Talking to trees and other nonsense

Holding force

Silent flowers

All of this

Imagine this (IIi) 

Imagine this (I)

Imagine this (II) 

All At Once

All At Once v

All At Once iv

All At Once iii

Vailed in knowledge , 2024

Like A Bell Under Water 

Sublime perfection, or something like it

The loss of knowing VI

 The loss of knowing I  

Unknown IV

Totem for something other

In Moonlight

In Leaning 

In Stillness

Grasping at Air and the Search for Something Else

And it Held on Until it Let Go

And the Moon Conversed with the Sea

In Standing 

In Thought

In Holding 

In Awe

In Turning 

In Falling

Making sense of the Mountains 

The loss of knowing VII

Loss IIII

In Ending

In Holding

Like a Bell under Water 

Loss X

Making sense of the Mountains

Unknown II

In Leaning

Installation- Aotearoa Art Fair 2023

In Standing

Making sense of Mountains

Wait

The loss of knowing IX

Unknown

 The loss of knowing V 

It held until you all looked away

Entries To Nowhere 

I - O

And it all went silent

Everything you ever wanted

Lottie Consalvo is a celebrated artist living and working on the land of the Awabakal and Worimi people in both Newcastle and Pindimar NSW, Australia. Consalvo’s works explore the human psyche, imagination, dreams, memory and their place in the real.

Stylistically, Lottie’s work appears to be an extension of the abstract expressionist tradition but conceptually 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.

Lottie 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.

Her 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.

Lottie Consalvo - Tis Waking That Kills Us

Lottie Consalvo - Tis Waking That Kills Us