Kate Daw

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Kate Daw
Born1965
Esperance, Western Australia, Australia
Died7 September 2020
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
SpouseRobert Hassan

Kate Daw (1965-2020) was an Australian visual artist and former Head of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.

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Career

Kate Daw was born in 1965 in Esperance, Western Australia, and her family moved to Sorrento when she was five. [1] She initially studied art at the Western Australian Institute of Technology but dropped out when she was 18. [2] After moving to Melbourne, Daw graduated in Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 1989, [1] and began exhibiting work extensively from 1992. [3]

Her work incorporated canvas, ceramic, fabric and paper, though she later moved away from painting. She began a Master of Fine Arts degree at Glasgow School of Art in 1995, completing it back in Australia at RMIT University, [1] and also had several international artist residencies through the 1990s and 2010s. [4]

She collaborated with Scottish artist Stewart Russell on a series of works beginning in 2007, [4] including a residency at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, [5] where they developed Two Homes, Another World (2016), a project with Indigenous Australian football player Liam Jurrah, [2] and the installation Civil Twilight End (2011) at Melbourne Docklands. [4]

In the 2000s, Daw taught Painting at VCA, where she also begun her Doctorate, [1] with the thesis titled The Between Space: narrative in contemporary visual practice. [6] After five years as Head of Painting, she was made Head of Art at the VCA in 2018. [4]

After undergoing treatment for cancer, Kate Daw died 7 September 2020, aged 55. [1] [3]

Selected exhibitions and works

Collections

Kate Daw's work is held in several galleries and museums in Australia.

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  12. ↑ "RISING: Reverse Anthem". rising.melbourne. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
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