebin-Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize (exhibited at)
  • Kate Ellis (exhibited at)
  • Sense (exhibited at)
  • Between One and the Other (exhibited at)
  • Objects of Desire (exhibited at)