Ash Keating

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Ash Keating (born 1980) is an Australian contemporary visual artist.{{Cite web|url = https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/24375/|title = Ash Keating|date = |accessdate =|website = The National Gallery of Victoria|publisher = |last = |first = }}

Keating works within an expanded contemporary field, through painting, performance, sculpture, video and intervention. His large outdoor murals, created with paint-filled fire extinguishers, can be found across Melbourne.{{Cite web|url = https://www.davidhagger.com/liv-albert-fields | title = Liv Albert Fields Brunswick, Victoria |date = |accessdate =|website = David Hagger|publisher = |last = |first = }}

His practice is multidisciplinary, ranging from site-specific installations,{{Cite web|url = https://www.scapepublicart.org.nz/artist/ash-keating/|title = Ash Keating|date = 10 September 2021|accessdate =|website = Scape Public Art NZ|publisher = |last = |first = }} outdoor murals and performances,{{Cite web|url = https://news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/photos/blasting-colour-see-the-evolution-of-ash-keatings-first-outdoor-mural-in-sydney|title = Blasting colour: See the evolution of Ash Keating's first outdoor mural project in Sydney|date = |accessdate =|website = City of Sydney - News|publisher = |last = |first = }} to large-scale and domestic-scale canvases.{{Cite web|url = https://www.sheppnews.com.au/community/a-window-into-the-mind-of-an-artist-ash-keatings-elevation/|title = A window into the mind of an artist: Ash Keating's ELEVATION|date = 11 April 2023|accessdate =|website = Shepparton News|publisher = |last = |first = }}

Since 2004, he has exhibited extensively in galleries and undertaken large scale, site-responsive public art projects across Australia and internationally.{{Cite web|url = https://www.langmatt.ch/en/exhibitions/ashkeating|title = Ash Keating|date = |accessdate =|website = The Museum Langmatt|publisher = |last = |first = }}{{Cite news|url = https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-01/inspiration-behind-warrnambool-art-gallery-fluro-makeover/100662848|title = Warrnambool Art Gallery gets a fluorescent makeover as part of Wallawar Festival |date = December 2021|accessdate =|newspaper = ABC News |last = |first = }}{{Cite web|url = https://murals-inc.com/projecten/murals-inc-machine-painting-show-5-9-feb-2020|title = Art Rotterdam 2020, 'Murals Inc. Machine Painting Show', with Rutger de Vries and Ash Keating. Location: Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam |date = |accessdate =|website = Murals Inc |last = |first = }}

Biography

Ash Keating was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1980.{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1649615 | title=Keating,Ash| website=National Library of Australia|accessdate=}} He studied Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Monash University in 2004, followed by a Bachelors of Fine Arts, First Class Honours (Painting) at Victorian College of the Arts in 2006.{{Cite web|url = https://graduate-search.monash.edu|title = Monash University Graduate Search Facility|date = |accessdate =|website = Monash University |publisher = |last = |first = }}

Collections

Keating's works are held in numerous public and private collections including:

  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne{{Cite web|url = https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/105841/ |title = The west park proposition 2012 Ash KEATING |date = |accessdate =|website = The National Gallery of Victoria|publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra{{Cite web|url = https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/artist/32806/ash-keating |title = Ash Keating born 1980, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |date = |accessdate =|website = The National Gallery of Australia|publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney{{Cite web|url = https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/c3west/ash-keating-activate-2750/|title = Ash Keating: Activate 2750|date = |accessdate =|website = The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia|publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney{{Cite web|url = https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/317.2015/|title =The uprising #5 2009 Ash Keating Australia 1980 |date = |accessdate =|website = The Art Gallery of NSW |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne{{Cite web|url = https://www.monash.edu/muma/collection/browse-collection |title = Ash Keating West Park proposition 2012 |date = 9 February 2022|accessdate =|website = Monash University Museum of Art |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • Artbank, Melbourne {{Cite web|url = https://www.artbank.gov.au/search/profile/13787

|title = Ash Keating West Park Proposition, 2013|date = |accessdate =|website = Artbank |publisher = |last = |first = }}

  • Shepparton Art Museum, Melbourne {{Cite web|url = https://sheppartonartmuseum.com.au/news/2023/03/08/ash-keating-to-open-solo-exhibition-at-sam-in-march/

|title = Ash Keating: Elevation, 2023|date = |accessdate =|website = SAM |publisher = |last = |first = }}

Selected exhibitions and projects

=Selected solo exhibitions and projects=

  • 2023 Pressure, Bunjil Place Gallery, Narre Warren VIC {{Cite web|url = https://www.bunjilplace.com.au/events|title = What's On |date = |accessdate =|website = Bunjil Place Gallery |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2023 Ice Floes Response, At The Above, Fitzroy, VIC {{Cite web|url = https://www.attheabove.com/archive/ash-keating |title = At the Above |date = |accessdate =|website = At the Above Gallery |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2023 Gravity System Response, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland{{Cite web|url = https://www.langmatt.ch/en/exhibitions/ashkeating|title = Ash Keating |date = |accessdate =|website = Museum Langmatt |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2023 Perceptual Fields, Colector Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico{{Cite web|url = https://www.colector.gallery/ongoing-exhibitions |title = Exhibitions |date = |accessdate =|website = Colector Gallery |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2023 ELEVATION, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC{{Cite web|url = https://vaultmagazine.com/onshow |title = On show May 2023 onwards|date = |accessdate =|website = Vault Magazine |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2022 Gravity System Response, A.M. BJIERE, New York, New York, USA{{Cite web|url = https://ambjiere.com/gsr-ash-keating|title = Gravity System Response - Ash Keating |date = |accessdate =|website = A.M. BJIERE |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2021 Duality, Linden New Art, St Kilda, VIC{{Cite web|url = https://www.lindenarts.org/exhibitions/linden-new-art/ash-keating/|title = Ash Keating |date = |accessdate =|website = Linden New Art |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2021 Gravity System Response, TW Fine Art, Brisbane QLD{{Cite web|url = https://www.twfineart.com/pages/past|title = Exhibitions - Past |date = |accessdate =|website = TW Fine Art |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2019 Hume Response Paintings, Ash Keating Studio, Coburg North, VIC{{Cite web|url = https://thedesignfiles.net/2019/05/art-ashkeating-wall-melbourne|title = An Enormous New Public Artwork From The Artist Who Paints With Fire Extinguishers |date = |accessdate =|website = The Design Files |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2018 Gravity System Response #81, commission for 2 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, VIC {{Cite web|url = https://www.bvn.com.au/article/art-program-on-southbank-boulevard

|title = Art Program on Southbank Boulevard |date = |accessdate =|website = BVN Architecture |publisher = |last = |first = }}

  • 2018 Gravity System Response, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand{{Cite web|url = https://www.jensengallery.com/june-ash-keating-auckland/

|title = Ash Keating - Auckland |date = 31 May 2018|accessdate =|website = Jensen Gallery |publisher = |last = |first = }}

  • 2017 Gravity System Response, Blackartprojects, Melbourne, VIC{{Cite web|url = https://artguide.com.au/ash-keating-gravity-system-response/|title = Ash Keating: Gravity System Response |date = 5 April 2017|accessdate =|website = Art Guide Australia |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2016 Response Paintings, Latrobe VAC, Bendigo, VIC {{Cite web|url = https://www.blackartprojects.com/year/2016/response-paintings

|title = Ash Keating - Response Paintings |date = |accessdate =|website = Blackartprojects |publisher = |last = |first = }}

=Selected group exhibitions and projects=

  • 2021 Floating Land Biennale, Noosa National Park for Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, QLD {{Cite web|url = https://www.floatingland.org.au/2021-projects/signs-of-the-times|title = Floating Land Archive Site 2021 |date = |accessdate =|website = Floating Land |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2018 ART21 and VOLTA Art Fairs with Yavuz Gallery, Basel, Switzerland and Shanghai, China{{Cite web|url = https://www.artsy.net/artist/ash-keating/cv

|title = Ash Keating |date = |accessdate =|website = Artsy |publisher = |last = |first = }}

  • 2018 Sydney Contemporary (2018 and 2017) with Blackartprojects, Sydney, NSW {{Cite web|url = https://www.blackartprojects.com/year/2018/2018-sydney-contemporary|title = Group Projects |date = |accessdate =|website = Blackartprojects |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2017 Ramsay Art Prize 2017, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA {{Cite web|url = https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/ramsay-art-prize-2017/ash-keating/|title = Ash Keating |date = |accessdate =|website = Art Gallery of South Australia |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2016 Occupied, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, VIC {{Cite web|url = https://designhub.rmit.edu.au/exhibitions-programs/occupied/|title = Ash Keating |date = |accessdate =|website = Art Gallery of South Australia |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC {{Cite web|url = https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/author/ash-keating/|title = Ash Keating |date = |accessdate =|website = National Gallery of Victoria |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2012 Artist's Proof #1, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, VIC {{Cite web|url = https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/previous/2012/artists-proof-1|title = Artist's Proof #1 |date = 9 February 2022|accessdate =|website = Monash University Museum of Art |publisher = |last = |first = }}

=Selected site specific solo art projects=

  • 2023 Painting of Haus Germann, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland
  • 2022 Gravity System Response Wall Painting for NAP Contemporary Mildura, VIC {{Cite web|url = https://www.sunraysiadaily.com.au/arts-entertainment/6042609/beyond-the-silo-mentality|title = Big art goes above and beyond a silo mentality |date = 16 December 2022|accessdate =|website = Sunraysia Daily |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2022 Gravity System Response, (for Kaleidoscope) Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC{{Cite web|url = https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/-/media/acm/files/about-us/media-centre/media-releases/2022/220427-kaleidoscope-at-arts-centre-melbourne-mr.ashx|title = Kaleidoscope 2022 |date = |accessdate =|website = Arts Centre Melbourne|publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2021 Sunset Response, wall painting on the facade of Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
  • 2019 TarraWarra Response Painting, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC {{Cite web|url = https://www.twma.com.au/events/open-weekend-2019/|title = Open Weekend 2019 |date = |accessdate =|website = TarraWarra Museum of Art|last = |first = }}
  • 2018 Gravity System Response, City of Sydney's Domain, Sydney, NSW {{Cite web|url = https://www.artandabout.com.au/projects/gravity-system-response/|title = Ash Keating Gravity System Response |date = |accessdate =|website = Art and About Australia|last = |first = }}
  • 2016 Coastal Horizon Response, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, VIC{{Cite web|url = https://www.blackartprojects.com/year/2016/coastal-horizon-response-01|title = Coastal Horizon Response |date = |accessdate =|website = Blackartprojects|last = |first = }}
  • 2016 Arch Tunnel Response, North Byron Parklands, Splendour Arts, NSW {{Cite web|url = https://www.byronbayblog.com.au/splendour-arts-2016-4927|title = Splendour Arts 2016 |date = 27 May 2016|accessdate =|website = Byron Bay Blog|last = |first = }}
  • 2015 The Facade Project, Latrobe Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, VIC {{Cite web|url = https://www.blackartprojects.com/year/2015/latrobe-vac|title = Latrobe VAC |date = |accessdate =|website = Blackartprojects|last = |first = }}
  • 2015 Adelaide Festival Centre, presented by CACSA, Adelaide, SA {{Cite web|url = https://www.blackartprojects.com/year/2015/adelaide-festival-centre|title = Adelaide Festival Centre |date = |accessdate =|website = Blackartprojects|last = |first = }}
  • 2014 RMIT A’Beckett Urban Square, Melbourne, VIC{{Cite web|url = http://peterelliott.com.au/projects/abeckett-urban-square|title = RMIT University A'Beckett Urban Square |date = |accessdate =|website = Peter Elliott Architecture|last = |first = }}
  • 2013 National Gallery of Victoria International Billboard for Melbourne Now, Melbourne, VIC

Awards

=Winner=

  • 2015 Incinerator Art Prize{{Cite web|url = https://greenmagazine.com.au/incinerator-art-award/|title = Incinerator Art Award |date = 30 September 2015|accessdate =|website = Green Magazine|publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2013 Guirguis New Art Prize{{Cite web|url = https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/guirguis-new-art-prize-gnap/ash-keating/2013-guirguis-new-art-prize/ash-keating|title = Ash Keating GNAP13 |date = 8 July 2022|accessdate =|website = Federation University|publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2012 Substation Contemporary Art Prize{{Cite web|url = https://thesubstation.org.au/program/the-substation-contemporary-art-prize-2016|title = The Substation Contemporary Art Prize |date = |accessdate =|website = The Substation|publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2011 Qantas Visual Arts Award{{Cite web|url = https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-foundation-announces-art-award-winners/|title = Qantas Foundation Announces Art Award Winners |date = |accessdate =|website = Qantas News Room|publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2008 ANZ Art and Australia RIPE award.{{Cite web|url = https://gertrude.org.au/artist/ash-keating |title = Ash Keating |date = |accessdate =|website = Gertrude Contemporary |publisher = |last = |first = }}

=Finalist=

  • 2017 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia
  • 2011 Blake Prize{{Cite web|url = https://art.base.co/person/314-ash-keating |title = Ash Keating |date = |accessdate =|website = Art Base |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2011 Substation Contemporary Art Award {{Cite web|url = https://www.beamcontemporary.com.au/Text/SubStation-Contemporary-Art-Prize_catalogue_Sep2011.pdf |title = The Substation Contemporary Art Prize Finalists 2011 |date = |accessdate =|website = Beam Contemporary |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2009 Qantas SOYA awards {{Cite web|url = https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/2009-soya-winners-announced-romance-was-born-oh-mercy-and-more/ |title = 2009 SOYA Winners Announced: Romance Was Born, Oh Mercy and More! |date = |accessdate =|website = Pedestrian Group |publisher = |last = |first = }}
  • 2009 RBS Australian emerging artist awards

Publications

  • Ash Keating: Museum Langmatt. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023. Edited by Markus Stegmann. ISBN 9783775755160.
  • Spirits in the Bush – The Art of Gippsland. Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. By Simon Gregg. ISBN 9781925801699.
  • Art + Climate = Change. Melbourne University Publishing, 2016. By Guy Abrahams, Kelly Gellatly, and Bronwyn Johnson. ISBN 9780522869576.
  • Performance Ritual Document. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. By Anne Marsh. ISBN 9781921394973.
  • Curating Sydney: Imagining the City's Future. NewSouth Publishing, 2014. By Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel. ISBN 9781742247106.
  • Video Void – Australian Video Art. Australian Scholarly Pub, 2014. Edited by Matthew Perkins. ISBN 9781925003796.
  • Artists' Proof #1. Monash University Museum of Art I MUMA, 2012. By Geraldine Barlow, Max Delany, Shelley McSpedden, Francis Parker, Patrice Sharkey. ISBN 9780987295231.
  • Making the University Matter. Taylor & Francis, 2012. Edited by Barbie Zelizer. ISBN 9781136696930.
  • Time shrines: mourning and melancholia in the work of Ash Keating. Discipline Journal, 2012. By Amelia Barikin. ISSN 1839-082X.
  • The Art of Engagement: Culture, collaboration, innovation. University of Western Australia, 2011. By Elaine Lally, Ien Ang, and Kay Anderson. ISBN 9781742582870.
  • Junk - Art and the Politics of Trash. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. BY Gillian Whiteley. ISBN 9780857720214.
  • Space Invaders - Australian Street Stencils, Posters, Paste-ups, Zines, Stickers. National Gallery of Australia, 2010. By Jaklyn Babington and Roger Butler. ISBN 9780642334114.
  • Harmonic Tremors - Aesthetic Interventions in the Public Sphere. Gasworks Arts Park, 2009. Edited by Sarah Rainbird. ISBN 9780646503356.

Further reading

  • Habitus Living, [https://www.habitusliving.com/articles/ash-keating Big, beautiful and oozing with colour: The art of Ash Keating] by Jan Henderson, 2023
  • The Saturday Paper, [https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/visual-art/2023/12/16/artist-ash-keating/ Artist Ash Keating] by Dee Jefferson, 2023
  • Memo Review, [https://www.memoreview.net/reviews/ice-floes-response-by-philip-brophy Ice Floes Response] by Philip Brophy, 2023
  • Broadsheet, [https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/art-and-design/article/under-pressure-ash-keating-paints-town-red-and-orange-pink-green-and-blue Under Pressure: Ash Keating Paints the Town Red (and Orange, Pink, Green and Blue)] by Daniela Frangos, 2023
  • Shepparton News, [https://www.sheppnews.com.au/community/a-window-into-the-mind-of-an-artist-ash-keatings-elevation/ A window into the mind of an artist: Ash Keating’s Elevation] by Jay Brice, 2023
  • In Design Live, [https://www.indesignlive.com/projects/ash-keating Sky’s the limit: Ash Keating turns future gallery site into an artwork] by Jan Henderson, 2022
  • The Local Project Issue 6, [https://thelocalproject.com.au/articles/ash-keating-artist-profile-issue-06-feature-the-local-project/ The Science of Art – Ash Keating] by James Lyall Smith, 2021
  • Observer, [https://observer.com/2021/02/ash-keatings-duality-evokes-the-passage-of-time/ Ash Keating’s ‘Duality’ Evokes the Passage of Time] by Cat Woods, 2021
  • The Sydney Morning Herald, [https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/art-created-by-a-lawn-spreader-and-fire-hydrant-aims-to-evoke-nature-20210209-p570w4.html Art Created by a Lawn Spreader and Fire Hydrant Aims to Evoke Nature] by Cat Woods, 2021
  • Where they Create, [https://wheretheycreate.com/Ash-Keating Ash Keating] by Ray Barbara, 2020
  • The Design Files, [https://thedesignfiles.net/2019/05/art-ashkeating-wall-melbourne] by Sally Tabart, 2019
  • The Design Files, [https://thedesignfiles.net/2017/04/ash-keating-exhibition-melbourne Studio Visit Ash Keating], by Lucy Feagins, 2017
  • Broadsheet, [https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/art-and-design/article/ash-keating-studio-visit-2017 In the Artist’s Studio: Ash Keating], by Will Cox, 2017
  • Catalogue essay for Ash Keating Selected Video Works 2006–2014, [https://www.academia.edu/11874262/Ash_Keating_Selected_Video_Works_2006_2014?sm=b Ash Keating — Selected Video Works 2006–2014] by Din Heagney, 2015
  • The Conversation, [https://theconversation.com/nature-makes-abstract-visual-art-more-captivating-24723 Nature makes abstract visual art more captivating] by Misha Ketchell, 2014
  • un Magazine, 7.1, [https://unprojects.org.au/article/no-creation-but-through-submission/ No creation but through submission] by Justin Clemens, 2013
  • Discipline Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 2, [https://www.academia.edu/3626600/Time_Shrines_Mourning_and_Melancholia_in_the_Work_of_Ash_Keating Time Shrines: Mourning and Melancholia in the Work of Ash Keating] by Amelia Barikin, 2013
  • Monash University Museum of Art, [https://haineshinterding.net/Pubs/artists_proofs/files/assets/common/downloads/publication.pdf Artists Proof #1], by Max Delany, 2012
  • Artlink, [https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/3039/taking-care-of-business-ash-keating/ Taking Care of Business: Ash Keating], by Anthony Gardner, 2007

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