Kate Just is an American-born Australian artist, well known for creating tactile sculptures and installations reinterpreting historic, mythic and iconographic objects and figures often linked to women's histories. In her works encompassing knitting, mixed media sculpture, collage, video and digital print, Just forefronts the materiality and power of bodily experience, and its transformative effect on identity.
In earlier elaborate knitted works, Just drew on myth and folklore linking women with nature to metaphorically reflect a range of personal experiences including the death of her brother, sexual awakening, and her desire to be a mother. These included a life-sized tree embedded with the faces and hands of her family, a Persephone-like figure descending into the muddy waters of her suburban lawn, a corn field sprouting from a bed, and the last moments of a Daphne's chosen transformation into a laurel bush. In each, vivid, appealing scene the physical and emotional mutability of women also relayed ideas of grappling with inevitable losses and life changes.
More recently, Just attempts to 'write' her own and a wider female bodily history with evocative resin-clay sculptures and collages of archetypal objects and forms including spiders webs, ominous eggs, keys, vessels and a range of mysterious tools and instruments.
Kate Just is represented by Daine Singer
NEWS:
Kate Just will be undertaking an Australia Council studio residency in Barcelona from January - March 2012. On return, Just will show new works at Daine Singer Gallery Melbourne in May 2012, and a survey show of Just's knitted sculptures will open at Ararat Regional Gallery. For more information see upcoming exhibitions below.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2011-12:
SOLO:
Venus was her name
Factory, Kunsthalle, Krems, Austria
16 October 2011 - 16 February 2012
Opening: Saturday 16 October 2011
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Kunsthalle, Krems
KATE JUST: NEW WORK
Daine Singer
May 2012
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Daine Singer
KATE JUST: KNITTED WORKS 2004 - 2011
Ararat Regional Gallery
17 May - 1 July 2012
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Ararat Regional Gallery
GROUP:
Recent Acquisitions, City of Port Phillip Collection
St Kilda Town Hall, St Kilda VIC
30 November to 29 December 2011
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City Of Port Phillip
Stories from the city, Stories from the sea, Queer urban tales
Curated by Jess Bridport
Substation, Newport VIC
January 15 – February 25 2012
An exhibition and series of performances with artists Andrew Browne, Lucas Grogan, Kate Just, Martha McDonald, T.V Moore, Patrick Pound & Heather B Swann.
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Substation Newport
Hello Dollies
Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW
4 April - 22 April 2012
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Penrith Regional Gallery
Dances with Wools
Bayside City Council, Brighton, VIC
29 Sep to 11 Nov 2012
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Bayside City Council
In earlier elaborate knitted works, Just drew on myth and folklore linking women with nature to metaphorically reflect a range of personal experiences including the death of her brother, sexual awakening, and her desire to be a mother. These included a life-sized tree embedded with the faces and hands of her family, a Persephone-like figure descending into the muddy waters of her suburban lawn, a corn field sprouting from a bed, and the last moments of a Daphne's chosen transformation into a laurel bush. In each, vivid, appealing scene the physical and emotional mutability of women also relayed ideas of grappling with inevitable losses and life changes.
More recently, Just attempts to 'write' her own and a wider female bodily history with evocative resin-clay sculptures and collages of archetypal objects and forms including spiders webs, ominous eggs, keys, vessels and a range of mysterious tools and instruments.
Kate Just is represented by Daine Singer
NEWS:
Kate Just will be undertaking an Australia Council studio residency in Barcelona from January - March 2012. On return, Just will show new works at Daine Singer Gallery Melbourne in May 2012, and a survey show of Just's knitted sculptures will open at Ararat Regional Gallery. For more information see upcoming exhibitions below.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2011-12:
SOLO:
Venus was her name
Factory, Kunsthalle, Krems, Austria
16 October 2011 - 16 February 2012
Opening: Saturday 16 October 2011
For more information go to
KATE JUST: NEW WORK
Daine Singer
May 2012
For more information go to:
KATE JUST: KNITTED WORKS 2004 - 2011
Ararat Regional Gallery
17 May - 1 July 2012
For more information go to:
GROUP:
Recent Acquisitions, City of Port Phillip Collection
St Kilda Town Hall, St Kilda VIC
30 November to 29 December 2011
For more information go to:
Stories from the city, Stories from the sea, Queer urban tales
Curated by Jess Bridport
Substation, Newport VIC
January 15 – February 25 2012
An exhibition and series of performances with artists Andrew Browne, Lucas Grogan, Kate Just, Martha McDonald, T.V Moore, Patrick Pound & Heather B Swann.
For more information go to:
Hello Dollies
Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW
4 April - 22 April 2012
For more information go to:
Dances with Wools
Bayside City Council, Brighton, VIC
29 Sep to 11 Nov 2012
For more information go to:
