My work references TV shows, books and characters from infancy and childhood, and I believe by selecting and incorporating suggestive elements from these scources into my work I can transport the viewer back to childhood. I use sculpture, installation and 2d paintings.

Born: 1974 Queensland, Australia
Lives: Tasmania, Australia

Solo Exhibitions

2011/12 BSG 40 x 40 Show (solo projection space for duration)
2011 Sydney Fringe Festival 2011, New Town, Sydney
2011 The Fellows and the Bloodies, in conjunction with Miss Mica Stills (NZ) and Beck Wheeler (NZ), 19Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast, Queensland
2009 Self, The Wall Exhibition Space, Arts Tasmania Arts Centre
Department Environment, Parks, Heritage and the Arts, Hobart Tasmania 
2010 Chux Redux, CSart, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
2008 '78 Series, Wursthaus on Oliver, Launceston, Tasmania
(in conjunction with Tourism Tasmania)

Group Exhibitions

2011 On the Wall with Leeloo and Finders Keepers, Carriageworks, Sydney
2011 An Indespensible Item, GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY, Collingwood Australia
2011  Homage to Frida, 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast, Queensland
2011 You'll be Travelling Incognito, The General Store for Contemporary Art, Sydney
2010  Aussie Girls, CSArt, Reggio Emila, Italia
2010 Down the Rabbit Hole with Whitespac3 Gallery, The Wall @ World Bar, Kings Cross, Sydney
2010 On the Wall, Finders Keepers and Leeloo, CarraigeWorks, Sydney
2010 CROSS CITY EXPERIENCE # 3 - ONLINE EXHIBITION - VEGAS SPRAY.COM 
2010  Art Melbourne 10, Retrospect Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Who Got The Bunny, GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY, Collingwood Australia
2009 Petit Travaux, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
2009 Art Melbourne 09, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008 BSG Small Works (finalist)

Other
2008 BSG Small Works finalist
2004 Production Design 'Rosebery 7470'
        http://www.sydneyundergroundfilms.com/rosebery.html
2004 Director McCarthyism Contemporary Artspace, Sheffield, Tasmania

Education
I have spent time in the following courses at Queensland College of Art, Victoria University, and Curtin University. For various reasons I chose not to complete the course.
1993 Queensland College of Art, Bachelor in Fine Art Illustration
1995 Victoria University, Bachelor in Digital Art
2000 Curtin University, Bachelor in Contemporary Art

Collections
Private collections throughout Australia, Italy and United States.

REPRESENTED BY
19 KAREN, GOLD COAST, (partner of PORTER
CONTEMPORARY, NEW YORK)
S T O R Y www.storythestore.com
and in the stockroom of
GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY, COLLINGWOOD, MELBOURNE
recently joined Charlatan Ink
Collective, New York

Publications and e-news
and blogs and bits...

2011 The Sunday Age
Newspaper Magazine, June 19th, 2011
2010 Pen
and Paper Issue 5
http://issuu.com/whitespac3/docs/issue5
2010
Kickcan and Conkers, May 2011
http://kickcanandconkers.blogspot.com/2011/05/rosie.html
2010
  Millard Boutique zine by Lady Millard (NY) SEX, BROWN and FIRSTS
ISSUES
http://issuu.com/ladymillard/docs/issue2brown
http://issuu.com/ladymillard/docs/poetry
http://issuu.com/ladymillard/docs/redsun

2010
Yen magazine online featured illustrator
http://www.yenmag.net/artery/featured-illustrator/kate-mccarthy/
2010
Pikaland feature
http://pikaland.com/2010/09/01/kate-mccarthy
2010
Avant Card artist for SUFF callout for submissions
2010
Juxtapoz Online Artist Profile
http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/artist-profile-kate-mccarthy
2009
Pocket Magazine, Italia
2009 artwhatson, Artist
to Watch
2009 Framelines Magazine
2009
Wet Ink, Issue 7
2009 Avant Card artist