KATE ROHDE

Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney; purchased from the above

Kate Rohde: Perfect Specimen, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, 26 February - 27 March 2004

This work is in good overall condition.
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Kate Rohde was born in Melbourne in 1980 and studied at the Victorian College of the Arts (B.F.A. Hons. 2001). A participant in the ABN Amro Emerging Artists Prize in 2005, she also exhibited in the 2006 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, and was recently awarded an Australia Council residency in Paris. Her work is held in the Artbank, National Gallery of Victoria and Newcastle Region Art Gallery collections.

At the centre of Rohde's imagery and meaning are artificial mounted animal specimens. Her extravagant decorative tableaux are a playful,ironic celebration of the aesthetic of taxidermy and museum display, extending in recent projects to the creation of vast, baroque installations (Some Kind of Empire, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2006; Flourish, Tarra Warra Museum of Art, 2008). The present work is on a more domestic scale, a mock-Victorian vitrine with a skunk amidst ivy and fuschias, from the artist's Taxidermy series.