— About
Kate Blackmore is an Australian artist and filmmaker whose films have been presented across cinematic, broadcast and contemporary art contexts. She has written, directed and produced over 25 short documentaries about art and culture for the ABC, including the Walkley Award nominated series The Movement. In 2018, Blackmore was awarded the Hive commission to create The Woman and The Car, a hybrid documentary about iconic Australian artist Margaret Dodd. The film was produced by Bridget Ikin (Felix Media) and financed by Adelaide Film Festival, Screen Australia and the ABC. Blackmore’s narrative short films have screened at the Sydney Film Festival in 2021 and 2023 (Dendy Awards).
In 2024, Blackmore began production on her debut feature documentary, Make it Look Real, which explores the role of an intimacy coordinator on a film set. Produced by Bethany Bruce (Staple Fiction) and Dan Joyce (Projector Films), the film was supported by Screen Australia and the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund and is represented by Autlook Film Sales.
Blackmore is also a founding member of the acclaimed artist collective Barbara Cleveland whose works have been included in notable exhibitions: Know My Name, NGA, Canberra (2021); Divided Worlds, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide (2018); Unfinished Business, ACCA, Melbourne (2017); Unboxed: Artists and the Archive, Hayward Gallery, London (2017); Today Tomorrow Yesterday, MCA, Sydney (2017); Bodies in Time, Australian Contemporary Art Commission, AGNSW, Sydney (2016); The future is already here, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (2016); Contemporary Australia: Women, QAGOMA, Brisbane (2012); Tell Me Tell Me: Korean and Australian Art 1976-2011, MCA, Sydney and NMOCA, Seoul (2011). Barbara Cleveland’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne. The collective is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.
Blackmore holds a BFA/BA (Hons) Moving Image & Performance/Film Theory from UNSW Art & Design, Sydney and a MA Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität, Berlin. She works as a Sessional Academic in Moving Image at UNSW Art & Design and a Lecturer in Documentary at AFTRS, Sydney.