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Australian artist

Katie West is a Western Australian interdisciplinary artist. Her work often features dyed textiles and native plants, creating multi-sensory installations.

Early life

West grew up in on a farm on Noongar country, north of Perth, and is of Yindjibarndi descent.

Art practice

Her exhibitions often feature dyed textiles and native plants, sewn and woven. She exhibits multi-sensory installations. She documents the processes of her work as a form of storytelling. She often uses motifs such as baskets or digging sticks as critical commentary on how museum collections show "cultural objects and their makers as fixed in time".

Recognition and awards

West won the Falls Creek Resort Indigenous Art Award and Dominik Mersch Gallery Award in 2017.

She was chosen as a participant in the Kickstart program in 2015 and exhibited at the Next Wave Festival in 2016.

In 2023, her work Fence lines & Digging sticks was selected as a finalist for the Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

References

  1. ^ "Katie West". Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  2. "Katie West: warna (ground)". Memo Review. 15 December 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. "Decolonist". Next Wave Festival 2016. May 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  4. "Katie West: Clearing". TarraWarra Museum of Art. 20 December 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  5. "Debutantes: Katie West". Art Collector Magazine. 19 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  6. "Katie West: Wilayi bangarrii, wanyaarri (go for a walk, listen)". Art Collector Magazine. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  7. "Katie West: Living well". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  8. Sigglekow, Zara (16 August 2019). "Katie West's seasonal Dyeing and Gentle Making". Art Guide Australia. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  9. West, Katie (18 May 2016). "My art is a personal antidote for the effects of colonisation". The Guardian. No. Australian. The Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  10. "Katie West". Dominik Mersch Gallery. Dominik Mersch Gallery. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  11. ^ Dalgarno, Paul (5 December 2017). "The inaugural ART 150 Fellowship winner – and a raft of new art prizes". Precinct. University of Melbourne. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  12. 24 March 2018. "KATIE WEST - Winner of the 2018 DMG/VCA award". Issuu. Dominik Mersch Gallery. Retrieved 7 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. "Katie West / Artists / Next Wave". nextwave.org.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.

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