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Agata Kawa

September 25, 2013, 5:33 am
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Agata Kawa is a Painter, an Arts & Crafts Designer, and an Illustrator.

Her art and work in Décorative Arts places itself in the continuation of the 19th century Symbolists and Arts & Crafts movements -which she claims being part of – in quest of an ideal of values, confronted to what she recognizes to be today as a new “Fin de Siècle” in a world that is losing its guideposts.
“I try to identify the Sacred that lies in us” she says, “to find back this essential rhythm that we forgot, and that today more than ever, we seek by all means necessary outside us, in vain...”

On her way to an absolute priority given to the meaning, and with delicate elegance, she invokes something different than the simple immediate, visible reality. In a world that turns at an accelerating pace, Agata chooses to take her time. In order to revive the mystery of life that everybody carries inside.
Her poetic and lyrical world, beyond appearances and the surface of things, is the birthplace to a gathering of symbols, mysteries, encounters and correspondences.
At the end of a two decades long fundamental maturation (1st solo exhibition in Paris in 1989), in 2011 she begins to catch a glimpse of all the links and weaving of an ambitious project: the one of an aesthetic Syncretism. It is about perceiving and realizing a delicate synthesis between multiple disciplines and mediums that don't a priori need each other to fully exist (such as Painting, Poetry, Crafts, Sculpture, Interior Decoration, aso...) to get used to a multiple and sometimes more complex reality. Hinted behind, appears to her, the quest of a kind of Total Art.

Today, Agata Kawa works to develop her own projects this way, working on a series of personal Oeuvres made on various mediums, and also she keeps on exhibiting in galleries.

As an illustrator, she also walks her very own path, providing a sweet and sophisticated style that is able to seduce a huge variety of clients. Agata is attached to the idea of diversity, and that's why she displays the same all natural creative joy for the prestigious house of Chanel, as for creating children toys.

Along the years, Agata Kawa has been a Graphic Designer, an Art Director for animated movies, a drawing, painting and sculpture teacher in ateliers. As a freelancer she is now a Painter, an Arts & Crafts designer, an Illustrator (notably children books), and lives near Paris.

Now firmly settled in her time, merging genres (Art, Poetry, Literature and Crafts) in her work as in her life, she keeps on creating and proposing crossroads.



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Agata Kawa, est peintre, Arts & Crafts designer, illustratrice.

Son œuvre, d'un symbolisme contemporain, interroge sans cesse notre humanité, ses richesses comme sa part d’ombre.
"En grattant les deux revers opposés de notre médaille, entre réalité et inconscient, je cherche à mettre le doigt sur ce sacré qui est en nous. Ce rythme essentiel que nous avons oublié, et qu'aujourd'hui plus que jamais me semble-t-il, nous cherchons par tout les moyens vainement à l’extérieur..."

Sur la voie d’une priorité absolue redonnée au sens, avec une élégance délicate, elle cherche à figurer autre chose que le réel immédiat et visible.
En un monde où tout s’accélère, Agata choisit de prendre le temps.
Pour renouer avec le mystère de vivre et de sentir, que chacun porte toujours quelque part en soi.
Dans son univers poétique et onirique, au delà des apparences et de la surface des choses, naissent alors les symboles, le mystère, les rencontres et les correspondances.

Au terme d’une maturation fondamentale de près de vingt ans (1ère expo solo à Paris en 1989), et sur le chemin d'une évidence humaine et artistique, elle revient à la peinture en 2011. Avec un premier projet patiemment décanté, très personnel et atypique, celui d'une série "d' Objets d'exceptions", nés d’une démarche de syncrétisme esthétique (percevoir et réaliser une correspondance délicate entre plusieurs disciplines et médiums n’ayant à priori pas besoin les uns des autres pour exister à part entière -- tels que la Peinture, la Poésie, les Artisanats, la Philosophie, etc…-- pour appréhender une réalité multiple et parfois plus complexe).

Aujourd’hui Agata se consacre à ses projets artistiques personnels:
Séries de peintures en cours, portraits à la facture épurée, quasi dépouillée, interrogeant notre altérité et l'ambivalence de notre humanité, et des œuvres originales plus baroques aux designs sensibles et élégants, "entre Art et Objets d'exception".
Elle continue d’exposer en galeries.

Dans le domaine de l’illustration, son univers très particulier, à la fois doux et raffiné, a aussi su séduire nombre de clients aux facettes différentes.
Portée par la diversité, Agata a abordé son travail pour la prestigieuse maison Chanel avec une liberté et un plaisir créatif aussi naturel que celui qu’elle a pu mettre dans ses albums jeunesse.

Sur son parcours éclectique aux vies pleines et multiples, Agata Kawa aura notamment été graphiste, Directrice Artistique dans le domaine du film d'animation, professeur en Ateliers (adultes) de dessin, de peinture et de sculpture. Aujourd’hui Artiste freelance, elle est peintre, Arts & Crafts designer, illustratrice, et vit aux abords de Paris.

Se sentant solidement campée dans son époque, fusionnant les genres (Art, Poésie, littérature, Artisanat), dans son travail comme dans sa vie personnelle, elle continue de créer et de proposer des croisées de chemins.









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Véronique Clamot

September 25, 2013, 6:25 am
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Véronique Clamot




(Date of birth: june 18th 1968, Charleroi - Belgium)

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Remko van Drongelen

September 26, 2013, 12:58 am
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Remko van Drongelen





Paintings, oil on canvas. Since 1996

visual artist (1969), rotterdam, oil on canvas, blends elements of awareness into portrait-like characters that embrace an emotional and physical emptiness.




1969 born in rotterdam, the netherlands

education

1991-1996 willem de kooning academy, rotterdam, the netherlands


grants

2000 expositiesubsidie, cbk rotterdam
2001 basisstipendium, fonds bkvb, amsterdam






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Ludmila Gurieva

September 26, 2013, 7:07 am
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Гурьева Людмила - Ludmila Gurieva


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Daniel Menshikov

September 26, 2013, 7:49 am
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 Даниил Меньшиков  - Daniel Menshikov




Даниил Михайлович Меньшиков

Известный русский сибирский художник, работает в самых различных жанрах: живопись, графика, офорт, акварель, гуашь, темпера, акрил, смешанная и авторская техника.

Живописные и графические работы художника широко представлены в различных российских и зарубежных галереях и художественных салонах.


За 25 лет своей творческой деятельности Данила Меньшиков участвовал во множестве художественных выставок в городах Сибири, в Москве, Санкт-Петербурге, он был представлен в салонах и артгалереях Западной Европы, является лауреатом Новосибирской и Калининградской международных биеннале графики.
В начале своего творческого пути Данила пробовал себя и в книжной графике, им проиллюстрированы несколько детских книг, вышедших в Сибирском отделении издательства «Детская литература» и Новосибирском книжном издательстве. Цикл его ранних офортов на тему Ветхого Завета получил высокую оценку на нескольких крупных выставках и принёс ему первую известность.

Сегодня Данила Меньшиков продолжает разрабатывать свои излюбленные сюжеты в жанрах женского портрета, городского пейзажа, иногда фантазийно-мифологического, иногда абстрактного или условного. Он использует в своих работах знаково-символические композиции, усложнённую колористику, нестандартные технические приёмы, не отказываясь, в то же время, от рисунка, изысканной линии, неожиданной фактуры.

Плодотворно работая и широко выставляясь, Данила Меньшиков приобрёл заслуженную популярность у ценителей изобразительного искусства, как в России, так и за рубежом, он считается подлинным мастером, его работы экспонируются и продаются с неизменным успехом, он желанный гость и участник художественных выставок и регионального и российского уровня.
Художественная критика со всегдашней теплотой и одобрением отзывается о таланте этого замечательного, выдающегося художника из города Новосибирска.




















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Mercedes Garcia Bravo

November 13, 2013, 1:31 pm
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Pintora nacida en Barcelona. Estudiosa y difundidora de la figura de la mujer en el arte. Fundadora de Artemisa & Compañía.




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Victoria Reichelt

November 14, 2013, 3:15 am
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Victoria Reichelt


Victoria Reichelt has been announced as the winner of the prestigious 2013 Sir John Sulman Prize for genre painting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.














Victoria Reichelt
Victoria Reichelt studied Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 2005 having completed her Doctor of Visual Arts. She has been short-listed for a number of major art prizes including the Gold Award at the Rockhampton Art Gallery, the RBS Emerging Artist Award, the Fletcher Jones Art Prize, and in 2013 she won the Sulman Art Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has been awarded an Australia Council New Work Grant and the Linden Innovators Award from the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Brisbane. She has most recently been appointed to the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

Victoria is represented by the Dianne Tanzer Gallery in Melbourne, VIC and Jan Murphy Gallery in Brisbane, Qld.


EDUCATION

2002 – 2005
Doctor of Visual Arts
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Southbank

1998 – 2001
Bachelor of Visual Art in Fine Art (First Class Honours)
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Southbank



PRIZES & AWARDS

2013
Winner, Sulman Art Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW

2012
Shortlisted, Gold Award, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Qld
Acquired & People’s Choice, Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Qld

2010
Acquired, Stan and Maureen Duke Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld

2009
Winner, RBS Emerging Artist Award People’s Choice Prize, Sydney, NSW
Winner, Metro Art Award People’s Choice Prize, Metro Gallery, VIC
Awarded, Melbourne Airport Innovators Award, Linden Centre for
—-Contemporary Arts, VIC

2007
Awarded, New Work Grant, Australia Council Visual Arts Board
Shortlisted, RIPE Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award

2006
Winner, Kenilworth Art Prize, Kenilworth Council, Qld

2004
Highly Commended, Willoughby City Art Prize, Willoughby Council, NSW

2002
Shortlisted, Travel Scholarship, Royal Overseas League, London, UK

2001
Shortlisted, Fulbright Scholarship, Fulbright Committee
Winner, QCL Art Prize: Painting, Logan Art Gallery, Qld
Winner, Border Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld


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Natasha Bieniek

November 14, 2013, 3:58 am
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Natasha Bieniek



Born in Melbourne in 1984, Bieniek began her formal artistic training at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002 where she began to concentrate on figurative painting.

Bieniek received substantial recognition when her painting “When the music’s over” (2006) won the Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, a painting scholarship to study at the Accademia d’Arte in Florence. At the Accademia d’Arte she learnt the ancient technique of egg tempera, and studied under a well known contemporary Florentine painter Sonia de Franceschi, who exhibits regularly in Florence, Rome and Bologna.

In 2012 Natasha Bieniek won the $50,000 Metro Art Award and was a finalist for the Archibald Portrait Prize, The Doug Moran Portrait Prize and the Redlands Art Prize. Her successful solo exhibition She Hangs Brightly has been exhibited at Gippsland Regional Art Gallery and dianne tanzer gallery + projects in 2012. Bieniek was again shortlisted for the Archibald Portrait Prize in 2013 as well as being a finalist in the inaugural University of Queensland Self Portrait Prize.

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Wendy Sharpe

November 15, 2013, 2:49 am
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Wendy Sharpe



Birth

1960 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Studies


1978-79 Art Certificate, Seaforth Technical College, Sydney

1980-82 B. A. (Visual Arts), City Art Institute, Sydney

1983 Graduate Diploma of Education(Art) Sydney Institute of Education.

1984 Graduate Diploma of Professional Art, City Art Institute

1986 Dr Denise Hickey Studio, Paris, France

Marten Bequest Travelling Art Scholarship: Europe and New York

1989 Mercedes Benz Scholarship: travel to Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Italy

1991-92 M.A. (Fine Arts), College of Fine Arts, University of NSW


Wendy Sharpe - Awards, Major Commisions and Prizes
2013 Australian War Memorial - Award (Service to the Council of the Australian War Memorial 2005-2013) Canberra, ACT
2013 'Naked & Nude' Manning Art Prize, (winner of the Aquisitive Prize) Manning Regional Gallery, NSW

2011 Taronga Zoo Artist residency, Sydney

2008 - 2009 Commision: The Arts Centre Victoria - The Australian Ballet's tribute to the Ballet Russes (Exhibition)

2008 Artist Residency at the Australian Residency Cairo, Egypt, at the personal invitation of the Australian Ambassador.

2006 Awarded tenancy of Cite Internationale Des Arts Studio, Paris for 2007 by the Art Gallery of New South Wales

2003 Allen Gamble Memorial Art Prize, Sydney

2003 Portia Geach Memorial Prize Award, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney

1999 Appointed as Australian Official Artist attached to the Australian Army History Unit in Dili, East Timor, Australian War Memorial ACT

1998-99 Commissioned by the City of Sydney for Olympic pool murals based on the life of Annette Kellerman (8 panels), Cook & Phillip Aquatic Centre

1998 Bathurst Art Prize, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

1996 Archibald Prize Winner, Art Gallery of New South Wales

1995 Kedumba Drawing Prize, New South Wales

1995 Portia Geach Memorial Prize, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

1992 Robert Le Gay Bereton Drawing Prize

1991-92 Australia Post Graduate Research Award

1990-95 Waverley Art Prize, New South Wales

1989 Mercedes Benz Art Scholarship

1986 Awarded tenancy Cite International Studio, Paris

1986 Dyason Bequest

1986 Marten Bequest, Travelling Art Scholarship

1986 The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales (judge Albert Tucker)



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Leo Robba

November 15, 2013, 3:00 am
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Born
1962 Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Studies
1982 B.A., Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2006-2008 Masters of Fine Art, Newcastle University


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Charles Robb

November 15, 2013, 3:36 am
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Charles Robb

Charles Robb is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts, now based in Brisbane. Robb’s work has been seen in numerous group and solo exhibitions including The Day the Machine Started, (dianne tanzer gallery + projects Melbourne Art Fair 2010), Scope Miami Art Fair (with Hous Projects, USA, 2009), Millwork (dianne tanzer gallery + projects, 2009), Temperature: Contemporary Queensland Sculpture (Museum of Brisbane, 2004), Gulliver’s Travels (Monash University Museum of Art and interstate venues, 2002-4), Support (Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2000) and Primavera (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2000).


He has been short-listed three times for the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, winning Judge’s Commendations in 2002 and 2005. He has received project grants from Arts Queensland (2000 and 2004) and the Australia Council (2001) and he was awarded an inaugural Freedman Foundation Scholarship to research Baroque religious sculpture in Spain (2001). In 2006, Robb was awarded the Australia Council Studio Residency, Cite des Internationales, Paris. In 2012 Robb's work was shortlisted for the prestigious McClelland Sculpture Prize.


In addition to appearing in catalogues, his work has featured in reviews in Art and Australia, Artlink, Art Monthly, Australian Art Collector, Broadsheet, Eyeline, World Sculpture News and Contemporary. His writing has been published in Eyeline, unMagazine and Photofile.


Charles currently holds the position of Lecturer in Visual Art at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.










 "Protrusion I is a self-portrait bust, rendered with a high degree of naturalism. The work depicts a male subject with a bulbous white form projecting from it nasal and oral orifices. The work forms part of the artist’s ongoing self-portraiture project, in which the tensions between objectivity and subjectivity that pervade the self-portrait as a genre are cross referenced with the notions of materiality and interiority integral to the language of sculpture. The iconography of the work parodies the connection between amorphous form and artistic subjectivity in the history of sculpture. The dough-like forms that emerge from the figure thus refer to a sense of ‘inner life’ while also operating as more analytical projections of the cavities of the bust – areas of the where the mimetic program are necessarily suspended. The result is a figure that appears to be in a state of resigned suffocation. The work was selected for the 2005 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. The work was later included in the group show Crash (and other earthy pleasures) at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at the University of Western Australia in Perth."

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Robert Proch

November 15, 2013, 4:52 am
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Born in 1986 Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Painter, muralist, animator.

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Julia Ciccarone

November 15, 2013, 5:49 am
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Julia Ciccarone



Julia Ciccarone was born in Melbourne in 1967. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of Arts in 1988. Julia lived and worked in Italy as the recipient of the Verdaccio Studio awarded by the Visual Arts and Craft Board of the Australia Council. She also held residency at Arts Victoria in the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies. Since 1998, Julia has lectured in painting and drawing at the Western Institute of Technology and Monash University.

Julia has completed a number of commissioned portraits in recent years and she was awarded the Melbourne Savage Club 2007 Invitation Art Prize for Painting. In an exploration of her work through new media she co-wrote and produced a short film 67 directed by Kasimir Burgess, which was selected for the 2007 Melbourne International Film Festival.

Julia currently lives and works in Melbourne.

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Rick Amor

November 15, 2013, 6:51 am
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RICK AMOR

Rick Amor was born in Frankston, Victoria in 1948. In 1965 he completed a Certificate of Art at
the Caulfield Institute of Technology, and from 1966 to 1968 studied at the National Gallery
School, Melbourne where he received an Associate Diploma of Painting. He has been the
recipient of several Australia Council studio residencies, which have allowed him to work in
London, New York and Barcelona. In 1999 the Australian War Memorial appointed him as the
official war artist to East Timor.

Amor has held over 50 solo exhibitions since first exhibiting at Joseph Brown Gallery in 1974
and has shown annually at Niagara Galleries for 26 years. A major survey exhibition of his
paintings was curated by McClelland Gallery in 1990 and toured various regional galleries in
Victoria and South Australia. In 1993 an exhibition mounted by Bendigo Art Gallery toured
Victoria and Tasmania, presenting his work as a printmaker and graphic artist. An important
exhibition of Rickʼs bronze sculpture was undertaken by Benalla Art Gallery in 2002, including
many maquettes never previously exhibited. In 2005, Robert Lindsay curated Rick Amor:
Standing in the Shadows, the second major survey of Amorʼs work to be presented at
McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park. In March 2008, Heide Museum of Modern Art presented
Rick Amor: A Single Mind, a triumphant survey of Rickʼs paintings and works on paper from
1968 – 2008.

Gary Catalanoʼs biography The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his Art, was published by The
Miegunyah Press in 2001; and in 2008, The Beagle Press published Gavin Fryʼs richly
illustrated monograph, Rick Amor.

Rick Amor lives and works in Melbourne





AWARDS
2007 The McClelland Award, McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park, Victoria
2000 Awarded the Visual Arts/Craft Board London Studio, England
1995 Awarded the Visual Arts/Craft Board Green Street Studio, New York
1991 Awarded the Visual Arts/Craft Board Barcelona Studio, Spain
1989 National Australia Bank Art Prize
1987 Castlemaine Drawing Prize (Second Prize)

1980 Artist in Residence, Victorian Trades Hall Council
1975 Visual Arts Board Grant
1968 National Gallery Traveling Scholarship
1967 National Gallery Drawing Prize (shared)
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Daphne Todd

November 15, 2013, 8:17 am
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Daphne Todd




Daphne Todd has the unusual distinction of having been awarded First Prize of the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, reputedly the most important portrait prize in the world, which had an international send-in of over 2000, in 2010, after having won Second Prize (when it was called the John Player Award) back in 1983. In the meantime she was elected the first female President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (1994-2000) and was awarded an OBE for services to the Arts in 2002.

Early in her career, Todd had three works selected for the Critic's Choice Exhibition by the art critic for the Daily Telegraph, to hang alongside work by Michael Andrews, Graham Sutherland and Lucien Freud. She is perhaps best known for her portraits and currently has four in the permanent collection of the NPG, (Sir Christopher Ondaatje, Spike Milligan, Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover and Dame Janet Baker) and a portrait drawing in the collection of HM the Queen, but, having studied at the Slade School of Fine Art as an undergraduate and postgraduate, she considers herself simply an analytical painter of the seen world.

Her landscapes, still lifes and figure studies are exhibited at Messums Gallery in Cork St, where she has had 4 solo shows since 2002. She is a Trustee of the Heatherley School of Art in Chelsea and an Ambassador for East Sussex, where she lives on a small farm. Although her studio is a large converted barn she very often travels to her sitters and enjoys exposure to new terrain. A book about her life: Paint and Principle, by Jenny Pery was published in 2008 and is available from the Mall Galleries' book shop.








Daphne Todd OBE (born 1947) is an English artist who was the first female President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters from 1994–2000, and who won the BP Portrait Award 2010 with a painting of her 100-year-old mother's corpse.

She studied at the Slade 1964-71. In 1983 she won 2nd prize in what is now the BP Portrait Award, and in 1984 a "special commendation". She was elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1985. She became a Freeman of the City of London in 1997 and received an Hon. Doctorate of Arts from De Montfort University in 1998.

In 2001 she won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture and the Gold Medal, and was awarded an OBE.
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Louise Feneley

November 15, 2013, 4:06 pm
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EDUCATION:

2012
Painting Masterclass - Steven Assael - New York

Advanced Drawing Masterclass - Steven Assael - New York
2005 Drawing Masterclass – Godwin Bradbeer
2002
Bachelor of Visual Art with Honours

Adelaide Central School of Art, Norwood, SA
2001 Advanced Diploma of Visual Art

Adelaide Central School of Art, Norwood, SA
1970
Bachelor of Fine Art – Painting

SA School of Art, North Adelaide, SA




















AWARDS and GRANTS:

2011 Arts SA Grant for Research & Development of New Work
2011 People’s Choice Award – Nora Heysen Centenary Prize
2007 Conrad Jupiter’s Art Prize – Peoples’ Choice Award
2004 Tammy Kingsley Award - 33rd Alice Prize exhibition
2003 Helpmann Academy Mentorship Grant
1986 Bussleton Art Gallery Prize
1970 Liddums Art Gallery Prize
1970 Royal South Australian Society of Art Prize for Composition
1967-70 Commonwealth Scholarship, SA School of Art
1968 Osborne Art Gallery Prize for Drawing











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Crispin Akerman

November 15, 2013, 4:30 pm
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Crispin Akerman


Many of the works have as their central focus the flowers and leaves of plant species native to the South West of Western Australia. Other objects in the paintings are historical, sculptural, or organic in form, and are arranged over underlying geometries, with the space between as important as the objects depicted. The work is realistic not photographic. The unresolved sections add drama to the work, and heighten the focus of the paintings - the arrangement of objects and the elements of local history and the natural environment.

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Lauren Wilhelm

November 15, 2013, 4:54 pm
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Lauren Wilhelm


My work is an examination of the human condition as I see it – the ephemeral nature of life and our preoccupation with the minutia of everyday living, ignoring our own expiry and the damage to the environment around us. I’m fascinated with everyday history – the lives that have gone before us and been forgotten.

Juxtaposing classical images and modern themes, my paintings are my comment on transience. I reference the classical portrait with the often arrogant, invincible gaze of the wealthy landowner – and contrast the contemporary equivalent in the form of the modern day land developer and the fact that prestige, wealth or beauty are still no weapon against time.

I’m also exploring the part animals play in human lives – the realities and mythologies.


Awards

2012
Winner, Cossack Art Prize, Shire of Roebourne, WA – acquisitive



2009
Winner, Cossack Art Prize, Shire of Roebourne, WA – acquisitive



2006
Winner City of Wanneroo Open Art Award – acquisitive



2005
Town of Vincent art awards, winner John Hyde MLA Award





















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