{{short description|Australian artist (born 1968)}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Kathy Temin | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1968}} | occupation = Sculptor }}
'''Kathy Temin''' (born 1968) is an Australian artist who uses synthetic fur to create sculptural objects and installations.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nelson |first1=Robert |date=14 January 2016 |title=Howard Arkley and Friends: following the lines across suburbia |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |publisher= |url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/howard-arkley-and-friends-following-the-lines-across-suburbia-20160114-gm5o87.html |url-status=live |accessdate=11 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212200906/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/howard-arkley-and-friends-following-the-lines-across-suburbia-20160114-gm5o87.html |archive-date=12 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fink |first=Hannah |title=Explore the work of Australian artist, Kathy Temin |url=https://www.vizardfoundationartcollection.com.au/the-nineties/explore/kathy-temin/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021214431/https://www.vizardfoundationartcollection.com.au/the-nineties/explore/kathy-temin/ |archive-date=21 October 2021 |access-date=13 February 2023 |website=Vizard Foundation Art Collection |publisher=University of Melbourne - Potter Museum of Art |language=en}}</ref> She is represented in a number of public collections in Australia and New Zealand and is a professor and Head of Fine Art at Monash University in Melbourne.<ref name="Monash University Art Design and Architecture">{{cite web |title=Monash Art Design and Architecture - Professor Kathy Temin |url=https://www.monash.edu/mada/about-us/people/kathy-temin |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704152242/https://www.monash.edu/mada/about-us/people/kathy-temin |archive-date=4 July 2022 |accessdate=11 March 2017 |website=Monash University}}</ref>
==Artistic Practice== Temin has described how exposure to her father's work as a tailor work helped her to learn the sewing and craft techniques that she later utilised in her art.<ref name="Broadsheet" /> Temin predominantly works with faux fur.<ref name="Newcastle Art Gallery">{{cite web |date=2009 |title=New Sculpture by Caroline Rothwell and Kathy Temin |url=http://www.nag.org.au/Exhibitions/Current/Archives/2009/New-Sculpture-by-Caroline-Rothwell-and-Kathy-Temin |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026015433/https://nag.org.au/exhibitions/current/archives/2009/new-sculpture-by-caroline-rothwell-and-kathy-temin |archive-date=26 October 2022 |accessdate=11 March 2017 |website=Newcastle Art Gallery}}</ref> Temin says that she uses this fabric, which is associated with children's toys, to generate an emotional response.<ref name="Broadsheet">{{cite web |last1=Grey |first1=Tim |date=12 October 2015 |title=Fuzzy Memory: Melbourne sculptor Kathy Temin's plush fur sculptures represent a harder, darker history |url=https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/art-and-design/article/fuzzy-memory |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922211643/https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/art-and-design/article/fuzzy-memory |archive-date=22 September 2018 |accessdate=11 March 2017 |website=Broadsheet}}</ref> Writing on Frieze.com, Kit Wise has described the appearance of her sculptural works as "roughly cobbled together or misshapen, deliberately undercutting any idealism associated with the art object and positing instead something far more anxious and awkward."<ref name="Frieze - Kathy Temin">{{cite journal |last1=Wise |first1=Kit |date=1 April 2008 |title=Kathy Temin |url=https://frieze.com/article/kathy-temin |url-status=live |journal=Frieze |issue=114 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625105722/https://www.frieze.com/article/kathy-temin |archive-date=25 June 2022 |access-date=11 March 2017}}</ref> Writing for the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' on the Royal Academy of Arts show "Australia" in London, esteemed Australian art critic John MacDonald referred to Temin's work simply as "three large furry things."<ref>{{cite news |last1=MacDonald |first1=John |date=19 September 2013 |title=Australia's London art spectacular is a 'clumsy embarrassment' |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |publisher= |url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/australias-london-art-spectacular-is-a-clumsy-embarrassment-20130918-2tztt.html |url-status=live |accessdate=14 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429131142/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/australias-london-art-spectacular-is-a-clumsy-embarrassment-20130918-2tztt.html |archive-date=29 April 2021}}</ref>
Temin has also worked with other textiles such as felt.<ref name="artshub">{{cite web |last1=Swan |first1=Amelia |date=3 August 2009 |title=Kathy Temin at Heide Gallery |url=http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/visual-arts/amelia-swan/kathy-temin-at-heide-gallery-178789 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408143843/http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/visual-arts/amelia-swan/kathy-temin-at-heide-gallery-178789 |archive-date=8 April 2020 |accessdate=13 March 2017 |website=Arts Hub}}</ref>
== Notable works == Temin's work '''My Monument: White Forest’''<ref>{{Cite web |title=My Monument: White Forest 2008 |url=https://collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au/objects/3798?_gl=1*1dszbpf*_ga*MzQ1MjQ0MDYyLjE2Nzc4OTM0NTc.*_ga_309HXHSGK8*MTY3Nzg5MzQ1Ny4xLjAuMTY3Nzg5MzQ1Ny4wLjAuMA.. |access-date=2023-03-04 |website=collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au}}</ref> in QAGOMA's collection drew the attention of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian when searching for inspiration for an installation for their annual Christmas party.<ref name="monash.edu">{{Cite web |title=Prominent Australian artist transforms Hollywood home into white fantasy forest |url=https://www.monash.edu/mada/news/2019/prominent-australian-artist-transforms-hollywood-home-into-white-fantasy-forest |access-date=2023-03-04 |website=Art, Design and Architecture |language=en}}</ref> Kardashian and West contacted Temin through her dealer, Anna Schwartz Gallery, and commissioned Temin to create a "sculptural landscape" in their home.<ref name="monash.edu"/> Kardashian described the works as "a winter wonderland Whoville", whilst Ashley Greeg described them as "fuzzy Whoville beanbags" in reference to scenes from the famous children's author Dr. Seuss.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Penrose |first1=Nerisha |date=2 December 2018 |title=Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's Winter Wonderland Christmas Party Cost About $1.3 Million |work=Elle |publisher= |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a25694675/kim-kardashian-kayne-west-christmas-party-cost/ |url-status=live |accessdate=2 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816093720/https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a25694675/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-christmas-party-cost/ |archive-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>
Temin has also done a series of works about the Australian pop star Kylie Minogue, and the phenomenon of fandom culture.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carsel |first=Casey |date=2019 |title=Kathy Temin |url=https://ocula.com/artists/kathy-temin/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306111412/https://ocula.com/artists/kathy-temin/ |archive-date=6 March 2019 |access-date=4 March 2019 |website=Ocula}}</ref>
==Public collections== * Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth * Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Brisbane * Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth * Monash University Gallery Collection, Melbourne * Queensland Art Gallery,<ref name="QAGOMA collection entry">{{cite web |title=Temin, Kathy - QAGOMA Collection Online |url=http://collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au/qag/imu.php?request=display&port=45000&id=22f7&flag=ecatalogue&offset=0&count=default&view=details |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031040930/https://collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au/creators/temin-kathy |archive-date=31 October 2022 |accessdate=11 March 2017 |website=Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art}}</ref> Brisbane * University of Wollongong, Wollongong
== References == {{reflist}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Temin, Kathy}} Category:1968 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century Australian women artists Category:20th-century Australian artists Category:Australian contemporary artists Category:Academic staff of Monash University Category:Women's Art Register artists