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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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Artist Statement for Amanda Van Gils
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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 of people’s place in the environment through various permutations, primarily: the absence of people, people disconnected from the landscape, and moments observing others (most often children) at imaginative play creating their own space. In doing this, I have experimented with juxtaposing elements in unexpected settings to invert traditional notions of perspective and perception.
The landscapes in my works are not grand landscapes, they are small and familiar; these places are part of our everyday lives and they inform our understanding of the world. My paintings share their quietness, yet I draw on the unpredictable and the anomalous to explore how we respond to them.
My current body of work View from a Speeding Train, moves the figure off stage; the viewers are given the view of the landscape yet are drawn to the narrative of the viewer within the painting (the unseen person looking out the window). This interplay between movement and stillness, outside and inside, encourages the observer to make choices in their reading of the paintings that ultimately link to their own specific relationship to place.
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