About Cally Lotz
Naarm/Melbourne based artist Cally Lotz is primarily known for her still life paintings. Employing a highly articulate style, she uses low key, non-narrative imagery to explore complex psychological states such as containment, apprehension and isolation. The objects she portrays such as buckets, parcels and plastic bottles are not chosen for their intrinsic appeal or beauty, but as signifiers of implied meaning, and for the potential they offer to Lotz as a painter.
Cally Lotz completed an MFA (with Higher Distinction) in 2019 at RMIT Melbourne, a BVA (Hons) at The University of South Africa (UNISA) and attended Bath Academy of Art in the UK. Her work has been exhibited in South Africa, Germany, India and Australia. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies including Sandbox Studios Melbourne 2019-2020, AIR Vallauris France 2017 and St Vincent’s Melbourne 2014-2015. Her work is held in public collections including Sasol and UNISA in South Africa, and St Vincent’s in Melbourne.
Lotz is represented by West End Art Space, Melbourne
2023
EDUCATION
2019 MFA (Higher Distinction) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT
2009 BVA (Hons) University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2021 | In Our Time, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2021 | The Covid Chronicles, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2021 | Stiff Upper Lip, FortyFiveDownstairs, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2019/20 | Night Bottles, RMIT Art Intersect Lightbox, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2018 | Restrain, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2017 | Contain, Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2015 | Simply There, Birds Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2014 | Four Rooms, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2009 | Apocalypse, artSpace Gallery, Durban, South Africa |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Bayside Aquisitive Art Prize, Melbourne
2023 Bayside Local, Melbourne
2022 Tacit Still Life, Melbourne
2022 Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne
2022 Substrate 22, Tacit Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Dutch Still Life, West End Art Space, Melbourne
2022 Omnia Art Prize, St. Kevins, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Cultural Centre, Australia
2021 Tacit Still Life, Tacit Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2021 Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, Elysium Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Behind the Curtain, YSG - Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018 One Night Stand: Aberration, The Burrow, curated by Coalesce ARI.
2017 A.I.R. Vallauris, Cote d’Azur, France
2016 Who is Looking at You? Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 St Vincent’s Artists in Residence Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Small Works, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 4 Rooms, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Nouvelle, Birds Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Crumpled, Bamboo Gallery, Melville, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 About Face, Tatham Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2011 Migration, artSpace Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2010 Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
2010 A Cultural Bridge, Association of Arts, Pretoria, South Africa
2010 The Landscape: Unity and Diversity, CEWAC, Hyderabad, India
2010 Johannesburg Art Fair, Break exhibited by UNISA, South Africa
2009 ALPOA, artSpace Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2008 ‘Start’ art award exhibition, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2007 Expanding Horizons, Garret Artists, artSpace Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2006 Workers in Progress, artSpace Gallery, Durban, South Africa
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
| 2011 | About Face, Tatham Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
RESIDENCIES/EXCHANGES
| 2019/20 | Sandbox Studios Residency, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2017 | A.I.R. Vallauris, Cote d’Azur, France |
| 2016 | Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2014/15 | St. Vincent’s Residency, Caritas Christie, Melbourne, Australia. |
AWARDS
2023 Finalist Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, 2022&21 Finalist Wyndham Art Prize, 2022 Finalist Omnia Art Prize, 2021 Melbourne City Art Grant , 2021 Finalist Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, 2020 Finalist Lethbridge Art Competition, 2019/20 One year studio residency, Sandbox Studios, Melbourne, 2018 Finalist Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA), 2014&15&16 Finalist Who is looking at You, Melbourne, 2014/15 One year studio residency, Caritas Christie, St Vincents, Melbourne, 2010 Finalist Sasol New Signatures – South Africa, 2008 Finalist Nivea Start art award – South Africa
COLLECTIONS
St Vincent’s, Melbourne, Australia / University of South Africa, (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa / A.I.R Vallauris, Cote d’Azur, France / Sasol, Johannesburg, South Africa.
VOLUNTEER
Heide Museum of Modern Art
