Kate Rohde

Kate lives and works in Melbourne, Australia and has been exhibiting sculptural works and large-scale installations regularly since 1998, around Australia, New Zealand, UK, Japan, Lithuania. Kate is represented by KAREN WOODBURY GALLERY - level 1 167 Flinders Lane Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia +61396395855Email: Artist Statement My recent sculptures and installations utilise an extensive range of craft and hardware materials, including silicone, expanding foam, fake fur, polyester resin and rice paper. With these I create zoological, botanical and geological specimens, which rather than factually representing natural history, take a more playful, decorative approach, often employing presentation techniques of museums, such as dioramas and display cases when exhibiting them. Coupled with this interest in reimagining natural history, I have been incorporating decorative elements typical of Baroque and Rococo style over the last year. The highly ornate nature of these styles reveals on closer inspection that much of the patterning is drawn largely from flora and fauna. The combination of motifs from these movements, with dioramas featuring faux specimens of animal, vegetable and mineral, create a sense of the richness an...

Education: 1998 2001 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Victorian College of the ArtsSelected Solo Exhibitions:2012 Hybrid Geology, Pieces of Eight, Melbourne, 2010 Fantasma, Koishikawa Annex, the University of Tokyo 2008 flourish, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville2007 In My Nature, Kaliman Gallery, Paddington, Sydney2006 Some Kind of Empire, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne2006 Vicious Precious, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell 2005 Chateau Fatale, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne2004 The Big Chill, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra2004 Perfect Specimen, Kaliman Gallery, Paddington, Sydney2003 Taxidermy, Kaliman Gallery, Paddington, Sydney2002 Cabin Fever, TCB art inc. MelbourneSelected Group Exhibitions:2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, AdelaideLook! new perspectives on the contemporary collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne2007 Voiceless: I feel therefore I am, Sherman Galleries, Sydney2007 Culture Trackers, 24HR Art, Darwin2006 Strange Cargo, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales 2006 Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales 2006 Home Goal: Diversity in contemporary Australian art from the collection of Dr Dick Quan, Bathurst Regio...