Miriam Cabello

Miriam Cabello is a Chilean-Australian interdisciplinary artist, curator, and academic educator, based in Sydney. Her studio practice explores Mythology, questioning, "Where is Hercules (Heracles)? What does it mean to be Hercules in the 21st century?" She offers a host of unique artistic responses to this ambitious question.

Her new multi-layered works feature some of the finest figurative contemporary paintings of universal heroes, from the celebrated to the conspicuous, from athletes to activists. To reveal and merge incompatible ideas from masculinity and feminism in contemporary art. Western Mythology juxtaposed with Meso-American myths.

Allegories of Pugilism (boxing) aim to expound ideas and unearth the exploits of great heroes fighting against superhuman odds, quests and trials and the eternal fight against the powers of darkness and adversity.

Hercules finds its origins in Cabello's 2011 exhibition at the DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, selected to travel to the National Art Museum of Sport, USA, titled 'Australian Aboriginal Boxing Legends'. Highlighting Lionel Rose, American Sports Illustrated wrote of his 1968 fight in Tokyo, "across Australia, that night people clung to radios as if the ringside announcer we...

I hold a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Sydney College of the Arts (University of Sydney). In 2013, I was awarded the Alumni Recognition Certificate by the University of Sydney for designing Arts administration systems to deliver; Cross-art form, Visual arts, and crafts; Design; Interactive arts content; Arts education; Community arts, and cultural development.

In 1992 I completed the Grad. Dip Design, University of Technology, Sydney and in 2008 awarded the High Achieving UTS Alumni for recognition of achievements & contribution at the 20th Anniversary Dinner in May 2008. For balancing high levels of specialisation and lateral thinking, the program enables students to examine the design from a transdisciplinary perspective. Graduates of this course are leaders in the design and related industries through their expertise in product and service development. Furthermore, utilise strategic processes, creative tools, and research skills for innovation in design.

In 2010 I studied in New York with the late Master Artist Daniel Greene in an intensive 3-week residency workshop dedicated to painting the figure from life and learning a comprehensive flesh palette derived from the Old Masters. I also received feedback on my "Whit...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Selected
2016-2019 • Artist Run Initiative (ARI) – MLC Gallery and Studio, 5 Eliza St., Newtown
2015 • Beyond the White Rope, Platform 72 - The Living Mall Central Park, 28 Broadway Chippendale, Sydney
2014 • The First September 11, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, Australia • AILASA Conference
• The Push – The Poet & Pugilist Passion • 71 George St, The Rocks Pop-Up, Sydney
2013 • The First September 11, Seymour Centre, University of Sydney, Australia • Sydney Fringe Festival
2012 • White Rope – A History of Australian Aboriginal Boxers. Official Council National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) Ceremony, Camden
2011 • White Rope – A History of Australian Aboriginal Boxers. DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York.
2009 • Ispirazioni Stations of the Cross • MLC Gallery in association with the Sydney Italian Festival
• Installation 'Risen', South Sydney Uniting Church, 56a Raglan St, Waterloo
2008 • The Passion • MLC Gallery, Ultimo • Official WYD08 Youth Festival Exhibitor
2007 • Passion and Death • MLC Gallery, Ultimo, Sydney
2006 • Translating Michelangelo’s Slaves • MLC Gallery, Ultimo, Sydney
2005 • Whipping Boy • MLC Gallery, Ultimo
2004 • White Rope • MLC Gallery,...