Katie West
Australian artist
About Katie West
Katie West is a Western Australian interdisciplinary artist. Her work often features dyed textiles and native plants, creating multi-sensory installations.
Early life West grew up in on a farm on Noongar country, north of Perth, and is of Yindjibarndi descent. She exhibits multi-sensory installations. She documents the processes of her work as a form of storytelling. She often uses motifs such as baskets or digging sticks as critical commentary on how museum collections show "cultural objects and their makers as fixed in time". and Dominik Mersch Gallery Award in 2017.
She was chosen as a participant in the Kickstart program in 2015 and exhibited at the Next Wave Festival in 2016.
In 2023, her work Fence lines & Digging sticks was selected as a finalist for the Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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