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Artist Talk: Consuelo Cavaniglia and Brendan Van Hek

Artist Talk
Wednesday 28 August 2019, 6:00am

Gertrude Contemporary

21-31 High Street, Preston South

Wednesday 28 August, 4-5pm

Join us Wednesday 28 August for an artist talk by Consuelo Cavaniglia and Brendan Van Hek in conversation with Gertrude Artistic Director, Mark Feary.

Consuelo Cavaniglia was born in Rome, Italy, and lives and works in Sydney. Selected recent solo exhibitions include: between and among objects, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (2018); the light that catches, Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney (2017); the distant other, STATION, Melbourne (2016); in the distance a pool of light was not what it seemed, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2015); and what we know of each other, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery (2015). Selected recent group exhibitions include: IN-Formalism, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney (2019); The Theatre is Lying: The inaugural Macfarlane Commissions, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2018); Vanishing Point, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney (2018); The Shape of Memory, The Lock-Up Contemporary Art Space, Newcastle (2017); Black Square – 100 Years (1913 – 1915), tcb inc., Melbourne (2015); Arts NSW Visual Art Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney (2016); and Bliss, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth (2013). 

Consuelo Cavaniglia is represented by STATION, Melbourne and Sydney; and Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney.

Brendan Van Hek was born in Perth, and lives and works in Sydney. Selected recent solo exhibitions include: the continual condition, Turner Galleries, Perth (2017); the scene was set, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney (2017); Colour Restraint (in collaboration with Rebecca Baumann), Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney (2015); Untitled (in collaboration with Rebecca Baumann), Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand (2015); and Some Kind of Love Story, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (2011). Selected recent group exhibitions include: Autoluminiscent, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo (2019); Superposition of three types, Artspace, Sydney (2017); Amour Fou, New Westminster New Media Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2015); Becoming: Worlds In Flux, C24 Gallery, New York, USA (2012); Shifting Geometries, The Australian Embassy, Washington DC, USA (2012); NEW11, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2011); REMIX, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2011); and TarraWarra Contemporary 2010, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria (2010).

Brendan Van Hek is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney. 

Associated exhibition

an unreliable narrator
Consuelo Cavaniglia and Brenda Van Hek

Gertrude Contemporary
3 August - 21 September 2019

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Wurundjeri Country
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