
Kaitlyn Wagner
Artist’s Statement
My current art practice investigates and depicts emotions and information experienced within episodic memories. Episodic Memory is the memory of autobiographical events, associated emotions, and other contextual knowledge which can be explicitly stated or conjured. It is the collection of past personal experiences that have occurred at a particular time and place. I portray these episodic memories through abstracted landscapes, geometry, symbology of colour and the deconstruction of visual stimuli into form, shape, and composition. Through using these specific techniques and methodology’s my art practice aims to reflect upon the significance emotions and environments can hold within an individual’s recollection.
Biography
Art Run Initiatives (ARI)
2015 “Cart Your Art” Student Art Markets, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland
Performance Art
2018 “MCM Incorporated,” First Coat Studios, Toowoomba, Queensland
Permanent Collections
Royal Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
National Art School, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Curated Exhibitions
2017 “Semi Precious” Duo Collaboration, No Comply Gallery, Kontraband Studios (KBS), Toowoomba, Queensland
2017 “Transition” No Comply Gallery, Kontraband Studios (KBS), Toowoomba, Queensland
Influences
Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse & Mark Rothko.
Awards
2016 Emerging Artist award, University of Southern Queensland
2018 Finalist in the Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artist Award and exhibition
Exhibitions
International Exhibitions
2015 “Antipods: Magical Creatures with Backward Feet”, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Canada
2015 “Antipods: Magical Creatures with Backward Feet”, AKAS Saskatchewan, Canada (Artist-run centre)
2015 “Antipods: Magical Creatures with Backward Feet”, Swift Current Art Gallery, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2017 “Pernicious”, Red Door Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland
Group Exhibitions
2014 “Paper, Scissors, Rock”, Red Door Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
2015 “End of year showcase” Dogwood Crossing, Miles, Queensland
2015 “Six plus Seven” Red Door Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland
(Collaborative exhibition with Griffith University Brisbane).
2015 “Antipods: Magical Creatures with Backward Feet”, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland
2015 “Busted” Breast cancer awareness exhibition, proceeds donated to Breast Cancer research, St Vincent’s Hospital and St Andrew’s Hospital, Toowoomba, Queensland.
2016 “Art Haus II”, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
2016 “Graduart” Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Queensland
2016 “Graduart, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland
2017 “Art Haus III”, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland
2017 “Trans” Raygun Gallery, Toowoomba, Queensland
2017 “Shifting Sands”, No Comply Gallery, Kontraband Studios (KBS), Toowoomba, Queensland
Showing the single artwork