Kate Price

Kate Price is an artist, cultural worker and gardener from Naarm (Melbourne), Australia, currently wiggling in Rotterdam. Drawing from her upbringing on a horticultural farm and experiences within solo and communal gardening actions, within her practice she explores how gardening/horti/agri-cultural practices (and their many ripplings) can facilitate, or hinder, moments of generative exchange, reciprocity and relationship fostering between divergent beings in our ecologies. Her works take form through means of present gestures and gathering and reflecting sensibilities, attempting to honour and pay attention to the embedded actualities that exist within our conditions, and the multitude of perspectives, frictions and supports that these entail. Kate's workings shift from material digestions in the studio, such as with painting or ceramics, to social facilitations, including public gardening projects, workshop organising and event programming. Intrinsic to each of these engagements is a concern towards experimenting with sustainable processes, do-it-yourself versus industrialised methodologies, repurposing materials, attentions to localised and available resource streams (including their redistribution), and an interest in art product life-spans/value - often embracing decay and multi-temporal processes. Recent projects have taken interest towards composting, organic waste transformations, urban community gardening practices and industrial tulip cultivation in the Netherlands. Presently in Rotterdam she is forming a street side community garden with local residents and TENT in Coolhaven, and is experimenting with the incoming organic 'waste' streams at the Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie's Grondstoffenstation as a cultural programmer and ongoing artist in residence. Within C3 she is a keen member of the gardening community, currently busy transforming their back outdoor area from empty tiles to a lively green shared space for the many beings of the studios, and the wider residents of Charlois and Rotterdam. She holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2022), and has exhibited projects in group and solo presentations in Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden and Turkey, at both institutional and artist-run experimental spaces.