ArtSpeak | Kate Just
Event description
Join us for an ArtSpeak with textile artist Kate Just, on Wednesday 22 May, 12.30pm in our Lecture Room, 2nd Floor of our Teaching & Studios Building.
Just is an American-born Australian feminist artist best known for her inventive and political use of knitting. In addition to her solo practice, Just often works socially and collaboratively within communities to create large scale, public art projects that tackle significant social issues including sexual harassment and violence against women.
Just was born in Hartford, CT in 1974 and migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1994. Just holds a PhD in Sculpture from Monash University, a Master of Arts from RMIT University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Victorian College of the Arts where she is a Senior Lecturer in the Master of Contemporary Art program
image: Kate Just, Anonymous was a woman (detail), 2019–21, installation view, The National 2021: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney. Courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, Photograph: Anna Kučera