Coady Art

My artistic interests and expressions are inescapably autobiographical, and represent a distillation of my visual responses to “where we are” as a society.
My work extends on the vernacular of Pop and Conceptual Art. Sometimes ‘readymade’ objects are displaced from their more orthodox context, making them suddenly more visible and confronting. As an artist, my intention is to raise awareness of, and connect with, our time - a period which seems to be characterised by enormous privilege and over-indulgence, bursting at the seams with a limitless array of options and decisions which can generate their own sets of anxieties for individuals. The same self-perpetuating machinery which urges us toward increased levels of consumption also promises us solutions – pills and other medication, the endless exploration of our own psyche, or products that might enhance the pleasure that our bodies are able to offer us and others.
A sole medium or a single work in isolation can be insufficient to address any major theme in a holistic way, so I recognise the need to variously choose installation and performance art (including dance), video, sculpture and painting in my ongoing practice.

2015 Master of Contemporary Art, VCA University of Melbourne
2005 Diploma Visual Arts, CAE Melbourne
1988 Prahran Technical School (painting under Howard Arkley)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 MORPHIA – Chin Chin, Melbourne
2015 HEAD CASE – Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2013 WHITE NOISE - Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne
2013 TAKE ON EMPTY STOMACH - MARS Pop Up, 459 Collins St, Melbourne
2012 CATHYANN COADY - Art Melbourne 2012
2011 POP, No Vacancy Gallery, The Atrium Federation Square, Melbourne
CATHYANN COADY - Art Melbourne 2011
2010 ICONS - Beauty, Wisdom and the Feminine, Glen Eira City Council Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 We are All Here Now, Here in the Gallery, with Australia China Arts Foundation, E-Hive Gallery, Melbourne
2016 The Other Art Fair, Sydney
2016 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney (upcoming)
2016 Décor+Design, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne
2016 VCA Matters Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2015 Encounters – Interactive public art installation with Microsoft Social NUI lab and
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2014 Parking Lot, VCA Student Gallery Melbourne
2013 On a Wing and a Prayer, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Linden Postcard Show, Melbourne
2012 Wild Australia, Gallery Reis, Orchard Rd Singapore
2012 Marquette Show, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
2010 6, The...