Zootopia

In Zootopia Kate Rohde presents several new and reworked pieces inspired by the historical Wunderkammer - shells, gems, corals, and a menagerie of beasts fused together in a zoomorphic soup. Rohde’s imaginative and fanciful sculptures fuse museological documentation with a Rococo and Baroque aesthetic.

Created from a range of sculptural techniques, within these works are artificial representations of the natural. Here the use of inventive materials conveys an unusual beauty, nature reimagined in resin, plaster, and clay, and rendered in a hyper colourful palette. Rohde invites you to enter a realm of fantasy, motivating contemporary discussions regarding ecology, extinction, and preservation.

Kate Rohde completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001. Since then she has become known for her intensely colourful jewellery and sculptural object based practice, nowadays working predominately with resin and hand casting techniques.

Recent exhibitions include Luminous Realms, a solo survey of her work since 2006 at Craft, Magic Object; the 2016 Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 21st Century Heide at Heide Museum of Modern Art, and Obsessed: Compelled to make, at the Australian Design Centre. In 2015 she was a finalist in the Rigg Design Prize at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Other projects include collaborating with Sydney fashion house Romance was Born on their 2010/11 S/S collections Renaissance Dinosaur and 2011 A/W Fruits and Flowers. Her work is held in the collections of several institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia and Bendigo Art Gallery. 

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