Agatha Gothe-Snape (born 1980) is an Australian artist who lives and works in

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. Her works range from digital slide presentations to performances to works on paper and, more recently, collaborative sound installations. A number of Gothe-Snape's works are held by a range of public galleries and collections, including the

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Art Collection,

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and

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. Gothe-Snape's partner is Australian artist

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, who won the

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in 2017 with a portrait of her.

Career

Gothe-Snape's first exhibition was in 2006 and since then her works have been included in a range of exhibitions, including the 8th

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for Contemporary Art in 2014, ''Art as a Verb'' at

in 2014, ''Trace: Performance and its Documents'' at

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in 2014, ''Melbourne Now'' at the

in 2013, ''Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century'' at

in 2013, ''Contemporary Australia: Women'' at

in 2012, ''Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art'' at the

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in 2011 and ''Primavera'' at the

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in 2010. Solo exhibitions and performances include: ''Agatha Gothe-Snape –Trying to find comfort in an uncomfortable chair'', with the

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Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is a contemporary visual and performance arts venue located in a heritage-listed building in Perth, Western Australia. History 1896–1959: Schools The building at 53 James Street, Northbridge, which ...

(2019); ''Rhetorical Chorus'', Performance Space, Sydney (2017); and ''Oh Window'',

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, Tokyo (2017). She was awarded the

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Legacy Artwork commission in 2016 for an installation, titled ''Here, an Echo'', which consisted of large text printed using roadmarking materials on the road and brick walls in Wemyss Lane,

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in Sydney, Australia. In 2020, a survey exhibition of her key works from 2008 to the present was exhibited at

. Gothe-Snape has also been involved in a longstanding collaborative performance project with artist Brian Fuata called Wrong Solo.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gothe-Snape, Agatha 1980 births 21st-century Australian artists Living people Artists from Sydney Australian women artists