Kate Meakin is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist who works with photography, film and assemblage sculpture. She is a current PhD candidate at RMIT University where she is developing a film project exploring contemporary ideas about beauty, labour and photography through looking at the ‘behind the scenes’ dynamics of fashion photo-shoots. She often works in collaboration with other artists and designers as a photographer or cinematographer.

email: kateejmeakin@gmail.com / instagram: @katemeakin 

Selected Exhibition History:

2023

University studies, solo exhibition at Savage Garden 

Contradiction in terms, group exhibition with Lucina Lane, Arini Byng, Lane Cormick, Katherine Botten and Andew Nile.

2022

Hollywood – group exhibition curated by Hyancinth Gallery, LAILA, Sydney

The body speaks before it even talks, curated by Chelsea Hopper, 99% gallery, Melbourne  

Silver bullet, group exhibition curated by Augusta Vinall Richardson as part of Das Boot Fair, ACCA

A do ocean, group exhibition curated by Christopher LG Hill, Kings ARI, Melbourne

The general public, group exhibition curated by Chelsea Hopper, 99% gallery, Melbourne  

2021

ASVOF Film Festival 2021, curated by Diane Pernet, Dover Street Market, Paris

2020

Discordia + Satchi & Satchi & Satchi. Group exhibition curated by Discordia at Satchi & Satchi & Satchi, New Zealand

Freedom is the gentle exploration of boundaries. I wear jeans, t-shirt, fragrance. Group exhibition curated by Spencer Lai, Discordia gallery, Melbourne

On Time, group exhibition with Lucina Lane, Adelle Mills and Virginia Overell, Connors Connors, Melbourne

2019

Endless Loneley Planet 8, group exhibition, Gian’s Basement, Melbourne

Friends and Family, group exhibition at Daine Singer, Melbourne

There will be consequences, group exhibition with Fires gallery as part of Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney

Health & Wellness, group exhibition, Gian’s Basement, Melbourne

2018

A smile forms into a grimace mid-slumber as the earth spins— it’s funny, such is the sound of laughter — it is like god’s hands on the shoulders of a troubled world, group exhibition curated by Spencer Lai, Bus Projects, Melbourne

5th/6th final Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennale, curated by Christopher LG HIll & Virginia Overell

draw nearer to the window, exhibition with Virginia Overell, Knulps, Sydney 

inside voice harvester,  group exhibition curated by Spencer Lai, Irene Rose Gallery, Melbourne 

2017

The world is waiting for the sunrise, group exhibition curated by Lucina Lane, TCB Art inc, Melbourne

The Seasons, group exhibition curated by Liam Osbourne, Punk Cafe, Melbourne 

Posture Carriages, in collaboration with Adelle Mills, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne 

Recess presents, Film Screening at Green Papaya Art Projects, Manilla, Philippines

Howl Sounds Best In a Hole, solo exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary – Studio 3, Melbourne

2016

Endless Circulation: TarraWarra Biennale, TarraWarra Muesum of Art  

The Trouble with Remuneration, group exhibition curated by Liang Luscombe and Patrice Sharkey, West Space, Melbourne 

Mons, Group exhibition curated by Mitchel Cumming, Knulps, Sydney

Time is somewhere else, in collaboration with HB Peace, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

An Awful Leisure, Pansy, delegated performance for Monica’s Gallery in collaboration with Beth Caird, Pansy, Melbourne

2015

Punk Café x Centre for Style at Sydney Contemporary, group exhibition, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair

Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, group exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria 

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, solo exhibition, Punk Café

held in a half globe, as if cupped by hands, exhibition with Virginia Overell, curated by Kim Brockett, Vaerelset, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Minor Treat, group exhibition curated by Liam Osborne, Punk Café

Boulevard, group exhibition curated by Matthew Linde, Gertrude Contemporary

2014

Coco Confidential, Group exhibition at Mission Comics & Art, San Francisco, USA 

Fin, Group exhibition curated by Melissa Loughnan. Utopian Slumps Gallery 

VCA Graduate exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts 

New Argument Stream, Group exhibition curated by David Homewood, Slopes

Pleasureburger, Group exhibition curated by Lucina Lane and Matthew Linde. Elizabeth Studios

Dusty Chair, Group exhibition curated by Brennan Olver and Alana Kingston. George Paton Gallery

seeds are borne on whispy silken tufts, Solo exhibition, TCB Art Inc

SUBLET, Group exhibition curated by Matthew Linde and Brennan Olver. Napier Street

Function Centre, Group exhibition curated by David Homewood, Rearview Gallery

2013

Melbourne Now, Group exhibition curated by Max Delaney, National Galley of Victoria (in collaboration with Christopher LG Hill)

Sedition, Group Exhibition curated by Drew Pettifer. Bus Projects

Singular, Plural, in collaboration with Virginia Overell and Noriko Nakamura, Bus Projects

Channel G, Group Exhibition/ TV channel orgainsed by Sean Peoples, Westspace

A Million Bucks, Group exhibition curated by Justin Hinder. Utopian Slumps

Detailer, Solo Installation, Meyers Place Art Space

Two Room Exhibition, Group exhibition curated by David Homewood, Rearview Gallery

Group Exhibition: Artwork Documentation, Group exhibition curated by David Homewood, Gertrude Contemporary

Third/Fourth Melbourne Biennale, Group exhibition curated by Christopher LG Hill. Margaret Lawrence Gallery

Backflip: Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art, Group exhibition curated by Laura Castagnini and Vikki McInnes, Margaret Lawrence Gallery

Penthouse Mouse, curated by Moth Design Studio as part of with the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival cultural program

Arts work and teaching:

Sessional Teacher in Fashion Image, RMIT University Advanced Fashion Studios. 2019 – 2022

Board Member/Artistic Advisory Committee Member, Bus Projects. August 2017 – July 2021  

Curator and Gallery Coordinator: recess 2016 – 2020

Curator and Gallery Coordinator: flake 2013 – 2015

Selected Film CV: 

As Director Of Photography:

Inner City, to be released in 2024. Short film directed by Jennifer Baulch.

The Flood, 2024. Film directed by Ruth Hoflich. Exhibited at Gertrude Contemporary, as part of PHOTO 2024 festival

Two Suns, 2023. Film directed by Ruth Hoflich. Exhibited at National Gallery of Victoria as part of Melbourne Now 2023

A handheld archive, short film commission for Graphic Design Work responding to Shelley Lasica’s retrospective, 2022. Directed and edited by Kate Meakin.

For the first time in a while… (RMIT Masters of Design student showcase film), 2021. co-Director, co-writer, co-DOP and Editor. Presented at The Capitol Theatre

For as long as I can remember, music video for Geoffrey O’Connor and Jonnine Standish, 2021. Directed and edited by Kate Meakin, released by Chapter Music.

D&K LOOKBOOK, fashion film for D&K, 2020. Directed and edited by Kate Meakin.

RMIT Masters of Design Digital Runway Film, 2020, co-Director and Editor.

Melbourne Fashion Week Digital Runway Film for Kuwaii, 2020. Directed and edited by Kate Meakin.

Melbourne Star, 2018. Co-directed, co-written and co-DOP with Adelle Mills. Exhibited at TCB gallery.

All or Nothing, fashion film for D&K, 2018. Directed and edited by Kate Meakin.

Volker Haug film commission for Milan Design Week, 2017. Directed and edited by Kate Meakin.

Blake Barns fashion film commission, 2015. Directed and edited by Kate Meakin.

HB Peace, fashion film commission, 2014. Directed and edited by Kate Meakin.

As Performer:

Cococostanza, 2023. Directed by Jimmy Nuttal

To Feed your Oracle, 2021. Directed by Ruth Höflich

Fabulina, 2019. Directed by Jimmy Nuttal

American Eggs, 2018. Directed by Callum Rory Mitchell and Lewis Mitchell

Posture Carraiges, 2017. Directed by Adelle Mills, exhibited at Gertrude Contemporary Melbourne, and Gallery 9, Sydney.

Publications:

Radical Fashion Exercises - A Workbook Of Modes And Methods, published by Valiz, edited by Laura Gardner and Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran, 2023

Press & Fold Issue 2, artist pages and text with Ricarda Bigolin, 2022

Endless Lonely Planet, Issue 10, edited by Christopher LG Hill, 2021

Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennale Publication, edited by Christopher LG Hill, 2020

D&K LOOKBOOK– Commissioned film stills. Surplus Press, 2019

Mode and Mode six ‘Art for All’ - A foldout poster created by Kate Meakin and Jessie Kiely, 2018

High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion - Catalogue for RMIT Design Hub exhibition, commissioned fashion spread in collaboration with Blake Barns, 2017

HEROES – Fanfiction, Edited by Fayen d’Evie, Matthew Linde, Spencer Lai and Jake Swinson, published by 3-ply. Commissioned Artist Page, 2016

Selected writing:

Review of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy, Memo Review print issue 3, 2024

Review of ‘Goddess: Glamour, Power Rebellion’ at ACMI, Memo Review, 2023

Review of ‘Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto’ at NGV, Memo Review 2022

Review of ‘Apparel’ at Neon Parc, Memo Review 2020

Exhibition text for Georgia Button, “Space of In-betweenness” at ACE Open, 2020

Exhibition text for 80 Ways by Ella Sowinska, at recess.net.au, 2018

Exhibition text for Anna Varendorff “if you squint you can see it, Fort Delta, 2017