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Kate Gorringe-Smith Curriculum Vitae

www.kategorringesmith.com.au
www.theoverwinteringproject.com
Instagram: @kategorringesmith
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Major Project: The Overwintering Project: Mapping Sanctuary
2017 – ongoing 
www.theoverwinteringproject.com
FB: The Overwintering Project
 
Joining artists around Australia and New Zealand to raise awareness for migratory shorebirds and their habitat. To date over 250 artists have contributed works to the Overwintering Project Print Portfolio, and over 1000 artists have participated in exhibitions nationally. Through the sale of prints donated to the Overwintering Project Print Portfolio, the Project has also raised $23,000 for migratory shorebird research and conservation projects by the Australasian Wader Studies Group, the migratory shorebird special interest group of BirdLife Australia.
 
Partner Organisations                BirdLife Australia; Victorian Wader Studies Group; Friends of
                                                        Shorebirds SE
Participating Print Workshops  QLD: Migaloo Press; Impress Printmaking Studio; Capricornia Printmakers; Maryborough Print Studio. NSW: Warringah Printmaking Studio; Newcastle Press; Southern Printmakers Association. Vic.: Firestation Print Studio; Portland Bay Press; Art House Printmakers. SA: Thumbprint Press; Bittondi Press. TAS: King Island Press
Participating artists                     Please see project website https://www.theoverwinteringproject.com
Coordinating Artist                     Kate Gorringe-Smith
Selected Media                            Crane, Emma-Lee, 2020, Video of the 2020 Overwintering exhibition at the Jervis Bay Gallery: https://vimeo.com/407791283
                                                        Forster, Sue, 2019, 'Wild Things', Imprint 54 (2): pp 40-44.
Bowman, Jan, 'Overwintering: When Shorebirds Come to Visit', Westender magazine, Brisbane, Nov. 22, 2019.14/11/18 Radio Interview on RN’s the Hub on Arts with Eddie Ayers https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-art-show/the-overwintering-project-puts-migratory-shorebirds-in-print/10493056
                                                        Stephens, Andrew, ‘Artworks Celebrate Unsung Stars of the Sky’, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 Nov. 2018 https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/artworks-celebrate-unsung-stars-of-the-sky-20181101-h17dky.html
22/11/18 Radio 774 3LO interview with Myf Warhurst https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/myf-warhurst/birds/10542154
                                                        Fetherstone, Rachel, Brown Birds in a Brown Landscape,
                                                        project preview on the ‘Remember the Wild’ blog May 2018
                                                        http://www.rememberthewild.org.au/brown-birds-in-a-brown-        landscape/
                                                        McPherson, Megan, ‘World Travellers’,Imprint52 (3): 41, 2017.
 
Major Exhibitions (for Local Exhibitions see project website www.theoverwinteringproject.com)
July 2021                                           Kingborough Hub, Tasmania    
March – May 2021                            Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
December 2020 – February 2021   Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
October 2020                                     Nyistor Gallery, Perth
March – May 2019                           Jervis Bay Maritime Museum
December 2019 – February 2020   Coffs Harbor Regional Gallery, NSW
October – November 2019              Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Mandurah, WA
July 2019                                           Charles Darwin University, NT
November – December 2018          Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, Victoria
October – November 2018              Moonah Art Gallery, Moonah, Tasmania
 
 
 
Major Project: From a Home to a Home: A Story of Migration
2016
www.kategorringesmith.com.au/from-a-home-to-a-home-a-story-of-migration.html
Catalogue: http://au.blurb.com/b/7439594-from-a-home-to-a-home
Exhibition documentation by Andrej Kocis:https://vimeo.com/196135335
Installation documentation by Andrej Kocis:https://vimeo.com/193223642
 
Through installation, video, original prints, sculpture, traditional Chinese paper-cutting, performance and sound 16 artists from eight Flyway countries investigated our heritage as refugees, migrants and travellers through the lens of shorebird migration.
 
Participating artists                     Cui Xiao Hua; Kyoko Imazu; Nakarin Jaikla; Vicki Kinai; Andrej Kocis; Helen Kocis Edwards; Khue Nguyen; Minh Phan; En En See; Pamela See; Ema Shin; My Le Thi; Pimpisa Tinpalit, Haily Tran and Rebecca Young. 
Curating Artist                             Kate Gorringe-Smith
Media                                            Cathcart, Michael, RN Books and Arts Daily, November 2016.    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/from-home-to-a-home/8033976
                                                        Fetherston, Rachel, ‘Features: From a Home to a Home’, review
                                                        Wild Melbourne, 23 Nov. 2016.
                                                        http://wildmelbourne.org/articles/from-a-home-to-a-home
 
Exhibition                                       Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Nov. 25 – Dec. 8, 2016
 
 
Major Project: The Flyway Print Exchange
2013 – ongoing
www.kategorringesmith.com.au/the-flyway-print-exchange.html
FB: The Flyway Print Exchange
 
This project aimed to celebrate and publicise the East-Asian Australasian Flyway – the route flown by Australia’s migratory shorebirds from their breeding ground in Alaska and Siberia to their overwintering grounds in Australia and New Zealand. The project linked 20 artists from nine of the 23 Flyway countries. To date the project has raised over $16,000 for BirdLife Australia’s shorebird conservation projects.
 
Sponsors                                      Melbourne Water
                                                        Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources 
                                                        Management Board
Partner Organisation                  BirdLife Australia
Coordinating Artist                     Kate Gorringe-Smith
Participating Artists                    Amanda O’Sullivan, Helen Kocis-Edwards, Vida Pearson, Alexis
                                                        Beckett, Syarhizal Pahlevi, Feng Jianming, Ni Jianming, 
                                                        Hyun Tae Lee, Kyoko Imazu, Violet Hammer, Sharon Keighran, 
                                                        Gret Mingundoo Allwood, Garry Kaulitz, Edwin Mighell, Cia Xiao
                                                        Hua, Celia Walker, Tham Pui San, Radhika Gupta, Kavita Shah
 
Media                                            2020 East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership World Migratory Fun
                                                        Day webinar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1422&v=xI4tntHl8zk&feature=emb_logo
                                                        2019 Green Skills, Art Celebrating Migratory Shorebirds: 
                                                        The Flyway Print Exchange, video of March 2019 opening 
                                                        of the exhibition at The Butter Factory Studios, Denmark WA
                                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrYBI8c5B90&feature=youtu.be
                                                        Prakash, Chetna, ‘Flyway, My Friend’, exhibition review in TKTown:
                                                        multicultural stories from around the world. 2018.
                                                        http://www.tcktown.com/home/flyway-my-friend
                                                        Saddler, Harry, ‘Why Shorebirds at the Immigration Museum’, 
                                                        Exhibition Review in online journal Right Now: Human Rights in
                                                        Australia, March 30, 2016:
http://rightnow.org.au/writing-cat/review/why-shorebirds-in-the-immigration-museum/
                                                        Forster, Sue, ‘Flight of the Prints: An International Print Exchange Along the Flyway’, Imprint50 (2): 34 – 35, 2015.
Crawford, Michael, RN Books and Arts Daily, October 5, 2014. 
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/fly-away-print-exchange/5785978
2014http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/northcote-artist-sheds-light-on-migratory-birds-journeys-in-flyway-print-exchange-exhibition/news-story/19e02042954c1a70a37734a9dcc48805
 
                                               
Exhibitions                                    
October – November 2019            Mandurah PAC, Mandurah, WA
March– April 2019                          Butter Factory Studios, Denmark, WA
February – March 2019                  Nautilus Arts Centre, Port Lincoln, SA
March– May 2018                           Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, NSW
October 2017                                   No. 1 Parnell, Rawene, New Zealand
August – September 2017             Eurobodalla Shire Council Libraries, NSW
July – August 2017                         Depot Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
June – July 2017                             Arts in Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand
March – June 2017                         South Coast of NSW (multiple venues)
November 2016 – March 2017      Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT
August – September 2016              Adelaide Zoo, Adelaide SA
December 2015 – March 2016       Melbourne Immigration Museum, Melbourne, Victoria;
                                                            Multicultural Arts Victoria’s 2015 Mapping Melbourne Festival
November 2015                                Portland Bay Press, Portland, Vic.; 2015 Portland Upwelling Festival 
September – October 2015             Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier, SA
July – September 2015                   Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Moreton Bay, Qld
February 2015                                   Methodist Ladies College, Kew, Vic.
February 2015                                   Royal Adelaide Science Exchange, Adelaide, SA
Dec. 2014 – January 2015              Sungei Buloh Wetlands, Singapore
Nov. 2014 – March 2015                 Hong Kong Wetland Park, Hong Kong
October 2014                                    I/TERAS Print Studio,Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia
October2014                                     Australasian Bird Fair, Olympic Park,Sydney, NSW
September 2014                                No Vacancy Project Space, Federation Square, Melbourne, Vic.
September 2014                                Space Theatre Foyer, Adelaide, SA; 2014 Adelaide OzAsia Festival
 
 
Solo Exhibitions
February 2016                                 This is how it all joins up together, Little Window of Opportunity, 
                                                        Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
July 2015                                         The Wonders of Migration, Portland Bay Press, Portland
July 2014                                         The Skies that Bind Us, Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery, Gasworks Art Park, 
                                                        Albert Park
February 2013                                 Traces, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy
September 2012                              Travellers, Little Window of Opportunity, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
May 2012                                         An Instinct for Mapping, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy
May 2012                                         Fly me to the Moon, Hand Held Gallery, Melbourne
February 2011                                 Memories of Flight, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy           
 
 
Group Exhibitions
October 2020                                  Cultivate, Lion Gate Lodge, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
                                                        Art is in our Nature, Silver Leaf Art Box, Balnarring (online)
April 2020                                        Of Foresters, Farmers and Fish, National Botanic Gardens, Wales
                                                        (postponed due to Covid 19)
March 2020                                     Water: Works on Paper, Artery Cooperative, Northcote
November 2019                               Of Foresters, Farmers and Fish, Impress Printmakers Studio and
                                                        Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
August 2019                                    Wild Thing, Lion Gate Lodge, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
May 2019                                         Inaugural exhibition, Darebin Arts Centre Gallery, Preston
                                                        Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop Australian Literature Print Exchange
March 2019                                     Shorelines, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA
                                                        Bimblebox 153 Birds, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, Qld
November 2018                               Impressions 2018, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy
May 2018                                         Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop Australian Literature Print Exchange
December 2017                               Summer Impressions, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
June 2017                                        From the Rivers to the Shore, Arts in Oxford Gallery, North Canterbury, 
                                                        New Zealand
April 2017                                        2017 Manly Library Artists’ Book Awards, Creative Space, 
                                                        North Curl Curl, NSW
                                                        Two Cities in Print, curated by Dr Carmel Wallace, Portland Bay Press,
                                                        Portland, Victoria
March 2017                                     Global Oceans International Print Exchange, The Hahndorf Academy, 
                                                        Adelaide Hills, South Australia
November 2016                               From a Home to a Home: a Story of Migration, BSG, Fitzroy
                                                        PROOF: the best of Contemporary Printmaking,Port Jackson Press, 
                                                        Collingwood
                                                        Impressions 2016, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy
August 2016                                    From the Basalt Plains to the Limestone Coast, 
                                                        Tacit Gallery, Abbotsford
June 2016                                        Contemporary Paper, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
                                                        Patterns of Thought, collaboration with Helen Kocis Edwards, 
                                                        Little Window of Opportunity, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
April 2016                                        Birds + Us, Claire Layman Gallery, Melbourne
February 2016                                 Notions, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood     
                                                        ALOFT, Portland Arts Centre, Portland, Victoria         
                                                        Where the Land Meets the Sea, Stockyard Gallery, Foster, Victoria 
November 2015                               Magical, curated by Rona Green, Neospace Gallery, Collingwood
October 2015                                  Pride, Mischielf and Murder, 2015 Broome Writers’ Festival
September 2015                              2015 Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira Town Hall, Glen Eira
August 2015                                    Pride, Mischielf and Murder, 2015 Melbourne Writers’ Festival,
                                                        No Vacancy Project Space, Federation Square, Melbourne
July 2015                                         Port Jackson Press Winter Olympics, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
February 2015                                 Innate Beauty, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
                                                        Winged MessengersPrint Exchange, Hahndorf Academy, 
                                                        Adelaide Hills, 2015 Adelaide Festival Fringe, SA
November 2014                               Impressions 2014, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy
October 2014                                  Outside In, group exhibition curated by Sophie Moshakis, 
                                                        Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Melbourne
June 2014                                        2014 Scope Galleries Art Award - Art Concerning Environment, 
                                                        Scope Galleries, Warrnambool, Victoria
                                                        13 Melbourne Printmakers, Joshua McClelland Print Room,
                                               Rathdowne Galleries, Carlton North
February 2014                                 Editions (II), Tacit Contemporary Art, Abbotsford
January 2014                                  Heading to JMB, 2014, JL Prawirotaman 30, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
November 2013                               Jogja Miniprint Exhibition, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
October 2013                                  Dust, Print Exchange and Exhibition, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
August 2013                                    Identity: 2013 Acquistive Art Exhibition, Methodist Ladies College, Kew
July 2013                                         Jewels of the Wild, 2013, Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park
June 2013                                        With wilderness all around, Merri Studios exhibition, Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond
May 2013                                         Borough of Queenscliff 150thAnniversary Art Awards, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff
April 2013                                        Group Show, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
                                                        MLC Contemporary Art Collection Exhibition, Methodist Ladies College, Kew
December 2012                               Book Arts and Zine Exhibition, Hand Held Gallery, Melbourne
November 2012                               Summer Salon Exhibition, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
                                                        Public Hanging2012, Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew
                                                        Impressions 2012, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy
October 2012                                  The Map’s Vocabulary, Merri Studios Exhibition, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy
September 2011                              The Fine and Complex Art of Printmaking, James Makin Gallery, 
                                                        Collingwood
                                                        Charting the Interior, Merri Studios exhibition, BSG Fitzroy 
                                                        OxfamLand is Lifeexhibition, QPO, 186 High Street, Kew
August 2011                                    MLC Acquisitive Printmaking Exhibition, Methodist Ladies College, Kew
July 2011                                         2011 Darebin Art Show, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre,
                                                        Bundoora
October 2010                                  Merri Studios Works on Paper, BSG Fitzroy
December 2006, 2007, 2008           Christmas Exhibition, Art Hub, Deptford, London        
Oct. 1997                                         According to Custom, Customs House Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria
May 1997                                         Group Exhibition, City Museum, Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
April 1997                                        Private Archives, Secret Collections & Personal Encyclopedias,
                                                        Linden Gallery, St Kilda
December 1995, 1996                     RMIT Graduating and Honours Printmaking Exhibition, Melbourne
 
 
Competitions
March 2021                                     Finalist, Burnie Print Prize
April 2017                                        Finalist, 2017 Manly Library Artists’ Book Awards
September 2015                              Finalist, 2015 Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints
June 2014                                        Finalist, 2014 Scope Galleries Art Award - Art Concerning Environment, 
                                                        Scope Galleries, Warrnambool, Victoria
May 2013                                         Finalist, Borough of Queenscliff 150thAnniversary Art Awards, Queenscliff
July 2011                                         Finalist, 2011 Darebin Art Show, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
 
 
Workshops, public projects & residencies
February 2021                                 Guest artist, World Wetlands Day, Hobson’s Bay
November 2019                               Artist in Residence, Woodleigh College, Baxter
April – December 2019                    Words with Wings, a Creative Learning Partnership funded by a Creative Victoria Arts Partnership. An environmental art project for a group of grade 1-5 students at Point Cook College, resulting in the creation of a story about Rosie the Bar-tailed Godwit, the creation and illustration of a book and the performance of the story for students, teachers and family members. 
                                                        https://creative.vic.gov.au/great-partnerships/projects/words-with-wings
May 2019                                         Guest Artist, World Migratory Bird Day Festival, Newport Hub, Melbourne
Sept. 2018 – May 2019                   Workshop facilitator and exhibition co-ordinator, Hobson’s Bay Overwintering Project community engagement, Woods Street Arts Space, Laverton, and Joel Gallery, Altona.
May 2018                                         Guest Artist, World Migratory Bird Day Festival, Newport Hub
May 2018                                         Workshop facilitator: Stencils and Ghost Prints, King Island Arts Centre
May 2018                                         Workshop facilitator: Printing with Nature, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum
May 2018                                         Visiting artist Point Cook College
December 2017                               Workshop facilitator: Richmond Community College
May 2017                                         Guest Artist, World Migratory Bird Day Festival, Newport Hub, Melbourne
March 2017                                     Workshop facilitator: Shorebirds, Seagrass and Stencilswith Bittondi
                                                        Printmakers, Adelaide
                                                        Workshop Facilitator: Shorebirds and Stencils, 
                                                        Thumbprint Print Workshop, Mount Gambier
October 2016                                  Guest artist at the 2016 Adelaide Shorebird Festival, Adelaide, SA 
March 2016                                     The Diversity Tree, Community Art Project for Multicultural Art Victoria’s 
                                                        Diversity Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
Dec. 2015 – Feb. 2016                    Par Avian, Community art project, Melbourne Immigration Museum
November 2015                               Guest artist for Arts Access Victoria, 2015 Emerald Hill Festival
June – October 2015                       Guest artist, Birds Without Borders, an environmental art initiative of SA
                                                        DEWNR across the Limestone Coast 
                                                        (Mount Gambier, SA to Portland, Vic.)
July 2015                                         Workshop facilitator, ‘Monoprinting with Stencils’. Thunmbprint Press, 
                                                        Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA.
November 2014                               Guest artist, Phillip Island Shearwater Festival
October 2014                                  Guest artist, Werribee Treatment Plant Open Day
April 2014                                        Visiting artist, Carringbush Adult Education, EAL.
February 2014                                 Are These the Wings You’re Looking For? Community art project, 
           Supergraph,Melbourne Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton
2010 – 2013                                    Visiting artist, Woodleigh School, Baxter
2005                                                Visiting artist, Woodhouse Grove Kindergarten, Box Hill North
2003                                                Visiting artist, Westgarth Kindergarten, Northcote
 
 
Collaborations
November 2020                               On the Wings of a Godwit; a musical meditation with Bowerbird Collective,
                                                        Simone Slattery and Anthony Albrecht; Melbourne Fringe Festival 2020
 
Collections                                   Australian National Gallery, Canberra; School of Art Gallery and
                                                        Museum Collection, Aberystwyth, Wales;State Library Victoria; 
                                                        Methodist Ladies College, Kew; Australian Print Workshop, 
                                                        Collingwood; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne; 
                                                        Private collections.
 
Other Media
2016                                                Dooley, Sean, ‘The BirdLife Interview: Kate Gorringe-Smith,’
                                                        Australian BirdLife5(1): 52 – 53, March 2016.
 
 
 
Employment
2019                                                Artist in Residence, Point Cook College 
                                                        (through a Creative Victoria Arts Partnership grant)
2016 – 2018                                    City of Melbourne Arts Grants Assessor
2014 – ongoing                               Freelance Curator
2014 – 2015                                    Editor,IMPRINTmagazine, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
2006  – 2008                                   Writer,Familiesmagazine, London
1996 – 1998                                    English Language Editor, ShufunotomoPublishing, Tokyo
1993 – 1996                                    Editor,Wingspan magazine, Birds Australia (ex RAOU)
1990 – 1993                                    Assistant Editor, The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and 
Antarctic Birds
, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, Melbourne
 
Positions Held
2020 – ongoing                                Vice Chair, BirdLife Australia’s Migratory Shorebird Conservation Action
                                                        Plan Communication & Education Working Group
2016 – ongoing                                Vice President, Print Council of Australia
2014 – 2016                                    Victorian Committee Member, Print Council of Australia
 
Education
1993 – 1997                                    Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Printmaking), Royal Melbourne Institute of 
                                                        Technology
1988 – 1990                                    Bachelor of Applied Science (Scientific Information Systems),
                                                        Deakin University
1985 – 1987                                    Bachelor of Arts (English & Zoology), University of Melbourne
1979 – 1984                                    Methodist Ladies College, Kew
 
 
Memberships                              Print Council of Australia; Portland Bay Press; NAVA; BirdLife Australia;
                                                        Victorian Wader Studies Group; VNPA; Multicultural Arts Victoria.

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    • Traces
    • An Instinct for Mapping
    • Memories of Flight
  • Projects
    • The Overwintering Project >
      • What is a Shorebird?
      • List of Migratory Shorebirds
      • Letters of Endorsement
    • The Flyway Print Exchange
    • From a Home to a Home: a Story of Migration
    • Community Projects >
      • Words With Wings: Creative Victoria Partnership
      • The Diversity Tree
      • Are These the Wings You're Looking For?
    • Collaborations >
      • On the Wings of a Godwit
      • Patterns of Thought
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