Over the three decades, Kate Ellis has built a compendium of hybrid forms which blur the line between human and animal. Her works are often simultaneously alluring and repulsive: disembodied limbs, uncertain boundaries and liminal states. An artist living with disability, Ellis embraces the ambiguity of her arrangements which confound our sense of rationalised, ‘natural’ order.

Kate Ellis holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the Lincoln Institute of Health Services. She has a significant exhibition practice, with solo exhibitions at many galleries including LON Gallery, CAVES, Arc One and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. Selected group exhibitions include Spring 1883, Martin Brown Fine Art Sydney, Sculpture Square (Singapore), RMIT Project Space, Linden Arts Centre, Bundoora Park Homestead, Geelong Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, La Trobe Regional Art Gallery and Ballarat Art Gallery. Ellis was the Winner of the Deakin University Small Sculpture Award, the Darebin/LaTrobe Art Prize, and National Gallery Women’s Association Award. Her work is held in the collections of several major institutions including Deakin University, Artbank and La Trobe University.