Ash Keating

Australian visual artist (born 1980)

Ash Keating
Ash Keating in 2023
Born
Ashley James Keating

(1980-10-04) 4 October 1980 (age 43)
NationalityAustralian
EducationVictorian College of the Arts, Monash University
Known forPainting
Websiteashkeating.com

Ash Keating (born 1980) is an Australian contemporary visual artist.[1]

Keating works within an expanded contemporary field, through painting, performance, sculpture, video and intervention. His large outdoor murals, created with paint-filled fire extinguishers, can be found across Melbourne.[2]

His practice is multidisciplinary, ranging from site-specific installations,[3] outdoor murals and performances,[4] to large-scale and domestic-scale canvases.[5]

Since 2004, he has exhibited extensively in galleries and undertaken large scale, site-responsive public art projects across Australia and internationally.[6][7][8]

Biography

Ash Keating was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1980.[9] He studied Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Monash University in 2004, followed by a Bachelors of Fine Arts, First Class Honours (Painting) at Victorian College of the Arts in 2006.[10]

Collections

Keating's works are held in numerous public and private collections including:

Selected exhibitions and projects

Selected solo exhibitions and projects

  • 2023 Pressure, Bunjil Place Gallery, Narre Warren VIC [18]
  • 2023 Ice Floes Response, At The Above, Fitzroy, VIC [19]
  • 2023 Gravity System Response, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland[20]
  • 2023 Perceptual Fields, Colector Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico[21]
  • 2023 ELEVATION, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC[22]
  • 2022 Gravity System Response, A.M. BJIERE, New York, New York, USA[23]
  • 2021 Duality, Linden New Art, St Kilda, VIC[24]
  • 2021 Gravity System Response, TW Fine Art, Brisbane QLD[25]
  • 2019 Hume Response Paintings, Ash Keating Studio, Coburg North, VIC[26]
  • 2018 Gravity System Response #81, commission for 2 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, VIC [27]
  • 2018 Gravity System Response, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand[28]
  • 2017 Gravity System Response, Blackartprojects, Melbourne, VIC[29]
  • 2016 Response Paintings, Latrobe VAC, Bendigo, VIC [30]

Selected group exhibitions and projects

  • 2021 Floating Land Biennale, Noosa National Park for Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, QLD [31]
  • 2018 ART21 and VOLTA Art Fairs with Yavuz Gallery, Basel, Switzerland and Shanghai, China[32]
  • 2018 Sydney Contemporary (2018 and 2017) with Blackartprojects, Sydney, NSW [33]
  • 2017 Ramsay Art Prize 2017, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA [34]
  • 2016 Occupied, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, VIC [35]
  • 2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC [36]
  • 2012 Artist's Proof #1, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, VIC [37]

Selected site specific solo art projects

  • 2023 Painting of Haus Germann, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland[20]
  • 2022 Gravity System Response Wall Painting for NAP Contemporary Mildura, VIC [38]
  • 2022 Gravity System Response, (for Kaleidoscope) Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC[39]
  • 2021 Sunset Response, wall painting on the facade of Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC [7]
  • 2019 TarraWarra Response Painting, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC [40]
  • 2018 Gravity System Response, City of Sydney's Domain, Sydney, NSW [41]
  • 2016 Coastal Horizon Response, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, VIC[42]
  • 2016 Arch Tunnel Response, North Byron Parklands, Splendour Arts, NSW [43]
  • 2015 The Facade Project, Latrobe Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, VIC [44]
  • 2015 Adelaide Festival Centre, presented by CACSA, Adelaide, SA [45]
  • 2014 RMIT A’Beckett Urban Square, Melbourne, VIC[46]
  • 2013 National Gallery of Victoria International Billboard for Melbourne Now, Melbourne, VIC [36]

Awards

Winner

  • 2015 Incinerator Art Prize[47]
  • 2013 Guirguis New Art Prize[48]
  • 2012 Substation Contemporary Art Prize[49]
  • 2011 Qantas Visual Arts Award[50]
  • 2008 ANZ Art and Australia RIPE award.[51]

Finalist

Publications

  • Ash Keating: Museum Langmatt. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023. Edited by Markus Stegmann. ISBN 9783775755160.
  • Spirits in the Bush – The Art of Gippsland. Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. By Simon Gregg. ISBN 9781925801699.
  • Art + Climate = Change. Melbourne University Publishing, 2016. By Guy Abrahams, Kelly Gellatly, and Bronwyn Johnson. ISBN 9780522869576.
  • Performance Ritual Document. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. By Anne Marsh. ISBN 9781921394973.
  • Curating Sydney: Imagining the City's Future. NewSouth Publishing, 2014. By Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel. ISBN 9781742247106.
  • Video Void – Australian Video Art. Australian Scholarly Pub, 2014. Edited by Matthew Perkins. ISBN 9781925003796.
  • Artists' Proof #1. Monash University Museum of Art I MUMA, 2012. By Geraldine Barlow, Max Delany, Shelley McSpedden, Francis Parker, Patrice Sharkey. ISBN 9780987295231.
  • Making the University Matter. Taylor & Francis, 2012. Edited by Barbie Zelizer. ISBN 9781136696930.
  • Time shrines: mourning and melancholia in the work of Ash Keating. Discipline Journal, 2012. By Amelia Barikin. ISSN 1839-082X.
  • The Art of Engagement: Culture, collaboration, innovation. University of Western Australia, 2011. By Elaine Lally, Ien Ang, and Kay Anderson. ISBN 9781742582870.
  • Junk - Art and the Politics of Trash. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. BY Gillian Whiteley. ISBN 9780857720214.
  • Space Invaders - Australian Street Stencils, Posters, Paste-ups, Zines, Stickers. National Gallery of Australia, 2010. By Jaklyn Babington and Roger Butler. ISBN 9780642334114.
  • Harmonic Tremors - Aesthetic Interventions in the Public Sphere. Gasworks Arts Park, 2009. Edited by Sarah Rainbird. ISBN 9780646503356.

Further reading

  • Habitus Living, Big, beautiful and oozing with colour: The art of Ash Keating by Jan Henderson, 2023
  • The Saturday Paper, Artist Ash Keating by Dee Jefferson, 2023
  • Memo Review, Ice Floes Response by Philip Brophy, 2023
  • Broadsheet, Under Pressure: Ash Keating Paints the Town Red (and Orange, Pink, Green and Blue) by Daniela Frangos, 2023
  • Shepparton News, A window into the mind of an artist: Ash Keating’s Elevation by Jay Brice, 2023
  • In Design Live, Sky’s the limit: Ash Keating turns future gallery site into an artwork by Jan Henderson, 2022
  • The Local Project Issue 6, The Science of Art – Ash Keating by James Lyall Smith, 2021
  • Observer, Ash Keating’s ‘Duality’ Evokes the Passage of Time by Cat Woods, 2021
  • The Sydney Morning Herald, Art Created by a Lawn Spreader and Fire Hydrant Aims to Evoke Nature by Cat Woods, 2021
  • Where they Create, Ash Keating by Ray Barbara, 2020
  • The Design Files, [1] by Sally Tabart, 2019
  • The Design Files, Studio Visit Ash Keating, by Lucy Feagins, 2017
  • Broadsheet, In the Artist’s Studio: Ash Keating, by Will Cox, 2017
  • Catalogue essay for Ash Keating Selected Video Works 2006–2014, Ash Keating — Selected Video Works 2006–2014 by Din Heagney, 2015
  • The Conversation, Nature makes abstract visual art more captivating by Misha Ketchell, 2014
  • un Magazine, 7.1, No creation but through submission by Justin Clemens, 2013
  • Discipline Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 2, Time Shrines: Mourning and Melancholia in the Work of Ash Keating by Amelia Barikin, 2013
  • Monash University Museum of Art, Artists Proof #1, by Max Delany, 2012
  • Artlink, Taking Care of Business: Ash Keating, by Anthony Gardner, 2007

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  2. ^ "Liv Albert Fields Brunswick, Victoria". David Hagger.
  3. ^ "Ash Keating". Scape Public Art NZ. 10 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Blasting colour: See the evolution of Ash Keating's first outdoor mural project in Sydney". City of Sydney - News.
  5. ^ "A window into the mind of an artist: Ash Keating's ELEVATION". Shepparton News. 11 April 2023.
  6. ^ "Ash Keating". The Museum Langmatt.
  7. ^ a b "Warrnambool Art Gallery gets a fluorescent makeover as part of Wallawar Festival". ABC News. December 2021.
  8. ^ "Art Rotterdam 2020, 'Murals Inc. Machine Painting Show', with Rutger de Vries and Ash Keating. Location: Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam". Murals Inc.
  9. ^ "Keating,Ash". National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ "Monash University Graduate Search Facility". Monash University.
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  13. ^ "Ash Keating: Activate 2750". The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
  14. ^ "The uprising #5 2009 Ash Keating Australia 1980". The Art Gallery of NSW.
  15. ^ "Ash Keating West Park proposition 2012". Monash University Museum of Art. 9 February 2022.
  16. ^ "Ash Keating West Park Proposition, 2013". Artbank.
  17. ^ "Ash Keating: Elevation, 2023". SAM.
  18. ^ "What's On". Bunjil Place Gallery.
  19. ^ "At the Above". At the Above Gallery.
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  21. ^ "Exhibitions". Colector Gallery.
  22. ^ "On show May 2023 onwards". Vault Magazine.
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  24. ^ "Ash Keating". Linden New Art.
  25. ^ "Exhibitions - Past". TW Fine Art.
  26. ^ "An Enormous New Public Artwork From The Artist Who Paints With Fire Extinguishers". The Design Files.
  27. ^ "Art Program on Southbank Boulevard". BVN Architecture.
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  31. ^ "Floating Land Archive Site 2021". Floating Land.
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  38. ^ "Big art goes above and beyond a silo mentality". Sunraysia Daily. 16 December 2022.
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  40. ^ "Open Weekend 2019". TarraWarra Museum of Art.
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  42. ^ "Coastal Horizon Response". Blackartprojects.
  43. ^ "Splendour Arts 2016". Byron Bay Blog. 27 May 2016.
  44. ^ "Latrobe VAC". Blackartprojects.
  45. ^ "Adelaide Festival Centre". Blackartprojects.
  46. ^ "RMIT University A'Beckett Urban Square". Peter Elliott Architecture.
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  48. ^ "Ash Keating GNAP13". Federation University. 8 July 2022.
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