Angela Cavalieri

Angela Cavalieri (born 1962) is an Australian printmaker, whose work recreates text and narratives in visual form and was included in the Venice Biennale, 2011.

Early life and education Cavalieri's parents migrated from Calabria, Italy, to Australia in the post-war period. She studied printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1981 to 1983.

Career Cavalieri exhibited in solo and group exhibitions from 1984, and in 2011 was included in The Venice Biennale, Italian Pavillion In The World Project, 2011. She also won the Manly Library Artist Book Award in 2011. The National Gallery of Victoria, State Library of Queensland, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne and State Library of Victoria. She is also represented in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland. Her work has been described as "visually seductive, monumental in their proportions and immediate in their impact" by the art historian Sasha Grishin.

She surveys the art of writing and storytelling in a visual form in a series of monumental, hand-rolled linocuts on canvas as well as producing small-scale artist's books.

Passages from Dante, Petrarch, Italo Calvino and the influences of Italian artists such as Piero della Francesca, Giotto and Piranesi are referenced in her work. The music of the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) also provided Cavalieri with inspiration, as a result of an Arts Centre Melbourne commission to produce a work about an opera in 2011, the State Library of Victoria's Creative Fellowship (2012-2013) and a residency at La Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Residency in Venice (2015), exploring the city where Monteverdi lived in the last decades of his life.

Awards and residencies

National Gallery of Victoria Trustee Award, 1981 Desiderius Orban Youth Award, Australia Council, 1984 Mitchell Endowment Acquisition Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, 1985 Overseas Studio Grant Paretaio, Italy, Australia Council, 1986 Project Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council, 1990 Sutherland Acquisitive Prize, Sutherland Shire Council, NSW, 1999 Shell Fremantle Print Award, Western Australia, 1999 Conrad Jupiter Acquisitive Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland, 2000 Grand Prize, The Silk Cut Print Award, 2000 Artists-in-Schools Program Grant, Arts Victoria, 2001 Australia Council Residency, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2003 Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Travel Sponsorship for Academici at The British School at Rome, Italy 2005 Edith Cowan University Residency, Perth, Western Australia, 2005 RMIT Summer Residency and exhibition at Project Space/Spare Room, 2007-8 Dreams of Art Spaces Collected, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany, 2007 Piramidon, Centre for Contemporary Art, Residency, Barcelona, Spain, 2008 Geelong Print Prize Acquisitive Award, 2009 Australia Council Studio Grant for Barcelona, Spain, 2010 Manly Library Artist Book Award, 2011 State Library Victoria Creative Fellowship, Melbourne, Victoria, 2012 La Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Residency, Venice, Italy, 2015

Exhibitions Selected solo exhibitions Gertrude Contemporary (formerly 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria), 1986 Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW, 1990 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 1990 'Recent Works', 108 Moor Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, 1996 Smyrnios Gallery Australia, Melbourne, 1998 Quattro Pagine, Motor Works Gallery, Melbourne, 1999 Motor Works Gallery, Melbourne, 2001 Città Scritta, Ovens Street Studios, Melbourne, 2004 Scripta Manent, Artspace Mackay, Queensland, 2006 Racconto: the Narrative and Text of Angela Cavalieri, The ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, 2007 Passaggi Scritti, Gallery 101, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 26 February - 22 March 2007 Chiacchierone, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Collingwood, Victoria, 3–27 February 2011 Canzone: Music as Storytelling, Fortyfivedownstairs, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, 29 September - 24 October 2015 Canzone: Music as Storytelling, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Northern Territory, 9 April - 7 May 2016

Selected group exhibitions National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2004 SMS Artists use TXT, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland, 2004 Lost in Translation, Spectrum Project Space, Perth, Western Australia, 2005 Seven Stories, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria, 2005 Bookscapes: exploring contemporary Australian artist's book, Port Jackson Press Print Room, Melbourne, Victoria, 2005 Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, 2005 The Academy Gallery, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2005 Academici: The Australia Council Visual Arts/Crafts Board Rome Studio Residency 1999-2004, Monash University Gallery, Caulfield East, Victoria, 16 March - 13 April 2005 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2006 Art Bound: a selection of artists' books, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 23 May - 26 July 2006 Lexicon, Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne, Victoria, 2006 Bookish, Australian Galleries, Collingwood, Victoria, 2006 City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania, 2006 Meeting Place, Keeping Place, George Adams Gallery, Arts Centre Melbourne, Victoria, 2006 PROOF: Contemporary Australian Printmaking, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne, 9 December 2006 - 1 April 2007 Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania, 2007 Works on Paper Prize, City of Banyule, Victoria, 2007 Lessons in History Vol. 1, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Queensland, 2007 Transitions: European Island and Regional Cultures in Late 20th & Early 21st Centuries, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney, NSW, 2008 Anthology: selection of works by nine Gallery 101 artists who display the diversity of their multidisciplinary individual artistic practices, Gallery 101, Collins Street, Melbourne, 3–28 June 2008 Surveying the Field, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, City of Moreland - selection of works by seven leading Australian artists, living or working in the arts in Moreland, 17 July - 16 August 2009