Image: Asami Ohkubo
Confrontations, collisions and disruptions act as co-conspirators in the visual language of London-based Australian artist Katie Eraser. Eraser’s paintings feature collaged elements of past works and studio detritus, collapsing the hierarchy of process and finished product.
EDUCATION
Turps Studio Programme, London – 2023-2025 (CURRENT - Graduating July 2025)
Graduate Diploma of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne – 2021
Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice, The Miecat Institute – 2020
Bachelor of Design, Billy Blue College of Design – 2007
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Finalist Clyde & Co Art Prize – 2025
Finalist Macfalrlanes Art Prize – 2025
Finalist Ingram Art Prize – 2024
New Platform Art, London – 2024
PADA Art Residency, Lisbon – 2022
Nocefresca Art Residency, Sardinia – 2022
Finalist BBA Art Gallery Art Prize, Berlin – 2022
Finalist Women’s Abstract Art Biennial, Melbourne – 2020
Winner Fortyfive Downstairs Emerging Artist Award, Australia – 2018
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2025:
Flesh and Time – Duo show with Hetty Douglas – The Bomb Factory, London
Shiny – Safehouse, London
2024:
Twice Boiled – Duo show with Jordan McKenzie – Split Gallery, London
Slip Slap Slop – Safehouse, London
Strangers in The Night – Somers Gallery, London
2023:
Recreational Grounds VII, London
2022:
Harmless Habits – A Flag Gallery, Amsterdam
PADA 035 – PADA Gallery, Lisbon
Futures Lost – Penny Contemporary, Tasmania
BBA Art Prize – Berlin, Germany
Pride Art Exhibition – M Contemporary, Sydney
Nocefresca – Sardinia, Italy
Between Painters – Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne
2021:
Fill in the unknown with fantasy – Studio Gallery, Melbourne
Can you really feel it – Michael Reid Northern Beaches, Sydney
2020:
The imagined attractions of elsewhere – Michael Reid Northern Beaches, Sydney
Abstract in nature – Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
2019:
Friends and Family – Daine Singer Gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne Gals – Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
2018:
Tough luck – Tinnng Street Presents, Melbourne
If we could talk – Boom Gallery, Geelong
Snug succour – Besser Space, Melbourne
2017:
Perfection isn’t beautiful, destruction is beautiful – Boom Gallery, Geelong
Spring Time 2.0 – RVCA Corner Gallery, Melbourne
CURATED PROJECTS
In 2024 Eraser and Jordan McKenzie launched Specific Objects Projects (SOP),
an innovative curating project platforming artists in temporary spaces in London.