About

Kate Golding is a settler Australian of English ancestry based on unceded Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land. She is a mother artist, educator and researcher. Golding completed a Master of Fine Arts in 2018 at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne where her research focussed on critiquing the memorialisation of Captain Cook.
Golding has exhibited both nationally and internationally. She presented her first public art commission Near this spot in Gordon Reserve for PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography in Melbourne. This commission was supported by a City of Melbourne Arts Grant. Kate co-authored BLAK COOK BOOK: New Cultural Perspectives on Cooks' Cottage. A set of provocations with Dr Paola Balla and Dr Clare Land, published by the City of Melbourne.
In 2024 Golding presented two intergenerational, collaborative exhibitions. Work in Progress for Abbotsford Convent as part of PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography and the second, Labours of Love at ArtSpace at Realm for Maroondah City Council. Both featured extensive public programming and workshops designed and led by Kate.
Golding has previously worked as a school teacher in Japan, England and Australia, a sessional lecturer in Alternative Photographic Processes at RMIT University and a Masters program mentor at Photography Studies College, Melbourne. She is a regular guest speaker, conference presenter and primary caregiver to a young child.

Acknowledgement

I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation on whose land I live and work. I offer my respect to the Elders past and present. I extend this offer of respect to all First Nations people - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and acknowledge that your sovereignty has never been ceded.