Melbourne-based artist Kate James draws from a variety of media to produce objects, photographs, textile works and video. In creating her intricate, hand-crafted and psychologically-charged sculptures and objects, James employs repetitive and painstaking techniques, often adapted from uncommon, sometimes obsolete, craft practices.

Her recent work comprises of a series of handmade objects which provide symbolic protection for the passage through uncharted psychological realms, personal talismans that guide the way through the fraught and turbulent transitions between states of being and becoming.

Kate has held solo exhibitions at Daine Singer, Craft Victoria, Maroondah Art Gallery and West Space and exhibited in group shows at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Plimsoll Gallery, Level ARI, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery (UK), Ground Work South West (UK), London Metropolitan University (UK), RMIT Gallery, Dubbo Regional Gallery, PICA, Firstdraft Gallery and Blindside ARI. She has a Master of Arts and BFA (honours) from RMIT University.

Kate is represented by Daine Singer

Daine Singer

Basement 325 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
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Installation view Exitland, Daine Singer, 2014

Installation view Exitland, Daine Singer, 2014

Installation view Exitland, Daine Singer, 2014

Installation view The Other Side of Despair, Daine Singer, 2011

Installation view The Work of Worry is Never Done, 2010