Kate Gorringe-Smith Curriculum Vitae
KATE GORRINGE-SMITH – Full CV
www.kategorringesmith.com.au
www.theoverwinteringproject.com
DOB: 01-12-1966
Instagram: @kategorringesmith
FB: Kate Gorringe-Smith; The Overwintering Project
E: kategorringesmith@gmail.com
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, 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 $42,000 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 QLD: Migaloo Press; Impress Printmaking Studio; Capricornia Printmakers; Maryborough Print Studio. ACT: Megalo Print Studio. NSW: Warringah Printmaking Studio; Newcastle Press; Southern Printmakers Association; Bathurst Street Printmakers. Vic.: Firestation Print Studio; Portland Bay Press; Art House Printmakers. SA: Thumbprint Press; Bittondi Press. TAS: King Island Press. WA: Western Australian Printmakers Association.
Participating artists Please see project website
Coordinator/Curator Kate Gorringe-Smith
Selected Media Channel 9, Postcards: Mornington (May 21, 2021)
Westlund, Bec, 2021, Imprint blog 26 March 2021
Crane, Emma-Lee, 2020, Video of the 2020 Overwintering exhibition at the Jervis Bay Gallery
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 Radio National’s the Hub on Arts with Ed Ayers
Stephens, Andrew, ‘Artworks Celebrate Unsung Stars of the Sky’,
Sydney Morning Herald, 16 Nov. 2018
22/11/18 Radio 774 3LO interview with Myf Warhurst
Fetherstone, Rachel, Brown Birds in a Brown Landscape,
project preview on the ‘Remember the Wild’ blog May 2018
McPherson, Megan, ‘World Travellers’, Imprint 52 (3): 41, 2017.
Major Exhibitions (for Local Exhibitions see project website www.theoverwinteringproject.com)
December 2023 Wildbark, Mulligan’s Flat Woodland Sanctuary ACT
March – April 2023 Gallery Central, North Metropolitan TAFE, Perth WA
February – March 2022 Denmark Butter Factory Workshops and Galler, WA
February 2022 Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany WA
September – November 2021 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 a Creative Victoria grant)
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
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.
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
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
Prakash, Chetna, ‘Flyway, My Friend’, exhibition review in TKTown:
multicultural stories from around the world. 2018.
Saddler, Harry, ‘Why Shorebirds at the Immigration Museum’, Exhibition Review in online journal
Right Now: Human Rights in Australia, March 30, 2016
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.
Irwin, Julia, Herald Sun Leader, 'Northcote Artist Sheds Light on Migratory Birds' Journeys in
Flyway Print Exchange Exhibition', September 5, 2014.
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
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; 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
June 2022 Birds of a Feather, Salt Gallery, Queenscliff
May 2022 Safe Harbour, St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane, Qld
March 2022 Sea, Air and Land, Stockyard Gallery, Foster
February 2022 Overwintering, Satellite Project Space, North Melbourne
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
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 Messengers Print 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 150th Anniversary 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 Hanging 2012, 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
Oxfam Land is Life exhibition, 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 Fine
December 1995, 1996 RMIT Graduating and Honours Printmaking Exhibition, Melbourne
Competitions
August 2022 Finalist, National Works on Paper Prize
November 2021 Finalist, Castlemaine Art Museum Experimental Print Prize
October 2021 Finalist, Geelong Print Prize
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 150th Anniversary Art Awards, Queenscliff
July 2011 Finalist, 2011 Darebin Art Show, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Workshops, public projects & residencies
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
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 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 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
https://bowerbird.productions/godwit/
Collections Australian National Gallery, Canberra; School of Art Gallery and
Museum Collection, Aberystwyth, Wales; State Library Victoria;
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania;
Methodist Ladies College, Kew; Australian Print Workshop,
Collingwood; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne;
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
2019 Artist in Residence, Point Cook College
(through a Creative Victoria Arts Partnership grant)
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
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 – ongoing 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
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; NAVA; BirdLife Australia;
Victorian Wader Studies Group; VNPA; Western Port Biosphere Reserve; Firestation Print Studio.
www.kategorringesmith.com.au
www.theoverwinteringproject.com
DOB: 01-12-1966
Instagram: @kategorringesmith
FB: Kate Gorringe-Smith; The Overwintering Project
E: kategorringesmith@gmail.com
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, 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 $42,000 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 QLD: Migaloo Press; Impress Printmaking Studio; Capricornia Printmakers; Maryborough Print Studio. ACT: Megalo Print Studio. NSW: Warringah Printmaking Studio; Newcastle Press; Southern Printmakers Association; Bathurst Street Printmakers. Vic.: Firestation Print Studio; Portland Bay Press; Art House Printmakers. SA: Thumbprint Press; Bittondi Press. TAS: King Island Press. WA: Western Australian Printmakers Association.
Participating artists Please see project website
Coordinator/Curator Kate Gorringe-Smith
Selected Media Channel 9, Postcards: Mornington (May 21, 2021)
Westlund, Bec, 2021, Imprint blog 26 March 2021
Crane, Emma-Lee, 2020, Video of the 2020 Overwintering exhibition at the Jervis Bay Gallery
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 Radio National’s the Hub on Arts with Ed Ayers
Stephens, Andrew, ‘Artworks Celebrate Unsung Stars of the Sky’,
Sydney Morning Herald, 16 Nov. 2018
22/11/18 Radio 774 3LO interview with Myf Warhurst
Fetherstone, Rachel, Brown Birds in a Brown Landscape,
project preview on the ‘Remember the Wild’ blog May 2018
McPherson, Megan, ‘World Travellers’, Imprint 52 (3): 41, 2017.
Major Exhibitions (for Local Exhibitions see project website www.theoverwinteringproject.com)
December 2023 Wildbark, Mulligan’s Flat Woodland Sanctuary ACT
March – April 2023 Gallery Central, North Metropolitan TAFE, Perth WA
February – March 2022 Denmark Butter Factory Workshops and Galler, WA
February 2022 Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany WA
September – November 2021 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 a Creative Victoria grant)
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
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.
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
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
Prakash, Chetna, ‘Flyway, My Friend’, exhibition review in TKTown:
multicultural stories from around the world. 2018.
Saddler, Harry, ‘Why Shorebirds at the Immigration Museum’, Exhibition Review in online journal
Right Now: Human Rights in Australia, March 30, 2016
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.
Irwin, Julia, Herald Sun Leader, 'Northcote Artist Sheds Light on Migratory Birds' Journeys in
Flyway Print Exchange Exhibition', September 5, 2014.
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
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; 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
June 2022 Birds of a Feather, Salt Gallery, Queenscliff
May 2022 Safe Harbour, St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane, Qld
March 2022 Sea, Air and Land, Stockyard Gallery, Foster
February 2022 Overwintering, Satellite Project Space, North Melbourne
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
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 Messengers Print 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 150th Anniversary 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 Hanging 2012, 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
Oxfam Land is Life exhibition, 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 Fine
December 1995, 1996 RMIT Graduating and Honours Printmaking Exhibition, Melbourne
Competitions
August 2022 Finalist, National Works on Paper Prize
November 2021 Finalist, Castlemaine Art Museum Experimental Print Prize
October 2021 Finalist, Geelong Print Prize
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 150th Anniversary Art Awards, Queenscliff
July 2011 Finalist, 2011 Darebin Art Show, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Workshops, public projects & residencies
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
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 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 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
https://bowerbird.productions/godwit/
Collections Australian National Gallery, Canberra; School of Art Gallery and
Museum Collection, Aberystwyth, Wales; State Library Victoria;
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania;
Methodist Ladies College, Kew; Australian Print Workshop,
Collingwood; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne;
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
2019 Artist in Residence, Point Cook College
(through a Creative Victoria Arts Partnership grant)
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
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 – ongoing 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
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; NAVA; BirdLife Australia;
Victorian Wader Studies Group; VNPA; Western Port Biosphere Reserve; Firestation Print Studio.