Kate Ellis lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She completed an Advanced Certificate of Art and Design at Prahran College, Melbourne (1990) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (1995). She has held several solo exhibitions in Melbourne at venues including 1st Floor, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Arc One Gallery.
Numerous group exhibitions include Unsettled Boundaries, Melbourne International Arts Festival touring show: Geelong Art Gallery; Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery; La Trobe Regional Art Gallery and Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (2006); You’re so Vain: 5 Contemporary Sculptors, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2005); Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects, Store 5, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2005); wall/paper, Australian Galleries, Melbourne (2003); 1st Floor Final Exhibition, 1st Floor, Melbourne (2002); Oblique Shadows: Asian influences in Australian Sculpture, Mornington Regional Gallery, Victoria; VCA Gallery, Melbourne (2002); Unsigned Artists 2002, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne (2002); Something for the Ladies, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne (2001); First Floor Fund Raiser 2001, 1st Floor, Melbourne (2001); Oblique Shadows: Asian influences in Australian Sculpture, Sculpture Square, Singapore (2001); Rubyayre, Sydney (2000); Animal Magnetism, Platform 2, Spencer Street Station, Melbourne (1999); One Hour Photo (Co-ordinator), 1st Floor, Melbourne (1999); Darebin La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora Park Homestead, Melbourne (1999); The Physics Room, Christchurch New Zealand (1998); Respond Red or Blue (Melbourne Festival event), Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville (1998); Alter Point (Next Wave Festival), 1st Floor, Melbourne (1998); A Taste in Art, Sotheby’s Australia, Melbourne (1997) and the first Darebin-Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize, Arts & Entertainment Centre, Darebin (1997).
Among her various achievements, Kate has been the recipient of the Darebin La Trobe Art Prize (1999); Donlevy Fitzpatrick Award, Linden Post Card Show (1999); and the National Women’s Association Award (1992).
Kate’s work features in the corporate collection of Artbank, NSW and the public collection of La Trobe University.