'View to the Seine' by Kate Dorrough
Born
Sydney, NSW
1994 - Master of Art, COFA, UNSW, Sydney
1994 - Sydney University Archaeological Expedition, Drawing team, Tarone,
Greece
1989 - Painting Teacher, Touring School Programme, Teenage Road Show,
Central Desert District, WA.
1988 - Printing Teacher, Touring School Printmaking Programme, Teenage
Road Show, Regional NSW
1987 - Bachelor of Visual Arts (Dist), Canberra School of Art
‘LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS, NEAR AND FAR’
2010, Art Vault, Mildura
The exhibition ‘Landscape paintings, near and far’ celebrates landscapes
that for me have been places of inspiration and restoration.
Being a Sydney based painter these landscapes are from various locations
in NSW, as well as my recent place of abode, the harbour suburb of
Vaucluse in Sydney, to places of pilgrimage such as India and Greece.
Landscapes become places that can permeate the soul, being present in
ones memory and informing the heart.
These paintings exhibited are sketches on paper, canvas and board, as
well as sketch books that act as initial ideas for larger works, and a
resource for further developments as I will undertake during my month
residency at Art Vault in Mildura.
During my residency I will produce a series of abstracted landscape
paintings that start from similar sketches produced outdoors in order to
observe the shifting light, colour and composition. These works will
then be refined to essential abstracted forms.
In abstracting the landscape I endeavour to extract and infuse the works
with a monumental simplicity and an expression of the poetics of place.
“…an ode to the restorative powers of nature.
Though absent long,
These forms of beauty have not been to me,
As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye:
But oft, in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet…
With tranquil restoration. “
William Wordsworth, from the ‘Art of Travel’ by Alain de Botton
2010 - Pants Off, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2009 - In Stillness, Edwina Corlette gallery, Brisbane
2008 - Ode to light and slow Time, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2006 - The Cup, Melbourne Art Rooms, Melbourne
2005 - The Garden, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2005 - Hearts Are Trumps, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2004 - Fetes Galantes, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2002 - Whims and Fripperies, Art House Gallery, Sydney
2000 - Café, Art House Gallery, Sydney
1999 - Suburban Scene, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1997 - Side Show, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
1996 - Bronte Bathers, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
2010
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
Sculpture at Sawmillers, Sydney
Clunes Ceramic Award, Clunes, Victoria
Salon Rouge Gallery, Kapunda, South Australia
2009
Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW
Parliament, Sydney
2008
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
Salon des Refuses, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2007
Paddington Art Prize, Sydney
Naughty, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney
2006
Shelf Life, the Delmar Gallery, Sydney
Nest, Slot Gallery, Sydney
2005
Redlands Art Prize, Mosman Regional Art Gallery, Sydney
2004
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Salon des Refuses, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Kate Dorrough Ceramics, Orson and Blake, Woollahra, Sydney
2003
Art on the Rocks, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, Sydney
Blush, Contemporary ceramics by studio artists, Fusions Gallery,
Brisbane
Salon Des Refuses, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Sydney Art on Paper Fair, Fox Studios, Sydney
2002
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2001
2001 A Space Odyssey, Penrith Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Hungry Mans Exhibition, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW
(Touring exhibition: Grafton, Orange, Hastings and Gloucester Regional
Art galleries)
A Studio in Paris: Australian Artists at the Cité, S.H.Ervin Gallery,
Sydney
Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2000
Paris, National Trust Cafe, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Art Fair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1998
Salon des Refusés, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Australian Contemporary Art Fair•6, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne
37th Festival of Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery,
Sydney
1997
Salon des Refusés, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Redland School, Sydney
1996
Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Jacaranda Drawing Award Exhibition, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
1995
Salon des Refusés, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Blake Touring Prize, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Mosman Art Prize, Civic Centre, Sydney
1994
UNSW Travelling Art Scholarship, COFA Gallery, Sydney
1993
Fowlers Gap, COFA Gallery, University of Sydney
1992
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Third Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, Lane Cove Municipal Council,
Sydney
1989
Inside the Greenhouse, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
1988
Four/4, Canberra Contemporary Arts Space
Awards
2005 - Hill End Artists Residency, Bathurst
Regional Gallery, Hill End, NSW
2003 - Ceramic Residency, Fusions Gallery, Brisbane
1999 - Artist in Residence, Bundanon Trust, Bundanon Artists Centre, NSW
1999 - AGNSW Denise Hickey Studio Residency, Cité Internationale des
Arts, Paris
1999 - Sponsorship Grant, UNSW Alumni Association
1996 - Winner/Local Section; Highly Commended/ Open Section; Waverley
Art Prize
1996 - North Sydney Council Open Prize
1996 - Fishers Ghost Art Award (Jointly)
Sony Music Entertainment (Aust), Sydney
Campbelltown Art Gallery, NSW
Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW