KATIE WEST Recipient of the 2024 National Regional Arts Fellowship 

July 3, 2024

Katie West has been announced as a recipient of the 2024 National Regional Arts Fellowship. Supported by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, the artist will produce new video work, sculptural pieces, and a photographic series that spiral out from her mother’s separation from her grandmother at birth in 1969.

Katie’s project The moment of separation seeks an in-depth and visceral understanding of histories by examining adoption records and relevant institutional and domestic spaces in Perth, alongside a self-directed residency in the ancestral Countries of Yindjibarndi and the Plibara, Western Australia. From Karratha, West visit places of significance to her family, including Murujuga and Millstream Station; meet family to discuss water flows of the region, environmental impacts of pastoral stations and mining; research deep and recent archaeological histories to expand knowledge of heritage and enrich relationships with the materials she uses in her practice. This research period will inform sound design, which will be developed on residency at DESA, Ubud, with composer Simon Charles.

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