Australian Women Artists Interview with Richard Graham

Australian Women Artists
The Podcast
 Ep. 59.  Adriane Strampp

As a long-standing admirer of Richard Graham’s Australian Women Artists  podcast, it was a genuine honour to contribute to a series that foregrounds the practices and voices of so many outstanding Australian women artists. I am grateful for the opportunity to be included among this distinguished cohort.

Head to this link to listen to our conversation.

 Adriane’s is a fascinating journey. She was born in the United States and educated in the UK before settling in Australia.

 She brings the effect of that peripatetic life to her work. Her work is defined by its sensitivity to light, memory and place. Interiors soaked in soft light, distant landscapes, objects held in suspension.

 We talked about her fabulously eclectic group of subjects she’s explored in her art including horses, dresses, landscapes, interiors, still lifes and the thread which weaves itself through all of them.

 She has held more than 30 solo exhibitions around Australia and internationally and has been selected as a finalist multiple times for a number of awards including the Sulman, Dobell, Calleen, Ravenswood, Len Fox and Adelaide Perry.

 And alongside her studio practice, Adriane has also made a profound contribution as a teacher. She is also the Founder and Director of the Fitzroy Painting Studio which has had probably thousands of students through its doors.

Adriane is represented by

King Street Gallery on William (Sydney)

Jan Manton Gallery (Brisbane)

Warrnambool Art Gallery – Artist Talk 30 Sep 2023

Rachael Robb in-conversation with artists Adriane Strampp and Ebony Truscott

11am – 12pm at Warrnambool Art Gallery

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

Artist Profile – 22 March 2017

Uneasy Idyll – Hill Smith Gallery at Art Central for Hong Kong Art Week.

Playing with form and figure, Uneasy Idyll presents four artists who explore the ambiguous and sometimes uncanny relationship between aspects of the land and the figure.

Dissolve 2017 oil on linen 91 x 91 cm
Adriane Strampp Dissolve 2017 oil on linen 91 x 91 cm

On exhibition currently at Hill Smith Gallery as part of Art Central Hong Kong, the gallery has selected four artists from the South side of Australia – Deidre But-Husaim (SA), Matt R. Martin (VIC), Shannon Smiley (VIC) and Adriane Strampp (VIC). Whilst distinct in their own practices, each artist plays with the emotion of the figure or the landscape and the potential connection this can hold with the viewer.

Deidre But-Husaim is known for her diverse works, focused upon the very nature of looking and making rather than solely the concept. Thus her works range from depicting people experiencing a work of art or might be purely an investigation into a phenomenon of nature.

Whilst Deidre switches between man and nature, Matt R. Martin is focussed purely on the subtle nuances of human gesture. Stemming from his mother’s passion for classical ballet, he continues a love for the capability of the human form. His works present the body in strange formations and orientations, reconstructing and depicting body language.

Shifting the gaze to the landscape Adriane Strampp paints tale of the Romantic landscape. Lyrically abstract, there is a sense of an in-between or passing time in her transient works. Strong washes of colour vary in tone across the canvas, painting an emotional narrative. In subtle contrast Shannon Smiley is drawn to the rough and cheeky urban setting – depicting a landscape where nature has taken back over the city. There is a tension between the natural and man-made that Smiley encourages, with the centre of the metropolis presented as unruly and overgrown.

Somewhere between curious ambiguity and painterly detail, look forward to evocative works that present settings that are both strange yet familiar.

EXHIBITION
Uneasy Idyll
Until 25 March 2017
Hill Smith Gallery at Art Central Hong Kong
Central Harbourfront Hong Kong

Courtesy the artists and Hill Smith Gallery, Hong Kong

The Northsider – Offspring Artist 20 October 2014

The Northsider

Arts & Lifestyle

Text by Melanie Dimmitt

In real life
In real life

Melbourne-based artist Adriane Strampp surrendered her home to a television series, incidentally becoming owner of one of the most sought-after lounge rooms in the country (at least, by a legion of Offspring fans). Her Collingwood dwelling (a coat hanger-factory turned two-storey warehouse) boasts an interior and an eclecticism bold enough to echo the chaos of the show’s heroine, Nina Proudman, and Strampp has decided to let it spill out – producing a limited edition of prints straight from the walls of the highly televised abode.

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