Kasane Low is a Sydney based artist, living and working on Gadigal Wangal Country, widely acclaimed for her installations, sculpture, performance and photography. Low won the People’s Choice Award for coveted Art on Paper Prize, and the Emerging prize for the installation Thousand Yards of Gold Thread. She has participated in international art projects in Paris, Berlin and China and has previously exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe. Low won a placement at the prestigious Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, founded in 1648, and the Win Brothers Cup Arts Residency in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Low holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Sydney and currently works as Arts Programs Officer, managing the Perfect Match Street Art commissions and EDGE arts festivals with Inner West Council, Sydney.
Education
2017 Arts Administration Certificate IV, TAFE St George Fine Arts College
– Engaging Communities and Audience
– Strategies for Setting up Art Enterprises
– Planning and Managing Art Projects
– Marketing and Sustaining your Project or Business
2012 Masters of Fine Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
2011 1 year stage, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2007 Bachelor of Visual Arts + Honours, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
2004 Diploma of Visual Arts, TAFE Murwillumbah campus
2002 Ceramics Certificate III, TAFE Murwillumbah campus
Professional Experience
Current – Arts Programs Officer – Living Arts, Inner West Council, Sydney
2022 –Public art co-ordinator and workshop manager, The Heart of Surry Hills, Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, Sydney
2019 –Public art co-ordinator and workshop manager, Picnic Surry Hills, the Official Mardi Gras, Sydney
2019 -2016 Public Art Project Coordinator, Surry Hills Festival, Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, Sydney
2017 Kaldor Project 33, Anri Sala, official Invigilator team
2016 Biennale of Sydney Team Leader, Managing volunteer teams and exhibition space, Carriageworks and Cockatoo Island
2016 Biennale of Sydney , De-install team for cockatoo island
2016 Biennale of Sydney, Install team for Lee Ming Wei, Guernica in Sand
2013 Venice Biennale invigilator, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
2012 Mongolia Residency- Brother Win Cup International Art Contest with one week organised trek through the Gobi Desert
2010 The 17th Biennale of Sydney Volunteer. The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age
2007 Guest Artist speaker ‘Emerging’, Gosford Regional Gallery
2006 The 15th Biennale of Sydney Zones of Contact. De-install Antony Gormley’s Asian Field 2003 and Ranjani Shettar’s Just a bit more 2005
2006 Fiona Foley Remembering the Dead 4 week intensive course
Awards
2022 Finalist Fauvette Loureiro Travel Scholarship – University of Sydney
2017 WINNER – Art On Paper Prize people’s choice award Hazelhurst Gallery
2013 WINNER – Emerging Gosford Regional Gallery. Judge: Andrew Frost, Art Critic, The Art Life ABC.
2012 Travel Scholarship – Win Brothers Cup, Gobi Desert, Mongolia
2012 University of Sydney Postgraduate Research Scholarship
2011 Fauvette Loureiro Travel Scholarship – Paris
2007 CCAS Young Artist Award – Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery. Judge: Barry Pierce, Head Curator of Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2007 Finalist Prize in ‘Emerging’, Gosford Regional Gallery
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Finalist Fauvette Loureiro Travel Scholarship – University of Sydney
2019 Love Letter “the Magic”, 541 Artspace
2019 Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, Our Neon Foe, Sydney
2019 Add On, Head On, 541 Artspace
2018 Love Letters for Ah Mah, Lentil as Anything, Newtown
2018 Goldfish, Suzuya, Surry hills
2018 Add On, Head On, 541 Artspace
2017 Smashed Screens, Delmar Gallery
2017 Double Take, Surry Hills Precinct.
2017 Art on Paper Prize, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2016 Re-Attempts, gWilson Gallery
2016 Remembering and Forgetting, 541 Artspace Gallery, Sydney
2016 Spirit, Chippendale New World Art Prize, Kensington St Galleries
2016 Add On, Head On, Central Park Galleries
2015 Street Stories, Delmar Gallery
2015 Add On, Head On, 2 Dank St
2014 Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe
2014 Black Swan Art Prize, Perth
2013 Connection Points, Willoughby Sculpture Prize
2013 Art on Paper Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2013 State of Flux Delmar Gallery
2013 Emerging Gosford Regional Gallery
2012 Degree Shows, Sydney College of the Arts
2012 Annual Members Exhibition, Gallery 4A
2011 Portes Ouvertes Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2010 Difference and repetition Gaffa Gallery
2010 Annual Members Exhibition, Gallery 4A
2009 Annual Members Exhibition, Gallery 4A
2009 Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery
2008 Annual Members Exhibition, Gallery 4A
2007 Photography and Installation, Wallspace Gallery
2007 The Blake Prize, National Art School Gallery 2007 Emerging, Gosford Regional Gallery
2007 Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery
2007 Annual Members Exhibition, Gallery 4A
2007 Degree Shows 2007 Sydney College of the Arts
2006 600 Degrees of Separation Newspace, Sydney
2006 Skin Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
2005 Illuminations Lismore Regional Art Gallery
2005 Pointers Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
2004 Hybrid Vision City of the Arts Space, Murwillumbah
2003 Squeeze Murwillumbah Tafe
2003 Cloud Catcher Wet Paint Gallery
2002 Exit Ramp Tweed River Regional Art Gallery