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Artist Statement:
For the past five years, my
work has been all about the
Australian Outback. Vast,
uncompromising (rather like my
good self),and so varied that
the possibilities for
expression are endless...
Outback Australia is colour!
Strange, impossible colour.
It is texture and diversity!
Seductive plays between wet
and dry, sharp and smooth,
density and the ephemeral...
the list goes on.
It is all about light! Brash,
bleaching, showing every fault
and then at times mysteriously
absent in shadows that
surprise of frighten. One
doesn't need to keep stumbling
over animal bones to realise
it is a theatre of life and
death.
Then again, there is the
'Outback' that is not on the
stereotypical postcard or
tourist trail. 'Unremarkable'
terrain which spans vast
distances and only rewards
those who 'look' for its
beauty: endless grasslands,
scrublands, salt country,
stone and gibber deserts, dust
plains, sand banks, claypans
and swamps. As one moves more
into the reality and feel of
this country, its language
expands and while its beauty
impacts on the psyche more
subtly it does so with amazing
power and permanence.
My aim as an outback artist is
to express my feelings for the
boundlessness, the minutiae
and the ...
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Artist Galleries:
KATE OWEN STUDIO GALLERY
3 Gladstone Street,
Newtown, SYDNEY, Australia
Featuring new and recent work.
On-line Gallery
www.kateowen.com.au
RUSHCUTTERS BAY GALLERY
SYDNEY, Australia
Last show August 2005
STATE OF THE ARTS GALLERY
Queens Road, HONG KONG
Next show: 6 April 2006
PEN PAL GALLERY
Guangzhou Art...
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Artist Reviews:
ARTICLE: SYDNEY: WENTWORTH
COURIER 19 February 2003
"The rich textures of nomadic
Persian rugs satiate the
senses in Kate Owen's latest
showing at the Rushcutters bay
Gallery.
Owen translates the exotic
beauty of the rugs onto canvas
using unique media.
A portable garden for nomads
in the Middle East, ...
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Collections:
Tasmanian Art Gallery and
Museum, Hobart, Tasmania,
Australia
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Exhibitions for Kate Owen:
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Feb 2007 to present:
Continuous display of work either in the main gallery or upstairs studio gallery.
Feb 2007
Opening Exhibition,
Kate Owen Gallery
Sydney, Australia
October 2006
'Gallery D'
Shanghai, China.
May - June 2006
'PP Gallery'
Guangzhou Museum of Contemporary Art
Guangzhou, China.
April - May 2006
'State of the Arts Gallery',
and also at 'Lee Gardens', Hong Kong.
August 2005
'NEW WORK - COUNTRY'
Rushcutters Bay Gallery,
Sydney, New South Wales,
Aust.
From October 2004
PERMANENT EXHIBITION OF MOST RECENT WORK
And Stockroom
KATE OWEN STUDIO AND GALLERY
Studio B3, 3 Gladstone Street,
Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia tel: 0400508050
From October 2004 -2005
'WATER PAINTINGS'
Forq Gallery Restaurant
Darling Street, Balmain
Sydney
November 2003
'THIS ANCIENT LAND'
Rushcutters Bay Gallery,
Sydney, New South Wales,
Aust.
February 2003
'RICH TAPESTRY'
Rushcutters Bay Gallery,
Sydney, New South Wales,
Aust. (See reviews for information)
October 2002
Portia Geach Portrait Prize Exhibition -- finalist
SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
April 2002
'SHIMMER'- WATER AND CLOUD PAINTINGS
Rushcutters Bay Gallery,
Sydney, New South Wales, Aust
September 2001
'RECENT WORK IN WAX, OIL, GLAZE AND EGGS!'
Ewart Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Aust
Numerous Group shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, and South Australia.
BEGAN PAINTING IN 200O
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