Kate Beynon’s exhibition Talismanic: the Robe & Friends incorporates key elements from the artist’s interdisciplinary practice, featuring textile soft-sculpture, painting, works on paper and animation.

Shaped by storytelling and auspicious imagery, the artworks on view reflect the hybrid cultural identities of the family collective known as TudoFAM, which includes Cantonese-Malaysian/Welsh and Afro-Caribbean/Indigenous-Mexican Pima ancestries. Recurring guardian characters appear amidst a bevy of benevolent creatures, anatomical designs and botanical motifs, while supernatural family portraits and spirits project otherworldly visions in solidarity for positive social change.

Kate is a Hong Kong-born, Naarm/Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, who works collaboratively as TudoFAM, with son Rali Beynon and husband Michael Pablo. Widely exhibited nationally and internationally, Kate’s works are included in important private and public collections in Australia, Germany and USA. A nine-time Archibald Prize finalist, and Winner of the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (2016), Kate was awarded the 2024 Yarra Arts Fellowship, is a Collingwood Yards Studio Artist, and an Associate Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts. Kate is represented by Sutton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne.

During her ATW residency, the artist will learn about natural colour and dye processes for the development of experimental new painting, textile sculpture and animated digital artworks.

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Kate Beynon is represented by Sutton Gallery.