BIOgraphy
Born Sydney, Australia 1982
Lives and works on Gubbi Gubbi Country, Sunshine Coast, Australia
Kate Mitchell is a multidisciplinary artist working across video, installation, photography, print, text and objects. Mitchell’s practice centres on the subject of work, teasing out intersecting themes such as labour, effort, time, productivity, value, wellbeing, and self help. Consistently imbued with a wry sense of humour, Mitchell’s practice draws attention to the perseverance required to maintain an artistic practice, as well as what it means to labour in contemporary times. Two guiding principles anchor Mitchell’s practice: the recognition that everything is interconnected and the ethos of working from where you are with what you’ve got.
Her work is included in leading public and private collections across Australia including: Kadist Foundation, Paris and San Francisco; Michael Buxton Collection, Melbourne; Artbank, Sydney and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
The artist is represented by Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney.
Select Solo Exhibitions
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2023 Open Channels, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
2020 All Auras Touch, Carriageworks, Sydney
2019 Working It Out, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
2017 Art By Accident, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury
2016 Hypnotised Into Being, Chalk Horse, Sydney
Hypnotised Into Being, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2015 In Time, Anna Schwartz Gallery Melbourne
2014 Future Fallout, Chalk Horse, Sydney
Future Fallout, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2012 Magic Undone, Artspace, Sydney
2009 Don’t Touch My Rocks, Chalk Horse, Sydney
2008 I Am Not A Joke, Chalk Horse, Sydney
2007 They guard it so carefully you’d think it were gold, Chalk Horse, Sydney
2006 I Could Be Your Big Dipper, collaboration with Marley Dawson, Firstdraft
Gallery, Sydney
2005 Chop Wood Carry Water, Gallery Wren, Sydney
2003 No Visible Peculiarities, collaboration with Todd McMillan, Gallery Wren, Sydney
Select Group Exhibitions
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2023 a rose is a rose is a rose, curated by James Gatt, Sydenham International, Sydney
Wild At Heart, Chalk Horse, Sydney
2022 Free/State, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
National Photography Prize, Murray Art Museum Albury
Idle Hands, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, New Zealand
2021 Horizon of Possibility, project curated by James Gatt, Sydney
2020 Hyper-linked, Together In Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2019 Enter, Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne
Big Screen showing In Time, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne
2018 Personal Best, Verge Gallery, Sydney
Zzzzz: Sleep, Somnambulism, Madness, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Coarse Stories, Goulburn Regional Gallery
2017 Opening Show, Chalk Horse, Sydney
Portraiture Invitational, Home@735, Sydney
MCA Artbar Curated by Julia Gorman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2016 The Waiting Room, Artbank Gallery, Sydney
Beyond Setting Suns, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Is This Thing On, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Grey Matter, Artbank Gallery, Sydney
Guirguis New Art Prize, Post Office Gallery & the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
Mapping The Drowned World, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney
Art As A Verb, Artspace, Sydney
Channels Video Art Festival, Melbourne
2014 Art As A Verb, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria
Bergie Seltzer, Firstdraft, Sydney
The Boondocks Experiment: Off the beaten track, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
Nahrain, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2013 The University of Queensland National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize: remix. post. connect, UQ Art Museum, Queensland
Laugh Out Loud, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
Anne Landa Video and New Media Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Pivotal, Bus Projects, Melbourne
Cheerful and Heroic, Southwestern College, San Diego
Microparks, Performance Space, Sydney
2012 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Contemporary Australia: Women, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
NEW12, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Error and Judgement, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2011 Social Sculpture, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
Your Thoughts With External Displays, TCB, Melbourne
2010 The Grip / La Mainmise, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Wall Work, collaboration with Michaela Gleave, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
I pay respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which I live, work and play, the Gubbi Gubbi people, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters, culture and community.