Kate Stewart is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne working primarily in spatial installation and expanded painting. Her practice is engaged with notions of instability, disruption and dissonance.
kate stewart / curriculum vitae
Born Sydney. Based in Melbourne/Naarm
education
2024 / Master of Fine Arts, RMIT
2013 / Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, Monash University
2012 / Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, VCA, Melbourne
2009 / Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts, VCA, Melbourne
solo shows
2012 Great Expectations, Bower Gallery, Ripponlea, Melbourne
2013 Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands, Pro-merging Artspace, Sorrento
2014 TRACE, Pro-merging Artspace, Sorrento
2022 Lost and Found, RED Gallery, Brunswick
2024 The Murmuring, Rubicon Ari, North Melbourne
2025 Intermission, Five Walls Projects, Footscray
group shows
2008 / The Waverly Expressionists, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2010 / Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2011 / Painting Is Not Dead, VCA Student Gallery
2011 / Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2012 / On This Hillside, VCA Student Gallery
2012 / VCA Grad Show, VCA Art School
2013 / New Directions, Hawthorn Gallery
2013 / Material Matters, Outward Projects, Launceston
2013 / Honey is Flowing in all Directions, Monash School of Art
2019 / Bayside Local, Bayside Gallery, Brighton Town Hall
2019 / Knox Immerse Festival, Knox City Civic Centre Atrium
2020 / Bayside Local, Bayside Gallery, Brighton Town Hall
2021 / Bayside Local, Bayside Gallery, Brighton Town Hall
2021 / COMPACT, Alternating Current Artspace, Prahran
2021 / Of Colour and Light, West End Art Space, Melbourne
2021/22/23 / Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda
2022 / Art and Gender, Jahm Housemuseum, Prahran
2022 / RMIT Design Hub Gallery, Archives of Feeling, Nurses and Mid-wives Exchange
2024 / La Salle School of Art Gallery, The Weather, Tropical Lab, Singapore
2024 / RMIT Grad Show, Site Eight Gallery, RMIT
2025 / HAIR ARI, Kill Your Darlings Group Show
2025 / LON Gallery, Missing and Longing Group Show
awards and prizes
2012 / The Fiona Myer Award for Painting, VCA Grad Show
2017 / Finalist and Highly Commended, Ravenswood Art Prize
2017 / Finalist, Fischer’s Ghost Art Prize
2021 / Finalist, Castlemaine Experimental Print Prize
2021 / Winner, The Henry Award for Abstract Painting, Linden Postcard Prize
2022 / Finalist, TACIT Gallery Print Prize
2024 / Winner, The Five Walls Gallery, RMIT Graduate Award
2024/ RMIT Vice Chancellor’s List for Academic Excellence, 2024
residencies
2024 / Tropical Lab, La Salle School of Art, Singapore