Kate Scardifield is a visual artist with a research driven, interdisciplinary and experimental studio practice. Traversing textiles, sculpture, installation and video, her work has been included in numerous exhibitions throughout Australia, New Zealand, the United States and the U.K. She likens her practice to a process of anatomical enquiry; mining history for intersecting systems and patterns that culminate in re-imaginings of the body, site and space.
Her work has been featured in Art Forum, Frieze, Australian Art Collector, Museum Magazine, Artlink, Das Platforms and Textile Fibre Forum. Kate is a Freedman Scholar, previous recipient of the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship and has received multiple project grants from the Australian Council for the Arts. She has participated in international residency programs in New Delhi (2012), Paris (2012), Oaxaca (2014) and Glasgow (2016).
Kate holds a PhD from the University of Sydney, currently serves on the Artist Advisory Group at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and has been a Research Fellow at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in 2017. Ley Lines, a significant solo exhibition of her work, is touring across Scotland in 2017/18, curated by Panel (Glasgow) and partnering with Heriot Watt University, Fife Contemporary, Live Borders and Falkirk Community Trust.
Responding to a constellation of objects drawn from museum collections and civic archives, her current project is Canis Major, an ambitious new body of work that encompasses the development and creation of new adaptable textile sculptures to be presented in two stages over 2018 and 2019– as part of a solo exhibition at UTS Gallery in conjunction with the Sydney Design Festival, and as a live sited work in the Scottish landscape.