Lottie Consalvo

Lottie Consalvo’s quietly expressive paintings explore the intangible experiences of human psyche: imagination, dreams, memory - and their place in the real.

Stylistically, Consalvo’ work appears to be an extension of the abstract expressionist tradition but conceptually is more closely related to Surrealism - in its exploration of dreams and past experiences  However, her work is perhaps closer still in spirit to that of Agnes Martin, who used the extreme limitations on palette and structure expected of Minimalism to provoke a spiritual, rather than, intellectual response to the painted surface. In essence Consalvo’s works explore the human psyche, imagination, dreams, memory and their place in the real. With a practice traversing painting, performance, video, and sculpture, she looks at the physicality of the overwhelming presence of thought and the impact the mind has on all living things. She parallels these natural phenomena of the mind by investigating the human connection to nature, desire, longing, loss and the ungraspable.

Consalvo’s performances are observations of transformative experiences, often taking form as video or live performances. More recently the artist utilised the imagination of the audience to present a performance where she was not physically present, but rather the audience witnessed her actions within their minds. Her paintings further this conversation where the artist creates a physical presence for thought, imagination, memory, and psychological transitions. Consalvo paintings are often monumental forms with vast empty spaces. Working with a restricted palette across mediums, the artist often grasps onto forms and uses the high contrast of opposing dark and light to mark out a place for the unknown and the intangible.

Consalvo’s recent public exhibitions include; ‘Somewhere Else’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery (2019); ‘I Tried To Make A Horizon For You’, Casula Powerhouse (2019); ‘In The Remembering’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, (2018). She has been extensively exhibited around Australia, most recently in Goulburn, Newcastle, and Lake Macquarie. She has participated in numerous residency programs across Australia and Germany, and notably selected to participate in a residency with Marina Abramovic for the 30th Kaldor Public Art Project in 2015.

In 2025 Lottie had a public survey of her performance work at the Watt Space and also won the The Muswellbrook Prize, (May, 2025) - a $50k acquisitive award, judged this year by Anne Ryan (curator of Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW). Consalvo was also listed as part of 2025's 'Top 100 Hottest Collectable Artists and her large scale painting Entries To Nowhere' was also included in the public exhibition 'Arriving Slowly' -  at the Ipswich Art Gallery in Queensland; hung next to a painting of Mark Rothko’s on loan from the National Gallery of Australia.

Consalvo’s recent public exhibitions include; ‘Somewhere Else’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery (2019); ‘I Tried To Make A Horizon For You’, Casula Powerhouse (2019); ‘In The Remembering’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, (2018). She has been extensively exhibited around Australia, most recently in Goulburn, Newcastle, and Lake Macquarie. She has participated in numerous residency programs across Australia and Germany, and notably selected to participate in a residency with Marina Abramovic for the 30th Kaldor Public Art Project in 2015.

In 2025 Lottie had a public survey of her performance work at the Watt Space Gallery and also won the The Muswellbrook Prize, (May, 2025) - a $50k acquisitive award, judged this year by Anne Ryan (curator of Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW). Consalvo was also listed as part of 2025's 'Top 100 Hottest Collectable Artists and her large scale painting Entries To Nowhere' was also included in the public exhibition 'Arriving Slowly' -  at the Ipswich Art Gallery in Queensland; hung next to a painting of Mark Rothko’s on loan from the National Gallery of Australia.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Artbank Collection
Art Stream Collection
The Allen Memorial Art Museum
Citadel, Auckland
Gippsland Art Gallery
Lismore Regional Gallery
Lake Macquarie Art Gallery
Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Newcastle Art Gallery
Onna House, New York
Newcastle Art Gallery
Newcastle University Collection
Muswellbrook Arts Centre
MAC Yapang Gallery
Onna House ,New York
The Stevenson Collection. NZ
Warner Music Australia
Collection of Julian Schnabel, New York