About
Photo by Innerspace Contemporary Art
Cosima is a Brisbane-based artist interested in observational painting and gestural mark making. She makes still life and landscape paintings through close contemplation, working both from arrangements of objects and reference photographs. Since completing a Master of Visual Art by research in 2018, she has participated in group and solo exhibitions across Brisbane, Melbourne, Inverell and Sydney.
Education
MVA, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane (Griffith University Postgraduate Research Scholarship)
BFA Honours (First Class), Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
BFA, National Art School, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Mushroom Skin, Allison Kate Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
2020 Sunroom Paintings, Allison Kate Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
2019 Bench Space, Wreckers Artspace, Brisbane
2019 Indoors, C3 Artspace, Melbourne
2018 Portals, Project Gallery, QCA Galleries, Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Shelf Life, Redland Art Gallery, Qld.
2023 Two Fine Painters, Allison Kate Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
2022 Summer Salon, Michael Reid Northern Beaches, Newport, NSW
2021 Still Life, Brickworks Gallery, Castlemaine, Victoria
2020 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2020, finalists exibition, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
2020 Form and Function, STABLE, Brisbane
2020 Small Acts, Innerspace Contemporary Art, Brisbane
2019 The Utopian Object, C3 Artspace, Melbourne
2017 Pieces, curated by Cut Thumb Laundry, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2017 Empathy Toward Plants, Project Gallery, QCA, Brisbane
2016 Interrupted Horizons, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2016 We are not Ourselves, Byron School of Art Project Space, Mullumbimby
2015 What’s Out There, The Laundry Artspace, Brisbane
Awards
2020 Finalist, Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
2015 Recipient, St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital Art Prize
Residencies
2018 Outer Space, Brisbane
2016 BigCi, Bilpin, NSW
2014 Listhús Artspace, Olafsfjordur, Iceland
Text
Shelf Life exhibition review, Lemonade Letters to Art
‘Fruits and Veg and Vessels’ by Sally Molloy, exhibition text for Indoors
‘Empathy Toward Plants’ exhibition text by Marisa Georgiou