
Kathy Temin
Heide Museum of Modern Art 2009
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.
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
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