News : Juz Kitson

Juz Kitson has been selected as one of six finalists for the 2019 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award. The award is one of the country’s most prestigious prizes and will be judged by Dr Lisa Slade, Stephen Benwell and Dr Rebecca Coates. The winner will be announced at the opening on Friday 21 June […]

Juz Kitson has been featured by Artist Profile in an interview with Emma-Kate Wilson. Kitson discusses her evolving artistic practice including new drawing work on display as part of the group exhibition, Warm Bodies, at Cement Fondu in Sydney. To read the article, please click here. Image credit: Warm Bodies installation view, 2018, Cement Fondu. […]

Juz Kitson features in a group exhibition, Gothic Beauty: Victorian notions of love, loss and spirituality, at Bendigo Art Gallery. The exhibition traces the Victorian gothic into contemporary art, bringing together the work of a variety of artists who explore these ideas. Gothic Beauty: Victorian notions of love, loss and spirituality Bendigo Art Gallery 6 […]

Juz Kitson features in the group exhibition Hunter Red: Corpus at the Newcastle Art Gallery. Bringing together works from the Newcastle Art Gallery Collection and other institutions that form the Hunter Cultural Collective, the exhibition interrogates the human body through works across ranging platforms. The overarching theme of red brings with it loaded symbolism and […]

Juz Kitson is a finalist in the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2018 with her work, ‘You are everything; ripples moving ever outwards’ 2018. Presented by Ravenswood School for Girls, the annual prize for emerging and established female artists in Australia awards the winner a $35,000 prize. The theme for the 2018 prize is ‘resillience’. Ravenswood […]

Juz Kitson is in the group exhibition, Sensual Nature, at the Fremantle Arts Centre. Featuring twelve artists, the exhibition includes sculptural, tactile and seductive work inspired by nature, bringing to the fore organic forms that lurk beneath the conscious mind, wrapped in suppressed desires and fears. The exhibition is curated by Dr Ric Spencer and […]

Juz Kitson features in a collection exhibition at the Shepparton Art Museum. Intimate Realities: Recent Works from the SAM Collection features sculpture, video, photography, printmaking, painting and ceramics by leading contemporary artists and evokes the uncanny and surreal. Kitson’s work ‘It’s all embracing boundless-ness, no II’ 2015–2016 was first exhibited at Jan Murphy Gallery in 2016 […]

Juz Kitson features in Chaos and Order, 120 years of collecting at RMIT, a survey exhibition of the RMIT Art Collection curated by Jon Buckingham, Collections Coordinator at RMIT Gallery. Exploring the contradictions inherent in public art collections this survey embraces the challenges faced in acquiring works adhering to strict criteria, and the serendipitous acquisitions […]

Juz Kitson is a finalist for the Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture 2018 with her work, ‘Flesh tones of carnation. The continuum of life’ 2017. The 2018 finalists for the biennial prize will be judged by Dr Felicity Fenner, Director of UNSW Galleries and faculty member of UNSW School of Art and Design; Professor Richard […]

Juz Kitson, Adam Pyett, Monica Rohan and Heidi Yardley will feature in the inaugural exhibition, Imagine, at the new Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale, Victoria. Curated by Simon Gregg, Imagine showcases the capacity of human imagination through 134 works from 81 artists from around the globe spanning five centuries of creation. Imagine Gippsland Art Gallery […]