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Biography
| 1968 | Born, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1989 | Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art, Victoria College of the Arts |
| 1991-94 | Assistant
to Neil Leveson, Australian Print Workshop
Travels, Little Desert, Victoria Collaboration with Garner Tullis,Garner Tullis Workshop, New YorkMelbourne |
| 1994-95 | Master
Printer, Garner Tullis Workshop, New York
Travel, New York, Italy, Amsterdam, Copenhagen Printers Assistant, Garner Tullis Workshop, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil Travel, Central Australia Assistant to Emily Kngwarreye, Delmore Downs, Utopia |
| 1995-96 | Lives and works, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria |
| 1996 | Lives and sets up Kim Westcott Print Studio, West Brunswick, Melbourne |
| 1997 | Travel, outback Australia |
| 1999-2000 | Travel, Western Australia |
| 2000 | Lives and works, Melbourne |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2001 | Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2000 | Hanart
TZ, Hong Kong
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1998 | Kim
Westcott: The Monograph, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Kim Westcott: The Monograph, Sherman Galleries, Sydney |
| 1997 | Sheoak-Evoked Series, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1994 | Etchings and Monoprints, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Drypoints and Embossings, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 1999 | landscapes
in sets and series, Australian prints 1960s-1990s, National Gallery
of Australia
Contemporary Prints and Drawings from the Collection, National Gallery of Victoria Tolarno Galleries at the Moores Building, Festival of Perth, Perth |
| 1998 | Recent
Paintings, Prints and Sculpture from Tolarno Galleries, Hamilton Art
Gallery, Victoria
Sets and Series, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1997 | Arriving
at the Other Parallel, Galerie Titanium, Athens
1997 Aquisition Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria Oblique Travellers, Galerie Boomerang, Amsterdam Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award 1997, Warrnambool Art Gallery,Victoria Summershow '97, Galeries Boomerang, Amsterdam |
| 1996 | Australian
Printmaking in the 1990’s: Artist printmakers 1990-95, by Sasha Grishin
(exhibition and book launch), Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Contemporary Voices, Ararat Gallery, Victoria New Prints: Eight Contemporary Artists, Penrith Regional Art Gallery; Ipswich Regional Gallery; Bathurst Regional Gallery; Goulburn Regional Gallery; Shepparton Art Gallery; Moree Plains Gallery 12th Biennial Prints Aquisitive Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria Oblique Travellers, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne; Annandale Galleries, Sydney Sun Come Here, Rain Over There, George Gallery, Melbourne The 21st Annual Shell Print Award 1996, Freemantle Art Gallery, Western Australia Vibration, Beijing; Hanoi; Seoul; Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1995 | Amcor
Paper Awards 1995, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne; La Trobe Regional Gallery,
Morwell; Drill Hall, Canberra; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Aspects of Australian Printmaking, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Garner Tullis Workshop, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil Making their Mark, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne; Wan Fung Gallery, Beijing, China. NON: Artists Against Nuclear Testing, Ether Ohnetitel Gallery, Melbourne Past Its Self Life, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-Objective Art, La Trobe University Art Museum, Victoria The Summer Show, Galerie Boomerang, Amsterdam 12th Biennial Spring Festival of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria |
| 1994 | Contemporary
Australian Printmaking, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
New Prints: Eight Contemporary Artists, New England Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales Paper Under Pressure, Garner Gallery Tullis, New York Two Weeks, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1993 | Cameron
Frazer, Rodger Kemp and Kim Westcott, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne
Group Show, Darren Knight Gallery, Brisbane Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Gallery, Western Australia International Print Exhibition, City Museum of Graphic Arts Machida, Tokyo |
| 1992 | Award-Winning
Works from the International Biennial Print Exhibition, Taipei Gallery,
New York
Freemantle Print Award, Freemantle Art Gallery, Western Australia Inaugura Exhibition, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne Paperworks 3, Seagate Gallery, Dundee, Scotland |
| 1991 | The
Fifth International Biennial Print Exhibit: R.O.C., 1991, Taipei Fine
Arts Museum, Taipei.
International Print Exhibition, Sapporo, Japan |
| 1990 | Australian Contemporary Arts Exhibition, A-Z Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
Awards
| 1997 | Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award 1997, Warrnambool Art Gallery |
| 1994 | Channel 10 Young Achievers Award (one of three finalists) |
| 1993 | International Print Exhibition, Machida--Tokyo City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan (Second Prize) |
| 1991 | The
Fifth International Biennial Print Exhibit: R.O.C.,1991, Tapei Fine
Arts Museum (Grand Prize)
The Queen Elizabeth II Silver Junilee Trust for Young Australians |
| 1989 | Trustess
of the National Gallery of Victoria, Final Year Printmaking Award, Victorian
College of the Arts
N.S. Eckersley (Sales) Pty Ltd Acquisition Award National Gallery Society of Victoria, Print Award National Gallery Women’s Association, Victoria, Award No. 6 |
| 1988 | National Gallery Society of Victoria |
| 1987 | National Gallery Society of Victoria |
Public and Corporate Collections
| National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane A-Z Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Cleveland Museum of Art, U.S.A. Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Japan Museum Of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria Box Hill College of TAFE, Victoria Ebes Collection, Victoria Eckersley’s Pty Ltd Collection, Victoria Griffith University, Queensland Hamilton Regional Gallery, Victoria Monash University Collection, Victoria Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria City of Whitehorse, Victoria |
Bibliography
| 1999 | National
Gallery of Australia, Developing the Collection, Acquisitions 1997-1999,
Thames and Hudson
Janie Gillespie, Landscapes in sets and series, Australian Prints 1960s-1990s, (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Australia Taylor, Roger, Rhythms of Australian Landscape, Asian Art News,Vol 9, No.2, March/April |
| 1998 | Taylor,
Roger, Kim Westcott, Craftsman House, Sydney
Trioli, Virginia, A dance to the music of lines, The Age, November 14 Boyd, Chris, Kim Westcott, The Big Issue, November Landragin, Alex, How Kim got her name into print, Herald-Sun, November 16 |
| 1997 | Burchall, Greg, Flying Ahead of Schedule, The Age, 8 April |
| 1996 | Grishin,
Sasha, European Visions of the Other, Art Monthly, no.96, December
Rooney, Robert, Making Their Mark, The Australian, 9 June |
| 1995 | Clabburn,
Anna, A Gutsy Dialogue Kept in Balance, Business Review Weekly,
19 June
Grisin, Sasha, Three Cultures, Art Monthly, no.81, July Heathcote, Christopher, The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-Objective Art, (exhibition catalogue), La Trobe University Art Museum Nelson, Robert, Provocative Printmaking, The Age, 8 February O’Donnell, Marcus, Making Prints, Melbourne Star Observer, 17 February Stewart, Paul, Taking a Line on Asian Art, Herald Sun Weekend, 25 May Taylor, Roger, Contemporary Voices--Kim Westcott, Asian Art News, vol.5, no.3, May-June Timms, Peter, Art That Makes Global Pattern, Herald Sun, 6 June |
| 1994 | Crane,
Andrew, Victorious Victorians, Herald Sun, 7 October
Crane, Andrew, Young Stars of the Future, Herald Sun, 19 October Grisin, Sasha, Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Craftsman House Heathcote, Christopher, Insipid, Ham-fisted and Specious, The Age, 18 May Heathcote, Christopher, Rumors Meet Their Match, The Age, 8 June New Prints: Eight Contemporary Artists (exhibition catalogue), New England Regional Art Museum, July Taylor, Roger, Freedom to Play, World Art, vol.1, no.1, November |
| 1993 | Heathcote,
Christopher, Back to the Beginning of Communication, The Age, 10
March
Heathcote, Christopher, Twin Panoramas Lacking in a Touch of Lyricism, The Age, 2 July International Print Exhibition, Machida--Tokyo (exhibition catalogue), Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, October Murdoch, Anna King, Artists of the Future, The Age, 23 April Murdoch, Anna King, A Portrait of Three Artists as Young People, The Age, 23 April |
| 1992 | Heathcote, Christopher, The Year That Turned Back the Creative Clock a Century, The Age, 31 December |
| 1991 | The Fifth International Biennial Print Exhibit Print Exhibit: R.O.C., 1991 (exhibition catalogue), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei |
| 1990 | Grishin, Sasha, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s, Craftsman House |