In many of Wallace’s tiny paintings, corners, along with doors and windows offer architectural potential as places of refuge or comfort. By incorporating cropping, blurring, glazing, repetition, and various levels of zoom in her compositions, Wallace constructs a distortion of details evocative of the murkiness often accompanied with the process of recalling past events. These deeply personal, and fragmented snapshots draw on the artist’s own encounters with sometimes sentimentally recalled scenes from inside and outside of ‘home’—wherever it may, or could be.

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Kate Wallace
b. 1990, Melbourne, Australia

Education

2018: Master of Contemporary Art Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2012: BA Bachelor of Art (Fine Art), RMIT University

Solo Exhibitions 

2024: “Interiors”, solo presentation by Painter Painting Paintings
2024: (forthcoming) Commune Gallery, Wien
2023: “the curve that warms”, Leila Greiche, New York 
2022: “Memory of place”, LON Gallery, Melbourne
2022: “A place once travelled”, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2019: “Views To Remember”, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford
2019: “Views to a room”, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne
2018: “Pictures”, Alternating Current Art Space, Windsor
2016: “In Transit”, Alternating Current Art Space, Windsor
2013: “Moving Still”, Red Gallery Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy

Group Exhibitions 

2023: “Melbourne Now”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2023: “Outdoors”, Nowhere, in Nothing, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
2023: “Making the invisible visible”, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne
2023: “Spring 1883”, LON Gallery, Melbourne
2023: “Three Hares”, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton
2022: “Blue”, LON Gallery, Melbourne 
2022: “Traces”, NARS Foundation, New York
2022: “Private Eye”, Oigåll Projects, Melbourne 
2021: “Spring 1883”, LON Gallery, Melbourne
2020: “New Landscapes”, LON Gallery, Collingwood
2020: “Small Mercies Fundraiser”, River Studies, West Melbourne
2020: “Dimensions”, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
2019: “Futures”, Hyper Contemporary, Preston
2019: “Coalescence”, Linden Projects Space, St. Kilda
2019: “The Museum of Platitudes and Aphorisms”, Rubicon Ari, North Melbourne
2019: “The “F” Word”, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray
2019: “‘Love me, love me, say that you love me’”, No Vacancy, Melbourne