Robyn Kinsela
Chuffed to be, once again, a selected finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Open Art Award.
Exhibition officially opens, and winner announced, at Campbelltown Arts Centre on Friday November 1.
Exhibition is open from October 26 and continues until December 5
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I am very happy to announce that I am a finalist in the Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize to be held at Noosa Regional Gallery from 1 November to 1 December 2019.
ALSO I have been selected to be a finalist in the NOW Contemporary Art Prize to be held at the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery from 5 October to 23 November 2019.
This is what I wrote when I finished the work earlier this year, and when Northern NSW was suffering major bushfires near Tabulum, among other places. Ironically, again this week, that same area is under bushfire attack again as are 60 something other areas in NSW and 67 in QLD, and it is only September!
“I work from my immediate responses, both tangible and intangible. I was thinking about my brother whose land in northern NSW was engulfed by bush fire earlier this year. My approach with the paint was rapid at first, as were my thoughts.
I often work in series and this, being no exception, is a follow up from an earlier one which I needed to leave for fear of overworking it. Most often, I need a sort of incubation period, after which I return to the work to assess it for changes or corrections. I was desperate to keep the freshness so I quickly photographed and varnished it to avoid any “tidying up” that I am so often succumb to.
My brother is a proud keeper of the land, and I knew that he would see this as part of its evolution. And with that, a new beauty would emerge.”
RECENT AWARDS
2019 WINNER Wingecarribee Landscape Award Bowral Art Galley.
2018 WINNER Inaugural Kangaroo Valley Art Award Kangaroo Valley NSW
2017 SECOND Prize Wingecarribee Landscape Award Bowral Art Gallery.
2016 WINNER St George Art Award Hurstville Museum and Gallery, Sydney
HIGHLY COMMENDED Wingecarribee Landscape Award Bowral
HIGHLY COMMENDED Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize Noosa Regional Art Gallery, QLD.
2015 SHORTLISTED for the Australian Book Design Awards (ABDA);
SECOND Prize Wingecarribee Art Award Bowral art Gallery
2013 Veolia Mulwarree Scholarship for Arts Practice
2010 WINNER Portrait of Local Indentity (Ann Judell) BDAS,Bowral
2009 PEOPLE’S CHOICE Meroogal Women’s Art Prize NSW Historic Houses Trust
2008 HIGHLY COMMENDED Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing PLC Croydon, Sydney
2007 HIGHLY COMMENDED Wingecarribee Print Prize BDAS Gallery, Bowral
2006 HIGHLY COMMENDED Arc Yinnar Drawing Prize Yinnar Vic,
2005 HIGHLY COMMENDED Works on Paper (Digital Print) BDAS Gallery, Bowral
2004 WINNER Photographic Exhibition National Year of the Built Environment SHRG Bowral
2003 WINNER Alvaro Open Painting BDAS Bowral,
WINNER Nick Scali Portrait Prize Southern Highlands Regional
2002 WINNER Works on Paper BDAS Bowral
2001 WINNER Traditional Liverpool City Arts Festival,
COMMENDED Work on Paper BDAS
2000 HIGHLY COMMENDED Alvaro Painting Prize BDAS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 FORM Studio and Gallery, Queanbeyan Distractions
2018 TACIT Galleries, Collingwood, Melbourne Dirt Tree Rock
2017 TACIT Contemporay Art, Abbortsford, Melbourne Levels of Landscape
10K Paces Gallery, Bowral Layers of Landscape
2013&14 Artroomers Art Space, Mittagong
2012 DEPOT II Gallery, Danks St, Sydney, Beyond Eye Level
2011 FORM Studio and Gallery, Queanbeyan West of Wilcannia
2009-10 Sturt Gallery, Mittagong Seen and Unseen
2006 Sturt Gallery, Mittagong Paintings and Prints
2005 Foyer Gallery, Canberra School of Art ,ANU Through the Door
CTC Gallery, Robertson Digital Artworks
2003 Embleton & Kuzemko Fine Art Gallery, Bowral New Works
Finishing Room Gallery, Canberra School of Art, ANU Inform
2002 Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington, Sydney Painting
2001 Sturt Gallery, Mittagong Small Works
2000 Albert Street Gallery, Mittagong Full Circle
1996 Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, Moss Vale Domestic Life: A Survey
1991 Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral Landscape pastels
1986 Sturt Gallery, Mittagong Collages
SELECTED EXHIBITION FINALIST
2019 NOW Contempoary Art Award Shoalhaven Art Gallery, Nowra; Fisher’s Ghost Open Art Award Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney; Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Award Noosa Art Gallery, QLD; SeeChange Jervis Bay Arts Festival; Wingecarribee Landscape Prize Bowral; Pirtek Still Life Award Bowral;
2018 Blacktown Art Prize Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney; Fisher’s Ghost Open & Contemporary Art Prizes Campbelltown Art Centre; Kangaroo Valley Art Award NSW; Wyndham Art Award Werribee, Victoria; Bayside Art Prize Melbourne; Wingecarribee Drawing Prize Bowral Art Gallery, NSW. Goulburn Art Prize Goulburn Regional Art Gallery; My Highland Property Belle Home Landscape Prize Bowral Art Gallery; Pirek Still Life Prize Bowral Art Gallery;
2017 Bayside Art Prize Melbourne; Wingecarribee Landscape Prize Bowral; Pirtek Still Life Award Bowral; Calleen Art Award Cowra; NOW Contemporary Art Prize Nowra; Fisher’s Ghost Open & Works on paper Campbelltown City
2016 Fisher’s Ghost Open & Works on paper Campbelltown Arts Centre; St George Art Award Hurstville Museum and Gallery, Sydney; Heysen Landscape Prize Hahndorf, SA; Pleinair Painting Prize Parliament House Sydney; Pirtek Still Life Award Bowral Art Gallery; Gallipoli Art Award Sydney; Open Art Award Goulburn Regional Art Gallery; Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize Noosa Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Wingecarribee Art Award Bowral Art Gallery; 40 year Anniversary Art Award Kirribili Centre; KIWI Watercolour Traditional Art Award Wollongong Art Gallery;
2015 NOW Shoalhaven Contemporary Art Award Shoalhaven Arts Centre, Nowra; Emsla Eutick Still Life Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery.
2014 JADA Drawing prize Grafton Regional Gallery; Norvill Landscape Painting prize; Kiwi Watercolour Prize; Still Life & Copes Portrait Prizes Bowral Art Gallery; GRAG Open Art Award Goulburn Regional Gallery;
2013 Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize; Muswellbrook Art Prize for works on paper; GRAG Open Art Award; Fishers Ghost Drawing.
2012 Heyson Landscape Prize Hahndorf Academy, South Australia; Fisher’s Ghost OPEN art award & Works on paper
2011 Fishers Ghost Open Art; Muswellbrook Open Art Prize; Goulburn Regional Art Gallery inaugural Veolia Open Art Award
2008 The Outback Art Prize Broken Hill Regional Gallery; Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, PLC Croydon
2006 Mosman Art Prize
2005 City of Banyule Art Award: Works on Paper; Hazelhurst Art Award; Geelong Print Award; 2005 Island Art Prize Tasmania
2004 33rd Alice Prize Alice Springs
2004 & 2008 Norvill Landscape Painting Prize Murrurundi
2004&05 Heyson Landscape Prize Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf, South Australia
2003-06&09 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize Historic Houses Trust Travelling Exhibition
1997,98,2002,07 Fisher’s Ghost Open Art Award Cambelltown City Art Gallery
1996-99 & 03-07,12 Works on Paper Open Awards Bowral Art Gallery
RESIDENCIES
2016 Fowler’s Gap Far West NSW. 2012 Gunyah Artist Residency Mid North coast NSW 2007 Hungarian Multicultural Artist-in-Residence Balantonfured/Csopak, Hungary 2002-06 Artist-in-residence School of Art, Furniture Design Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Vietnam Veterans’ Visible Silence with Kim Shannon Goulburn Regional Art Gallery; Alumni 1985-2005 Sturt Gallery, Mittagong; Where are they now? The Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral. 2016 50 Years On – Vietnam Veterans with Kim Shannon, Mittagong RSL, Sojourns with Andy Townsend & Susie Bleach, John Gould & Bernard Hardy, at M16, Griffith ACT. 2015 New Tricks with Kim Shannon, Gill Graham & Virginai Hall, Bowral Art Gallery Bowral. 2014 NEW(S) Southern Highlands Printmakers, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery & Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra. 2013 Abstracted Landscapes Form Studio and Gallery, Queanbeyan (with Kerrie McInnes,Claire Primrose,Verney Burness) 2011 Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn Blending Boundaries with Tracy Luff, Nicola Dickson and Jason Wing 2010 Containers of Memories (Friends Head of School, Rodney Hayward) ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra 2008 The Gib Sturt Gallery, Mittagong with Tony Ameneiro, John Lascelles, Steve Harrison; Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest 2007 Congress Center, Balantofured, Hungary 2006 TAC, Canberra with Andy Townsend and John Gould; GRAG, Pushing Boundaries (experimental printmaking) 2005 Southern Highlands Printmakers Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney 2004 Traces Southern Highlands Printmakers, Wollongong City Art Gallery 1996 Project Belgium (Moss Vale, NSW and Belgium); Art for Aids (Zimbabwe) 1992 Dogs, Flowers and Erotica – with Jude MacBean (Grafton Regional Gallery)
GRANTS
2008 NSW Artists Marketing Grant, NSW Government (to contribute to marketing costs for the group show, ‘The Gib’
2007 Regional Arts Fund Quick Response Grant, Australian Government (to participate in art residency in Hungary, 2007)
COLLECTIONS Australian National Gallery Canberra and Welsh National Gallery, Cardiff, as part of the Vario Print Exchange; Historic Houses Trust, NSW; Canberra Hospital; Children’s Hospital, Westmead; Hurstville Museum and Art Gallery, Sydney; Alfred Cardiology, Sydney; Lumiere Appartments, Sydney; private collections, Australia, UK, Hungary, USA.
PUBLICATIONS 2018 Southern Highlands News “Highlands artist’s painting ‘a gem'” P5 10 October, South Coast Register 3 October. 2016 Five page profile: Autumn High Life Magazine; Southern Highlands News 15 April, P2, Southern Highlands News 7 November Front page; Snapshot magazine December 2016, P28 2015 Image selected for cover of Southern Highlands Arts Trail booklet; High Life October edition Image selected. 2011 “Blending Boundaries” Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Catalogue 2009 “Belle” Oct/Nov issue (artwork images and acknowledgement) Pp118-122 2009 “Seeking Images – Interpreter, Dreamer, Pragmatist” GRAG Catalogue, ISBN 978-0-9805947-1-3 2008 “Australian House and Garden” Dec issue (artwork images and acknowledgement) Pp62,135,136,139 2004 “Highlands and Country Living” April/May 2004 1995 “Who’s Who of Australian Visual Artists” 2ndEd. Pub: D W Thorpe (Reed International Aust. Pty Ltd) 1989 “Australian Quilts – The People and their Art” Simon & Schuster Australia 1986 “Women as Designers” Jenny de Nijs, RMIT Melb
EDUCATION 1999-00 Certificate IV Assessment and Workplace Training 1970-2011 Various short courses and relevant art workshops and seminars 1999 AVETI Teaching Certificate 1978 Graduate Diploma of Education (Art). Sydney Teachers College 1971-74 Diploma of Industrial Design, Randwick CAE 1970 Architecture, Sydney University
LECTURER, TUTOR, EDUCATOR, CURATOR, PRESENTER 2013-16 Private painting workshops in Southern Highlands 2012&13 Sturt Summer School. Photoshop for Artists 2011 Presenter for Goulburn Regional Art Gallery lecture on artwork in exhibition Blending Boundaries 2011 Judge for the Youth Art Awards, BDAS Gallery, Bowral 2011 Judge for Young Art Show, NSW. 2010&16 Painting one-day workshop at art-deprived Young, NSW 2010 Sturt short course. 3 days Photoshop for beginners. 1994-2009 Teacher Goulburn & Moss Vale, TAFE Illawarra (Painting, Digital Imaging, Drawing, Design, Art Histories) 1998-2009 Curator Student graduation exhibitions, Goulburn & Moss Vale TAFE colleges 2009 Sturt Winter School, Mittagong – 1 week Adobe Photoshop for artists 2009 Sturt short course. 3 days Adobe Photoshop for artists 2008 ABAF presenter (“the artist”), Wingecarribee Shire 2008 Sturt Summer School. Mittagong – 1 week (Photoshop for artists) 2007 Judging panel for The Windmill Trust 2007 BDAS Workshop, Bowral – (Acrylic painting) 2007 Sturt Winter School, Mittagong – 1 week (Acrylic painting and mixed media) 1995-2007 Part-time TAFE teacher in Arts & Media courses at Moss Vale & Goulburn colleges. Subjects include: Drawing, Painting, Art Histories, OHS, Design & Colour, Professional Art Practice, Vocational Experience, Digital Imaging. 2002-2006 Selected as independent assessor for Diploma, Degree, Postgrad and Honours students, ANU School of Art, 2005 Judge of 2005 Youth Art Prize, Bowral 2004&05 STARTS Presenter – Marketing in the Arts 2004&05 Triplecare Farm, Jambaroo. Short 3 day courses mixed media 2004-06 Sturt Summer School, Mittagong – 1 week (Life Drawing) 2004&2005 Invited presenter for STARTS Art Marketing seminars on Professional Arts Practice 2004 Art introduction 2 day workshop for Year 10 Frensham students – Sturt Craft Centre, Mittagong 2003 Norfolk Island Community Arts Group – 1 week (Acrylic painting and drawing) 2003 Facilitator for end of year aboriginal student exhibition, Moss Vale TAFE campus Library 2003 Work Skills teacher: Painting and drawing with Aboriginal Students 2003 Corporate art workshop – Great Gigs, Milton Park, Bowral 2001 Part of Judging panel: NSW TAFE Art and Design Award 2000 Judging panel (with Robin Wallace-Crabbe) for Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Art Award 1998-2001 Contract Art Teacher, Berrima Correctional Centre, Berrima 1990-2004 Private teaching: children & adults – Drawing, Painting and Colour & Design
I am very happy to be included in the Pirtek Still Life Art Award with Black Pot with 2 Lemons at Bowral Art Gallery and judged by Janine Coddington.
It is always fun to paint still life subjects and to manipulate them to however you like in order to make an interesting composition.
The same black pot and (different) lemons have been the subject of previous paintings and no doubt will continue to inspire me in the future.
My exhibition, Distractions, is opening at 6pm Wednesday 12 June, at the fabulous purpose built contemporary art gallery, FORM Studio and Gallery, Queanbeyan.
It would be lovely to see you there and to share some wine with you.
Opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 10am – 4pm
Exhibition runs until 29 June 2019.
Please call in if you are in the hood. We would love to see you.
I develop much of my work in the studio referencing my sketches, photos and written descriptions which help transport me to another place in my memory – back to places I have travelled, known and experienced. It’s as if there is a delayed reaction as if my thoughts need some sort of incubation time.
Recently I have turned to my immediate environment for subject matter where the sounds and my view of the mountain behind me are living, changing yet constant, sources of inspiration. I note the changes in light during different times of the day and the season. Dry crackle hum. The bush pings, the air stings, the kookaburras laugh.
DISTRACTIONS is somewhat autobiographical where the paintings served as distractions to greater world events, and to more personal my-world events.
It is with great pleasure that I announce that my painting. “Rainy Sunday” was the WINNER of this year’s Wingecarribee Landscape Prize at Bowral Art Gallery. Many thanks to all the BDAS organisers and to Kerry McInnes, this year’s judge. Congratulations to all the other award recipients. It was a tough field so I feel grateful.
Rainy Sunday
2019 oil on canvas 61 x 51cm
Judge’s comments: “Deceptively simple and surprisingly evocative of the movement and feeling of rain. Robyn has, with angled strokes and a limited palette, conveyed to us the sensibility of a languid Sunday looking out into a wet landscape. The darker tones in the descending marks not only suggest falling liquid but also serve to ground the painting into what could be an interior, and if so, into a possibility – into a story. this is a wondrous and masterful work.”
The work that I had on display ranged from never exhibited, demonstration, old pre-loved to current new work. As I am not with a gallery at the moment, my work does not include commission or GST.
Please contact me for any enquiries.
robynkinselaart@gmail.com
Currently I am a finalist in the 2018 Fisher’s Ghost Open Art Award , the Fisher’s Ghost Contemporary Art Award and the 2018 Blacktown City Art Prize.
Mountain Drought oil on canvas 122 x 91 cm FINALIST Fisher’s Ghost Contemporary
Recently I was awarded first prize in the Kangaroo Valley Inaugural Art Award
So I am looking at subject matter closer to home with my work this year – the kitchen- in this case.
A Fleeting Moment in Space has been shortlisted for the important Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize which opens at 6pm Thursday 17 May at The Gallery at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Brighton Town Hall.
Exhibition hours are Wednesday – Friday 11am – 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 1pm – 5pm and continues to 8 June.
I hope you can get there.
Dirt Tree Rock opens at TACIT Galleries (123a Gipps St Collingwood Melbourne) on 25 April 2018 and continues until until 20 May.
www.tacitart.com.au
Here are some of the works that may be in the show.
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I am very pleased to be shortlisted for the Wyndham Art Prize. The exhibition dates are 30 March to 11 June, and the opening is on the 29 March from 6.30 to 8.30pm.
Please feel free to invite your friends and family.
“It is our premier event at the WYNDHAM ART GALLERY and we make a splash so come along and enjoy.”
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/
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Easter Afternoon, Fowler’s Gap (60 x 60cm acrylic on canvas) was painted as part of a series of works that I began, and continue to create, referencing and inspired by my artist residency at the UNSW Research Station in the arid desert zone of Fowler’s Gap, 120 km north of Broken Hill, NSW.
Sorry I’m Late is a great little cafe in Brunswick that has just recently opened. Address is 2a/10 Breese Street, parallel to Sydney Road off Hope Street.
Unlike a lot of Melbourne cafes, Sorry I’m Late has colour and a different vibe. Great music, fantastic coffee, wacky cards and seriously good abstract paintings by me from the last 10 years or so at seriously negotiable prices.
Oh, and there is food and can I mention again, great coffee!!
ARTWORKS CURRENTLY AT Sorry I’m Late
Paintings by Robyn Kinsela are on show for viewing, buying or simply enjoying.
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Unfinished History I
Unfinished History II
SOLDOde to a Lemon oil on canvas 91x182cm Finalist in the Emsla Still Life Award
SOLDOde to the Lemon I acrylic and oilstick on canvas 46x92cm Finalist in the Hornsby Art Award
SOLDOde to the Lemon II acrylic and oilstick on canvas 61x61cm
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I do not copy my subject but interpret it as I feel at the time of painting. Drawing, memory and imagination, and using colours and materials that I feel like using, keep me absorbed in the whole process. Sometimes the resulting work comes like a delayed reaction as if my work needs an incubation period – it needs to mature or un-mature.
I know that juggling life and art has its costs and rewards.
There you go….today’s statement maybe it will be different tomorrow!
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