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Latitude
-37.814167
Longitude
144.963056
Start Date
1966-01-01
End Date
1966-01-01

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ID
tb9a2f

Extended Data

DAAO URL
https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-ellis
Birth Place
Melbourne, Vic., Australia
Biography
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
Born
b. 1966
Summary
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.
Gender
Female
Died
None listed
Age at death
None listed