Eveline Kotai Explained

Eveline Kotai
Birth Place:	Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Nationality:	Australian
Alma Mater:	Curtin University
Occupation:	Artist

Eveline Kotai (born 1950) is an Australian artist. Kotai is known for her idiosyncratic stitched collages, which involves the artist cutting up her paintings into thin strips and reconfiguring them across a surface with the use of a sewing machine and invisible thread.^[1]

Biography

Born in 1950 in Perth Western Australia,^[2] she began her tertiary art studies in 1975-79 studying drawing and sculpture at Curtin University & TAFE. She currently resides in Fremantle, Western Australia.

In 2016, with collaborators Margaret Dillon and Penny Bovell, she created a public artwork for the Western Australia Museum Research Centre.^[3]

Collections

• Art Gallery of Western Australia^[4]
• City of Fremantle Art Collection^[5]
• Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, the University of Western Australia.^[6]
• City of Wanneroo, Australia^[7]

Awards

• The 2018 Cossack Art Award “Horizontal Shift”^[8]
• The 2012 Blake Prize (co-winner) “Writing on Air – Mantra”^[9]

External links

• Official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: WA Now – Eveline Kotai: Breathing Pattern . Art Gallery WA . en.
2. Web site: Eveline Kotai . Art Collective WA . en.
3. Web site: Harry Butler Research Centre - Percent for Art Scheme Western Australian Museum . museum.wa.gov.au . en.
4. Web site: Eveline KOTAI . Art Gallery WA Collection Online . en.
5. Web site: Panacea: The City of Fremantle Art Collection & a Response to COVID19 . Fremantle Arts Centre . en.
6. Web site: Paper Cut . UWA . en.
7. Web site: Little . Dean . Art Collection - Printmaking . www.wanneroo.wa.gov.au . en.
8. Web site: 2018 Winners Announced COSSACK . cossackartawards.com.au.
9. Web site: 2012 Blake Prize Winners Announced . Art Almanac . 8 November 2012.