Ash Keating

Ash Keating (born 1980) is an Australian contemporary visual artist.[1]

Ash Keating
Ash Keating in 2023
Born
Ashley James Keating

(1980-10-04) 4 October 1980
NationalityAustralian
EducationVictorian College of the Arts, Monash University
Known forPainting
Websiteashkeating.com

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.[2]

His practice is multidisciplinary, ranging from site-specific installations,[3] outdoor murals and performances,[4] to large-scale and domestic-scale canvases.[5]

Since 2004, he has exhibited extensively in galleries and undertaken large scale, site-responsive public art projects across Australia and internationally.[6][7][8]

Biography

Ash Keating was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1980.[9] He studied Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Monash University in 2004, followed by a Bachelors of Fine Arts, First Class Honours (Painting) at Victorian College of the Arts in 2006.[10]

Collections

Keating's works are held in numerous public and private collections including:

Selected exhibitions and projects

Selected solo exhibitions and projects
  • 2023 Pressure, Bunjil Place Gallery, Narre Warren VIC (forthcoming)[17]
  • 2023 Ice Floes Response, At The Above, Fitzroy, VIC [18]
  • 2023 Gravity System Response, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland[19]
  • 2023 Perceptual Fields, Colector Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico[20]
  • 2023 ELEVATION, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC[21]
  • 2022 Gravity System Response, A.M. BJIERE, New York, New York, USA[22]
  • 2021 Duality, Linden New Art, St Kilda, VIC[23]
  • 2021 Gravity System Response, TW Fine Art, Brisbane QLD[24]
  • 2019 Hume Response Paintings, Ash Keating Studio, Coburg North, VIC[25]
  • 2018 Gravity System Response #81, commission for 2 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, VIC [26]
  • 2018 Gravity System Response, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand[27]
  • 2017 Gravity System Response, Blackartprojects, Melbourne, VIC[28]
  • 2016 Response Paintings, Latrobe VAC, Bendigo, VIC [29]

Selected group exhibitions and projects

Selected site specific solo art projects
  • 2023 Painting of Haus Germann, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland[19]
  • 2022 Gravity System Response Wall Painting for NAP Contemporary Mildura, VIC [37]
  • 2022 Gravity System Response, (for Kaleidoscope) Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC[38]
  • 2021 Sunset Response, wall painting on the facade of Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC [7]
  • 2019 TarraWarra Response Painting, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC [39]
  • 2018 Gravity System Response, City of Sydney's Domain, Sydney, NSW [40]
  • 2016 Coastal Horizon Response, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, VIC[41]
  • 2016 Arch Tunnel Response, North Byron Parklands, Splendour Arts, NSW [42]
  • 2015 The Facade Project, Latrobe Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, VIC [43]
  • 2015 Adelaide Festival Centre, presented by CACSA, Adelaide, SA [44]
  • 2014 RMIT A’Beckett Urban Square, Melbourne, VIC[45]
  • 2013 National Gallery of Victoria International Billboard for Melbourne Now, Melbourne, VIC [35]

Awards

Winner
  • 2015 Incinerator Art Prize[46]
  • 2013 Guirguis New Art Prize[47]
  • 2012 Substation Contemporary Art Prize[48]
  • 2011 Qantas Visual Arts Award[49]
  • 2008 ANZ Art and Australia RIPE award.[50]

Finalist

Publications
  • Spirits 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 1839-082X.
  • 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.

Further reading

References
  1. "Ash Keating". The National Gallery of Victoria.
  2. "Liv Albert Fields Brunswick, Victoria". David Hagger.
  3. "Ash Keating". Scape Public Art NZ.
  4. "Blasting colour: See the evolution of Ash Keating's first outdoor mural project in Sydney". City of Sydney - News.
  5. "A window into the mind of an artist: Ash Keating's ELEVATION". Shepparton News.
  6. "Ash Keating". The Museum Langmatt.
  7. "Warrnambool Art Gallery gets a fluorescent makeover as part of Wallawar Festival". ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Commission).
  8. "Art Rotterdam 2020, 'Murals Inc. Machine Painting Show', with Rutger de Vries and Ash Keating. Location: Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam". Murals Inc.
  9. "Keating,Ash". National Library of Australia.
  10. "Monash University Graduate Search Facility". Monash University.
  11. "The west park proposition 2012 Ash KEATING". The National Gallery of Victoria.
  12. "Ash Keating born 1980, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia". The National Gallery of Australia.
  13. "Ash Keating: Activate 2750". The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
  14. "The uprising #5 2009 Ash Keating Australia 1980". The Art Gallery of NSW.
  15. "Ash Keating West Park proposition 2012". Monash University Museum of Art.
  16. "Ash Keating West Park Proposition, 2013". Artbank.
  17. "What's On". Bunjil Place Gallery.
  18. "At the Above". At the Above Gallery.
  19. "Ash Keating". Museum Langmatt.
  20. "Exhibitions". Colector Gallery.
  21. "On show May 2023 onwards". Vault Magazine.
  22. "Gravity System Response - Ash Keating". A.M. BJIERE.
  23. "Ash Keating". Linden New Art.
  24. "Exhibitions - Past". TW Fine Art.
  25. "An Enormous New Public Artwork From The Artist Who Paints With Fire Extinguishers". The Design Files.
  26. "Art Program on Southbank Boulevard". BVN Architecture.
  27. "Ash Keating - Auckland". Jensen Gallery.
  28. "Ash Keating: Gravity System Response". Art Guide Australia.
  29. "Ash Keating - Response Paintings". Blackartprojects.
  30. "Floating Land Archive Site 2021". Floating Land.
  31. "Ash Keating". Artsy.
  32. "Group Projects". Blackartprojects.
  33. "Ash Keating". Art Gallery of South Australia.
  34. "Ash Keating". Art Gallery of South Australia.
  35. "Ash Keating". National Gallery of Victoria.
  36. "Artist's Proof #1". Monash University Museum of Art.
  37. "Big art goes above and beyond a silo mentality". Sunraysia Daily.
  38. "Kaleidoscope 2022". Arts Centre Melbourne.
  39. "Open Weekend 2019". TarraWarra Museum of Art.
  40. "Ash Keating Gravity System Response". Art and About Australia.
  41. "Coastal Horizon Response". Blackartprojects.
  42. "Splendour Arts 2016". Byron Bay Blog.
  43. "Latrobe VAC". Blackartprojects.
  44. "Adelaide Festival Centre". Blackartprojects.
  45. "RMIT University A'Beckett Urban Square". Peter Elliott Architecture.
  46. "Incinerator Art Award". Green Magazine.
  47. "Ash Keating GNAP13". Federation University.
  48. "The Substation Contemporary Art Prize". The Substation.
  49. "Qantas Foundation Announces Art Award Winners". Qantas News Room.
  50. "Ash Keating". Gertrude Contemporary.
  51. "Ash Keating". Art Base.
  52. "The Substation Contemporary Art Prize Finalists 2011" (PDF). Beam Contemporary.
  53. "2009 SOYA Winners Announced: Romance Was Born, Oh Mercy and More!". Pedestrian Group.
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