CATE CONSANDINE (1970–2026) was well known for her sculptural and film work that navigated the embodied gaze, pushing at the limits of where the body meets and marks the world. She exhibited nationally and internationally between 1999 and 2025. Solo exhibitions included: Animal (with Stephen Garrett), Sarah Scout Presents (2022); Her/e, Sarah Scout Presents (2018); Cut Colony, Contemporary Projects Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney (2012); Colony, Sarah Scout Presents (2010); Candy Cane, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne and Cold Cut, Eye-Stalk, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (both 2006).
Consandine presented major works in collaborative and group exhibitions throughout her career, including RINGER in The Same Crowd Never Gathers Twice (2024); Viraginis in The Burden of Objects, the inaugural Melbourne Sculpture Biennale (2025); The Missing (with Stephen Garrett), Conical, Melbourne (2011); Wayfinder (with Sound Designer Nick Murray), Conical (2003); and the set design for In-Finite, part of the Australian Ballet’s Bodytorque Season, Sydney Theatre Wharf (2013). Other significant group exhibitions included The Wandering Eye (2016) and Without Words: Photography and Emotion (2011), both at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne. International exhibitions include LOOP 08, International Festival & Fair for Video Art, Barcelona (2008); Contemporary Australian Video, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2008); Bibibibodibiboo Exposition international d’art actuel, Biennale of Art, Reunion Island (2009 and 2014); Vertigo, an Asialink Arts and BLINDSIDE touring exhibition, Galeri Soemardja, Indonesia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taiwan; and POSCO Art Gallery, South Korea. In 2002-2004 she was the recipient of a Gertrude Studio Residency. Consandine completed a PhD at Monash University in 2014 and was Senior Lecturer and previously Head of the Honours program at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.