Katie West facts for kids
Katie West is a Western Australian interdisciplinary artist. Her work often features dyed textiles and native plants, creating multi-sensory installations.
Early life
West grew up in on a farm on Noongar country, north of Perth, and is of Yindjibarndi descent.
Art practice
Her exhibitions often feature dyed textiles and native plants, sewn and woven. She exhibits multi-sensory installations. She documents the processes of her work as a form of storytelling. She often uses motifs such as baskets or digging sticks as critical commentary on how museum collections show "cultural objects and their makers as fixed in time".
Recognition and awards
West won the Falls Creek Resort Indigenous Art Award and Dominik Mersch Gallery Award in 2017.
She was chosen as a participant in the Kickstart program in 2015 and exhibited at the Next Wave Festival in 2016.
In 2023, her work Fence lines & Digging sticks was selected as a finalist for the Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
