Eveline Kotai

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Eveline Kotai (born 1950) is an Australian artist. Kotai is known for her idiosyncratic stitched collages, which involves the artist cutting up her paintings into thin strips and reconfiguring them across a surface with the use of a sewing machine and invisible thread. [1]

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Born in 1950 in Perth Western Australia, [2] she began her tertiary art studies in 1975-79 studying drawing and sculpture at Curtin University & TAFE. She currently resides in Fremantle, Western Australia.

In 2016, with collaborators Margaret Dillon and Penny Bovell, she created a public artwork for the Western Australia Museum Research Centre. [3]

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