Kate Collie
Artist | About
Victoria, BC
Kate Collie is a visual artist who has exhibited widely and has taught in settings ranging from universities to inner city schools to the wilderness art school in Atlin BC where she was Assistant Director for 5 years. She has degrees in ceramic sculpture and painting and also is trained as a counselling psychologist and art therapist. Her current focus is disability arts, especially mixed-ability collaboration. She is on the board of Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture Society. She is best known for her Tram Chim paintings, which tell how endangered cranes inspired environmental restoration in Viet Nam through international collaboration. Her Precious Pieces collages express the adventure of creating wholeness from whatever comes into her life.
Maker Criteria
Artist, Writer, Researcher, Arts & Health Practitioner
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Kate Collie’s studio is in the Cook Street Village area of Victoria. This is where she makes her solo work, which she sees as visual poetry, and some of her collaborative work. She has collaborated with jazz singer, Brian Tate, collage artist Stephanie Vandammeand mixed-media artist Mia Weinberg. She and her mother, an environmental activist, created an artist’s book about endangered cranes and environmental restoration called Crane Dance.
Kate has an academic life too, with numerous publications about Arts & Health. She contributed to a book called The Reality of Virtual Art Therapy (Routledge 2022) and to Creative Arts in Oncology(Oxford University Press 2010).
Kate’s paintings can be seen in public collections in Vancouver at Green College on the UBC campus, in Boston at the Dana Farber Cancer InstituteYawkey Fine Art Collection, in Charlotte NC at the Mint Museum of Art, and in Hanoi Viet Nam at the National Museum of Fine Art.
Visual Haiku
Collages: Precious Pieces
