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Curtain, steel rod, metal blind cord, painted velvet, steel painted shelving brackets, polycarbonate roofing, ball baring, dimensions variable
2025

Suspended Dialogue
Commercial rubber exercise band, rock, antique breadboard, steel commercial shelf bracket
2024

Fiona Morgan

Acrylic painting on canvas, hung on cardboard tube and builders twine
2025

Fiona Morgan

Peg board painting,
Pegboard, steel tube, synthetic builders twine, stone and pigment, oil stick on floor
2025

Material Exchange installation view Fiona Morgan and Kate Stewart

Fiona Morgan acrylic painting on canvas, Kate Stewart trapeze installation, wool, steel pipe, curtain chain, Fiona Morgan floor work, stainless steel table top, found plastic objects
all 2025

Collaborative interjections – Fiona Morgan painting on canvas – cut and arranged by Kate Stewart
2025

Kate Stewart

Variety of trapeze works,

Steel tube, wool, metal blind cord, metal clothing mesh, garden plant stand dimensions variable
2025

Fiona Morgan

Acrylic on canvas
205

Fiona Morgan

Acrylic on canvas, on cardboard tube and builders twine
205

Located approximately 30 min south of Ballarat

By working together across metropolitan and regional contexts, the project will create space for sustained experimentation outside the pressures of exhibition deadlines. This studio-centred process allows both artists to take risks, share methods, and test new approaches that may not be possible in solo practice. The emphasis on material reuse and reconfiguration responds directly to contemporary environmental anxieties, while also challenging established hierarchies of value in art-making.

Importantly, the project extends beyond individual practice to imagine a sustainable, artist-led cultural infrastructure. Research into a new not-for-profit Domestic Artspace—whether in Sandringham or Ballarat—will investigate how independent initiatives can support experimental practice while fostering meaningful community engagement. This model proposes a flexible space that is both experimental and inclusive: a place where exhibitions, workshops, and talks can bring together artists and audiences in intimate, process-driven encounters.

Sandringham Studio 1

Sandringham Studio 2

Kate Stewart is a Naarm/Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist working across material experimentation, expanded painting, and installation. Her practice explores ideas of destabilisation, dissonance, and disruption, reconfiguring the formal language of Minimalism through a New Materialist, diffractive lens. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from RMIT University.

Recent exhibitions include Intermission (2025) at Five Walls Gallery, The Murmuring (2024), a solo show at Rubicon ARI; the RMIT MFA Graduate Exhibition, where she was awarded the Five Walls Graduate Prize; and The Weather, part of the Tropical Lab international residency at La Salle College of the Arts, Singapore (2024). Her work has also featured in group exhibitions at Lon Gallery and HAIR ARI, Melbourne.

Stewart’s work has received several awards, including the Fiona Myer Award for Painting (VCA) and the Linden New Art Henry Award for Abstraction (2021). She has been a finalist in national prizes including the Ravenswood Art Prize, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, and the Castlemaine Experimental Print Prize.

www.katestewartartist.com

@kkksssttt