Osmosis Artists

2010 Exhibition

• Osmosis Artists 2010

Kaye Green

Kaye Green has lived, worked and exhibited in Japan, the USA, Belgium, New Zealand, Finland and most Australian states. She has had over 20 solo exhibitions and has been involved in numerous group and mixed exhibitions both nationally and internationally.

Kaye was born in Ulverstone, Tasmania in 1953 and following a year as an exchange student in Japan in the early seventies, completed her BA in Visual Arts at the Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart in 1976. She completed a Master’s Degree at the University of New Mexico, graduating in 1981. During her time in Albuquerque she also studied at the prestigious Tamarind Institute of Lithography. She has completed a number of residencies including an Australian Visual Arts Board residency to establish a lithography studio at Griffith University in Brisbane and a National Parks and Wildlife Service residency to work in a national park in southern Queensland. She completed a residency at The Frans Masereel Studio in Belgium in 1996 and worked for six months in the Grafiris Printmaking Studio in Helsinki, Finland in 1988. In 1996 she won the national Silk Cut award for lino prints and she was recently awarded first prize in the works on paper section at the Waterhouse Natural History Art Awards. She was also awarded an Artsbridge International grant to assist with her exhibition held in Japan in February 2008 and last year made a series of works at Tamarind Institute with support from Arts Tasmania. After fourteen years of university lecturing, Kaye resigned from teaching and returned to Tasmania to work full time in her studio.

• Kaye at Handmark Gallery

Artist Statement

When the information about the Osmosis exhibition was sent to me I immediately went in search of my Queenstown notes, excursion reports and drawings I had kept in a suitcase for forty years. I had been to Queenstown a number of times in 1970 and 1971 as a keen geology student and hiker and started to feel very nostalgic as I browsed through the information I had kept for so long. As I read my notes I realised that the inspiration for my work should come from my diaries, sketches and reports. So I decided not to go to Queenstown to seek new information and inspiration for this exhibition. Rather my work is about memories and time – memories I have about Queenstown in another life, another mind and another time.

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