Born Sydney, Australia 1968
Lives and works in Melbourne
Kathy Temin’s sculptural practice explores memory, history and loss. Her work is structured around the tension between apparent binaries: the familiar and strange, organic and artificial, literal and metaphoric, solemn and kitsch. The artist’s signature choice of medium, synthetic fur, subverts the monumental scale of her sculptures, to draw allusions to softness, childhood and play.
Kathy Temin completed and post-graduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She obtained her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2007. She is currently Professor at MADA, Monash Art Design & Architecture, Monash University.
Exhibitions and projects include: ‘Woven’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, 2023; ‘Wall Works’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, 2021; ‘White Garden: White Christmas’, Los Angeles, USA; ‘White Garden Intervention’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, 2016; ‘The Koala Room’, The Bella commission for the National Centre for Creative Learning at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, 2015; ‘The Koala Tram’, The Melbourne Art Trams Project, The Melbourne Festival, 2016; ‘The Memorial Project’, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, 2014; ‘My Monument: White Forest’, GOMA, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2013; ‘Memorial Gardens’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2012, ‘Garden Islands’, City of Stonnington Public art commission for Claremont St, South Yarra, 2011; ‘My Monument: Black Garden’, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 2010; ‘My Landscape’, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, 2009; ‘My Monument: Black Cube’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2009; ‘Kathy Temin 1989 – 2009’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2009.
Image courtesy of Anna Schwartz Projects