Katherine Boland

About

Katherine Boland was born in the United Kingdom and immigrated to Australia at the age of four where she grew up on the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria. She has been a professional artist since 2001 during which time she has exhibited extensively throughout Australia.Katherine has been the recipient of numerous art prizes and grants including the prestigious Heysen Art Prize for Interpretation Of Place in 2009. She is represented by a number of highly regarded Australian commercial galleries and in corporate, public and private collections in Australia, Europe, Asia and the USA.

Having been awarded a scholarship by the Art Students League of New York, Katherine participated in the League's Artist-In-Residence program in early 2010. In May/June 2010 she undertook a two-month residency in the south of France where she responded to the surrounding environment by exploring locally sourced materials. She was invited to attend an International Artist’s Symposium In Luxor, Egypt in November 2010 and in October 2011 she exhibited in Los Angles at The University Of La Verne. This exhibition will tour to Melbourne Australia in April 2012 as part of a cultural exchange program.

Katherine lived for over two decades on the Eastern seaboard of Australia and has a long association with fire, timber and the landscape. Fire and the duality of its role as a destructive force or useful servant is part of life in Australia; its unpredictable presence is burnt into the Australian psyche. Many winters were spent clearing land by hand, barking eucalyptus trees to be used in buildings and fences and ‘burning off’ the bush to prevent deadly bushfires in the summer. Katherine also has a strong interest in Buddhist philosophy in which fire is used to symbolize purification and impermanence - themes that consistently inform her work.

Katherine works across the disciplines of painting, sculpture and photography. She seeks to distil classical interpretations of the beauty of the natural world in an organic, abstract space incorporating non-traditional media and processes. She employs Black Japan, enamel, acrylic, wood stains, liming solution, oil, encaustic and most significantly fire on timber panels and beams. The use of timber is purposeful, allowing her to deeply burn, inscribe, scrape back and expose hidden layers. She creates textures and surfaces and uses precisely placed planes or panels of colour to build up works that have exquisite compositional balance. Her art work is imbued with a frenetic energy, yet that energy is filtered and tempered through the artist’s highly developed and refined understanding of her own graphic language. Subjective and emotive landscapes frequently involve juxtaposing areas of blackness and stark white against subtle layers of translucent tone and are undoubtedly influenced by watching and helping her father, a professional photographer, develop black and white photographs in his darkroom after school. She also recently discovered that her great grandfather and his father before him were the head engravers for the London Illustrated News, firstly creating the drawings and then engraving the wood blocks used to print the detailed black and white illustrations for each edition of the newspaper prior to the advent of photo journalism.

Katherine is a qualified fine art practitioner of high standing who has a life long commitment to creating and exhibiting innovative contemporary art. With a consistently high degree of technical proficiency her resolved but continually evolving thematic considerations are given intelligent and insightful interpretation. Her passionate research of materials, techniques and subject exploration suggests that she will continue to hold a strong position amongst her peers in the world of Australian contemporary visual art.

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Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Website: http://www.katherineboland.com

Work

Katherine Boland CV

1957 Born, Lancashire, England
1961 Immigrated to Australia
1971-72 Lived UK and Spain
1975-76 Graphic Art & Design, RMIT, Melbourne, VIC

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Writing On St Kilda, St Kilda Town Hall Gallery, VIC

2010 Shield Me, Catherine Asquith Gallery, Collingwood, VIC

2009 Writing On The Wall, Catherine Asquith Gallery,Collingwood,VIC

2008 Writing On The Wall, Gadfly Gallery, Perth, WA

2008 Horizons,Catherine Asquith Gallery,Flinders St, Melbourne,VIC

2007 The Shape Of Things To Come,Gadfly Gallery, Perth, WA

2007 The Shape Of Things To Come,,Catherine Asquith Gallery,Melbourne, VIC

2006 Campagna, Artefact,Melbourne,VIC

2005 It’s Not Just Black & White, Artefact @ Gallery 101,Melbourne,VIC

2004 In Her View, Artefact,Melbourne,VIC

2003 On Fire, Artefact, Melbourne, VIC

2002 How Far East? How Far West? Artefact, Melbourne,VIC

2000 Oceanic, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne, VIC

1998 Fragments, Old Bank Gallery, Pambula, NSW

1996 I Above, Narek Gallery, Canberra, ACT

1995 Recent Work, Hidden Valley Art Gallery, Bodalla, NSW

1993 Supra Natural, Gorman House Arts Centre, Canberra, ACT

1991 New Work, Bilyara Gallery, Bournda, NSW

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012 Dark Horse Experiment Gallery,’Covering Ground’,Melbourne,VIC
2011 Izmir Biennale, Izmir, Turkey
2011 La Verne U Guest Artist University, ‘Covering Ground’Los Angeles, USA
2011 Gadfly Gallery, ‘Distil’ Dalkeith, Perth,WA
2011 Wilson Street Gallery At Danks St,Sydney,NSW
2010 Essence Of St Kilda Photogaphy Prize, Finalist, St Kilda,VIC
2010 Gallery One, Southport,QLD
2010 BMGart,Adelaide,SA
2010 Limestone Coast Art Prize, Finalist,Keith,SA
2009 Heysen At Prize. Winner,Hahndorf Art Academy,Hahndorf,SA
2007 Corangamarah Art Prize,Finalist,Otway Estate Winery,VIC
2004 Norvill Art Prize, Finalist,NSW
2003-05 The State of Art – Peace,Manly Art Gallery Touring Exhibition 2002-03 SKEGGS Darlinghurst Art Show, NSW
2003 McGivern Art Prize,Finalist, Melbourne, VIC
2002 The Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Australian High Commission, Singapore
2002 Treasury Place, Artefact, Melbourne, VIC
2000 Fleurieu Art Prize, Finalist,Regional Gallery, McLaren Vale, SA
2000 McLaren Vale Art Prize,Finalist, Regional Gallery, McLaren Vale, SA 2000 Redlands Westpac Art Prize,Finalist, Mosman, NSW
1999 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Finalist, Mosman, NSW

Awards, Grants, Residencies

2011 Arts Student’s League of New York-Vytlacil Campus,Scholarship -1 month studio residency, New York

2010 Luxor International Studio, Artist’s Symposium, Ministry Of Culture, Luxor,Egypt

2010 DRAWinternational, Caylus, 2 months studio residency, France

2010 Arts Student’s League of New York-Vytlacil Campus,Scholarship -1 month studio residency, New York

2009 Heysen Art Prize,Winner, Hahndorf Art Academy,Hahndorf,SA

2005-6 Rigalto Studios, 6 month studio residency,Perugia, Umbria, Italy

2002 Glebe Chamber of Commerce, 3 month studio residency, NSW

2001 NSW Ministry of the Arts, 3 month studio residency, Gunnery Studios, Sydney,NSW

2000 Bega Valley Art Awards, Bega Regional Gallery, Major Award – Acquisitive,Bega,NSW

1999 Bega Valley Art Awards, Bega Regional Gallery, Major Award – Acquisitive,Bega,NSW

1997 Bega Valley Art Awards, Bega Regional Gallery, Best Abstract,Bega,NSW

Collections

Port Phillip City Collection, Melbourne,VIC
Grand Hyatt, Melbourne, VIC
The American Euro Centre, Hangzlon,China
The Marriot,Brisbane, QLD
Sheraton On The Park, Sydney, NSW
Maddocks Collection, Melbourne,VIC
Doug Menzies Collection, Melbourne, VIC
The Chelsea Hotel, Darlinghurst, NSW
Mandale Heights, Singapore
Conrad Jupiters Casino, Gold Coast, QLD
Bega Valley Shire Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Western Mining Corporation, Melbourne, VIC
Sheraton Hotel, Sydney, NSW
Reflections, Gold Coast, QLD
Kirra Surf, Gold Coast , QLD
Q1 Resort, Gold Coast, QLD
Crown Casino, Melbourne VIC
Private Collections in Europe,Asia, USA & Australia

Gallery Representation

Manyung Gallery, Melbourne,Australia
BMGart, Adelaide,SA,Australia
Wilson St Gallery At Danks St,Waterloo,NSW,Australia
Gallery One, Southport, QLD,Australia
Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith,WA,Australia

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