The Samstag Alumni
The 1996 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
John Kelly | John R. Neeson | Nike Savvas | Kathy Temin | Angela Valamanesh
The visceral charge emanating from Kathy Temin's impossible objects is not simply the consequence of their calculated absurdity. Where Wittgenstein's celebrated either/or image of a duck/rabbit succinctly illustrated our perceptual inability to entertain dual concepts and images simultaneously, Temin's "duck, rabbit and corner problems" overload us with a wilful excess of anarchic reference, plundered openly from the chapter and verse of modernism.
Yet, these stitched, stuffed, sprayed, housed and packaged objects transcend their diminished signifiers and are liberated, wise things, suffused with their author's overarching creativity. More visibly of late, they also reflect a determination to witness her own Jewish history - as daughter of a holocaust survivor and tailor.
Ross Wolfe
Director, Samstag Program
from the 1996 Samstag catalogue
Samstag's Class of '96
| KATHY TEMIN Born 1968, Sydney, Australia |
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| 1996 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship: Associate Research Program, Goldsmiths College, University of London United Kingdom |
| 1993 | Master of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 1989 | Bachelor of Arts, Victoria College, Prahran, Melbourne, Australia |
Home Dis-play, 1994
wood, perspex, paint and fur
200 x 140 x 50 cm
© the artist
Corner, Green and Brown Problem, 1995
wood, synthetic fur and acrylic paint
114 x 144; and 93 x 151 x 26 cm
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney, purchased 1995
© the artist