Staff Profiles

Katherine Moline’s research explores the cross-overs between avant-gardism in visual art and contemporary experimental design. Her particular foci are how experimental design reformulates: strategies of the historic avant-garde, design in the context of globalisation, the social pacts of design, and challenges to mainstream consumerism. Since co-convening the symposium sds2k4: Experimental and Cross-Cultural Design, 2004 (a collaboration between the University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney and the University of Western Sydney), she curated the exhibition ‘Connections: Experimental Design’ and introduced leaders in experimental and critical design, including Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Marti Guixé, Cecil Balmond and ARUP Advanced Geometry Unit, Ana Mir and Emili Padros, Anne Wilson and Jop van Bennekom to Sydney audiences. Her research has been published in numerous journal articles, conference papers, and exhibition catalogues both nationally and internationally and she is on the editorial board of the online peer-reviewed journal Material Thinking. As a practicing artist, Katherine’s work investigates how design-manufacturing processes can be diverted to the production of sculptures. Her artworks have featured in a series of solo and group exhibitions and are included a number of national collections.

Exhibitions: http://staff2.cofa.unsw.edu.au/~z3042975/

Gallery: http://www.yuillcrowley.com/

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 ‘Untitled’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2005 ‘Sugarwalls’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2003 ‘Here’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2001 ‘Deterritorialization’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2000 ‘Non Hierarchical Painting’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 'There is Nothing New Under the Sun', ESD Gallery, curated by Kat Sapera

2008 ‘Gallery Artists’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2006 ‘Reframe’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, curated by Karina Clarke

2005 ‘Untitled’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2004 ‘Open season’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2004 ‘This Way’, Cofa Exhibition and Performance Space, curated by Vaughan Rees

2004 ‘Fibre, Form, Frame’, Artefact Gallery, Tasmania, curated by Douglas McManus

2004 ‘The Meaning of Everything’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2003 ‘Foxed’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2003 ‘Silk Degrees of Separation’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2003 ‘21^st Birthday’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2003 ‘Outside In’, Ivan Dougherty gallery, curated by Rilka Oakley

2003 ‘Relationships’, COFA Exhibition and Performance Space, curated by Emma Robertson

2002 ‘05 Oct-02 Nov 2002’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

2002 ‘Design. Research’, COFA Exhibition and Performance Space, curated by Karina Orbea

2001 ‘Gallery Artists’, Yuill Crowley Gallery, curated by Kerry Crowley

Refereed Book Chapters and Journal Articles

Moline, K., 'The Legacy of Historical Design Collectives in Contemporary Experimental Design: a Case-Study of Global Tools and Digestion by Matali Crasset', The Design Collective: An Approach to Practice, ed.s Harriet Edquist and Laurene Vaughan (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011) forthcoming.

Moline, K., ‘Counter-Forces In Experimental Design: H_Edge And The Technological Dreams Series #1 (Robots)’, Material Thinking Vol. 1, Issue 2 (2008): 1-11.

Moline, K., ‘Authorship, Entrepreneurialism And Experimentation’, Visual.Design.Scholarship: Design Research Journal of the Australian Graphic Design Association, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2006): 57- 66.

Published Articles and Catalogue Essays

Moline, K., ‘Design and Sustainability: Third Time Lucky?’, Sustain Me: Contemporary Design, ed.s Liz Williamson and Rod Bamford (Sydney: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 2009) 2-6.

Moline, K., ‘Historians & Iconoclasts: the COFA Letterpress Studio’, Incubate, #1 March (2008): 31-33.

Moline, K.,  ‘Connections: Experimental Design’, Connections: Experimental Design, ed. Katherine Moline (Sydney: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 2007) 3-30.

Moline, K., ‘Design Art and New Craft: Who’s Zooming Who?’, Integration: The Nature of Objects, ed. Liz Williamson (Sydney: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 2007) 4-9.

Moline, K., ‘Time Warps in Three Exhibitions of Graphic Design’, Open Manifesto, 2 (2005): 76-85.

Moline, K., ‘SDS2K4: Another Word for Experimentation in Design,’ COFA, 12 Summer (2004): 5.

Conference Presentations and Symposia

Moline, K., 'Handy Excuses for Avoiding Scholarship in Practice Based Research', Practice as Research Symposium, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, 28 October 2010.

Moline, K., 'Re-conceptualizing Innovation in Design Research', ConnectED 2010, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 July 2010.

Moline, K., 'Oscillating Between Two Judgements', Writing Around the Kitchen Table: Critical Spatial Writing Practices, Convened by Architecture+Philosophy, RMIT University, Melbourne, 7 June 2010.

Moline, K.,  ‘The Critical Capacities of Contemporary Experimental Design,’ Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference. Session: Architectural criticism, between art and design criticism, Griffith University, Brisbane, 4-6 December 2008.

Moline, K., & T. Clerke, ‘A Reconceptualisation of Health Policy from the Perspective of Strategic Design’, 1st Community, Health and the Arts: Vital Arts—Vibrant Communities Conference, (UNESCO Observatory & the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne) 6 September 2008.

Moline, K., & K. Clarke,  ‘Exhibitions as Interfaces Between Practice and Research’, ACUADS, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, 28 September 2007.

Moline, K., ‘The Inseparability of Wit and Reason in Contemporary Experimental Design’, ConnectED 2007, Session: Material Thinking: Design Research Workshop, UNSW, Sydney, 12 July 2007.

Moline, K., ‘Institutional Criticism in Contemporary Experimental Design: the Work of Ana Mir and Marti Guixe’, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference. Session: Contemporary interfaces between art and design, Monash University, Melbourne, 9 December 2006.

Moline, K., ‘Experimental Design’, sds2k4: Sydney Design Symposium, University Of New South Wales, University Of Technology, University Of Western Sydney, Sydney, 12-13 November 2004.

Moline, K., ‘What Design Practice Researchers Want’, ARLIS/ANZ Conference, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 September 2004.

Moline, K., ‘Theoretical Extensions of Practice’, Research Through Practice: Beyond Research Equivalence in Art and Design, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, 3 September 2004.

Guest Lectures

Moline, K., 'When Does Practice Fulfill the Scholarly Definition of Research?', New Territory: Design Research Context, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, 19 August 2010.

Moline, K., 'How Experimental Designers Question Mechanical Functionalism as the Defining Paradigm of Design', New Territory: On Designing, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, 5 August 2010.

Moline, K., 'If I put this on my wall at home, why wouldn't it be art?: the rules of making and the rules of judging design', Poetic Machines, University of Technology Sydney, 4 August 2010.

Moline, K., ‘Does Exhibiting Design Make It Art?’, Design as Ideology Forum, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 10 April 2008.

Moline, K., ‘Contemporary Critical Practices in the Visual Arts and Design’, Design Practice Research Symposium, University of Technology Sydney, 6 November 2006.

Moline, K., ‘Counter- Forces: The Rhetoric Of The Avant-Garde’, Material Thinking Symposium, RMIT University, Melbourne, 27 October 2006.

Moline, K., ‘Experimentation In Visual Art And Design’, Abecedara, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 30 September 2006.

Moline, K., ‘Experimental Design In Practice And Theory’, Parsons School of Design, New School of Social Research, New York, 5-6 October 2005.

Moline, K., ‘Criticism Through Practice In Experimental Design’, Parsons School of Design, New School of Social Research, New York, 14 February 2005.

Exhibitions Curated

2009   ‘Experimental Typography’, COFA Spring Fair, F Block, COFA, UNSW

2008   ‘Typographic Space’, with Wing Lau, COFA Spring Fair, F Block, COFA, UNSW

2007   ‘Connections: Experimental Design’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery

2007   ‘Soft-Fascination’, UNSW student design murals, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead

2007   ‘Designing Design Exhibitions', The Mint, Historic Houses Trust

2006   ‘‘Interpreting Three Historic Houses’, The Mint, Historic Houses Trust

2006   ‘reCONSTRUCT and reDESIGN: Timor Leste’, School of Design Studies, COFA, UNSW

2005   ‘Site Specific History III’, The Mint, Historic Houses Trust

2004   ‘Site Specific History II’, Susannah Place and Vaucluse House, Historic Houses Trust

2003   ‘Site Specific History I’, Rose Seidler House, Historic Houses Trust

2003   ‘Public Issues’, COFA Space

Selected Reviews and Essays

Ingrid Periz, 'If I Could Have …', Australian Art Collector, 54, (Oct-Dec 2010): 200-201.

Ingrid Periz, ‘Things Behaving Badly’, Eyeline, No. 70 (Dec 2009): 38-41.

Sarah Hetherington, ‘Katherine Moline’, Artlink Vol. 28, No. 4 (2008): 85.

Ingrid Periz, ‘How Art Made the World’, (Sydney: Yuill Crowley Gallery, 2008).

John McPhee, ‘Best New Art in July’, Qantas, July (2008): 50-52.

Heidi Dokulil ‘Connections: Experimental Design. An Interview With Katherine Moline, Curator’, Inside: Australian Design Review, Issue 48 (2007): 36-39.

Emily Howes, ‘Integration’, Object Magazine #53, August-November (2007): 44.

Alan Krell, ‘Untitled Pink: Katherine Moline’, COFA, Issue 14 Spring (2005): 7.

Toni Ross, ‘Sugarwalls by Katherine Moline’, (Sydney: Yuill Crowley Gallery, 2005).

Geraldine Haigh, ‘Site Specifics’, Belle, Dec-Jan (2003-2004): 92-94.

Bruce James, ‘Don't Be Afraid To Touch Them, They Won't Bite’, Sydney Morning Herald (28.5.2003).

Graham Forsyth, ‘Outside In’, Outside In, ed. Rilka Oakley (Sydney: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 2003) 2-5.

Anne Loxley, ‘The Secrets Of Air-Conditioning Units And Other Mysteries’ Sydney Morning Herald (19.2.2003).

Centre for Popular Education, Community Cultural Development in Australia – A Research Map (Sydney: University of Technology Sydney, 2002).

Peter Hill, ‘Critic's Picks’, Sydney Morning Herald (25.10.2002).

Catherine Lumby, ‘By Five: John Barbour, Adam Cullen, Richard Grayson, Robert Macpherson and Katherine Moline’, The Bulletin (3.10.2002).