{{short description|Australian artist born in Melbourne}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=November 2020}} {{BLP primary sources|date=November 2020}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}{{Infobox artist | image = | nationality = | influenced = | influenced by = | patrons = | works = | movement = | training = {{ubl|Melbourne University |Victorian College of the Arts |Deakin University}} | field = Painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, sculpture | death_place = | name = Katherine Hattam | death_date = | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | birth_date = 1950 | birth_name = | caption = | imagesize = | awards = }}
'''Katherine Hattam''' (born 1950<ref>{{Cite web |title=CV |url=https://www.katherinehattam.com/pagecv |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=Katherine Hattam |language=en-AU}}</ref>) is an Australian artist. Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Artbank, Heide, Art Gallery of South Australia, Deakin and La Trobe Universities, Warrnambool Art Gallery and Bendigo Art Gallery. She is the mother of artist William Mackinnon.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-10|title=Katherine Hattam|url=https://www.artistprofile.com.au/katherine-hattam/|access-date=2020-11-16|website=Artist Profile|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=McDonald|first=John|date=2020-03-20|title=Old books and riotous colour collide as Katherine Hattam's art makes playful statements|url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/old-books-and-riotous-colour-collide-as-katherine-hattam-s-art-makes-playful-statements-20191231-p53nx9.html|access-date=2020-11-18|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref>
== Career == Hattam obtained a BA in Literature and Politics from Melbourne University in 1974 and held her first exhibition at George Paton & Ewing Gallery in 1978.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.katherinehattam.com/about |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=Katherine Hattam |language=en-AU}}</ref> In 1992, she was awarded a MFA by the Victorian College of the Arts,<ref>{{Cite web |title=CV |url=https://www.katherinehattam.com/pagecv |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=Katherine Hattam |language=en-AU}}</ref> and in 2004 she was awarded a PhD by Deakin University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trove |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/173237554 |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=trove.nla.gov.au}}</ref>
Hattam has won the Banyule Prize and the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, and has been a finalist in the Dobell Prize, the Geelong Contemporary Arts Prize, the Tidal Art Award, and the Sulman Prize.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-09-08|title=Finalists set for Tidal 2016|url=https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/4152517/finalists-set-for-tidal-2016/|access-date=2020-11-18|website=The Advocate|language=en-AU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Katherine Hattam|url=https://visualarts.net.au/artist-files/2018/katherine-hattam/|access-date=2020-11-16|website=NAVA|language=en}}</ref> Her portrait, ''Helen Garner speaks French'', was a finalist for the 2022 Archibald Prize.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Archibald 2022 work: Helen Garner speaks French by Katherine Hattam |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2022/30426/ |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au |language=en}}</ref>
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