Kate Daw was born in 1965 in Esperance, Western Australia, and her family moved to Sorrento when she was five.
[2] After moving to Melbourne, Daw graduated in Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 1989,[1] and began exhibiting work extensively from 1992.
[4] She collaborated with Scottish artist Stewart Russell on a series of works beginning in 2007,[4] including a residency at the Melbourne Cricket Ground,[5] where they developed Two Homes, Another World (2016), a project with Indigenous Australian football player Liam Jurrah,[2] and the installation Civil Twilight End (2011) at Melbourne Docklands.
[4] In the 2000s, Daw taught Painting at VCA, where she also begun her Doctorate,[1] with the thesis titled The Between Space: narrative in contemporary visual practice.
[4] After undergoing treatment for cancer, Kate Daw died 7 September 2020, aged 55.