Angela Cavalieri

Angela Cavalieri (1962 - ) is an Australian-born artist whose parents migrated from Calabria to Australia in the post-war period. Text, language and the transformative nature of culture are recurring themes in her art practice, referencing in particular her Italian heritage. She studied printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1981 to 1983 and has continued to exhibit in solo and group exhibitions since 1984. She has been awarded several prizes and has undertaken a number of artist residencies in Europe and Australia. Her work is held in many public and private collections throughout Australia, notably Australian National Gallery, The National Gallery of Victoria,^[1] State Library of Queensland, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne and State Library of Victoria. She is also represented in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva.

Cavalieri's work has been described as "visually seductive, monumental in their proportions and immediate in their impact" by the art historian Sasha Grishin.^[2] She surveys the art of writing and storytelling in a visual form in a series of monumental, hand-rolled linocuts on canvas as well as producing small-scale artist's books.^[3] Passages from Dante, Petrarch, Italo Calvino and the influences of Italian artists such as Piero della Francesco, Giotto and Piranesi are referenced in her work. The music of the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) has also provided Cavalieri with inspiration as a result of an Arts Centre Melbourne commission to produce a work about an opera in 2011, the State Library of Victoria's Creative Fellowship (2012-2013)^[4] and a residency at La Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Residency in Venice (2015), exploring the city where Monteverdi lived in the last decades of his life.^[5] ^[6]

Awards and Residencies[]

National Gallery of Victoria Trustee Award, 1981
Desiderius Orban Youth Award, Australia Council, 1984
Mitchell Endowment Acquisition Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, 1985
Overseas Studio Grant Paretaio, Italy, Australia Council, 1986
Project Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council, 1990
Sutherland Acquisitive Prize, Sutherland Shire Council, NSW, 1999
Shell Fremantle Print Award, Western Australia, 1999
Conrad Jupiter Acquisitive Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland, 2000
Grand Prize, The Silk Cut Print Award, 2000
Artists-in-Schools Program Grant, Arts Victoria, 2001
Australia Council Residency, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2003
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Travel Sponsorship for Academici at The British School at Rome, Italy 2005
Edith Cowen University Residency, Perth, Wester Australia, 2005
RMIT Summer Residency and exhibition at Project Space/Spare Room, 2007-8
Dreams of Art Spaces Collected, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany, 2007
Piramidon, Centre for Contemporary Art, Residency, Barcelona, Spain, 2008
Geelong Print Prize Acquisitive Award, 2009
Australia Council Studio Grant for Barcelona, Spain, 2010
State Library Victoria Creative Fellowship, Melbourne, Victoria, 2012
La Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Residency, Venice, Italy, 2015

Exhibitions[]

Selected Solo Exhibitions[]

Gertrude Contemporary (formerly 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria), 1986
Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW, 1990
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 1990
'Recent Works', 108 Moor Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, 1996
Smyrnios Gallery Australia, Melbourne, 1998
Quattro Pagine, Motor Works Gallery, Melbourne, 1999
Motor Works Gallery, Melbourne, 2001
Città Scritta, Ovens Street Studios, Melbourne, 2004
Scripta Manent, Artspace Mackay, Queensland, 2006
Racconto: the Narrative and Text of Angela Cavalieri , The ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, 10 October - 17 November, 2007
Passaggi Scritti, Gallery 101, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 26 February - 22 March, 2007
Chiacchierone, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Collingwood, Victoria, 3 February - 27 February, 2011
Canzone: Music as Storytelling, Fortyfivedownstairs, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, 29 September - 24 October, 2015
Canzone: Music as Storytelling, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Northern Territory, 9 April - 7 May, 2016

Selected Group Exhibitions[]

National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2004
SMS Artists use TXT, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland, 2004
Lost in Translation, Spectrum Project Space, Perth, Western Australia, 2005
Seven Stories, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria, 2005
Bookscapes: exploring contemporary Australian artist's book, Port Jackson Press Print Room, Melbourne, Victoria, 2005
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, 2005
The Academy Gallery, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2005
Academici: The Australia Council Visual Arts/Crafts Board Rome Studio Residency 1999-2004, Monash University Gallery, Caulfield East, Victoria, 16 March - 13 April, 2005
Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2006
Art Bound: a selection of artists' books, A Baillieu Library exhibition incorporating the Leigh Scott Gallery and the Art in the Library Program, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 23 May - 26 July, 2006
Lexicon, Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne, Victoria, 2006
Bookish, Australian Galleries, Collingwood, Victoria, 2006
City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania, 2006
Meeting Place, Keeping Place, George Adams Gallery, Arts Centre Melbourne, Victoria, 2006
PROOF: Contemporary Australian Printmaking, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne, 9 December, 2006 - 1 April, 2007
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania, 2007
Works on Paper Prize, City of Banyule, Victoria, 2007
Lessons in History Vol. 1, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Queensland, 2007
Transitions: European Island and Regional Cultures in Late 20th & Early 21st Centuries, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney, NSW, 2008
Anthology: selection of works by nine Gallery 101 artists who display the diversity of their multidisciplinary individual artistic practices, Gallery 101, Collins Street, Melbourne, 3 - 28 June, 2008
Surveying the Field, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, City of Moreland - selection of works by seven leading Australian artists, living or working in the arts in Moreland, 17 July - 16 August, 2009

References[]

^ "If he kill or I kill".
^ Grishin, Sasha (2011). "Profiles in Print: Angela Cavalieri". Craft Arts International. 82: 74–78.
^ Women's Art Register [Artists File]: Cavalieri, Angela. Women's Art Register. 2008.
^ "Angela Cavalieri". State Library Victoria. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
^ Kayser, Petra (2015). Canzone - Music as Storytelling. 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria: fortyfivedownstairs. pp. 4–5. ISBN 978-0-646-94478-4.CS1 maint: location (link)
^ Garden, Wendy (2016). "Angela Cavalieri: Narrative tones". Art Monthly Australia. 292: 30–33.

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[1] "If he kill or I kill".

[2] Grishin, Sasha (2011). "Profiles in Print: Angela Cavalieri". Craft Arts International. 82: 74–78.

[3] Women's Art Register [Artists File]: Cavalieri, Angela. Women's Art Register. 2008.

[4] "Angela Cavalieri". State Library Victoria. Retrieved 2021-03-06.

[5] Kayser, Petra (2015). Canzone - Music as Storytelling. 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria: fortyfivedownstairs. pp. 4–5. ISBN 978-0-646-94478-4.CS1 maint: location (link)

[6] Garden, Wendy (2016). "Angela Cavalieri: Narrative tones". Art Monthly Australia. 292: 30–33.

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