Len Fox Painting Prize, 12 March – 13 June 2022

  • February 17, 2022
Arcadia 2021, oil on linen 91 x91cm

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

Pentimenti | Gallerysmith Sep 3 – Oct 9

  • August 31, 2021
Headland (Heart and Lungs) 2021 oil on linen 162 x 205cm

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

Look At/Look Through, 23 April – 12 May

  • April 22, 2021
Channel 2021 oil on linen on board 30 x 30 cm

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

Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, 31 October – 11 December 2020

  • October 5, 2020
Dust Storm 2019 oil on linen 91 x 267 cm

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

Mosman Art Prize, 26 August – 4 October 2020

  • August 19, 2020
Light Falls oil on linen, 56 x 56 cm

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.

New Work – King Street Gallery on William, NSW 12 May 2020

  • May 7, 2020
1.29 pm to Paddington 2020, oil on linen, 152 x 152 cm

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

Muswellbrook Art Prize, 15 March – 10 May 2020

  • February 13, 2020
Riding Lessons, oil on linen 91 x 91 cm

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

Transient Journals: Jan Manton Art, Brisbane 5 – 25 October 2019

  • September 27, 2019
dark sky over land
#1910 2019 oil on paper 25 x 25 cm

Transient Journals, new work by Melbourne painter Adriane Strampp at Jan Manton Art, Brisbane.

The landscape has been a recurring subject in Strampp’s paintings, not in the traditional art historical sense, but rather as a continuing exploration of landscapes remembered, fleeting moments and quiet views of the ordinary observed.

In these new works we see a more intimate view of the artist’s world, of places once familiar reworked through multiple layers, passages edited or dissolved, wiping away portions of the image as if leaving only that portion recalled. Although the human form remains in absentia, as in much of her earlier work, here we see traces of a human presence having been.

View catalogue here.

Jan Manton Art
1/93 Fortescue St, Spring Hill
QLD 4000 Australia

 

Darebin Art Prize: 7 September – 26 January 2020

  • August 23, 2019
loon (flux) lake at dusk with reflections in the 2019 darebin art prize
Loon, oil on linen 91 x 91 cm

Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the Darebin Art Prize, a biennial multi-medium award for excellence in contemporary visual art.

Artists from across Australia will be represented this major exhibition which includes a $10,000 acquisitive prize and $1,000 People’s Choice Award.

2019 Darebin Art Prize Finalists:

Fiona Abicare, Darcey Bella Arnold, Justin Balmain, Mary Barton, Nicholas Chilvers, Matthew Clarke, Erin Coates, Rebecca Delange, Lauren Dunn, David Egan, Travis Ficarra, Carly Fischer, Julia Gorman, Louise Gresswell, Amala Groom, Sophia Hewson, Deanna Hitti, Kym Maxwell, Aaron Claringbold & Rebecca McCauley, Clare McCracken, Hayley Millar-Baker, Viv Miller, Noriko Nakamura, Liam O’Brien, Michael Prior, Lucreccia Quintanilla, Georgia Robenstone, Mark Rodda, The Ryan Sisters, Britt Salt, Devi Seetharam, Tama Sharman, Jacqui Shelton, Mark Smith, Adriane Strampp, Ebony Truscott, David Wadelton, Yandell Walton, Daisy Watkins-Harvey.

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
7 Prospect Hill Drive
Bundoora, VIC 3083

HOURS
Gallery open from Thursday to Sunday, 10am–5pm

Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Bayside Gallery: 24 May – 21 July

  • April 24, 2019

strampp-adriana-entrance
Entrance 2018, oil on linen, 91 x 91 cm

Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize. Established in 2015, this prize is a celebration of contemporary Australian painting. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today.

The annual prize is an important opportunity for Bayside City Council to add exceptional works of art to its collection and to promote art and artists as a valuable part of the Bayside community. The three categories of the prize are judged by a panel of industry experts.

This year’s judges are Jane Devery, Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, and Anthony Fitzpatrick, Curator, TarraWarra Museum of Art, who will join Joanna Bosse, Curator, Bayside Gallery on the 2019 judging panel.

Bayside Gallery
Brighton Town Hall
Corner Wilson and Carpenter Streets
Brighton VIC 3186

HOURS
Gallery open from Wednesday to Friday, 11am–5pm, Saturday and Sunday, 1pm–5pm

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