About Kathy
Kathy Landvogt lives and works on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung land, in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.
Kathy’s art springs from her desire to give form to silenced experience. Having earlier explored collage, painting and drawing alongside a career in social policy, she now devotes herself to making sculpture and fibre art. Informed by feminist understandings and histories, Kathy finds the repetitive actions of handling fibre connect her with the female heritage of manual textile work. The emotional qualities of the material, and the process itself, guide the work. Content and form evolve together through an intuitive, haptic dialogue. She often works with fine-gauged coloured copper wire, utilising its memory, strength and malleability.
Kathy actively takes on new challenges in her practice through collaborating with other artists, utilising traditional textile techniques in novel ways, and participating in The Art Room learning community in Footscray, Melbourne. Fundamentally, Kathy’s practice is grounded in simultaneously stretching her material knowledge and peeling back her own historically situated experience.
Kathy’s non-traditional art education has seen her study under professional artists including Jenny Watson (Melbourne), Erika Gofton and others at The Art Room (Footscray) and Catherine Pilgrim (Castlemaine). She continues to be informed by the rich conversations of art audiences and makers.
Kathy’s work has been exhibited at Parallel Projects Gallery (Footscray), The Unicorn Collection (Ballarat), Threads of Tomorrow (Museu Textil online exhibition), Textile Palette Exhibition (Clunes), Uncommon Threads and Stitching Change (Naarm Textile Collective), Lot19 Spring Sculpture Prize, Experimental Print Prize (Castlemaine Art Museum), It’s a Small World Sculpture Prize (Newstead), Re/order at Divisions Gallery (Coburg), Wangaratta Art Gallery’s ‘Petite’ Miniature Textiles, CraftLab22 and 23 (Ballarat) and HER-Stories Chapman & Bailey (Abbotsford).
Kathy was awarded the Textile Palette Encouragement Award in 2024, and at Lot19 Spring Sculpture 2023 received the Len Anstey Prize, Castlemaine Theatre Royal Prize and Art Supplies Castlemaine Prize. She is represented in private collections.