Cate Consandine (b.1970) lives and works in Melbourne. She is represented by Sarah Scout Presents and is currently a PhD candidate and Lecturer in Fine Art at Monash University. She has exhibited a number of works internationally, including LOOP 08 at the International Festival & Fair for Video Art in Barcelona and Contemporary Australian Video at the (ICA) Institute of Contemporary Arts in London 2008 and Bibibibodibiboo Exposition international d’art actuel, Biennale of Art in Reunion Island 2009. Cate has developed major bodies of new work for a number of critically acclaimed solo exhibitions nationally including Cold-cut, eye stalk at Heide Museum of Modern Art 2006, Candy Cane at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, and Colony at Sarah Scout, Melbourne 2010. Her video and sculptural work was recently curated into Without Words: Photography and Emotion at (CCP) Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
Stephen Garrett is an installation based artist. Working across methodologies, Stephen’s studio research is engaged in the experiential qualities of site-specific response to architectural space—how the physical action of making within the architectural surrounds determines the meaning of the work. For Stephen, this is negotiated through the creation of temporary propositions for sculptural activity, in an attempt to create a meditative space in which to encounter the work. He is interested in contemplating the qualities of how we encounter and perceive of sculpture and architecture.
His practice has been shifting more to a collaborative model of art making, where he feels it is a natural extension of negotiating the architectural space of the individual, to also negotiating the creation of that space with others. It places the experience of the site- specific response of art making back into a more communal framework and attests to the fact that art and architecture is always a negotiated place.
Stephen graduated from Honours from The University of Newcastle in 2001. Since then he has been an artist in residence in Vietnam, France, Melbourne and Newcastle; was awarded the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture; a scholarship from the Art Gallery of NSW in addition to many academic awards for his art studies. He has exhibited internationally in France, Vietnam, England and USA, and nationally in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Hobart. He holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Monash University, where he also lectures in the Department of Fine Art.
