Katie Paine

@dreamsofspeaking

Katie Paine is a Naarm-based artist and writer. Her practice spans installation, video, narrative fiction, drawing, photography and occasionally performance. Her practice concerns itself with the serpentine trajectories of ideas and information across time, and the ways that we encounter and understand the world through the collection of information and the construction of knowledge. She is interested in the fallacies of institutionalised knowledge and the spectral and poetic spaces that open up during instances of miscommunication, failure and misunderstanding. Recent work has explored such ideas across the fields of semiotics, hauntology, archival politics, magical realism and science fiction.

Paine recently completed her MFA at the University of Melbourne in 2022. She has exhibited at Spring 1883, Gertrude Contemporary, Kingston Art Centre, Metro Arts, Bundoora Homestead Footscray Community Arts Centre, Burnie Regional Gallery, Composite Moving Image, Lon Gallery, F.S. Meyer Gallery, CAVES, TCB, ACMI, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Kings ARI, La Trobe Art Institute, Blindside, George Paton Gallery, VOID Gallery, Irene Rose, SEVENTH Gallery and Bus Projects. She has upcoming exhibitions at SEVENTH Gallery and Counihan Gallery and was recently shortlisted for the Darebin Art Prize. She writes for publications such as Performance Review, Vault Magazine, Art + Australia, un-Magazine, Running Dog, Runway Journal and Art Almanac alongside a variety of art galleries.