About
BIOGRAPHY
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Cally Lotz is a Melbourne based artist 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, austerity and isolation. Her motifs such as empty buckets, parcels and plastic bottles exist only as empty signifiers, enabling a deeper and more meaningful investigation into the formal aspects of representational painting.
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, St Vincent’s in Melbourne and AIR Vallauris in France.
Lotz is represented by West End Art Space, Melbourne
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Represented by West End Art Space, Melbourne
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
The Covid Chronicles, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
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
2022 Substrate 22, Tacit Gallery, Melbourne
Dutch Still Life, West End Art Space, Melbourne
Omnia Art Prize, St. Kevins, Melbourne, Australia
Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Cultural Centre, Australia
2021 Tacit Still Life, Tacit Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, Elysium Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Behind the Curtain, YSG - Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
One Night Stand: Aberration, The Burrow, curated by Coalesce ARI.
2017 A.I.R. Vallauris, Cote d’Azur, France
Stockroom 1 Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Who is Looking at You? Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 St Vincent’s Artists in Residence Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia
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
2011 Park Contemporary, KZNSA 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 Mine, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, 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
2022 Finalist Wyndham Art Prize
Finalist Omnia Art Prize
2021 Melbourne City Art Grant
Finalist Wyndham Art Prize
Finalist Tacit Still Life Art Prize
Finalist Nino Sanciolo Art Prize
2020 Finalist Lethbridge Art Competition
2019/20 One year studio residency, Sandbox Studios, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Finalist in Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA) - Australia
2014/15/16 Finalist Who is looking at You, Melbourne, Australia
2014/15 One year studio residency, Caritas Christie, St Vincents, Melbourne, Australia
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
