KATE HENDRY

The wire sculptures are largely process-based works. The works were originally inspired by the play of light on water that you enjoy in the quietness of underwater swimming. The loose grid structures are a representation of light when refracted through moving water. The translation from such fluid beginnings into steel is in some ways problematic, however the material enables depth in the works, allowing me to work in relief as well as ‘in the round’. Steel carries with it longstanding associations with landscape; the structures that I make recall familiar natural and ephemeral structures. The rigidity of the mild steel allows direct handwork in the making process, whereby each join is achieved through a simple single twist. There is no soldering. Through the introduction of curved line and voids within the relief structures there has been an expansion of the initial ideas and practice. Working within clear parameters I am focused upon formal aesthetic decisions whilst making these works, able to play with the light and line created, drawing in space.

2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Sculpture Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne VIC

2000
Bachelor of Asian Studies – Japanese The Australian National University, Canberra ACT

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY Melbourn

2008
Redland Regional Art Gallery, Cleveland
Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Sydney

2006
Clearview Gallery, Brisbane

2001
Fox Gallery, Brisbane

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
Metronomic Balance ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY Melbourne

2007
The Grey Scale ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY Melbourne Box Folly Red Gallery, Melbourne The Only Constant ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY Melbourne [formerly ARTEFACT]

2006
Light of Line ARTEFACT Gallery Melbourne - solo 2005 Prow and Bustle
The Shell Gallery Geelong Regional Gallery, Victoria – solo Quad Mad Gallery Must Hear the Other Hand Red Gallery, Melbourne

2004
Auricular Confessions Red Gallery, Melbourne

2003
Somnolence Red Gallery, Melbourne - solo

2002
VCA Graduate Exhibition
- Victorian College of the Arts Gallery Site Conical, Melbourne George Baldessin Travelling Fellowship Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne

2001-02
SplendidIsolation-McClellandGallery,Victoria

2001
McClelland Gallery, Victoria - solo

1999
C.S.A. Drawing Prize Exhibition C.S.A. Gallery, ANU

1998
Deconstructing Canberra
C.S.A. Gallery, ANU

2007
Wall sculpture, Kennedy’s Recycling Plant, Brisbane

2006
Wall sculpture, Victoria Point Library Mosaic projects, Lakeside Precinct, Victoria Point

Redland Regional Gallery
Ipswich Grammar School
Private and Corporate Collections – Australia, England, New Zealand

$1,600 - $10,000

Private Conversations ([gallery 1])
Metronomic Balance (7 - 31 October 2009)
Light of Line (1 - 25 November 2006)