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Ash Keating (born 1980) is an Australian contemporary visual artist. His practice is multidisciplinary, ranging from site-specific installations, outdoor murals and performances, to large-scale and domestic-scale canvases.
Keating works within an expanded contemporary field, through painting, performance, sculpture, video and intervention. His large outdoor murals, created with paint-filled fire extinguishers, can be found across Melbourne
Since 2004, he has exhibited extensively in galleries and undertaken large scale, site-responsive public art projects across Australia and internationally.
His works are held in numerous public and private collections including National Gallery of Victoria; National Gallery of Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Monash University Museum of Art and Artbank.
Selected exhibitions and projects
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2023 Pressure, Bunjil Place Gallery, Narre Warren VIC
2023 Gravity System Response, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland
2023 Ice Floes Response, At The Above, Fitzroy, VIC
2023 Perceptual Fields, Colector Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
2023 ELEVATION, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC
2022 Gravity System Response, A.M. BJIERE, New York, New York, USA
2021 Duality, Linden New Art, St Kilda, VIC
2021 Gravity System Response, TW Fine Art, Brisbane QLD
2019 Hume Response Paintings, Ash Keating Studio, Coburg North, VIC
2018 Gravity System Response #81, commission for 2 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, VIC
2018 Gravity System Response, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand
2017 Gravity System Response, Blackartprojects, Melbourne, VIC
2016 Response Paintings, Latrobe VAC, Bendigo, VIC
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2021 Floating Land Biennale, Noosa National Park for Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, QLD
2018 ART21 and VOLTA Art Fairs with Yavuz Gallery, Basel, Switzerland and Shanghai, China
2018 Sydney Contemporary (2018 and 2017) with Blackartprojects, Sydney, NSW
2017 Ramsay Art Prize 2017, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
2016 Occupied, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, VIC
2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
2012 Artist’s Proof #1, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, VIC
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2023 Painting of Haus Germann, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland
2022 Gravity System Response Wall Painting for NAP Contemporary Mildura, VIC
2022 Gravity System Response, (for Kaleidoscope) Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC
2021 Sunset Response, wall painting on the facade of Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
2019 TarraWarra Response Painting, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC
2018 Gravity System Response, City of Sydney’s Domain, Sydney, NSW
2016 Coastal Horizon Response, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, VIC
2016 Arch Tunnel Response, North Byron Parklands, Splendour Arts, NSW
2015 The Facade Project, Latrobe Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, VIC
2015 Adelaide Festival Centre, presented by CACSA, Adelaide, SA
2014 RMIT A’Beckett Urban Square, Melbourne, VIC
2013 National Gallery of Victoria International Billboard for Melbourne Now, Melbourne, VIC
Selected publications
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Artist Ash Keating by Dee Jefferson, The Saturday Paper, 2023
Ice Floes Response by Philip Brophy, Memo Review, 2023
Under Pressure: Ash Keating Paints the Town Red (and Orange, Pink, Green and Blue) by Daniela Frangos, Broadsheet, 2023
A window into the mind of an artist: Ash Keating’s Elevation by Jay Brice, Shepparton News, 2023
Sky’s the limit: Ash Keating turns future gallery site into an artwork by Jan Henderson, In Design Live, 2022
The Science of Art – Ash Keating by James Lyall Smith, The Local Project Issue 6, 2021
Ash Keating’s ‘Duality’ Evokes the Passage of Time by Cat Woods, Observer, 2021
Art Created by a Lawn Spreader and Fire Hydrant Aims to Evoke Nature by Cat Woods, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2021
Where they Create, Ash Keating by Ray Barbara, Where They Create, 2020
An Enormous New Public Artwork From The Artist Who Paints With Fire Extinguishers by Sally Tabart, The Design Files, 2019
Studio Visit Ash Keating, by Lucy Feagins, The Design Files, 2017
In the Artist’s Studio: Ash Keating, by Will Cox, Broadsheet, 2017
Catalogue essay for Ash Keating Selected Video Works 2006—2014 by Din Heagney, 2015
Nature makes abstract visual art more captivating by Misha Ketchell, The Conversation, 2014
No creation but through submission by Justin Clemens, uN Magazine 7.1, 2013
Time Shrines: Mourning and Melancholia in the Work of Ash Keating by Amelia Barikin, Discipline Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 2, 2013
Artists Proof #1, by Max Delany, Monash University Museum of Art, 2012
Taking Care of Business: Ash Keating, by Anthony Gardner, Artlink, 2007
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Ash Keating: Museum Langmatt. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023. Edited by Markus Stegmann. ISBN 9783775755160.
Sprits in the Bush – The Art of Gippsland. Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. By Simon Gregg. ISBN 9781925801699.
Art + Climate = Change. Melbourne University Publishing, 2016. By Guy Abrahams, Kelly Gellatly, and Bronwyn Johnson. ISBN 9780522869576.
Performance Ritual Document. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. By Anne Marsh. ISBN 9781921394973.
Curating Sydney: Imagining the City's Future. NewSouth Publishing, 2014. By Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel. ISBN 9781742247106.
Video Void – Australian Video Art. Australian Scholarly Pub, 2014. Edited by Matthew Perkins. ISBN 9781925003796.
Artists' Proof #1. Monash University Museum of Art I MUMA, 2012. By Geraldine Barlow, Max Delany, Shelley McSpedden, Francis Parker, Patrice Sharkey. ISBN 9780987295231.
Making the University Matter. Taylor & Francis, 2012. Edited by Barbie Zelizer. ISBN 9781136696930.
Time shrines: mourning and melancholia in the work of Ash Keating. Discipline Journal, 2012. By Amelia Barikin. ISSN 1839082X.
The Art of Engagement: Culture, collaboration, innovation. University of Western Australia, 2011. By Elaine Lally, Ien Ang, and Kay Anderson. ISBN 9781742582870.
Junk - Art and the Politics of Trash. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. BY Gillian Whiteley. ISBN 9780857720214.
Space Invaders - Australian Street Stencils, Posters, Paste-ups, Zines, Stickers. National Gallery of Australia, 2010. By Jaklyn Babington and Roger Butler. ISBN 9780642334114.
Harmonic Tremors - Aesthetic Interventions in the Public Sphere. Gasworks Arts Park, 2009. Edited by Sarah Rainbird. ISBN 9780646503356.
Awards
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2015 Incinerator Art Prize
2013 Guirguis New Art Prize
2012 Substation Contemporary Art Prize
2011 Qantas Visual Arts Award
2008 ANZ Art and Australia RIPE award
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2017 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia
2011 Blake Prize
2011 Substation Contemporary Art Award
2009 Qantas SOYA awards
2009 RBS Australian emerging artist awards