Kate Bergin
Born 1968, Melbourne, Australia
Lives & Works – Hope Island (Bundjalung)
Kate Bergin's works revel in the unusual, the precarious and the unexpected. Far from 'still', these paintings quiver with movement, laughter and life. It is impossible to ignore their vitality. Animals poised to leap from the canvas, birds to take flight; compositions on the brink of collapse. Bergin’s work, intoxicating and absurd, captures the mundane and the exotic in virtuosic detail.
Bergin’s work is held in the Art Gallery of NSW (gifted by Margaret Olley AC), Bendigo Art Gallery, Artbank and significant private collections. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Victoria College of the Arts and has been the recipient of a number of major awards, including the Albany Art Prize, The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize (Highly Commended), the Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize (People’s Choice) and was a finalist in the 2011 and 2013 Sulman Prize. With a career spanning over 25 years Bergin is regarded as a highly collectable artist.
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Arthouse Group Show
Summer – Part 1 9 - 27 January 2024Arthouse Gallery is delighted to begin 2024 with 'Summer' featuring a selection of new and exciting works from our stable of artists. This coming year features solo shows by newly–represented,...Read more -
Kate Bergin
Table of Contents 2 - 25 November 2023The virtuosic paintings of artist Kate Bergin take the viewer on a playful expedition through the absurd and the profound. Strange gatherings of animals and objects are configured in impossible...Read more -
Kate Bergin
Royal Gala Performance 22 October - 6 November 2021The virtuosic paintings of artist Kate Bergin take the viewer on a playful expedition through the absurd and the profound. Strange gatherings of animals and objects are configured in impossible...Read more -
Kate Bergin
Tabletop Variations 29 May - 15 June 2019The virtuosic paintings of artist Kate Bergin take the viewer on a playful expedition through the absurd and the profound. Strange gatherings of animals and objects are configured in impossible...Read more
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Kate BerginGrand Designs & Other Aspirations (Featuring Bernardo Bellotto's The Entrance to the Grand Canal and the Salute Church, 1725 – 50), 2015oil on canvas170 x 200 cm, 172.5 x 204 cm (framed)$98,000
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Kate BerginA Gathering for a Journey, 2023oil on canvas150 x 130 cm, 153 x 133 cm (framed)$58,000
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Kate BerginExotic Dancers & Other Performers, 2023oil on canvas150 x 100 cm, 153 x 103 cm (framed)$52,000
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Kate BerginMonty’s Grand Tour (Featuring Canaletto’s View of Venice, The Riva Degli Schiavoni, looking West, 1736)pigment print on German rag paper74.5 x 93.5 cm, 115 x 130 cm (framed)Edition of 40$3,950
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Kate BerginCall Centrepigment print on German rag paper70 x 50 cm, 103.5 x 80.5 cm (framed)Edition of 100$2,500
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Kate BerginA Slow Journeypigment print on German rag paper65 x 55 cm, 98.5 x 85.5 cm (framed)Edition of 100$2,500