About
Biography
2020
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 these concerns and the formal aspects of representational painting.
Lotz completed an MFA (with Higher Distinction) in 2019 at RMIT Melbourne, and a BVA (Hons) at The University of South Africa (UNISA). Her work has been exhibited in South Africa, Germany, India and Australia. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies including St Vincent’s Melbourne 2014-1015, AIR Vallauris France, 2017, and Sandbox Studios Melbourne 2019-2020. Her work is held in public collections including Sasol and UNISA in South Africa, St Vincent’s in Melbourne and AIR Vallauris in France.
CV
2020
EDUCATION
2019 MFA (Higher Distinction) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT
2009 BVA (Hons) University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Stiff Upper Lip, March 17, FortyFiveDownstairs, Melbourne, Australia (postponed)
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
2020 Layers of Time, West End Art Space, Melbourne
2020 Here, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2020 Nino Sanciolo Art Prize finalists, 8 April, Elysium Gallery, Melbourne (postponed)
2018 Behind the Curtain, YSG - Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
2018 One Night Stand: Aberration, The Burrow, curated by Coalesce ARI. Melbourne
2017 A.I.R. Vallauris, Cote d’Azur, France
2017 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
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
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 Nivea ‘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 – 2020 sandbox Studios, Melbourne, Australia
2017 A.I.R. Vallauris, Cote d’Azur, France
2016 Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 – 2015 St. Vincent’s Residency, Caritas Christie, Melbourne, Australia.
AWARDS
2020 Shortlisted for Nino Sanciolo Art Award - (result postponed)
2020 Finalist in Lethbridge Art Competition
2019/2020 One year studio residency, Sandbox Studios, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Finalist in Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA) - Australia
2014/15/16 Finalist in Who is looking at You - Australia
2010 Finalist in Sasol New Signatures – South Africa
2008 Finalist in 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
