Ash Keating Explained

Ash Keating
Birth Name:	Ashley James Keating
Birth Date:	4 October 1980
Nationality:	Australian
Field:	Painting
Training:	Victorian College of the Arts, Monash University

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

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:

• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne^[11]
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra^[12]
• Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney^[13]
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney^[14]
• Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne^[15]
• Artbank, Melbourne ^[16]

Selected exhibitions and projects

Selected solo exhibitions and projects

• 2023 Pressure, Bunjil Place Gallery, Narre Warren VIC ^[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

• 2021 Floating Land Biennale, Noosa National Park for Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, QLD ^[30]
• 2018 ART21 and VOLTA Art Fairs with Yavuz Gallery, Basel, Switzerland and Shanghai, China^[31]
• 2018 Sydney Contemporary (2018 and 2017) with Blackartprojects, Sydney, NSW ^[32]
• 2017 Ramsay Art Prize 2017, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA ^[33]
• 2016 Occupied, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, VIC ^[34]
• 2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC ^[35]
• 2012 Artist's Proof #1, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, VIC ^[36]

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

• 2017 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia^[33]
• 2011 Blake Prize^[51]
• 2011 Substation Contemporary Art Award ^[52]
• 2009 Qantas SOYA awards ^[53]
• 2009 RBS Australian emerging artist awards^[50]

Publications

• Ash Keating: Museum Langmatt. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023. Edited by Markus Stegmann. ISBN 9783775755160.
• 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

• The Saturday Paper, Artist Ash Keating by Dee Jefferson, 2023
• Memo Review, Ice Floes Response by Philip Brophy, 2023
• Broadsheet, Under Pressure: Ash Keating Paints the Town Red (and Orange, Pink, Green and Blue) by Daniela Frangos, 2023
• Shepparton News, A window into the mind of an artist: Ash Keating’s Elevation by Jay Brice, 2023
• In Design Live, Sky’s the limit: Ash Keating turns future gallery site into an artwork by Jan Henderson, 2022
• The Local Project Issue 6, The Science of Art – Ash Keating by James Lyall Smith, 2021
• Observer, Ash Keating’s ‘Duality’ Evokes the Passage of Time by Cat Woods, 2021
• The Sydney Morning Herald, Art Created by a Lawn Spreader and Fire Hydrant Aims to Evoke Nature by Cat Woods, 2021
• Where they Create, Ash Keating by Ray Barbara, 2020
• The Design Files, https://thedesignfiles.net/2019/05/art-ashkeating-wall-melbourne by Sally Tabart, 2019
• The Design Files, Studio Visit Ash Keating, by Lucy Feagins, 2017
• Broadsheet, In the Artist’s Studio: Ash Keating, by Will Cox, 2017
• Catalogue essay for Ash Keating Selected Video Works 2006–2014, Ash Keating — Selected Video Works 2006–2014 by Din Heagney, 2015
• The Conversation, Nature makes abstract visual art more captivating by Misha Ketchell, 2014
• un Magazine, 7.1, No creation but through submission by Justin Clemens, 2013
• Discipline Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 2, Time Shrines: Mourning and Melancholia in the Work of Ash Keating by Amelia Barikin, 2013
• Monash University Museum of Art, Artists Proof #1, by Max Delany, 2012
• Artlink, Taking Care of Business: Ash Keating, by Anthony Gardner, 2007

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ash Keating. The National Gallery of Victoria.
2. Web site: Liv Albert Fields Brunswick, Victoria . David Hagger.
3. Web site: Ash Keating. 10 September 2021. Scape Public Art NZ.
4. Web site: Blasting colour: See the evolution of Ash Keating's first outdoor mural project in Sydney. City of Sydney - News.
5. Web site: A window into the mind of an artist: Ash Keating's ELEVATION. 11 April 2023. Shepparton News.
6. Web site: Ash Keating. The Museum Langmatt.
7. News: Warrnambool Art Gallery gets a fluorescent makeover as part of Wallawar Festival . December 2021. ABC News .
8. Web site: Art Rotterdam 2020, 'Murals Inc. Machine Painting Show', with Rutger de Vries and Ash Keating. Location: Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam . Murals Inc .
9. Web site: Keating,Ash. National Library of Australia.
10. Web site: Monash University Graduate Search Facility. Monash University .
11. Web site: The west park proposition 2012 Ash KEATING . The National Gallery of Victoria.
12. Web site: Ash Keating born 1980, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia . The National Gallery of Australia.
13. Web site: Ash Keating: Activate 2750. The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
14. Web site: The uprising #5 2009 Ash Keating Australia 1980 . The Art Gallery of NSW .
15. Web site: Ash Keating West Park proposition 2012 . 9 February 2022. Monash University Museum of Art .
16. Web site: Ash Keating West Park Proposition, 2013. Artbank .
17. Web site: What's On . Bunjil Place Gallery .
18. Web site: At the Above . At the Above Gallery .
19. Web site: Ash Keating . Museum Langmatt .
20. Web site: Exhibitions . Colector Gallery .
21. Web site: On show May 2023 onwards. Vault Magazine .
22. Web site: Gravity System Response - Ash Keating . A.M. BJIERE .
23. Web site: Ash Keating . Linden New Art .
24. Web site: Exhibitions - Past . TW Fine Art .
25. Web site: An Enormous New Public Artwork From The Artist Who Paints With Fire Extinguishers . The Design Files .
26. Web site: Art Program on Southbank Boulevard . BVN Architecture .
27. Web site: Ash Keating - Auckland . 31 May 2018. Jensen Gallery .
28. Web site: Ash Keating: Gravity System Response . 5 April 2017. Art Guide Australia .
29. Web site: Ash Keating - Response Paintings . Blackartprojects .
30. Web site: Floating Land Archive Site 2021 . Floating Land .
31. Web site: Ash Keating . Artsy .
32. Web site: Group Projects . Blackartprojects .
33. Web site: Ash Keating . Art Gallery of South Australia .
34. Web site: Ash Keating . Art Gallery of South Australia .
35. Web site: Ash Keating . National Gallery of Victoria .
36. Web site: Artist's Proof #1 . 9 February 2022. Monash University Museum of Art .
37. Web site: Big art goes above and beyond a silo mentality . 16 December 2022. Sunraysia Daily .
38. Web site: Kaleidoscope 2022 . Arts Centre Melbourne.
39. Web site: Open Weekend 2019 . TarraWarra Museum of Art.
40. Web site: Ash Keating Gravity System Response . Art and About Australia.
41. Web site: Coastal Horizon Response . Blackartprojects.
42. Web site: Splendour Arts 2016 . 27 May 2016. Byron Bay Blog.
43. Web site: Latrobe VAC . Blackartprojects.
44. Web site: Adelaide Festival Centre . Blackartprojects.
45. Web site: RMIT University A'Beckett Urban Square . Peter Elliott Architecture.
46. Web site: Incinerator Art Award . 30 September 2015. Green Magazine.
47. Web site: Ash Keating GNAP13 . 8 July 2022. Federation University.
48. Web site: The Substation Contemporary Art Prize . The Substation.
49. Web site: Qantas Foundation Announces Art Award Winners . Qantas News Room.
50. Web site: Ash Keating . Gertrude Contemporary .
51. Web site: Ash Keating . Art Base .
52. Web site: The Substation Contemporary Art Prize Finalists 2011 . Beam Contemporary .
53. Web site: 2009 SOYA Winners Announced: Romance Was Born, Oh Mercy and More! . Pedestrian Group .