Ms Consuelo Cavaniglia

I am an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator and educator with an interest in understandings of space and perception, and activating artist communities. Currently based on Gadigal land (Sydney), I am Associate Lecturer at UNSW Art, Design & Architecture and Co-Director of experimental art space sydenham international.

In my research and pedagogy I employ relational feminist methodologies, adopting intergenerational exchange as a key approach to consider sustainability of practice, acknowledgement of lineage and shared learning. My work is influenced by film, photography and architecture, and considers how the structures that we inhabit can shape an understanding of our place within societal spaces. The work seeks to question the power structures that are embedded within the spaces we inhabit and navigate.

I have exhibited widely nationally including, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Art Gallery of Western Australia, UNSW Galleries (Gadigal), HEIDE Museum of Modern Art (Narrm), Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (Boorloo), HOTA (Kurrungul), and most recently a major solo show at Chau Chak Wing Museum that extends through the building, responding to the architecture, the collection, and engages museum staff (2024). In 2019 I was the recipient of the inaugural River Capital Commission at Gertrude Contemporary, the inaugural Macfarlane Commission at ACCA in 2018, and the Create NSW Visual Art Fellowship (Emerging), 2016. I am represented by STATION gallery.

I have lectured in Architecture and Built Environment at University of Sydney (2013-21) and UNSW Art and Design since 2017. I have experience teaching across theory, practice and curating and have been a core member of the BFA Honours supervision team since 2020. At UNSW I established ART to ART with Olivier Krischer and Shuxia Chen in 2023, a program focusing on connecting artists and curators, that brings Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership students in conversation with BFA Honours students. Professionally I have worked in galleries and organisations over the last 17 years in roles including Exhibitions Coordinator, Art Consultant, Gallery Coordinator.  I completed my undergraduate studies at Curtin University of Technology in 2002 and was awarded a Master of Fine Art from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in 2017.