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Lottie Consalvo

A young woman in a plain grey sweatshirt in a large, open industrial building.

A young woman in a plain grey sweatshirt, arms outstretched, presses her face and upper body against a bare plywood wall.

A young woman’s hands, wearing a simple wedding ring, and her feet, in black socks, hang over the edge of a basic plywood platform.

A young woman wearing a simple white shirt, black pants and black socks, sits on a black folding chair inside a basic plywood structure. The woman’s upper body is slumped forward, and her hands dangling over the edge of the plywood platform.

A young woman wearing a simple white shirt, black pants and black socks, sits on the floor of a basic plywood structure, focusing intently straight ahead, looking at a black folding chair.

A young woman wearing simple black clothing sits on a black folding chair inside a basic plywood structure. The woman’s upper body is slumped forward, and her hands dangling over the edge of the plywood platform. At the end of the plywood structure is a large blackboard, with a list of names and times, and a simple map diagram, labelled “Upstairs.”

A mattress covered with a plain white sheet, inside a basic plywood structure. On top of the mattress, the legs of a person, in simple black clothing, stick out from under a messy pile of white bedclothes.

A mattress covered with a plain white sheet, inside a basic plywood structure. On top of the mattress is the shape of a person sitting under a pile of white bedclothes.

Lottie Consalvo

born 1985 in Melbourne, Australia
lives and works in Newcastle, Australia

Lottie Consalvo was a participating artist in the Australian Artists' Residency Program as part of Marina Abramović: In Residence, 2015.

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Lottie Consalvo's practice traverses performance, video, photography, installation, painting and sculpture; she explores emotional and psychological conditions. Created from fragments of the everyday and fractures from significant life events, her work deals with tragedy and longing. In her long durational and endurance-based performances, Lottie endures discomfort both physically and psychologically. She re-lives past events where audience often witnesses her undergoing a psychological change in real time.

Consalvo's most recent live performances have been presented at Alaska Projects, Tiny Stadiums Live Art Festival, The Lock-Up, Newcastle, and Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery. These works have positioned her in seemingly comfortable domestic environments almost still or moving occasionally, however often slumped and in discomfort. In her performances, tragedy, desire and longing are all present. Consalvo also makes what she calls "life performances"—her most recent being Compartmentalise 2013-2014, a year-long performance in which the artist lived with minimal possessions in an attempt to gain psychological control after a significant life shift.