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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 Exhibitions:
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 ...
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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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Collections:
Tasmanian Art Gallery and
Museum, Hobart, Tasmania,
Australia
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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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, the Persian carpet provides its owner with the missed pleasures of lush organic growth in a desolate and monotonous desert.
After months of concocting new modes for using ancient mediums such as egg tempera from ancient Egypt and encaustic (painting with hot wax), Owen translates the beauty embedded in each woven strand of the tapestry onto canvas.
The canvas is transformed into weaves of lavish colour and opulent Persian designs. Rich reds and yellows of solid gold meet royal blues in geometric patterns and organic forms.
The temptation to touch may be too great for some expecting to run their hands through a plush pile of fabric. The result is a triumph for the artist whose work always challenges the boundaries of the painter's tools of expression.
In her last exhibition, Owen focused on the reflective and visual qualities of water, producing shimmering canvases achieved by glazing and tempera.
The exhibition opens this Saturday, February 22 2003, 4pm - 6pm, and runs until March 14. Details: (02) 9361 5413."
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