Kate Daw
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| name = Kate Daw
| death_date = 7 September 2020 (aged 55)
| birth_date = 1965
| birth_place = Esperance, Western Australia, Australia
| spouse = Robert Hassan
| death_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
}}
Kate Daw (1965 - September 2020) was an Australian visual artist and former Head of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.
Career
Kate Daw was born in 1965 in Esperance, Western Australia, and her family moved to Sorrento when she was five.{{Cite journal |last=Duncan |first=Jenepher |date=2020-07-02 |title=Kate Daw (1965–2020) |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14434318.2020.1846990 |journal=Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art |language=en |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=297–301 |doi=10.1080/14434318.2020.1846990 |issn=1443-4318}} She initially studied art at the Western Australian Institute of Technology but dropped out when she was 18.{{Cite web |last=Harvey |first=Warick |date=2022-06-14 |title=Artist Kate Daw in conversation |url=https://library.unimelb.edu.au/collections/southbank-collections/special-collections/special-coll-folder/art150/about2/articles/artist-kate-daw-in-conversation |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Library |language=en}} After moving to Melbourne, Daw graduated in Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 1989, and began exhibiting work extensively from 1992.{{Cite web |title=ArtAsiaPacific: Obituary: Kate Daw (1965–2020) |url=https://artasiapacific.com/news/obituary-kate-daw-1965-2020 |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=artasiapacific.com}}
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, and also had several international artist residencies through the 1990s and 2010s.{{Cite web |last=Fairley |first=Gina |date=2020-09-08 |title=Vale Kate Daw, who lead a generation of creatives at VCA |url=https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/vale-kate-daw-who-lead-a-generation-of-creatives-at-vca-261043-2368403/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Arts Hub |language=en-AU}}
She collaborated with Scottish artist Stewart Russell on a series of works beginning in 2007, including a residency at the Melbourne Cricket Ground,{{Cite web |last=Perkins |first=Miki |date=2011-10-03 |title=It tolls for thee: marking time makes a peal to our civic nature |url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/it-tolls-for-thee-marking-time-makes-a-peal-to-our-civic-nature-20111003-1l5cl.html |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=The Age |language=en}} where they developed Two Homes, Another World (2016), a project with Indigenous Australian football player Liam Jurrah, and the installation Civil Twilight End (2011) at Melbourne Docklands.
In the 2000s, Daw taught Painting at VCA, where she also begun her Doctorate, with the thesis titled The Between Space: narrative in contemporary visual practice.{{Cite book |last=Daw |first=Kate |url=http://hdl.handle.net/11343/37353 |title=The between space: narrative in contemporary visual practice |date=2005|hdl=11343/37353 }} After five years as Head of Painting, she was made Head of Art at the VCA in 2018.
After undergoing treatment for cancer, Kate Daw died 7 September 2020, aged 55.
Selected exhibitions and works
- Work: four recent projects (1997), William Mora Galleries{{Cite web |last=McQualter |first=Andrew |date=April 1997 |title=Kate Daw Work: Four recent projects |url=http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/globe/issue5/kdtxt.html |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=www.artdes.monash.edu.au}}
- The Between Space (2006), Art Gallery of Western Australia{{Cite web |last=Cattapan |first=Jon |date=2020-09-15 |title=Vale Kate Daw, a shining light for all who knew her |url=https://artguide.com.au/vale-kate-daw-a-shining-light-for-all-who-knew-her/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=Art Guide Australia |language=en-US}}
- Civil Twilight End with Stewart Russell (2011)
- Green Lamp (2014), Biennale of Sydney
- Lights No Eyes Can See (2015), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art{{Cite web |title=Kate Daw: Lights No Eyes Can See |url=https://acca.melbourne/program/kate-daw-lights-no-eyes-can-see/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=ACCA |language=en-AU}}
- Love, Work (prelude, aftermath, everyday) (2020),{{Cite book |url=https://rfacdn.nz/artgallery/assets/media/melts-tabloid-design-reference-do-not-print.pdf |title=All That Was Solid Melts |publisher=Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmak |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-86463-332-3 |editor-last=McIntosh |editor-first=Clare |location=Auckland, New Zealand |pages=4}} All That Was Solid Melts group exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery{{Cite web |date=2021-06-05 |title=All That Was Solid Melts |url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/whats-on/exhibition/all-that-was-solid-melts |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Auckland Art Gallery |language=en}}
- Reverse Anthem with Stewart Russell (2021),{{Cite web |title=RISING: Reverse Anthem |url=https://rising.melbourne/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=rising.melbourne |language=en-AU}} Rising (previously part of 2016's Two Homes, Another World){{Cite web |last=Hughes |first=Helen |date=2018-11-30 |title=Kate Daw and Stewart Russell |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/kate-daw-and-stewart-russell-242957/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}
Collections
Kate Daw's work is held in several galleries and museums in Australia.
- Art Gallery of Western Australia{{Cite web |title=The Between Space (cups and saucers) |url=https://collection.artgallery.wa.gov.au/objects/17714/the-between-space-cups-and-saucers |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Art Gallery WA Collection Online |language=en}}
- Australian Sports Museum{{Cite web |title="Two Homes", by Stewart Russell and Kate Daw, 2010 |url=https://collection.australiansportsmuseum.org.au/objects/18448/two-homes-by-stewart-russell-and-kate-daw-2010 |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=Australian Sports Museum Collection Online |language=en}}
- City of Melbourne{{Cite web |date=2023-11-05 |title=Mizpah jewellery |url=https://citycollection.melbourne.vic.gov.au/mizpah-jewellery/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=City Collection |language=en-US}}
- National Gallery of Victoria{{Cite web |title=KATE DAW {{!}} Artists {{!}} NGV |url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au |language=en-AU}}