Cate Maddy
SUBLIME
Sublime
My landscapes have always been a fantasy space for me, only loosely based in truth. My core sensibility investigates Australian natives, Movement, Colour and to a certain extent has a sartorial element. I’m fascinated with the idea of the Sublime in art and literature and a certain theatricality along those lines seems to linger in my work. I would like to think my paintings possess their own emotion, their own truth, and that each one preserves space for individual interpretation.
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (Immanuel Kant ) held that there were three kinds - the noble , the splendid and the terrifying.
In his Critique of Judgment (1790),[14]Kant distinguishes between the "remarkable differences" of the Beautiful and the Sublime, noting that beauty "is connected with the form of the object", having "boundaries", while the sublime "is to be found in a formless object", represented by a "boundlessness"
I seek to reference both of these, the ‘boundaries’ of the object through Still Life and the ‘boundlessness’ of my more immersive bushland paintings. I aim to make the viewer feel part of nature, immersed in rather than separate. Cate Maddy
EDUCATION
2004 Bachelor Fine Art with Distinction, RMIT
2005 Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training
1999 Diploma Visual Art, Box Hill Tafe
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 AKBellinger Gallery
2023 Grainger Gallery
2022 Expecting flowers in the sky, Grainger Gallery ACT
2022 My heart beats faster, Fenton & Fenton Gallery
2021 I didn’t come here to stay, Grainger Gallery ACT
2021 Questionable arrangements, AK Bellinger Gallery
2017 Loud & Lunatic, Anthea Polson Art, Queensland
2014 Land of grass without memory, Gadfly gallery, Perth
2012 Static gesture, Spiro and Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane
2012 Best Imitation, Anthea Polson Art, Gold Coast
2010 Hyperballad, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2005 Dominant, Submissive, Red Gallery Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Onmia Art Prize
2022 Onmia Art Prize
2022 Affordable Art fair Melbourne, Fenton & Fenton
2021 St Kevin’s Art Prize
2022 Opening exhibition Fenton & Fenton Gallery
2020 Feel Good Exhibition, Fenton & Fenton
2019 St Kevin’s Art prize
2018 Kennedy Prize
2018 AKBellinger gallery
2017 St Kevin’s Art Award
2016 ‘Reanimating the Inanimate’ Morton Bay Regional Gallery, Queensland
2011 New works, Colour and Form, SGAR Art Rooms, Brisbane
2011 Stockroom show, Harrison Galleries
2010 John Leslie Art Prize Exhibition, Gippsland Gallery, Sale
2009 Art Sydney, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2009 Cate Maddy, Lauren Potts and Miranda Skoczek, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2009 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Award Exhibition
2007 Lost and Found, The Brick Lane Gallery, London
2007 MLC Art Prize Exhibition, MLC, Melbourne
2006 John Leslie Art Prize Exhibition, Gippsland Gallery, Sale, Victoria.
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AWARDS & PRIZES
2023 Finalist Omnia Art Prize
2022 Finalist Omnia Art Prize
2021 Finalist St Kevin’s Art Prize
2019 Finalist St Kevin’s Art Prize
2018 Finalist Kennedy Prize
2017 Finalist St Kevin’s Art Award
2011 Finalist Prometheus Award, Queensland
2010 Finalist Redlands Art Award, Queensland (withdrawn)
2010 Finalist John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Gallery, Sale
2009 Finalist Williamstown Contemporary Art Award
2007 Finalist MLC Art Prize
2006 Finalist John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Gallery, Sale
2004 Awarded the 2004 Siemans RMIT Fine Art Travel Scholarship
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COLLECTIONS
Artbank - Sydney
Mater Private Hospital collection, Brisbane
St Kevin;s Toorak
Tolarno Boutique Hotels Melbourne
Private collections Australia, London and America.