Kathy Temin

  • Kathy Temin

    White Gar­den Inter­ven­tion (ASG), 2018
    syn­thet­ic fur, syn­thet­ic fill­ing, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint, steel, com­po­si­tion board, plastic
    250 x 151 x 82 cm
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery
    Pho­to: Zan Wimberley

  • Kathy Temin

    Pet Tomb: Roger, 2014
    syn­thet­ic fur, MDF and filling
    109 x 210 x 50 cm

  • Kathy Temin

    Pet Tomb: Tina, 2014
    syn­thet­ic fur, MDF and filling
    178 x 100 x 110 cm

  • Kathy Temin

    My Memo­r­i­al Oral His­to­ries: Budapest, Buchen­wald Boys and Poland, 2014
    three wood­en bench­es, three head­phones and three MP3 players
    bench­es 170 x 50 x 40 cm each
    4 hours 42 minutes

  • Kathy Temin

    Pavil­ion Garden, 2012
    syn­thet­ic fur, acrylic paint, syn­thet­ic fill­ing, steel, MDF
    275 x 445 x 124 cm; bench: 51 x 273 x 40 cm
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery

  • Kathy Temin

    Gar­den Islands, 2010
    alu­mini­um and stain­less steel
    City of Ston­ning­ton Commission
    Project for Lil­li Build­ing, Clare­mont Street, South Yarra

  • Kathy Temin

    My Mon­u­ment: Black Cube, 2009
    syn­thet­ic fur and fill­ing, wood, steel
    355 x 370 x 370 cm
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery

  • Kathy Temin

    My Mon­u­ment: White Forest, syn­thet­ic fur, syn­thet­ic fibre fill, steel, wood, MDF board
    60 trees: 351 x 1073 x 677 cm; four bench­es: 42 x 310 x 45 cm (each)
    instal­la­tion view, Queens­land Art Gallery/​Gallery of Mod­ern Art, Brisbane

  • Kathy Temin

    My House, 2004-05
    wood, paint, Per­spex, felt, syn­thet­ic fur, syn­thet­ic fill­ing, poly­styrene, foam core board, bub­ble wrap, var­i­ous print­ed mat­ter and var­i­ous oth­er mate­ri­als. 2 LCD screens with 2 DVDs. 2 wood­en bench­es, 2 clus­ters of trees, made from steel, wood, syn­thet­ic fur and syn­thet­ic filling
    base 160.0 x 170.0 x 130.0 cm; bench­es 41.0 x 90.0 x 41.0 cm; trees height vari­able x 120.0 x 120.0 cm
    Com­mis­sioned as part of NEW05, the Aus­tralian Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Art, Melbourne
    Pho­to: John Brash

  • Kathy Temin

    Audi­tions for a pair of Koalas (Blue), 2002
    12 pega­sus prints mount­ed to aluminum
    12 parts, each 51 x 76 cm

  • Kathy Temin

    White Prob­lem, 1995
    syn­thet­ic fur on masonite
    9 parts, 45 x 45 cm each (over­all size approx 50 x 400 cm)

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Biography

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, for instance, 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.

Temin com­plet­ed under­grad­u­ate 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 Monash Art Design & Archi­tec­ture, Monash University.

Exhi­bi­tions include: Soft Core, Lake Mac­quar­ie City Art Gallery (tour­ing 2016 – 17); MCA Col­lec­tion: Today Tomor­row Yes­ter­day, Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art, Syd­ney (2016−17); The Koala Room, Bel­la Room Com­mis­sion, Nation­al Cen­tre for Cre­ative Learn­ing, Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art, Syd­ney (2016−17); Sol­id State, Casu­la Pow­er­house Arts Cen­tre, Syd­ney (2015); Nev­er­where, Gaia Gallery, Istan­bul (2015); 21st Cen­tu­ry Hei­de: The Col­lec­tion Since 2000, Hei­de Muse­um of Mod­ern Art (2015), Pet Ceme­tery, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Mel­bourne (2014); Kathy Temin | My Mon­u­ment: White For­est, Queens­land Art Gallery & Gallery of Mod­ern Art, Queens­land (2013); Mel­bourne Now, Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Mel­bourne (2013); Aus­tralia, Roy­al Acad­e­my of Arts, Lon­don (2013); My Mon­u­ment: Black Gar­den, Art Gallery of New South Wales Con­tem­po­rary Projects (2011); Son­ic Youth etc: Sen­sa­tion­al Fix, Cen­tro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2010); and My Kylie, Insti­tute Con­tem­po­rary Art, Lon­don (2004).

Pub­lic col­lec­tions include: Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art, Syd­ney; Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Mel­bourne; Queens­land Art Gallery, Bris­bane; Art Gallery of South Aus­tralia, Ade­laide; Art Gallery of West­ern Aus­tralia, Perth; The Ian Pot­ter Muse­um of Art, Mel­bourne; and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.


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Bib­li­og­ra­phy

Exhibitions

Kathy Temin

White Gar­den Inter­ven­tion (ASG)

28th August – 29th September 2018
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Kathy Temin

Pet Ceme­tery

2nd October – 8th November 2014
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Kathy Temin

Memo­r­i­al Gardens

19th – 25th August 2012
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Kathy Temin

My Mon­u­ment, Black Cube

3rd September – 3rd October 2009
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Kathy Temin

Audi­tions for a pair of koalas

3rd – 26th April 2003
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Kathy Temin

Frozen Moments

19th – 28th March 2002
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Available Works

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Kathy Temin

The Memo­r­i­al Project: Black Wall (Detail: Three Trees), 2015
syn­thet­ic fur, MDF and filling
285 x 130 x 50 cm

Kathy Temin

Pet Tomb: Harry, 2014
con­crete and syn­thet­ic fur
84 x 86 x 36 cm

Kathy Temin

Pet Tomb: Csilla, 2014
con­crete, MDF and syn­thet­ic fur
110 x 34 x 38 cm

Kathy Temin

Pet Tomb: Ebeneza, 2014
syn­thet­ic fur, MDF and filling
220 x 95 x 95 cm

Kathy Temin

Pet Tomb: Boris, 2014
con­crete, syn­thet­ic fur, MDF and filling
129 x 34 x 34 cm

Kathy Temin

Small White Tree, 2012
syn­thet­ic fur, steel, syn­thet­ic fill­ing, wood
42 x 36 x 17 cm

Kathy Temin

Round Ball Tree (medi­um), 2009
syn­thet­ic fur and fill­ing, wood
205 x 90 x 90 cm

Kathy Temin

Large Striped Across Tree, 2009
syn­thet­ic fur and fill­ing, wood
253 x 50 x 50 cm

Kathy Temin

Frozen Moment: Per­form­ing (as part of My Kylie Collection), 2001
fused glass
30 x 30 cm

Kathy Temin

For­est, 2000
felt
31 x 50 cm

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