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Artist Statement:
VISIT www.amandavangils.com
Statement:
My work aims to engage with
the longstanding tradition of
Australian landscape painting
yet offer a contemporary take
on the genre. Through my work
I aim to explore our dynamic
psychological relationship to
the world around us.
In the past I have explored
the idea ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
CURRENT EXHIBIION
Views from a Speeding Train
Jenny Port Gallery
3rd - 20th December
Level One, 7 Albert Street
Richmond, VIC, 3121
AUSTRALIA
Opening Night Wednesday 3rd
December 6pm - 8pm
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 So much to see and do,
Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney
2007 A Poetic Line, Rex
Livingston Art ...
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Artist Galleries:
ANTHEA POLSON ART
Shop 19-20 Mariners Cove
Seaworld Drive Main Beach QLD
4217
(next to Marina Mirage)
Phone: 07 5561 1166
info@antheapolsonart.com.au
http://www.antheapolsonart.com.
au
JENNY PORT GALLERY
Level 1, 7 Albert Street
RICHMOND, VICTORIA 3121
AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 3 9429 6006
info@jennyportgallery....
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Artist Reviews:
2008 Nelson, Robert,
'Vigilance of the machine',
The Age, 3rd December, p. 22
2008 Bentley-Singh, Emily,
'All Aboard the Glory Train',
Melbourne Weekly Eastern,
Edition 46, 17th November.
2008 Modra, Penny. 'Visual
Arts Reviews', M - The Sunday
Age, 16th November, p.32
2008 Nelson, Robert, 'John
Leslie Art Prize', ...
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Collections:
Public Collections:
Monash University, Victoria,
AUS
Chisholm Institute, Victoria,
AUS
Private Collections:
Auckland, New Zealand
Sydney, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Queensland, Australia
New York, USA
Berlin, Germany
London, UK...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Amanda Van Gils Biography:
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Female
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Married
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1
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| Education |
Post Graduate Degree |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Contemporary Art - (Now)
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| Your Personal Biography |
From ART RE-SOURCE. The Art Re-source blog...ideas, thoughts, theories, explorations,views, processes, people, galleries etc!
Amanda van Gils is an established Melbourne Victoria painter working in oils. She is represented by, Schubert Contemporary in Qld, and is about to have her first exhibition with Jenny Port Gallery in Melbourne and is also about to join a new gallery in Sydney, you can see more about her, on her website http://www.amandavangils.com
Amanda has entered numerous art prizes and been the finalist in most, she has a Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts and a number of exhibitions to her credit.
What are you currently working on?
Finishing off a few paintings for my next solo exhibition, which is opening very soon on 3rd December at Jenny Port Gallery. They are essentially landscapes viewed through time with multiple layers of meaning.
Do you have one word or statement to describe your current works?
Movement.
Now give us a more descriptive outline on your current works.
I guess it is a meditation on painting, and using high speed travel as a metaphor to create images of the rapid glimpses captured as we hurtle through the world. A strange and subtle melancholia - as in a sense that none of us can be sure of where ‘times’ are leading - metaphorically, spiritually, politically, economically - just this fast train we are all on in the early 21st century.
How did you get into art?
Quite by accident. When I was 15 I went with a friend to an art school open day just for something to do, we went our separate ways and I wandered into the painting studio. The smells were somehow just magical to me and that was it, I started drawing the next day and applied to the local TAFE to study art.
You can read more here: http://stevegray.com.au/blog/amanda-van-gils
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