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Ash Keating

Ash Keating (born 1980) is an Australian contemporary visual artist.[1]

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Ashley James Keating

(1980-10-04) 4 October 1980 (age 44)
NationalityAustralian
EducationVictorian College of the Arts, Monash University
Known forPainting
Websiteashkeating.com
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Keating works within an expanded contemporary field, through painting, performance, sculpture, video and intervention. His large outdoor murals, created with paint-filled fire extinguishers, can be found across Melbourne.[2]

His practice is multidisciplinary, ranging from site-specific installations,[3] outdoor murals and performances,[4] to large-scale and domestic-scale canvases.[5]

Since 2004, he has exhibited extensively in galleries and undertaken large scale, site-responsive public art projects across Australia and internationally.[6][7][8]

Biography

Ash Keating was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1980.[9] He studied Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Monash University in 2004, followed by a Bachelors of Fine Arts, First Class Honours (Painting) at Victorian College of the Arts in 2006.[10]

Collections

Keating's works are held in numerous public and private collections including:

Selected exhibitions and projects

Selected solo exhibitions and projects

  • 2023 Pressure, Bunjil Place Gallery, Narre Warren VIC [18]
  • 2023 Ice Floes Response, At The Above, Fitzroy, VIC [19]
  • 2023 Gravity System Response, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland[20]
  • 2023 Perceptual Fields, Colector Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico[21]
  • 2023 ELEVATION, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC[22]
  • 2022 Gravity System Response, A.M. BJIERE, New York, New York, USA[23]
  • 2021 Duality, Linden New Art, St Kilda, VIC[24]
  • 2021 Gravity System Response, TW Fine Art, Brisbane QLD[25]
  • 2019 Hume Response Paintings, Ash Keating Studio, Coburg North, VIC[26]
  • 2018 Gravity System Response #81, commission for 2 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, VIC [27]
  • 2018 Gravity System Response, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand[28]
  • 2017 Gravity System Response, Blackartprojects, Melbourne, VIC[29]
  • 2016 Response Paintings, Latrobe VAC, Bendigo, VIC [30]

Selected group exhibitions and projects

Selected site specific solo art projects

  • 2023 Painting of Haus Germann, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland[20]
  • 2022 Gravity System Response Wall Painting for NAP Contemporary Mildura, VIC [38]
  • 2022 Gravity System Response, (for Kaleidoscope) Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC[39]
  • 2021 Sunset Response, wall painting on the facade of Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC [7]
  • 2019 TarraWarra Response Painting, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC [40]
  • 2018 Gravity System Response, City of Sydney's Domain, Sydney, NSW [41]
  • 2016 Coastal Horizon Response, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, VIC[42]
  • 2016 Arch Tunnel Response, North Byron Parklands, Splendour Arts, NSW [43]
  • 2015 The Facade Project, Latrobe Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, VIC [44]
  • 2015 Adelaide Festival Centre, presented by CACSA, Adelaide, SA [45]
  • 2014 RMIT A’Beckett Urban Square, Melbourne, VIC[46]
  • 2013 National Gallery of Victoria International Billboard for Melbourne Now, Melbourne, VIC [36]

Awards

Winner

  • 2015 Incinerator Art Prize[47]
  • 2013 Guirguis New Art Prize[48]
  • 2012 Substation Contemporary Art Prize[49]
  • 2011 Qantas Visual Arts Award[50]
  • 2008 ANZ Art and Australia RIPE award.[51]

Finalist

Publications

  • Ash Keating: Museum Langmatt. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023. Edited by Markus Stegmann. ISBN 9783775755160.
  • Spirits in the Bush – The Art of Gippsland. Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. By Simon Gregg. ISBN 9781925801699.
  • Art + Climate = Change. Melbourne University Publishing, 2016. By Guy Abrahams, Kelly Gellatly, and Bronwyn Johnson. ISBN 9780522869576.
  • Performance Ritual Document. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. By Anne Marsh. ISBN 9781921394973.
  • Curating Sydney: Imagining the City's Future. NewSouth Publishing, 2014. By Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel. ISBN 9781742247106.
  • Video Void – Australian Video Art. Australian Scholarly Pub, 2014. Edited by Matthew Perkins. ISBN 9781925003796.
  • Artists' Proof #1. Monash University Museum of Art I MUMA, 2012. By Geraldine Barlow, Max Delany, Shelley McSpedden, Francis Parker, Patrice Sharkey. ISBN 9780987295231.
  • Making the University Matter. Taylor & Francis, 2012. Edited by Barbie Zelizer. ISBN 9781136696930.
  • Time shrines: mourning and melancholia in the work of Ash Keating. Discipline Journal, 2012. By Amelia Barikin. ISSN 1839-082X.
  • The Art of Engagement: Culture, collaboration, innovation. University of Western Australia, 2011. By Elaine Lally, Ien Ang, and Kay Anderson. ISBN 9781742582870.
  • Junk - Art and the Politics of Trash. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. BY Gillian Whiteley. ISBN 9780857720214.
  • Space Invaders - Australian Street Stencils, Posters, Paste-ups, Zines, Stickers. National Gallery of Australia, 2010. By Jaklyn Babington and Roger Butler. ISBN 9780642334114.
  • Harmonic Tremors - Aesthetic Interventions in the Public Sphere. Gasworks Arts Park, 2009. Edited by Sarah Rainbird. ISBN 9780646503356.

Further reading

References

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