Photography - Rebecca Mansell
BIOGRAPHY
Kristy Scaddan is a 2021 Visual Arts graduate from Edith Cowan University; emerging curator; printmaking facilitator; exhibiting artist; and an artists’ book enthusiast. 2023 hailed Scaddan’s debut in the curatorial field with Placemarks, Gallery 25, ECU and Hand in Hand, Mundaring Arts Centre.
Scaddan’s arts practice in an ongoing exploration of interactions and relationships of isolation and ecological concerns formed through a range of embodied encounters with urban fringe sites and her hometown, which lies along the Indian Ocean Drive.
Her practice has emerged from extensive site-specific fieldwork that permeates her work through a deep engagement with the materiality of place. This engagement is not simply with the geological layers of deep time, but with the detritus of the Anthropocene, such as mining debris, synthetic refuse, and the relics of heavy human traffic.
Scaddan’s position is not that of the detached archivist however: her empathetic cataloguing and repositioning of her materials through printmaking, sculpture and photography is informed by personal concerns with environmental fragility.
EXHIBITIONS
2026 - CMYK - Mundaring Arts Centre (January)
2026 - Echoes of Home - Rockingham Arts Centre (April)
2025 – Familiar Traces – ECU Mount Lawley
2025 – Seasonal Brew Pub - Maylands
2025 - Dreamscapes - Zig Zag Gallery
2025 - Weight of Things - Rockingham Arts Centre
2024 Unfold - Midland Junction Arts Centre
2023 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Awards
2023 Placemarks - Gallery 25, Edith Cowan University
2023 Print Exchange - Victoria Park Centre of the Arts
2022 Goolugatup Heathcote Graduate Invitation Exhibition
2022 Extricate - Mundaring Arts Centre
2021 All that Remains – Ellenbrook Arts
2021 ArtsHUM, Edith Cowan University – Graduation Exhibition
2020 Darlington Arts Festival Invitation Only Exhibition
2020 The Painter Is Present – Edith Cowan University
2019 Material Murmurings – Spectrum Project Space ECU
CURATORIAL POSITIONS
2024 - 2025 Interior - Midland Junction Arts Centre
2024 Unfold - Midland Junction Arts Centre
2023 Placemarks - Gallery 25, Edith Cowan University
2023 Hand in Hand - Mundaring Arts Centre
AWARDS
2022 The Clyde & Co Art Project Award
2021 Nomination for Hatched: National Graduate Show 2022
2021 HUM Graduate Exhibition Artlink Award
RESIDENCIES
2021 – Midland Junction Arts Centre, Printmaking Artist in Residence November & December
COLLECTIONS
2021 – EPOCH, Artists Book. ECU Art Collection.
