Kate Just b. 1974

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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.
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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.


She was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1974 and moved to Melbourne permanently in 1996 where she has gained a number of degrees, namely a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts (where she now lectures), a Masters of Arts from RMIT, and a doctorate in sculpture from Monash.

She has been widely exhibited in solo shows and group shows across Australia and internationally, and been the recipient of many grants and prizes. She was included in the Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists at Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2012. Some of her most notable solo exhibits included her work Venus Was Her Name at the Kunsthalle in Krems, Austria, and also a Survey of Just’s major knitted works named Kate Just: The Knitted Work 2004-2011 were shown at Ararat Regional Gallery. She is currently represented by Daine Singer gallery in Melbourne.

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  • PhD 2010 - 2013 Monash University
  • Master of Arts (Fine Arts) 2006 - 2008 RMIT University
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts c.2002 - Victorian College of the Arts
  • PhD 2010 - 2013 Monash University
  • Master of Arts (Fine Arts) 2006 - 2008 RMIT University