Kate Gorringe-Smith Curriculum Vitae
DOB: 01-12-1966
Instagram: @kategorringesmith
FB: Kate Gorringe-Smith; The Overwintering Project
E: [email protected]
Acknowledgement: I acknowledge that I am a white settler woman living and working on the unceded sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong/Boon Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation. I acknowledge the depth of knowledge they have of their Country, and the generosity with which they share that knowledge. I also pay my respect to the other Traditional Owners of this land.
Major Project: The Overwintering Project: Mapping Sanctuary
2017 – ongoing
www.theoverwinteringproject.com
FB: The Overwintering Project
Joining artists around Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa to raise awareness for migratory shorebirds, our most endangered group of birds, and their habitat. To date over 300 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 $51,000 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; Australasian Wader Studies Group; Victorian Wader Studies Group; Friends of Shorebirds SE; the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP); Western Port Biosphere Foundation
Participating Print Workshops ACT: Megalo Print Studio. QLD: Migaloo Press; Impress Printmaking Studio; Capricornia Printmakers; Maryborough Printmakers. NSW: Warringah Printmaking Studio; Newcastle Press; Southern Printmakers Association; Bathurst Street Printmakers. Vic.: Firestation Print Studio; Portland Bay Press; Art House Printmakers; Creators Artspace Wodonga; Woods Street Art Space. SA: Thumbprint Press; Bittondi Printmakers. TAS: King Island Press. WA: Printmakers Association of Western Australia.
Partnering Tertiary Institutions Charles Darwin University NT; North Metropolitan TAFE WA; South Regional TAFE WA
Participating artists Please see Project website: www.theoverwinteringproject.com
Coordinator/Curator Kate Gorringe-Smith
Selected Media Peter, J. (2024) ‘To the Moon and Back’ Australian Birdlife 13(1): 27-31.
Sheong Wong, M (2021) ‘The Bigger Picture’ Imprint blog 25 June 2021
https://www.printcouncil.org.au/the-bigger-picture/
Westlund, B (2021) ‘Overwintering on Western Port Bay’ Imprint blog 26
Channel 9, Postcards: Mornington (May 21, 2021)
https://www.9now.com.au/postcards/2021/clip-ckoaytlk100030hrub0ggzzdh
March 2021. https://www.printcouncil.org.au/overwintering-on-western-port-bay/
Crane, E (2020) Video of the 2020 Overwintering exhibition at the Jervis Bay Gallery.
https://vimeo.com/407791283
Forster, S (2019) 'Wild Things', Imprint 54(2):40-44.
Bowman, Jan, 'Overwintering: When Shorebirds Come to Visit',
Westender magazine, Brisbane, Nov. 22, 2019.
https://westender.com.au/overwintering-when-shorebirds-come-to-visit/
14/11/18 Radio Interview on RN’s the Hub on Arts with Ed Ayers
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-art-show/
the-overwintering-project-puts-migratory-shorebirds-in-print/10493056
Stephens, A (2018) ‘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, R (2018) 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, M. (2017) ‘World Travellers’, Imprint 52(3):41.
Major Exhibitions (for Local Exhibitions see project website www.theoverwinteringproject.com)
March 2027 Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell VIC
May-June 2026 South West Rocks Community Art Gallery, South West Rocks NSW
June – July 2024 Glyph Gallery, Port Fairy VIC
September – October 2023 Megalo Print Studio, Canberra ACT
June – July 2023 Gallery Central, North Metropolitan TAFE, Perth WA
February – March 2022 Denmark Butter Factory Workshops and Gallery, WA
February 2022 Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany WA
September – November 2021 SAM (South Australian Museum) SA
August 2021 Wild Island Tasmania TAS
July 2021 Kingborough Hub TAS
March – May 2021 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery VIC (Partly funded by Creative Victoria)
December 2020 – February 2021 Burnie Regional Art Gallery TAS
October 2020 Nyistor Gallery, Perth WA
March – May 2019 Jervis Bay Maritime Museum NSW
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 VIC
October – November 2018 Moonah Art Gallery, Moonah TAS
The Overwintering Project: Wall of Wings
FB: Wall of Wings – Migratory Shorebirds (Group)
The Wall of Wings is part of the Overwintering Project. Initiated in 2019 by Coffs Coast artist Penelope Lawry, the Wall of Wings is an international community art installation. Participants, who are invited to contribute cut-out prints of migratory shorebirds from any of the world’s nine flyways, can be of any age and level of experience. In response to national and international call-outs since 2019, over 250 artists of all ages and 9 school groups have contributed prints of migratory shorebirds that together form a magnificent Wall of Wings – a multi-species flock of the birds that connect the world!
October 2025 Coolart Bird Festival, Somers VIC
April 2025 Flyways: Ocean Messages, Wonthaggi Artspace VIC
February 2025 Flinders Fringe Festival VIC
November 2024 Across the Waters project culmination, Berninneit, Cowes VIC
May 2024 Artspace Wodonga Print Festival NSW
April 2024 Moonbird Festival King Island TAS
September 2023 Darwin-Garramilla Shorebird Festival NT
March – May 2023 Boondall Wetlands Visitors Centre QLD
March 2023 East Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership 11th Meeting of Partners,
Royal on the Park Hotel, Brisbane QLD
February – March 2023 BIRD, CLIMARTE Gallery, Richmond VIC
October 2022 Joel Gallery, Altona VIC
March – May 2021 Oak Hill Art Gallery, Mornington VIC
December 2019 – February 2020 Coffs Harbor Regional Gallery NSW
Major Project: Words With Wings
April – December 2019
https://creative.vic.gov.au/great-partnerships/projects/words-with-wings
http://www.kategorringesmith.com.au/words-with-wings-creative-victoria-partnership.html
Words with Wings was the result of a Creative Learning Partnership funded by a Creative Victoria Arts Partnership grant. It was an environmental art project for a group of seventeen grade 1-5 EAL students at Point Cook College who had personal migration stories linked to countries in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. The project included field trips to local migratory shorebird habitat with BirdLife Australia representatives; story-writing workshops; printmaking and painting workshops; and performance workshops. The project resulted in the creation of a story written and illustrated by the children called Rosie Wonders about Rosie the Bar-tailed Godwit, and the performance of the story for students, teachers and family members. The project was collaboratively directed by myself and Point Cook College Environmental Science teacher Robin Cairns.
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
http://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’,
Imprint 50 (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
2014 http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/northcote-artist-sheds-light-on-migratory-birds-
journeys-in-flyway-print-exchange-exhibition/news-story/19e02042954c1a70a37734a9dcc48805
Exhibitions
December 2024 – January 2025 NAU Foundation, Vadodara INDIA
November 2024 50th anniversary celebration of Western Port Wetland Bird Count, Hastings VIC
November 2023 Boondall Wetlands Visitors Centre QLD
October – November 2019 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, 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
October 2014 Australasian Bird Fair, Olympic Park, Sydney, NSW
September 2014 No Vacancy Project Space, Federation Square, Melbourne, Vic.
September 2014 Space Theatre Foyer, Adelaide, SA; Adelaide OzAsia Festival
Solo Exhibitions
March 2026 The Presence of Absence and Absence of Presence, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
January 2026 The Overwintering Project: A Personal Reflection, Glyph Gallery, Port Fairy
August 2024 2024 Winter Residency Exhibition, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
November 2023 5 Walks, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy
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
March 2026 Irrepressible, curated by Rona Green, Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill VIC
February 2026 Currents of Practice, Coolart Homestead, Balnarring VIC
November 2025 Collector’s Edition: Timeless Prints, Art & Collectors, Fitzroy
October 2025 Pollinators, Print Council of Australia Gallery, Southbank VIC
RSVP project (Southern Highland Printmakers and Firestation Print
Studio), Print Council of Australia Gallery, Southbank VIC
The Sentience of Small Beings, NAU Foundation, Vadodara INDIA
Gathering Time and Place, Foster Art Gallery, Foster VIC
September 2025 ArtsPrint 25, ArtSpace Wonthaggi, VIC
The Postcard Project: Finding Hope, The Convent, Abbotsford VIC
July 2025 The BIG Print Exhibition, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale VIC
May 2025 Flyways – Ocean Messages, ArtSpace Wonthaggi, VIC
February 2025 Currents of Practice, Coolart Homestead, Balnarring VIC
November 2024 Off the Wall, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale VIC
September 2024 Slow Repair, gallery gallery inc., Brunswick VIC
Impressions – Land, Sea and Sky, Australian Print Workshop, Collingwood VIC
June 2024 Verrefication, Montsalvat Art Centre, Eltham VIC
March 2024 Biophilia, Print Council of Australia Gallery, Southbank VIC
January 2024 Birds, Salt Gallery, Queenscliff VIC
October 2023 Kinship with Birds in Flight or Plight, Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD), Online; juror Jane Kim
From the Ground Up: The Connection between Birds and Trees,
The Corner Gallery, Stanmore NSW
September 2023 Garamila Shorebird Festival Exhibition, Nan Giese Gallery, Charles Darwin University NT
May 2023 Printmaking: Surface + Environment, Assembly Point Artspace, Southbank VIC
March 2023 REVOLT, Climarte Gallery, Richmond VIC
February 2023 BIRD, Climarte Gallery, Richmond VIC (Artistic Director)
December 2022 The Aviary, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy VIC
October 2022 Water: Works on paper, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, ITALY
June 2022 Birds of a Feather, Salt Gallery, Queenscliff VIC
May 2022 Safe Harbour, St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane QLD
March 2022 Sea, Air and Land, Stockyard Gallery, Foster VIC
February 2022 Overwintering, Satellite Project Space, North Melbourne VIC
October 2020 Cultivate, Lion Gate Lodge, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney NSW
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 VIC
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 NSW
May 2019 Inaugural exhibition, Darebin Arts Centre Gallery, Preston VIC
Australian Literature Print Exchange Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop VIC
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 VIC
May 2018 Australian Literature Print Exchange Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop
December 2017 Summer Impressions, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
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 VIC
March 2017 Global Oceans International Print Exchange, The Hahndorf Academy, Adelaide Hills SA
November 2016 From a Home to a Home: a Story of Migration, BSG, Fitzroy VIC
PROOF: the best of Contemporary Printmaking, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
Impressions 2016, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy VIC
August 2016 From the Basalt Plains to the Limestone Coast, Tacit Gallery, Abbotsford VIC
June 2016 Contemporary Paper, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
Patterns of Thought, collaboration with Helen Kocis Edwards,
Little Window of Opportunity, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
April 2016 Birds + Us, Claire Layman Gallery, Melbourne VIC
February 2016 Notions, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
ALOFT, Portland Arts Centre, Portland VIC
Where the Land Meets the Sea, Stockyard Gallery, Foster VIC
November 2015 Magical, curated by Rona Green, Neospace Gallery, Collingwood VIC
October 2015 Pride, Mischielf and Murder, 2015 Broome Writers’ Festival WA
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 VIC
July 2015 Port Jackson Press Winter Olympics, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
February 2015 Innate Beauty, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
Winged Messengers Print Exchange, Hahndorf Academy, Adelaide Hills,
2015 Adelaide Festival Fringe, SA
November 2014 Impressions 2014, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy VIC
October 2014 Outside In, group exhibition curated by Sophie Moshakis,
Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Melbourne VIC
June 2014 2014 Scope Galleries Art Award - Art Concerning Environment, Scope Galleries, Warrnambool VIC
13 Melbourne Printmakers, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Rathdowne Galleries, Carlton North VIC
February 2014 Editions (II), Tacit Contemporary Art, Abbotsford VIC
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 VIC
June 2013 With wilderness all around, Merri Studios exhibition, Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond VIC
May 2013 Borough of Queenscliff 150th Anniversary Art Awards, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff VIC
April 2013 Group Show, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
MLC Contemporary Art Collection Exhibition, Methodist Ladies College, Kew VIC
December 2012 Book Arts and Zine Exhibition, Hand Held Gallery, Melbourne VIC
November 2012 Summer Salon Exhibition, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
Public Hanging 2012, Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew VIC
Impressions 2012, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy VIC
October 2012 The Map’s Vocabulary, Merri Studios Exhibition, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy VIC
September 2011 The Fine and Complex Art of Printmaking, James Makin Gallery, Collingwood VIC
Charting the Interior, Merri Studios exhibition, BSG Fitzroy VIC
Oxfam Land is Life exhibition, QPO, 186 High Street, Kew VIC
August 2011 MLC Acquisitive Printmaking Exhibition, Methodist Ladies College, Kew
July 2011 2011 Darebin Art Show, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora VIC
October 2010 Merri Studios Works on Paper, BSG Fitzroy VIC
December 2006, 2007, 2008 Christmas Exhibition, Art Hub, Deptford, London UK
Oct. 1997 According to Custom, Customs House Gallery, Warrnambool VIC
May 1997 Group Exhibition, City Museum, Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
April 1997 Private Archives, Secret Collections & Personal Encyclopedias, Linden Gallery, St Kilda VIC
December 1995, 1996 RMIT Graduating and Honours Printmaking Exhibition, Melbourne
Competitions
2025 Winner, WAMA Environmental Art Prize
2025 Finalist, Burnie Print Prize
2025 Finalist, Darebin Art Salon, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
2022 Finalist, MPRG National Works on Paper Prize
2021 Finalist, Castlemaine Art Museum Experimental Print Prize
2021 Finalist, Geelong Print Prize
2021 People’s Choice Award and acquired, Burnie Print Prize
2017 Finalist, Manly Library Artists’ Book Awards
2015 Finalist, Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints
2014 Finalist, Scope Galleries Art Award - Art Concerning Environment,
Scope Galleries, Warrnambool, Victoria
2013 Finalist, Borough of Queenscliff 150th Anniversary Art Awards, Queenscliff
2011 Finalist, Darebin Art Show, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Selected workshops, public projects & residencies
October 2025 Caulfield Primary School visiting artist
October 2025 Speaker, BirdLife Ballarat
October 2025 Speaker, Western Port Biosphere Community Forum
September 2025 Exhibitor, Paper Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney NSW
September 2025 Participating artists, Birrarung Riverfest 2025
August 2025 Geelong College visiting artist
November 2024 Collaborating artist, Across the Waters Community Project, Berninneit Cowes VIC
October 2024 Artist in Residence, Macquarie University NSW
October 2024 Guest artist, Kew High School Art Camp and exhibition VIC
September 2024 Exhibitor, Paper Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney NSW
July – August 2024 Artist in Residence, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood VIC
June – December 2024 Invited artist, NAU Printmakers Collective for the Sentience of Small Beings project,
NAU Living Labs, Vadodara India
May 2024 Collaborating Artist, Australian Print Workshop, Collingwood VIC
March 2023 Presenter/Observer CEPA Task Force,
East Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership 11th Meeting of Partners, Brisbane QLD
February 2023 Workshop facilitator, Wall of Wings, Flinders Fringe, Flinders VIC
January 2023 Curator, BIRD, CLIMARTE Gallery VIC
August 2022 Workshop facilitator, Wall of Wings, Dandenong High School
August 2022 Workshop facilitator, Wall of Wings, Woods Street Art Space Laverton
July 2022 Artist in Residence, Saltbush Family Centre, Balnarring
March 2022 Artist in Residence, Police Point Artists’ Residency, Mornington
October 2021 Presenter, World Migratory Bird Day webinar, Hobson’s Bay Wetland Centre
May 2021 Workshop facilitator, King Island Cultural Centre
March 2021 Workshop facilitator, Woods Street Arts Space, Laverton
2021 Leading Artist, Biodiversity in Schools Project, Western Port Biosphere Reserve, Hastings
February 2021 Guest artist, World Wetlands Day, Hobson’s Bay
November 2019 Artist in Residence, Woodleigh College, Baxter
June – November 2019 Artist in Residence, Point Cook College, Creative Victoria Arts Partnership
May 2019 Guest Artist, World Migratory Bird Day Festival, Newport, 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 Stencils with 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–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
July – August 2026 Catchment to Coast; collaborative community exhibition with multimedia artist Jina He
for Cardinia Shire Council
November 2020 On the Wings of a Godwit; a musical meditation with the Bowerbird
Collective, Simone Slattery and Anthony Albrecht;
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2020
https://bowerbird.productions/godwit/
Conference Papers
2023 ‘The Overwintering Project: A case study in using art as a tool to engage communities in
conservation’ Australasian Ornithological Conference 2023
2021 ‘The Wonder of Wetlands: Using Art to Engage, Educate and Inspire’
Asian Wetland Symposium 2021
2020 Plenary Address: ‘Spreading the Shorebird Love - Using Art to Engage, Educate and Inspire’
1st East Asian-Australasian Flyway Shorebird Science Meeting
2019 ‘Politically Correct: Printmaking and Social Change’
Japan and Australia Print Symposium
2018 ‘Using art to engage audiences with shorebird conservation’.
Australasian Shorebird Conference
Collections School of Art Gallery and Museum Collection, Aberystwyth, WALES;
Australian National Gallery, Canberra ACT; State Library Victoria;
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, TAS; WAMA, VIC;
Methodist Ladies College VIC; Australian Print Workshop,
VIC; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology VIC;
Private collections.
Other Media
2019 EAAF Flyway News: Story Series #1;
www.eaaflyway.net/flyway_story_1_interview-with-kate-gorringe-smith/
2016 Dooley, Sean, ‘The BirdLife Interview: Kate Gorringe-Smith,’
Australian BirdLife 5(1): 52 – 53, March 2016.
Employment
2016 – 2018 City of Melbourne Arts Grants Assessor
2015 – ongoing Freelance Art Workshop facilitator
2014 – ongoing Freelance Curator
2014 – 2015 Editor, IMPRINT magazine, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
2006 – 2008 Columnist, Families magazine, London
1990 – 2005 Freelance Columnist, Melbourne’s Child, Melbourne
1996 – 1998 English Language Editor, Shufunotomo Publishing, 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 – 2023 Vice Chair, BirdLife Australia’s Migratory Shorebird Conservation Action
Plan Communication & Education Working Group
2016 – 2022 Vice President, Print Council of Australia
2014 – 2016 Victorian Committee Member, Print Council of Australia
Education
2025 – ongoing PhD Candidate, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University
2023 – 2024 Masters of Research, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University
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 (incomplete)
1985 – 1987 Bachelor of Arts (English & Zoology), University of Melbourne
Memberships Print Council of Australia; NAVA; BirdLife Australia; Victorian Wader Studies Group;
VNPA; Western Port Biosphere Reserve; Firestation Print Studio
Instagram: @kategorringesmith
FB: Kate Gorringe-Smith; The Overwintering Project
E: [email protected]
Acknowledgement: I acknowledge that I am a white settler woman living and working on the unceded sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong/Boon Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation. I acknowledge the depth of knowledge they have of their Country, and the generosity with which they share that knowledge. I also pay my respect to the other Traditional Owners of this land.
Major Project: The Overwintering Project: Mapping Sanctuary
2017 – ongoing
www.theoverwinteringproject.com
FB: The Overwintering Project
Joining artists around Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa to raise awareness for migratory shorebirds, our most endangered group of birds, and their habitat. To date over 300 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 $51,000 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; Australasian Wader Studies Group; Victorian Wader Studies Group; Friends of Shorebirds SE; the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP); Western Port Biosphere Foundation
Participating Print Workshops ACT: Megalo Print Studio. QLD: Migaloo Press; Impress Printmaking Studio; Capricornia Printmakers; Maryborough Printmakers. NSW: Warringah Printmaking Studio; Newcastle Press; Southern Printmakers Association; Bathurst Street Printmakers. Vic.: Firestation Print Studio; Portland Bay Press; Art House Printmakers; Creators Artspace Wodonga; Woods Street Art Space. SA: Thumbprint Press; Bittondi Printmakers. TAS: King Island Press. WA: Printmakers Association of Western Australia.
Partnering Tertiary Institutions Charles Darwin University NT; North Metropolitan TAFE WA; South Regional TAFE WA
Participating artists Please see Project website: www.theoverwinteringproject.com
Coordinator/Curator Kate Gorringe-Smith
Selected Media Peter, J. (2024) ‘To the Moon and Back’ Australian Birdlife 13(1): 27-31.
Sheong Wong, M (2021) ‘The Bigger Picture’ Imprint blog 25 June 2021
https://www.printcouncil.org.au/the-bigger-picture/
Westlund, B (2021) ‘Overwintering on Western Port Bay’ Imprint blog 26
Channel 9, Postcards: Mornington (May 21, 2021)
https://www.9now.com.au/postcards/2021/clip-ckoaytlk100030hrub0ggzzdh
March 2021. https://www.printcouncil.org.au/overwintering-on-western-port-bay/
Crane, E (2020) Video of the 2020 Overwintering exhibition at the Jervis Bay Gallery.
https://vimeo.com/407791283
Forster, S (2019) 'Wild Things', Imprint 54(2):40-44.
Bowman, Jan, 'Overwintering: When Shorebirds Come to Visit',
Westender magazine, Brisbane, Nov. 22, 2019.
https://westender.com.au/overwintering-when-shorebirds-come-to-visit/
14/11/18 Radio Interview on RN’s the Hub on Arts with Ed Ayers
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-art-show/
the-overwintering-project-puts-migratory-shorebirds-in-print/10493056
Stephens, A (2018) ‘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, R (2018) 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, M. (2017) ‘World Travellers’, Imprint 52(3):41.
Major Exhibitions (for Local Exhibitions see project website www.theoverwinteringproject.com)
March 2027 Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell VIC
May-June 2026 South West Rocks Community Art Gallery, South West Rocks NSW
June – July 2024 Glyph Gallery, Port Fairy VIC
September – October 2023 Megalo Print Studio, Canberra ACT
June – July 2023 Gallery Central, North Metropolitan TAFE, Perth WA
February – March 2022 Denmark Butter Factory Workshops and Gallery, WA
February 2022 Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany WA
September – November 2021 SAM (South Australian Museum) SA
August 2021 Wild Island Tasmania TAS
July 2021 Kingborough Hub TAS
March – May 2021 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery VIC (Partly funded by Creative Victoria)
December 2020 – February 2021 Burnie Regional Art Gallery TAS
October 2020 Nyistor Gallery, Perth WA
March – May 2019 Jervis Bay Maritime Museum NSW
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 VIC
October – November 2018 Moonah Art Gallery, Moonah TAS
The Overwintering Project: Wall of Wings
FB: Wall of Wings – Migratory Shorebirds (Group)
The Wall of Wings is part of the Overwintering Project. Initiated in 2019 by Coffs Coast artist Penelope Lawry, the Wall of Wings is an international community art installation. Participants, who are invited to contribute cut-out prints of migratory shorebirds from any of the world’s nine flyways, can be of any age and level of experience. In response to national and international call-outs since 2019, over 250 artists of all ages and 9 school groups have contributed prints of migratory shorebirds that together form a magnificent Wall of Wings – a multi-species flock of the birds that connect the world!
October 2025 Coolart Bird Festival, Somers VIC
April 2025 Flyways: Ocean Messages, Wonthaggi Artspace VIC
February 2025 Flinders Fringe Festival VIC
November 2024 Across the Waters project culmination, Berninneit, Cowes VIC
May 2024 Artspace Wodonga Print Festival NSW
April 2024 Moonbird Festival King Island TAS
September 2023 Darwin-Garramilla Shorebird Festival NT
March – May 2023 Boondall Wetlands Visitors Centre QLD
March 2023 East Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership 11th Meeting of Partners,
Royal on the Park Hotel, Brisbane QLD
February – March 2023 BIRD, CLIMARTE Gallery, Richmond VIC
October 2022 Joel Gallery, Altona VIC
March – May 2021 Oak Hill Art Gallery, Mornington VIC
December 2019 – February 2020 Coffs Harbor Regional Gallery NSW
Major Project: Words With Wings
April – December 2019
https://creative.vic.gov.au/great-partnerships/projects/words-with-wings
http://www.kategorringesmith.com.au/words-with-wings-creative-victoria-partnership.html
Words with Wings was the result of a Creative Learning Partnership funded by a Creative Victoria Arts Partnership grant. It was an environmental art project for a group of seventeen grade 1-5 EAL students at Point Cook College who had personal migration stories linked to countries in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. The project included field trips to local migratory shorebird habitat with BirdLife Australia representatives; story-writing workshops; printmaking and painting workshops; and performance workshops. The project resulted in the creation of a story written and illustrated by the children called Rosie Wonders about Rosie the Bar-tailed Godwit, and the performance of the story for students, teachers and family members. The project was collaboratively directed by myself and Point Cook College Environmental Science teacher Robin Cairns.
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
http://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’,
Imprint 50 (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
2014 http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/northcote-artist-sheds-light-on-migratory-birds-
journeys-in-flyway-print-exchange-exhibition/news-story/19e02042954c1a70a37734a9dcc48805
Exhibitions
December 2024 – January 2025 NAU Foundation, Vadodara INDIA
November 2024 50th anniversary celebration of Western Port Wetland Bird Count, Hastings VIC
November 2023 Boondall Wetlands Visitors Centre QLD
October – November 2019 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, 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
October 2014 Australasian Bird Fair, Olympic Park, Sydney, NSW
September 2014 No Vacancy Project Space, Federation Square, Melbourne, Vic.
September 2014 Space Theatre Foyer, Adelaide, SA; Adelaide OzAsia Festival
Solo Exhibitions
March 2026 The Presence of Absence and Absence of Presence, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
January 2026 The Overwintering Project: A Personal Reflection, Glyph Gallery, Port Fairy
August 2024 2024 Winter Residency Exhibition, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
November 2023 5 Walks, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy
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
March 2026 Irrepressible, curated by Rona Green, Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill VIC
February 2026 Currents of Practice, Coolart Homestead, Balnarring VIC
November 2025 Collector’s Edition: Timeless Prints, Art & Collectors, Fitzroy
October 2025 Pollinators, Print Council of Australia Gallery, Southbank VIC
RSVP project (Southern Highland Printmakers and Firestation Print
Studio), Print Council of Australia Gallery, Southbank VIC
The Sentience of Small Beings, NAU Foundation, Vadodara INDIA
Gathering Time and Place, Foster Art Gallery, Foster VIC
September 2025 ArtsPrint 25, ArtSpace Wonthaggi, VIC
The Postcard Project: Finding Hope, The Convent, Abbotsford VIC
July 2025 The BIG Print Exhibition, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale VIC
May 2025 Flyways – Ocean Messages, ArtSpace Wonthaggi, VIC
February 2025 Currents of Practice, Coolart Homestead, Balnarring VIC
November 2024 Off the Wall, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale VIC
September 2024 Slow Repair, gallery gallery inc., Brunswick VIC
Impressions – Land, Sea and Sky, Australian Print Workshop, Collingwood VIC
June 2024 Verrefication, Montsalvat Art Centre, Eltham VIC
March 2024 Biophilia, Print Council of Australia Gallery, Southbank VIC
January 2024 Birds, Salt Gallery, Queenscliff VIC
October 2023 Kinship with Birds in Flight or Plight, Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD), Online; juror Jane Kim
From the Ground Up: The Connection between Birds and Trees,
The Corner Gallery, Stanmore NSW
September 2023 Garamila Shorebird Festival Exhibition, Nan Giese Gallery, Charles Darwin University NT
May 2023 Printmaking: Surface + Environment, Assembly Point Artspace, Southbank VIC
March 2023 REVOLT, Climarte Gallery, Richmond VIC
February 2023 BIRD, Climarte Gallery, Richmond VIC (Artistic Director)
December 2022 The Aviary, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy VIC
October 2022 Water: Works on paper, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, ITALY
June 2022 Birds of a Feather, Salt Gallery, Queenscliff VIC
May 2022 Safe Harbour, St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane QLD
March 2022 Sea, Air and Land, Stockyard Gallery, Foster VIC
February 2022 Overwintering, Satellite Project Space, North Melbourne VIC
October 2020 Cultivate, Lion Gate Lodge, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney NSW
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 VIC
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 NSW
May 2019 Inaugural exhibition, Darebin Arts Centre Gallery, Preston VIC
Australian Literature Print Exchange Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop VIC
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 VIC
May 2018 Australian Literature Print Exchange Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop
December 2017 Summer Impressions, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
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 VIC
March 2017 Global Oceans International Print Exchange, The Hahndorf Academy, Adelaide Hills SA
November 2016 From a Home to a Home: a Story of Migration, BSG, Fitzroy VIC
PROOF: the best of Contemporary Printmaking, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
Impressions 2016, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy VIC
August 2016 From the Basalt Plains to the Limestone Coast, Tacit Gallery, Abbotsford VIC
June 2016 Contemporary Paper, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
Patterns of Thought, collaboration with Helen Kocis Edwards,
Little Window of Opportunity, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
April 2016 Birds + Us, Claire Layman Gallery, Melbourne VIC
February 2016 Notions, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
ALOFT, Portland Arts Centre, Portland VIC
Where the Land Meets the Sea, Stockyard Gallery, Foster VIC
November 2015 Magical, curated by Rona Green, Neospace Gallery, Collingwood VIC
October 2015 Pride, Mischielf and Murder, 2015 Broome Writers’ Festival WA
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 VIC
July 2015 Port Jackson Press Winter Olympics, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood
February 2015 Innate Beauty, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
Winged Messengers Print Exchange, Hahndorf Academy, Adelaide Hills,
2015 Adelaide Festival Fringe, SA
November 2014 Impressions 2014, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy VIC
October 2014 Outside In, group exhibition curated by Sophie Moshakis,
Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Melbourne VIC
June 2014 2014 Scope Galleries Art Award - Art Concerning Environment, Scope Galleries, Warrnambool VIC
13 Melbourne Printmakers, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Rathdowne Galleries, Carlton North VIC
February 2014 Editions (II), Tacit Contemporary Art, Abbotsford VIC
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 VIC
June 2013 With wilderness all around, Merri Studios exhibition, Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond VIC
May 2013 Borough of Queenscliff 150th Anniversary Art Awards, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff VIC
April 2013 Group Show, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
MLC Contemporary Art Collection Exhibition, Methodist Ladies College, Kew VIC
December 2012 Book Arts and Zine Exhibition, Hand Held Gallery, Melbourne VIC
November 2012 Summer Salon Exhibition, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood VIC
Public Hanging 2012, Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew VIC
Impressions 2012, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy VIC
October 2012 The Map’s Vocabulary, Merri Studios Exhibition, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy VIC
September 2011 The Fine and Complex Art of Printmaking, James Makin Gallery, Collingwood VIC
Charting the Interior, Merri Studios exhibition, BSG Fitzroy VIC
Oxfam Land is Life exhibition, QPO, 186 High Street, Kew VIC
August 2011 MLC Acquisitive Printmaking Exhibition, Methodist Ladies College, Kew
July 2011 2011 Darebin Art Show, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora VIC
October 2010 Merri Studios Works on Paper, BSG Fitzroy VIC
December 2006, 2007, 2008 Christmas Exhibition, Art Hub, Deptford, London UK
Oct. 1997 According to Custom, Customs House Gallery, Warrnambool VIC
May 1997 Group Exhibition, City Museum, Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
April 1997 Private Archives, Secret Collections & Personal Encyclopedias, Linden Gallery, St Kilda VIC
December 1995, 1996 RMIT Graduating and Honours Printmaking Exhibition, Melbourne
Competitions
2025 Winner, WAMA Environmental Art Prize
2025 Finalist, Burnie Print Prize
2025 Finalist, Darebin Art Salon, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
2022 Finalist, MPRG National Works on Paper Prize
2021 Finalist, Castlemaine Art Museum Experimental Print Prize
2021 Finalist, Geelong Print Prize
2021 People’s Choice Award and acquired, Burnie Print Prize
2017 Finalist, Manly Library Artists’ Book Awards
2015 Finalist, Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints
2014 Finalist, Scope Galleries Art Award - Art Concerning Environment,
Scope Galleries, Warrnambool, Victoria
2013 Finalist, Borough of Queenscliff 150th Anniversary Art Awards, Queenscliff
2011 Finalist, Darebin Art Show, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Selected workshops, public projects & residencies
October 2025 Caulfield Primary School visiting artist
October 2025 Speaker, BirdLife Ballarat
October 2025 Speaker, Western Port Biosphere Community Forum
September 2025 Exhibitor, Paper Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney NSW
September 2025 Participating artists, Birrarung Riverfest 2025
August 2025 Geelong College visiting artist
November 2024 Collaborating artist, Across the Waters Community Project, Berninneit Cowes VIC
October 2024 Artist in Residence, Macquarie University NSW
October 2024 Guest artist, Kew High School Art Camp and exhibition VIC
September 2024 Exhibitor, Paper Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney NSW
July – August 2024 Artist in Residence, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood VIC
June – December 2024 Invited artist, NAU Printmakers Collective for the Sentience of Small Beings project,
NAU Living Labs, Vadodara India
May 2024 Collaborating Artist, Australian Print Workshop, Collingwood VIC
March 2023 Presenter/Observer CEPA Task Force,
East Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership 11th Meeting of Partners, Brisbane QLD
February 2023 Workshop facilitator, Wall of Wings, Flinders Fringe, Flinders VIC
January 2023 Curator, BIRD, CLIMARTE Gallery VIC
August 2022 Workshop facilitator, Wall of Wings, Dandenong High School
August 2022 Workshop facilitator, Wall of Wings, Woods Street Art Space Laverton
July 2022 Artist in Residence, Saltbush Family Centre, Balnarring
March 2022 Artist in Residence, Police Point Artists’ Residency, Mornington
October 2021 Presenter, World Migratory Bird Day webinar, Hobson’s Bay Wetland Centre
May 2021 Workshop facilitator, King Island Cultural Centre
March 2021 Workshop facilitator, Woods Street Arts Space, Laverton
2021 Leading Artist, Biodiversity in Schools Project, Western Port Biosphere Reserve, Hastings
February 2021 Guest artist, World Wetlands Day, Hobson’s Bay
November 2019 Artist in Residence, Woodleigh College, Baxter
June – November 2019 Artist in Residence, Point Cook College, Creative Victoria Arts Partnership
May 2019 Guest Artist, World Migratory Bird Day Festival, Newport, 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 Stencils with 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–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
July – August 2026 Catchment to Coast; collaborative community exhibition with multimedia artist Jina He
for Cardinia Shire Council
November 2020 On the Wings of a Godwit; a musical meditation with the Bowerbird
Collective, Simone Slattery and Anthony Albrecht;
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2020
https://bowerbird.productions/godwit/
Conference Papers
2023 ‘The Overwintering Project: A case study in using art as a tool to engage communities in
conservation’ Australasian Ornithological Conference 2023
2021 ‘The Wonder of Wetlands: Using Art to Engage, Educate and Inspire’
Asian Wetland Symposium 2021
2020 Plenary Address: ‘Spreading the Shorebird Love - Using Art to Engage, Educate and Inspire’
1st East Asian-Australasian Flyway Shorebird Science Meeting
2019 ‘Politically Correct: Printmaking and Social Change’
Japan and Australia Print Symposium
2018 ‘Using art to engage audiences with shorebird conservation’.
Australasian Shorebird Conference
Collections School of Art Gallery and Museum Collection, Aberystwyth, WALES;
Australian National Gallery, Canberra ACT; State Library Victoria;
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, TAS; WAMA, VIC;
Methodist Ladies College VIC; Australian Print Workshop,
VIC; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology VIC;
Private collections.
Other Media
2019 EAAF Flyway News: Story Series #1;
www.eaaflyway.net/flyway_story_1_interview-with-kate-gorringe-smith/
2016 Dooley, Sean, ‘The BirdLife Interview: Kate Gorringe-Smith,’
Australian BirdLife 5(1): 52 – 53, March 2016.
Employment
2016 – 2018 City of Melbourne Arts Grants Assessor
2015 – ongoing Freelance Art Workshop facilitator
2014 – ongoing Freelance Curator
2014 – 2015 Editor, IMPRINT magazine, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
2006 – 2008 Columnist, Families magazine, London
1990 – 2005 Freelance Columnist, Melbourne’s Child, Melbourne
1996 – 1998 English Language Editor, Shufunotomo Publishing, 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 – 2023 Vice Chair, BirdLife Australia’s Migratory Shorebird Conservation Action
Plan Communication & Education Working Group
2016 – 2022 Vice President, Print Council of Australia
2014 – 2016 Victorian Committee Member, Print Council of Australia
Education
2025 – ongoing PhD Candidate, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University
2023 – 2024 Masters of Research, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University
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 (incomplete)
1985 – 1987 Bachelor of Arts (English & Zoology), University of Melbourne
Memberships Print Council of Australia; NAVA; BirdLife Australia; Victorian Wader Studies Group;
VNPA; Western Port Biosphere Reserve; Firestation Print Studio