About

Kate Golding is a settler Australian artist based in Narrm Melbourne. She utilises photographic processes to examine colonisation and the representation of people and place through long-term projects. Her current focus is First Nation sovereignty, the memorialisation of Captain Cook and the creation of counter-monuments.
Golding has exhibited both nationally and internationally. She was awarded an ArtStart Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts in 2011. Her Aboriginalities project features in the Melbourne Museum’s permanent exhibition, First Peoples at the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre. She attended the Magnum Photos workshop with Raghu Rai at the 2013 Delhi Photo Festival. In 2015 she released her self-published photobook, Within You Without You. Golding has been a finalist in several photographic awards, and was the overall winner of the 2016 Linden Postcard Prize and the 2016 CCP Salon Best Work by a CCP Member.
Most recently Kate was commissioned by PHOTO AUSTRALIA to create new work for her long-term project Near this spot. This new commission was supported by a City of Melbourne Arts Grant and was exhibited as part of the PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography.
Golding has been a sessional lecturer in Alternative Photographic Processes at RMIT University, a Masters program mentor at Photography Studies College and is a regular guest speaker. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Wollongong, a Graduate Diploma in Education from UNSW, a Bachelor of Arts in Photography with distinction from RMIT University. In 2017 Kate completed a Master of Fine Arts by research degree at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

Acknowledgement

I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung 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.