Kate Just

Kate Just (born 1974) is an American-born Australian artist.

Background and education

Kate Just was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1974, but moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1994. Just works in knitting, sculpture, ceramic media and photography.[1] She holds a PhD in sculpture from Monash University, a Master of Arts from RMIT University,[1] and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the Victorian College of the Arts. For her PhD research project, The Texture of her Skin, she was awarded the Mollie Hollman Doctoral Medal for the best PhD in Art Design and Architecture.[2] Kate Just has been working as a Lecturer in Art at the Victorian College of the Arts Art since 2005.

Kate Just began knitting in 2000 following a tragic family loss. As part of her grieving process, her mother taught her to knit.[3] Just believes that knitting is a powerful personal, political, poetic and narrative tool and claims that her knitted artworks are autobiographical as they explore childhood and biographical experiences.[4]

Work

Just creates elaborate large-scale knitted sculptures, as well as works in resin, clay, collage and photo-based media.[1] Just's work deals with feminist representations of the body. Her use of knitting in many of her works casts craft as a highly engaging and valid form of sculpture as well as a poetic or political tool. Just has also created a number of socially engaged projects and public works in urban communities regarding violence against women. For example in the KNIT HOPE, KNIT SAFE and FURIES works, Just worked with diverse groups of women from communities in the United Kingdom and Australia in which they knitted banners and photographic images challenging the ongoing issue of domestic violence and murders of women such as .[5]

Just's work has been exhibited in over a hundred solo and group exhibitions in Australia including Daine Singer, Craft Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, West Space, Conical, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Art Fair, Silvershot, Contemporary Art Space of Tasmania, Chalk Horse Gallery, Nellie Castan Gallery, First Draft, MOP, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, and Canberra Contemporary Art Space. Within an international context, Just has exhibited her work at A.I.R. Gallery and AC Institute in New York, Titanik Galleria in Finland, Nanjing University in China, Auckland Art Fair, The Factory at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, Japan, Hive Gallery in Los Angeles and Sanskriti Art Gallery in New Delhi. In 2017, Just's works will be exhibited at the Rijswijk Museum in the Netherlands and the newly built ICA in Richmond, Virginia.

The banners Safe and Hope are proudly part of the Wangaratta Art Gallery Collection.[6]

Paradise, a life-sized knitted installation depicting a woman in a T-shirt and denim cut-off jeans, referencing the abduction of Persephone, is in the collection of the Ararat Gallery TAMA.[7][8]

Kate Just's work is also in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Ergos Collection in Sydney, Artbank and the City of Port Phillip as well as in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA and Austria.

Awards

Shortlist
  • Beleura National Works on Paper Prize (2010)[1]
  • The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2009)[1]
  • The Blake Prize (2009)[1]

Recipient
  • Siemens-RMIT Fine Art Scholarship (2006)[9]
  • Mollie Hollman Doctoral Medal for the best PhD in Art Design and Architecture, Monash University (2013)[2]
  • Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award (2015) awarded by the Wangaratta Art Gallery[10]
  • Asialink Residency, Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India (2016)[11]

References
  1. "Brooklyn Museum: Kate Just". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 27 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  2. "best PHD thesis recognised". www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Archived from the original on 11 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  3. "Robert Brain and Kate Just Present 'Needleman, Feminist Fan'". The Design Files | Australia's most popular design blog. 28 February 2018. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  4. "About". KATE JUST. Archived from the original on 15 May 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  5. "Kate Just 'HOPE & SAFE'". Daine Singer. Archived from the original on 30 August 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  6. "Kate Just – SAFE & HOPE Banners | Wangaratta Art Gallery". wangarattaartgallery.com.au. Archived from the original on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  7. "Artist Kate Just's knitted works | Channel". Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  8. Watson, Bronwyn (20 December 2013). "Not just knitting". Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  9. "Siemens–RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Awards 2006 - RMIT University". www.rmit.edu.au. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  10. "Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award | Wangaratta Art Gallery". wangarattaartgallery.com.au. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  11. "Kate Justs' Visual Diary: An artist in India : Asialink". Asialink. 12 December 2016. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
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