Catherine Tait

Catherine Tait

Location: Australia

Winner of over 30 awards including highly commended
Winner sculpture award 2008, 2010
Winner of 3 awards Camberwell Rotary Art Show Melbourne 1999, 2003, 2007
Highly commended for the James Farrell self-portrait prize 2001,
Awarded Hepburn springs Latrobe University landscape award 2010, 11, 14 & 17
MANet portrait prize High commendation 2016
Best in exhibit St Pauls Art prize 2013, Kyneton 2014, Flanagan Ballarat 2013,
Bendigo Easter Rotary 2012, Harcourt 2010, and people’s choice, best oil 2013, highly commendation 2013, 14,15 & 18 Castlemaine 2009, 2018
3 awards King River Valley Art Exhibition

Short listed for Petite Pieces exhibition Aspire Gallery Queensland 2019
EMSLA Coffs harbour, 2007,08,09,10, 11, 13, 14 & 2015
Toorak sculpture Walk and Painting Walk 2017,2018 & 2019
NSW Plein air landscape prize 2017, 2018
M16 drawing prize 2016
Percival portrait award 2011,2012 & Cowra Colleen award 2011,
She exhibition 2012,13,14 & 2016
Flanagan art award 2011,12,13, & 14
Len Fox award Castlemaine 2011 and 2013

2013-15 Studied Life drawing and painting with Jeff Makin: Chewton studio
October 2015 Travelled to Florence to study Portraiture in sculpture at Florence Art Academy

Numerous Solo Exhibitions and joint exhibitions in Castlemaine, Bendigo Melbourne, Sydney, Coffs Harbour, Sydney and Townsville, Toorak Sculpture Walk and New York
Commissioned illustration and portrait work for clients in America and Malaysia
Commissioned portraits of wine makers in the King River Valley including John Charles Brown (Brown Bros. Winery) 2002
Artist in residence Buda Castlemaine 2007 & 1997

Noted collections:
Latrobe University collection
Talans private collection
Camberwell Rotary collection
Stonemans Trust private collection

During the period of 1986 through to the present time exhibited in the following galleries
Grimandi Gallery New York
M16 gallery ACT
Coffs Harbour Art Gallery
Parliament House NSW
Walker Street Gallery Dandenong
Townsville Regional Gallery
Buda Castlemaine
Custom House Warrnambool
Capricorn Galleries Melbourne
Convent Galleries Daylesford
Manningham Galleries
Monsalvat Eltham
Cascade gallery Maldon


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Catherine Tait

Catherine has been an established artist in central Victoria Australia since 1886 and is the winner of over 30 art awards.
Winning the Castlemaine sculpture prize in 2008, 2010, 2018 and successfully exhibiting with the Association of Sculpture Victoria as well as being selected for the Tesslaar sculpture exhibition and the Melbourne International Garden Show.
Catherine’s paintings and sculptures are diverse in the subject manner and her recently in 2015 studied sculpture at the Florence Academia Italy. Exhibited in September 2019 Grimundi Gallery Manhattan USA