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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Name
Kate Ellis
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Screen Artist)
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Birth date
1966
Birth place
Melbourne, Vic.
Active Period
  • 1990-
Residence
  • Melbourne, Vic.
Training
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1995 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Vic.
  • Advanced Certificate of Art and Design, 1990 Prahran College, Melbourne, Vic.
  • Bachelor of Applied Science, 1989 Lincoln Institute, La Trobe University, Vic.
Languages
  • English

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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)