An Artist, an Architect and a Curator
Saturday 29 August | FREE EVENT
Join artist Consuelo Cavaniglia as she discusses her first significant solo show, in the distance a pool of light was not what it seemed, with architect and lecturer Philip Goldswain and exhibition curator Leigh Robb. Hear how the artist’s fascination with modernist architecture and film noir feed into her installations of spatialised drawings and mirrored sculptures.
Come down to the Central Galleries before the talk for the guided tour of Derek Kreckler’s Accident & Process with Derek Kreckler and Hannah Mathews, Accidents & Experiments: Artist & Curator Tour at 3pm.
The Speakers
Consuelo Cavaniglia
Currently based in Sydney, Consuelo is a Master of Fine Art candidate at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Art and Languages) from UWA in 1993 and a Bachelor of Art (Art) with Honours from Curtin University in 2002. She has exhibited in various galleries nationally including 55 Sydenham Road, Sydney, 2014; Perth Centre for Photography, 2014; Firstdraft, Sydney, 2013; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, 2013; Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth, 2012; Linden Arts Centre, Melbourne, 2008; Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, 2014.
Philip Goldswain
Philip Goldswain is a lecturer in the School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts at the University of Western Australia and a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. Trained as an architect, his teaching and cross-disciplinary research is interested in how the representational techniques of photography, cartography and orthographic drawing construct an understanding of the built environment. He is the co-editor of An Everyday Transience: The Urban Imagery of Goldfields Photographer John Joseph Dwyer (UWA Publishing, 2010) and Out of Place: Gwalia, Occasional essays on Australian regional communities and built environments in transition (UWA Publishing, 2014). He has been an invited speaker at Galerie des Bibliotheques de la Ville de Paris, PICA, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Fremantle Arts Centre and the Western Australian Museum.
Leigh Robb
Leigh Robb is the Curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). With 15 years of experience, she previously worked at Thomas Dane Gallery, London and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice and completed her Bachelor of Arts in Art History & Psychology at the University of Queensland, Brisbane; and her Masters in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions in Australia and published and lectured widely on contemporary art.