1968 Born Melbourne, Australia
1989 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Victoria College of the Arts
1991 Assistant Printer, Australian Print Workshop
1993 Master Printer; Garner Tullis Workshop, New York
1994 - 2001 Master Printer for Garner Tullis Workshop, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012 Lives and works North-East Victoria
2012 Graduate Diploma in Education, LaTrobe University Shepparton
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Nature of Nature, MAGMA Galleries, Collingwood, Melbourne
2022 Chicane, MAGMA Galleries, Collingwood, Melbourne
2021 The Other Web, Benalla Art Gallery
2020 Sorrento Revisited, Nura Gallery
2015 Works on Paper by KIM WESTCOTT, Charles Nodrum
2015 It's all Intertwined, A survey exhibition, Wangaratta Art Gallery
2008 Propagation of a point, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2007 North by North-East, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2007 One Landscape, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
2004 Dividing Range, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
2003 Anabranch, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2003 Anabranch II, Australian Art Resources, Sydney
2001 New Painting, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2001 Lines of Refraction: Drypoint and Encaustic Paintings, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
2000 Echo Point, Hanart TZ, Hong Kong
2000Expo Global Culture, Gallerie De Griffioen Sint Pauwels, Belgium
2000 Kim Westcott, Gallerie tUlenest Tijnje, Friesland, The Netherlands
2000 Cross-Connection, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
1998 Kim Westcott: The Monograph, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Kim Westcott: The Monograph, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Abstraction 23, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Mebourne
2022 Annual Group Exhibition: Magma Galleries Collingwood Launch, Magma Galleries, Melbourne
2022 ALPHA: Magma Galleries Collingwood Launch, Magma Galleries, Melbourne
2020 Revealed: The Regional Digitisation Roadshow, Wangaratta Art Gallery
2018 Abstraction 17, Charles Nodrum Gallery
2018 Works on Paper 2018, Charles Nodrum Gallery
2017 Abstraction 15, Charles Nodrum Gallery
2016 Director’s Pick, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
2016 Collected II, Wangaratta Art Gallery
1015 W_T H I R T E E N, Brightspace, Melbourne
2014 Artists For Kids Culture, Brightspace, Melbourne
2014 Artists for the Tarkine, Brightspace, Melbourne
2014 The Willow Creek Principal’s Lounge, Art Red Hill, Victoria
2013 Shore things, Bright Space, Melbourne
2013 Winter Salon, Bright Space, Melbourne
2013 Works on Paper 19 Feb - 2 Mar, Charles Nodrum Gallery
2013 Works on Paper 30 Nov - 14 Dec, Charles Nodrum Gallery
2012 Silver 1987 - 2012: Wangaratta Art Gallery celebrates 25 years
2012 Fresh Contemporary Australian Art, Hamiliton Art Gallery, Victoria
2011 Artist Artists, Benella Art Gallery, Victoria
2011 Rick Amor Print Prize, Barn Gallery, Montsalvat, Victoria
2011 Burnie Print Prize 2011, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
2011 The Shilo Project, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria
2011 Hume Acquisition Award, The Arts Space Wodonga, Victoria
2010 Artists prints made with integrity, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2010 Kim Westcott / Robert Hirschmann, Wangaratta exhibition Gallery
2010 Paper Weight, Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery
2008 Art Elysées, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Arts d'Australie, Stéphane Jacob, Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 23-26 October
2008 St'Art, Contemporary Art Fair-Gallery, Arts d'Australia, Stéphane Jacob, Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Strasbourg, 21-24 November
2008 Recent Acquisitions, Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery, Victoria
2007 The Story of Australian Printmaking 1801 - 2005, National Gallery of Ausralia
2007 Urban Arboreal, City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall
2006 The Artist/The Printmaker, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
2006 Into the Mystic, Black and White Prints, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2006 Identity, Art in Redlight, Amsterdam
2005 The Albury Acquisition Prize, Albury Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2003 An Approach to the Landscape, Axia Modern Art, Melbourne
2002 A Legacy in Landscapes, The New York Public Library, New York
2001 Workings of the Mind, Melbourne Prints 1960’s to the 1990’s, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
2001 Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Toowoomba
2001 Nolan Gallery, Canberra
2001 Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2001Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
2000 Spitting and Biting, Ten Contemporary Artists and the Print, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Spring, 2000,Tolarno Galleries and Holmes ‘a Court Gallery, Western Australia
1999 Landscapes in Sets and Series, Australian prints 1960s-1990s, National Gallery of Australia
1999 Contemporary Prints and Drawings from the Collection, National Gallery of Victoria
1999 Tolarno Galleries at the Moores Building, Festival of Perth, Perth
1998 Recent Paintings, Prints and Sculpture from Tolarno Galleries, Hamilton Art Gallery
1998 Sets and Series, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1997 Arriving at the other Parallel, Galerie Titanium, Athens
1997 Oblique Travelers, Galerie Boomerang, Amsterdam
1997 Summershow ’97, Galerie Boomerang, Amsterdam
1997 Acquisition Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
1997 Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award 1997, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
1996 Australian Printmaking in the 1990s:Artist printmakers 1990-95,by Sasha Grishin (exhibition and book launch), Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1996 Vibration, Beijing; Hanoi; Seoul
1996 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1996 New Print : Eight Contemporary Artists, Penrith Regional Art Gallery
1996 New Print : Eight Contemporary Artists, Ipswich Regional Gallery
1996 New Print : Eight Contemporary Artists, Bathurst Regional Gallery
1996 New Print : Eight Contemporary Artists, Goulburn Regional Gallery
1996 New Print : Eight Contemporary Artists, Shepparton Regional Gallery
1996 New Print : Eight Contemporary Artists, Moree Plains Gallery
1996 12th Biennial Prints Acquisitive Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
1996 The 21st Annual Shell Print Award 1996, Fremantle Art Gallery, Western Australia
1995 Aspects of Australian Printmaking, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1995 Garner Tullis Workshop, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1995 Making their Mark, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Making their Mark, Wan Fung Gallery, Beijing
1995 The Summer Show, Galerie Boomerang, Amsterdam
1994 Paper Under Pressure, Garner Tullis Gallery, New York
1994 New Prints, Eight Contemporary Artists, New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales
1993 International Print Exhibition, City Museum of Graphic Arts Machida, Tokyo
1993 Cameron Frazer, Roger Kemp and Kim Westcott, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Gallery
1992 Award-Winning Works from the International Biennial Print Exhibition, Taipei Gallery, New York
1992 Paperwork’s 3, Seagate Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
1992 Eemantle Print Award, Fremantle Art Gallery, Western Australia
1991 The Fifth International Biennial Print Exhibit, R.O.C., Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1991 International Print Exhibition, Sapporo, Japan 2016
2007 Selected and Exhibited in the top 40 of 500 Finalist in the Agendo Emerging Artists Competition, Cremorne Melbourne –‘Barn Owl’
2002 Exhibited Collages at the Monash University Campus in Prato, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
• Hansen, David, Home, savage home, The Age, 13 April 2007
• Boyd, Chris, A Journey from the Purely Linear to the Multi-Layered Works
of Rhythm, Colour and Chaos, The Weekend Australian Financial Review, 17-18 July, 2004
• Bellamy, Louise, Manhattan to the Bush- A Search for Inspiration, The Age, 17 July, 2004
• Crawford, Ashley, Kim Westcott: Dividing Range, The Sunday Age, 4 July
• Glueck, Grace, Sylvan Idylls, Some Realistic and Some Wistful, The New Tork Times, Art Review, November 15, 2003
• Sherman, Louisa and Hofmeyr, Dianne, Printmaking.-(Directions in Art), Heinemann Library, 2003
• Green, Pauline, Building the Collection, Australian National Gallery, 2003
• Nelson, Robert, A Promise of Sublimity in this Abstract Work, The Age, June 23. Crawford, Ashley, Creating a Desert Storm, The Age, June 27, 2001
• National Gallery of Australia, Developing the Collection, Acquisitions 1997-1999
• Janie Gillespie, Landscapes in Sets and Series, Australian Prints 1960s1990s, (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Australia, 1999
• Taylor, Roger, Rhythms of Australian Landscape, Asian Art News,Vol. 9, No.2, March/April, 1999
COLLECTIONS
The New York Public Library, New York
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Albury Regional Gallery, Sydney
A-Z Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, U.S.A.
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Machida, Japan
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
Museum Of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Griffith University, Queensland
Hamilton Regional Gallery, Victoria
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria
Ebes Collection, Victoria
The Art Trust, Australia
Art Bank, Australia