Ash Keating

Ash Keating
Ash Keating in 2023
Born	Ashley James Keating (1980-10-04) 4 October 1980 (age 44)
Nationality	Australian
Education	Victorian College of the Arts, Monash University
Known for	Painting
Website	ashkeating.com

Ash Keating (born 1980) is an Australian contemporary visual artist. ^[1]

Keating works within an expanded contemporary field, through painting, performance, sculpture, video and intervention. His large outdoor murals, created with paint-filled fire extinguishers, can be found across Melbourne. ^[2]

His practice is multidisciplinary, ranging from site-specific installations, ^[3] outdoor murals and performances, ^[4] to large-scale and domestic-scale canvases. ^[5]

Since 2004, he has exhibited extensively in galleries and undertaken large scale, site-responsive public art projects across Australia and internationally. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Biography

Ash Keating was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1980. ^[9] He studied Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Monash University in 2004, followed by a Bachelors of Fine Arts, First Class Honours (Painting) at Victorian College of the Arts in 2006. ^[10]

Collections

Keating's works are held in numerous public and private collections including:

• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne ^[11]
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ^[12]
• Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney ^[13]
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ^[14]
• Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne ^[15]
• Artbank, Melbourne ^[16]
• Shepparton Art Museum, Melbourne ^[17]

Selected exhibitions and projects

Selected solo exhibitions and projects

• 2023 Pressure, Bunjil Place Gallery, Narre Warren VIC ^[18]
• 2023 Ice Floes Response, At The Above, Fitzroy, VIC ^[19]
• 2023 Gravity System Response, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland ^[20]
• 2023 Perceptual Fields, Colector Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico ^[21]
• 2023 ELEVATION, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC ^[22]
• 2022 Gravity System Response, A.M. BJIERE, New York, New York, USA ^[23]
• 2021 Duality, Linden New Art, St Kilda, VIC ^[24]
• 2021 Gravity System Response, TW Fine Art, Brisbane QLD ^[25]
• 2019 Hume Response Paintings, Ash Keating Studio, Coburg North, VIC ^[26]
• 2018 Gravity System Response #81, commission for 2 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, VIC ^[27]
• 2018 Gravity System Response, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand ^[28]
• 2017 Gravity System Response, Blackartprojects, Melbourne, VIC ^[29]
• 2016 Response Paintings, Latrobe VAC, Bendigo, VIC ^[30]

Selected group exhibitions and projects

• 2021 Floating Land Biennale, Noosa National Park for Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, QLD ^[31]
• 2018 ART21 and VOLTA Art Fairs with Yavuz Gallery, Basel, Switzerland and Shanghai, China ^[32]
• 2018 Sydney Contemporary (2018 and 2017) with Blackartprojects, Sydney, NSW ^[33]
• 2017 Ramsay Art Prize 2017, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA ^[34]
• 2016 Occupied, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, VIC ^[35]
• 2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC ^[36]
• 2012 Artist's Proof #1, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, VIC ^[37]

Selected site specific solo art projects

• 2023 Painting of Haus Germann, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland ^[20]
• 2022 Gravity System Response Wall Painting for NAP Contemporary Mildura, VIC ^[38]
• 2022 Gravity System Response, (for Kaleidoscope) Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC ^[39]
• 2021 Sunset Response, wall painting on the facade of Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC ^[7]
• 2019 TarraWarra Response Painting, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC ^[40]
• 2018 Gravity System Response, City of Sydney's Domain, Sydney, NSW ^[41]
• 2016 Coastal Horizon Response, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, VIC ^[42]
• 2016 Arch Tunnel Response, North Byron Parklands, Splendour Arts, NSW ^[43]
• 2015 The Facade Project, Latrobe Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, VIC ^[44]
• 2015 Adelaide Festival Centre, presented by CACSA, Adelaide, SA ^[45]
• 2014 RMIT A’Beckett Urban Square, Melbourne, VIC ^[46]
• 2013 National Gallery of Victoria International Billboard for Melbourne Now, Melbourne, VIC ^[36]

Awards

Winner

• 2015 Incinerator Art Prize ^[47]
• 2013 Guirguis New Art Prize ^[48]
• 2012 Substation Contemporary Art Prize ^[49]
• 2011 Qantas Visual Arts Award ^[50]
• 2008 ANZ Art and Australia RIPE award. ^[51]

Finalist

• 2017 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia ^[34]
• 2011 Blake Prize ^[52]
• 2011 Substation Contemporary Art Award ^[53]
• 2009 Qantas SOYA awards ^[54]
• 2009 RBS Australian emerging artist awards ^[51]

Publications

• Ash Keating: Museum Langmatt. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023. Edited by Markus Stegmann. ISBN 9783775755160.
• Spirits in the Bush – The Art of Gippsland. Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. By Simon Gregg. ISBN 9781925801699.
• Art + Climate = Change. Melbourne University Publishing, 2016. By Guy Abrahams, Kelly Gellatly, and Bronwyn Johnson. ISBN 9780522869576.
• Performance Ritual Document. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. By Anne Marsh. ISBN 9781921394973.
• Curating Sydney: Imagining the City's Future. NewSouth Publishing, 2014. By Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel. ISBN 9781742247106.
• Video Void – Australian Video Art. Australian Scholarly Pub, 2014. Edited by Matthew Perkins. ISBN 9781925003796.
• Artists' Proof #1. Monash University Museum of Art I MUMA, 2012. By Geraldine Barlow, Max Delany, Shelley McSpedden, Francis Parker, Patrice Sharkey. ISBN 9780987295231.
• Making the University Matter. Taylor & Francis, 2012. Edited by Barbie Zelizer. ISBN 9781136696930.
• Time shrines: mourning and melancholia in the work of Ash Keating. Discipline Journal, 2012. By Amelia Barikin. ISSN 1839-082X.
• The Art of Engagement: Culture, collaboration, innovation. University of Western Australia, 2011. By Elaine Lally, Ien Ang, and Kay Anderson. ISBN 9781742582870.
• Junk - Art and the Politics of Trash. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. BY Gillian Whiteley. ISBN 9780857720214.
• Space Invaders - Australian Street Stencils, Posters, Paste-ups, Zines, Stickers. National Gallery of Australia, 2010. By Jaklyn Babington and Roger Butler. ISBN 9780642334114.
• Harmonic Tremors - Aesthetic Interventions in the Public Sphere. Gasworks Arts Park, 2009. Edited by Sarah Rainbird. ISBN 9780646503356.

Further reading

• Habitus Living, Big, beautiful and oozing with colour: The art of Ash Keating by Jan Henderson, 2023
• The Saturday Paper, Artist Ash Keating by Dee Jefferson, 2023
• Memo Review, Ice Floes Response by Philip Brophy, 2023
• Broadsheet, Under Pressure: Ash Keating Paints the Town Red (and Orange, Pink, Green and Blue) by Daniela Frangos, 2023
• Shepparton News, A window into the mind of an artist: Ash Keating’s Elevation by Jay Brice, 2023
• In Design Live, Sky’s the limit: Ash Keating turns future gallery site into an artwork by Jan Henderson, 2022
• The Local Project Issue 6, The Science of Art – Ash Keating by James Lyall Smith, 2021
• Observer, Ash Keating’s ‘Duality’ Evokes the Passage of Time by Cat Woods, 2021
• The Sydney Morning Herald, Art Created by a Lawn Spreader and Fire Hydrant Aims to Evoke Nature by Cat Woods, 2021
• Where they Create, Ash Keating by Ray Barbara, 2020
• The Design Files, by Sally Tabart, 2019
• The Design Files, Studio Visit Ash Keating , by Lucy Feagins, 2017
• Broadsheet, In the Artist’s Studio: Ash Keating , by Will Cox, 2017
• Catalogue essay for Ash Keating Selected Video Works 2006–2014, Ash Keating — Selected Video Works 2006–2014 by Din Heagney, 2015
• The Conversation, Nature makes abstract visual art more captivating by Misha Ketchell, 2014
• un Magazine, 7.1, No creation but through submission by Justin Clemens, 2013
• Discipline Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 2, Time Shrines: Mourning and Melancholia in the Work of Ash Keating by Amelia Barikin, 2013
• Monash University Museum of Art, Artists Proof #1 , by Max Delany, 2012
• Artlink, Taking Care of Business: Ash Keating , by Anthony Gardner, 2007

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