Ash Keating

Ash Keating
Ash Keating in 2023
Born	Ashley James Keating (1980-10-04) 4 October 1980 (age 46)
Education	Victorian College of the Arts, Monash University
Known for	Painting
Website	ashkeating.com

Ash Keating (born 1980) is an Australian contemporary visual artist.

Keating works within an expanded contemporary field, through painting, performance, sculpture, video and intervention. His large outdoor murals, created with paint-filled fire extinguishers, can be found across Melbourne.

His practice is multidisciplinary, ranging from site-specific installations, outdoor murals and performances, to large-scale and domestic-scale canvases.

Since 2004, he has exhibited extensively in galleries and undertaken large scale, site-responsive public art projects across Australia and internationally.

Biography

Ash Keating was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1980. He studied Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Monash University in 2004, followed by a Bachelors of Fine Arts, First Class Honours (Painting) at Victorian College of the Arts in 2006.

Collections

Keating's works are held in numerous public and private collections including:

• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
• Artbank, Melbourne
• Shepparton Art Museum, Melbourne

Selected exhibitions and projects

Awards

Publications

• Ash Keating: Museum Langmatt. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023. Edited by Markus Stegmann. ISBN 9783775755160.
• Spirits in the Bush – The Art of Gippsland. Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. By Simon Gregg. ISBN 9781925801699.
• Art + Climate = Change. Melbourne University Publishing, 2016. By Guy Abrahams, Kelly Gellatly, and Bronwyn Johnson. ISBN 9780522869576.
• Performance Ritual Document. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. By Anne Marsh. ISBN 9781921394973.
• Curating Sydney: Imagining the City's Future. NewSouth Publishing, 2014. By Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel. ISBN 9781742247106.
• Video Void – Australian Video Art. Australian Scholarly Pub, 2014. Edited by Matthew Perkins. ISBN 9781925003796.
• Artists' Proof #1. Monash University Museum of Art I MUMA, 2012. By Geraldine Barlow, Max Delany, Shelley McSpedden, Francis Parker, Patrice Sharkey. ISBN 9780987295231.
• Making the University Matter. Taylor & Francis, 2012. Edited by Barbie Zelizer. ISBN 9781136696930.
• Time shrines: mourning and melancholia in the work of Ash Keating. Discipline Journal, 2012. By Amelia Barikin. ISSN 1839-082X.
• The Art of Engagement: Culture, collaboration, innovation. University of Western Australia, 2011. By Elaine Lally, Ien Ang, and Kay Anderson. ISBN 9781742582870.
• Junk - Art and the Politics of Trash. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. BY Gillian Whiteley. ISBN 9780857720214.
• Space Invaders - Australian Street Stencils, Posters, Paste-ups, Zines, Stickers. National Gallery of Australia, 2010. By Jaklyn Babington and Roger Butler. ISBN 9780642334114.
• Harmonic Tremors - Aesthetic Interventions in the Public Sphere. Gasworks Arts Park, 2009. Edited by Sarah Rainbird. ISBN 9780646503356.

Further reading

• Habitus Living, Big, beautiful and oozing with colour: The art of Ash Keating by Jan Henderson, 2023
• The Saturday Paper, Artist Ash Keating by Dee Jefferson, 2023
• Memo Review, Ice Floes Response by Philip Brophy, 2023
• Broadsheet, Under Pressure: Ash Keating Paints the Town Red (and Orange, Pink, Green and Blue) by Daniela Frangos, 2023
• Shepparton News, A window into the mind of an artist: Ash Keating’s Elevation by Jay Brice, 2023
• In Design Live, Sky’s the limit: Ash Keating turns future gallery site into an artwork by Jan Henderson, 2022
• The Local Project Issue 6, The Science of Art – Ash Keating by James Lyall Smith, 2021
• Observer, Ash Keating’s ‘Duality’ Evokes the Passage of Time by Cat Woods, 2021
• The Sydney Morning Herald, Art Created by a Lawn Spreader and Fire Hydrant Aims to Evoke Nature by Cat Woods, 2021
• Where they Create, Ash Keating by Ray Barbara, 2020
• The Design Files, by Sally Tabart, 2019
• The Design Files, Studio Visit Ash Keating, by Lucy Feagins, 2017
• Broadsheet, In the Artist’s Studio: Ash Keating, by Will Cox, 2017
• Catalogue essay for Ash Keating Selected Video Works 2006–2014, Ash Keating — Selected Video Works 2006–2014 by Din Heagney, 2015
• The Conversation, Nature makes abstract visual art more captivating by Misha Ketchell, 2014
• un Magazine, 7.1, No creation but through submission by Justin Clemens, 2013
• Discipline Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 2, Time Shrines: Mourning and Melancholia in the Work of Ash Keating by Amelia Barikin, 2013
• Monash University Museum of Art, Artists Proof #1, by Max Delany, 2012
• Artlink, Taking Care of Business: Ash Keating, by Anthony Gardner, 2007

References