Agatha Gothe-Snape approaches her practice from a position of ceaselessly inquisitive connectivity. Her works are rarely presented as ‘standalone objects’ but instead as dynamic accretions of formal and informal research, material and relational considerations that unfold in particular locations, over particular periods. —Robert Cook

Agatha Gothe-Snape’s work engages with the politics and poetics of language and other embodied knowledge as it is performed interpersonally and is creative of our relationships with each other, with art and architecture and other histories. Rooted in performance, her work operates intuitively and is generated via improvisation and collaboration. In its visual economy and aesthetic weightlessness indebted to minimalism, Gothe-Snape’s often text-based work finds short cuts through complexity and ambiguity to arrive at fertile slippages that wed emotional impact with conceptual rigour. The work inhabits spaces that are both physical and non-physical. It occupies thresholds that are negotiable.

Key exhibitions

The Medium is the Medium || Agatha Gothe-Snape Material, curated by Robert Cook, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2024 Agatha Gothe-Snape - The Outcome is Certain, curated by Hannah Mathews, Monash University Museum of Art in Melbourne, 2020 The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks, Museum of Contemporary Art over three iterations 2017, 2019, 2021 Agatha Gothe-Snape: Lion's Honey, Kaldor Art Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2019 Agatha Gothe-Snape: Rhetorical Chorus, Carriageworks and PERFORMA, New York, 2017 Agatha Gothe-Snape: Oh Window, curated by Haruko Kumakura, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2017

Key readings

Robert Cook, ‘as-if-by-chance the medium is the emergent atmosphere’, The Medium is the Medium || Agatha Gothe-Snape Material, exh. cat., Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2024 Hannah Matthews (ed.), Agatha Gothe-Snape: The Outcome is Certain, exh. cat. Monash University Museum of Art x Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, 2020, pp. 176 Mori Art Museum, Agatha Gothe-Snape: Oh Window, MAM Project 023, exh. cat. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, pp. 64

Public Art

A Well Being, University of New South Wales, Village Green, Kensington Campus, 2023 Notes on Sydenham, Sydenham Station, Sydney Metro/Transport for NSW, 2022 The Noblest, The Greenland Centre, 115 Bathurst Street, Sydney, 2021 Here, an Echo, Wemyss Lane, Surry Hills, Biennale of Sydney Legacy Commission, 2017 The Scheme was a Blueprint for Future Development Programs, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, 2015

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art/University of Western Australia
Griffith University Art Collection
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Kadist Collection, Paris
Kaldor Collection, Sydney
Monash University Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
University of Technology Sydney Collection
Wesfarmers

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