Kathy Temin — 'Wall Work: Open Rectangle 2', 2024

Kathy Temin’s Wall Work: Open Rectangle 2 (2024) extends a body of work first presented at Anna Schwartz Gallery in 2023, bringing together soft sculpture, weaving and art historical references to minimalism and feminism. Crafted from custom dusty-pink synthetic fur, the work draws on associations with comfort, play, anthropomorphism and sentimentality, while its use of repetition, monochrome elements and handmade processes creates a dialogue between seemingly disparate materials and ideas. Influenced by material culture, memory and the interiors of the 1970s, Temin’s practice explores themes of hope, optimism and nostalgia through an unexpected and deeply personal visual language.

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Kathy Temin studied at Victoria College, Prahran and at The Victorian College of The Arts. She has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally since the 1990s. Temin is known for her signature monumental and domestic scaled objects made from synthetic fur in monochrome engaging with themes of remembrance and domesticity.

Kathy Temin’s work is represented in museums across Australia, in private collections nationally and internationally and My Monument: Black Gardens, 2011 is currently on display in the collection exhibition Super Nature at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until February 2027. Her recent solo exhibitions include Wall Works, 2023, and Woven, 2025 at Anna Schwartz Projects.  Wall Works, 2026 was shown at Ames Yavuz Gallery in Sydney. Kathy Temin is Professor at Monash University in Fine Art at MADA (Monash Art, Design and Architecture).