Born in Hong Kong, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Kate Beynon builds from the cultural legacy of her familial ancestry and experience to envision hybrid personas, identities, worlds and mythologies that reflect contemporary life. Her paintings, drawings, textiles, wearable art, animations and installations have been widely exhibited and are held in the collections of all major galleries nationally, and she has created commissioned family interactive spaces for the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art. A nine-time Archibald Prize finalist, Kate is represented by Sutton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne.
For Portrait23: Identity, Kate is creating an immersive, interactive ‘fantastic face-making’ space where visitors make ancient-futuristic hybrid figures using her colourful motifs of scales, eyes, hands, botanical elements and auspicious symbols in a forest-like and surreal ‘otherwordly’ space.
