Featuring Genevieve Carroll, Angela Malone, David Pearce and Adriane Strampp.
In the context of artistic development the creation of an artist’s work begins embryonically – progressing in stages – gradually becoming a completed piece -‘having wings’.
KING STREET GALLERY ON WILLIAM
177 William St, Darlinghurst
NSW 2010 AUSTRALIA
HOURS:
10am – 6pm Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 6pm Sunday
Join artist Rachael Robb as she deep dives into painting techniques, inspiration and meaning behind her works in the exhibition I have been here before, with fellow artists and painters Adriane Strampp and Ebony Truscott.
Adriane Strampp completed a BA in Fine Art at Prahran College (1983) and an MFA at Monash University (2010), and has held 30 solo exhibitions as well as participating in many group shows. Drawn to finding connections from a fragmented past to the present, Strampp gathers imagery from across time to create scenes that are imbued with both personal meaning and collective familiarity. Adriane Strampp is represented by King Street Gallery on William (NSW) and Jan Manton Gallery (QLD).
Ebony Truscott is a Warrnambool born, Melbourne based artist and has completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting, 1997) and a Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours, 2003) at Victorian College of the Arts. Exhibiting since 1995, Truscott’s work is held in a number of public and private collections in Australian and overseas. She employs observational realism in work marked by an interest in human sensation and perception. Ebony Truscott is represented by Niagara Galleries.
Warrnambool Art Gallery
26 Liebig Street, Warrnambool
Victoria 3280 Australia
During Melbourne’s austere lockdowns, Adriane Strampp was restricted to her Collingwood home for months at a time, separated from her studio in Fitzroy. In this forced stillness, she has created a new series of work that turns toward the subject of the domestic interior as a site for contemplation, studying the light changing through the seasons, and night light reflections on restless nights.
View catalogue here.
KING STREET GALLERY ON WILLIAM
177 William St, Darlinghurst
NSW 2010 AUSTRALIA
HOURS:
10am – 6pm Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 6pm Sunday
Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the Len Fox Painting Award with Arcadia 2021.
The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona Fox. The award is funded through a bequest from Mona Fox, with $50,000 awarded to the winner.
Castlemaine Art Museum
14 Lyttleton Street (PO Box 248)
Castlemaine VIC 3450
Opening hours:
Thursday: 12pm-4pm
Friday: 12pm-6:30pm
Weekend: 12pm-4pm
Strampp’s images are so delicately and finely layered onto linen, that if the light falls at a certain angle a glimpse of something tangible can appear, then leave without a trace. At other times roads, rivers, distant lights, smoke and other signs of life come into view through painted swathes of canvas that cast shadow or emanate light. These tricks with materials and brush are what make her work so compelling. In them exists an otherness between truth and fiction. Are these places real or conjured from the imagination?
Excerpt from essay by Marita Smith
Video of gallery installation with narrative by artist here. (3 minutes).
View catalogue here.
GALLERYSMITH
170-174 Abbotsford Street
North Melbourne
VIC 3051
AUSTRALIA
HOURS
TUES-SAT 11 AM – 5 PM
In his 1991 book ‘National Life and Landscapes: Australian Painting 1900-1940’, Ian Burn wrote about Albert Namatjira’s watercolour paintings that “the landscape itself is not the subject focused upon but instead reads as something one journeys through”. Earlier in his 1989 work ‘Homage to Albert (South through the Ranges, Heavitree Gap 1952)’, Burn presented a broader, shorter version of this observation, “A LANDSCAPE IS NOT SOMETHING YOU LOOK AT BUT SOMETHING YOU LOOK THROUGH”. Appearing as if a quote from Namatjira, Burn’s sentence appears in capitals on paper beneath a reproduction of Namatjira’s work on a transparent sheet above. When looking, the effect is twofold; the viewer literally ‘looks through’ the transparent landscape to ‘look at’ the text below. But the text also interrupts the viewer’s ability to ‘look through’ the ‘original’ painting, which is what Burn proposes is the key aspect of Namatjira’s work. The work therefore utilises the landscape but instead of presenting it, obstructs it and simulates the idea of looking at it. The viewer is not invited to navigate the terrain in the picture plane, but instead reminded that they are in an interior space, probably an art gallery, looking at an object. ‘Homage to Albert’ becomes a succinct visual representation of Burn’s conclusion that “(i)n twentieth-century Australia, the idea of the landscape has become more important than the landscape itself. It serves to declare an idea of place, constantly redefining difference in a changing world.
Look At/Look Through is an exhibition of works by 13 artists that explore the relationship between people and the landscape in various ways. In some works, figures, with their backs to us yet almost as surrogates for us, survey the landscape in front of them. In others, the viewer becomes the absent figure, with the work inviting them into another place beyond the gallery, inhabiting the point of view of the person observing the landscape. In some works, visual strategies such as blurring, overlaying text or painterly gestures deny the illusion of real space, instead reorienting attention to the picture plane.
Byron School of Art Project Space
112 Dalley Street,
MULLUMBIMBY NSW 2482
Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award with Dust Storm 2019.
The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award is an annual art prize inviting artists to submit works in a variety of artistic categories and mediums. Now in its 58th year, with a total of $36,000 in prize money to be won the Open section is acquisitive to the Campbelltown City Council collection and is valued at $25,000.
Campbelltown Arts Centre
1 Art Gallery Rd
CAMBELLTOWN NSW 2560
Opening hours:
10am – 4pm daily
Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize with Light Falls 2019.
Established in 1947, the Mosman Art Prize is Australia’s oldest and most prestigious local government art award, and worth $50,000. It was founded by the artist, architect and arts advocate, Alderman Allan Gamble, at a time when only a small handful of art prizes were in existence in Australia and the community had very little support and few opportunities to exhibit their work.
As an acquisitive art award for painting, the winning artworks collected form a splendid collection of modern and contemporary Australian art, reflecting all the developments in Australian art practice since 1947.
The 2020 Mosman Art Prize judge is Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director of Artspace, Sydney.
Mosman Art Gallery
1 Art Gallery Way
MOSMAN NSW 2088
Opening hours:
Mosman Art Gallery will reopen for limited hours Tuesday to Saturday from Tuesday 9 June from 10am to 4pm
Closed on public holidays.
Due to COVID-19 Adriane Strampp’s exhibition scheduled to open at King Street Gallery on William on May 12 has been postponed and will be rescheduled to a later date.
A selection of new work has been sent to the gallery, and a digital catalogue is available. King Street Gallery is maintaining regular hours and work is available for viewing by appointment.
View catalogue here.
Artist statement: here.
Interview with Richard Morecroft here.
KING STREET GALLERY ON WILLIAM
177 William St, Darlinghurst
NSW 2010 AUSTRALIA
HOURS:
10am – 6pm Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 6pm Sunday
Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the acquisitive Muswellbrook Art Prize with Riding Lessons 2019.
The Muswellbrook Art Prize began in 1958 as the Festival of the Valley Art Prize with the winning painting Death of Voss by Tom Gleghorn becoming the inaugural work in what has grown to become an excellent collection of modern and contemporary Australian painting, works on paper and ceramics from the Post War period of the 20th Century and now the first two decades of the 21st Century. The Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection was created as a direct result of this ongoing acquisitive art competition.
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
Corner Bridge and William Streets
MUSWELLBROOK NSW 2333
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Friday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Weekends 10.00am – 1.00pm
Mondays – by appointment only
Closed public holidays