Cally Lotz

I was born in Melbourne but grew up in Zimbabwe on a tobacco farm. After attending Bath Academy of Art in England I completed my honours degree in Fine Art in 2009 with the University of South Africa (UNISA). I have now gone full circle and returned to Melbourne to live and practise my art. The art stage here is very alive with so much happening - it is a hugely inspirational city.

I work mainly in oil on canvas focusing on contemporary Still Life. My paintings are meditative – both as process and as product. The concept of meditation is to slow things down, and that is my aim; to slow down the viewer’s eye, to share the experience that everyday objects become transfigured when looked at closely. The emphasis in my work is not on the physicality of the objects themselves – there is no conscious intention of implying deeper symbolic meaning, but more of cultivating an awareness of the enigma that things exist.

The visual world has always had a hypnotic effect on me, so it is only natural that an atmospheric kind of realism has eventually become my language of expression. An appreciation of the sustained power of observation is my mantra.

I recently completed a years residency at Caritas Christi culminating in an exhibition ...

Arundel School, Zimbabwe

Bath Academy of Art, England

University of South Africa
BVA (hons)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Simply There, Birds Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia
2009 Apocalypse, artSpace Gallery, Durban, South
Africa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Who is Looking at You? Cambridge Studio
Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 St Vincent’s Artists in Residence Exhibition,
Melbourne, Australia
2015 Small Works, Cambridge Studio Gallery,
Melbourne, Australia
2015 Who is Looking at You? Cambridge Studio
Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 4 Rooms, Cambridge Studio Gallery,
Melbourne, Australia
2014 Who is Looking at You? Cambridge Studio
Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Nouvelle, Birds Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Crumpled, Bamboo Gallery, Melville,
Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 About Face, Tatham Gallery,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2011 Migration, artSpace Gallery, Durban, South
Africa
2011 Park Contemporary, KZNSA Gallery, Durban,
South Africa
2010 Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum,
Pretoria, South Africa
2010 A Cultural Bridge, Associatio...