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Kate Just is an American-born Australian artist, well known for her knitted and mixed media installations. In works which re-imagine a relationship between historic, cultural or iconographic accounts of femininity and her own autobiographic narratives, Just foregrounds the power and materiality of the body as an identifying site.

In earlier works, Just harnessed knitting's sculptural potential, creating elaborate scenes reimagining Greek and other mythologies from a feminist perspective. Narrating women's transformation out of the limits of their bodies into the shifting ground of nature, these works also metaphorically reflected Just's grappling with the death of her brother, migration to Australia to live with her same sex partner, and embarkation on a long journey toward parenthood. In recent works including evocative resin sculptures and collages of bodily tools, knitted second-skins and armors, and photographs of herself and her daughter, Just elicits the tactility of skin, reframing women's skin, in particular, as a transmissive, receptive, and reparative territory.

Kate Just is represented by Daine Singer. Read Less

Kate Just was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1974 and moved to Melbourne permanently in 1996. Just is currently undertaking a PhD at Monash University and has a Master of Arts from RMIT, Bachelor of Fine Arts from VCA and Bachelor of Science (film making) from Boston University. She is a Lecturer in Art at VCA.

Just has exhibited her artwork extensively including at Auckland Art Fair, AC Institute New York, Craft Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Art Fair, Contemporary Art Space of Tasmania, Chalk Horse Gallery, Nellie Castan Gallery, First Draft, MOP, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Canberra Contemporary Art Space and Daine Singer. Recently, a survey exhibition of Just’s major knitted works was held at Ararat Regional Gallery entitled Kate Just: The Knitted Work 2004 – 2011.
In 2011

Just was International Artist in Residence at KREMS Kunsthalle, Austria, where she held a solo exhibition. In 2012 Just undertook an Australia Council Residency in Barcelona. Her work is held in collections including Artbank, Ergas Collection, City of Port Phillip, Ararat Regional Art Gallery and Proclaim Management Collection. Read Less