Kim Westcott has worked across many studio’s, from the grungy back streets of West Brunswick, Melbourne, the manic streets of New York city to the raw and beautiful rural area of Wangaratta. But whichever environment Westcott lands, she has a super power to look at a subject and pull apart its essential make-up, resulting in the most poetic monograph’s that show form and rhythm. Always allowing the ‘dot & line’ to dance and unfold into such complexity.
Westcott graduated in 1989 from The Victoria Collage of the Arts, her printmaking talent was picked up in1991 by the Australian Print Workshop, where Director Neil Leveson offered her to be his assistant. After Neil Leveson’s death, the American Master Printmaker Garner Tullis stepped into the new Director role. Tullis was so impressed with Westcott’s skill that he invited her back to his New York workshop, where she went on to be be his master Printer. While sustaining a prolific creative practice simultaneously. After a year in New York, Australia’s landscape called her home.
Since 2001, Westcott has worked from her studio in Victoria, a place immersed in the Warby Ovens National Park. Her recent work has shifted into drawing and painting, displaying a distinct connection to place. Her practice is informed by a deeply connected sense of the world and the things that surround her. It is for this reason that Westcott is always making art in the best places. Westcott can tell you more about these places and things than you may have thought possible, so long as you are open.
Westcott has work collected in all state institutions as well as a number of international collections.