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Artist Statement -




I paint to capture an experience, a feeling, and strive to share it through colour, form, and light.

AERIAL LANDSCAPES
It's a different beauty from the air, more poignant and more objective in its apparent immobility. Whether formal or natural, the landscapes seen from the air become become more abstract.
I can playfully re-order and move around details and elements of reality- mostly trees and shadows- like tesserae in a mosaic.



PORTRAITS
To portray is for me to express an unequivocal presence,
a feeling for an actual person.
Sometimes, there can be an ambivalence, an invitation to a question, particularly fascinating when painting young people.
For me, a successful portrait has an element of timelessness, while revealing something about the subject's present circumstance.


BACKGROUND

Born in France, I was a child who was drawing all the time. But for various reasons, I was unable to attend Art school growing up, and became a clothes/costume designer for ten years before studying (section Communication Visuelle) at the Paris Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs.
My aim then was to reach a wide audience trough Print, and Paris Art Publisher Flammarion gave me the first of a series of commissions by Print and Card publishers (Flammarion in France, Artistsworks in the USA, Poster Editions and Habit Press in Australia) This work on paper was featured at Art Expo New-York every year between 1985 and 1990, and at the Toyama Museum's of Modern Art first Poster Triennale.
I worked and lived in Paris, Tunesia and Los Angeles, before settling in Sydney in 1986. When two of my publishers disappeared during the 90's recession, I taught myself to paint with oils and started to exhibit, in Australia and France
In 1996 & 97 I studied 'old masters' painting techniques at the Charlie Sheard Studio School in Sydney, and later furthered my printmaking experience at the Warringah Printmaking studio.
I occasionally teach portraiture at the Waverley Woollahra Art Centre, Sydney

Artist Exhibitions



2017 NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL ART MUSEUM Pack Sadlers group exhibition
2017 DADAART Aux Sources dApolline, group, France
2011 TAMWORTH REGIONAL GALLERY, solo exhibition, September 10
2011 25 Years of WAVERLEY ART PRIZE WINNERS, group survey, Waverley library
2009 NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL ART MUSEUM Pack Sadlers group exhibition
2009 WORKSHOPPED 09 in association with POWERHOUSE MUSEUM, Chiffley Plazza
2009 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, New building, Ian Potter collection
2008 NG ART GALLERY, Food for Thought, group show
2007 SH ERWIN GALLERY, THE PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL AWARD exhibition
2006 NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, Canberra, recent acquisitions
2006 CHARLES HEWITT GALLERY, Four views, landscape show
2006 WILLOUGHBY ART PRIZE exhibition
2006 SH ERWIN GALLERY, THE PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL AWARD exhibition
2005 ARTHOUSE HOTEL, SYDNEY, PAA exhibition
2005 GALLERY 1602 WASHINGTON, THE MACQUARIE PAA EXHIBITION
2004 SH ERWIN GALLERY, THE PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL AWARD exhibition
2004 SHAPIRO GALLERY, �NATURE CALLS�
2003 THE DEPOT GALLERY, 4 SHARPS ON A FLAT WALL
2003 THE BLAKE PRIZE exhibition, University of Sydney
2003 SH ERWIN GALLERY, THE PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL AWARD exhibition
2003 WARRINGAH PRINTMAKERS STUDIO Annual Exhibition
2003 THE SHIRLEY HANNAN PORTRAIT PRIZE Bega Regional Gallery
2002 SH ERWIN GALLERY, THE SALON DES REFUSES,
2003 INAUGURAL PAA show, Arthaus Hotel
2002 CUSTOMS HOUSE, Sydney, �Exposition Francophone�
2001 SH ERWIN GALLERY, THE PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL AWARD exhibition
2000 CARACTERE, Colmar, France
1999 SH ERWIN GALLERY, THE PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL AWARD exhibition
1992 GALERIE LILIANE FRANCOIS, Paris
1991 AMBASSADE D�AUSTRALIE, Paris Impressions dAustralie
1991 GALERIE TRANSIT, Srasbourg, France
1991 THE MOSMAN ART PRIZE �Winners selection�
1989 PICA, FESTIVAL OF PERTH
1989 LA PLAGE, Noosa Heads
1988,90,96 THE WAVERLEY ART PRIZE, Australia
1986 WAVERLEY ART PRIZE, WINNER Print Section
1985 FIRST POSTER TRIENNALE, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
1985 CINTRA HOUSE Gallery, Brisbane
1986 CASEY GALLERY Sydney
1985, 86, 87,88,89,90 ART EXPO New York Print Fair









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Artist Publications



'(your work is)...very honest and evocative. Quiet but emotionally resonant'
Robert Mc Farlane, September 2011


"...I had the opportunity to go to an art opening at the Shapiro Gallery in Queen Street, Paddington. It was a joint exhibition by husband and wife Yoli Salmona and Alexander Sharp. It was called Nature Calls and was a fantastic exhibition of both photographic and art work around nature's themes." excerpt of Senator Ian Cohen argumentation on Threatened Species Legislation, at NSW Parliament House, 27.10.04

'Yoli is a serious artist, with a soft but distinctive touch...'
John McDonald, Art writer, Sydney 2003

'Yoli Salmona harponne l'invisible qui se love au sein du visible. Elle montre l'attente, le secret, en se maintenant sur la ligne de crête d'un réalisme qui, finalement, perce la lumière'
Pr Daniel Leuwers, Cultural Attaché at The French Embassy in Australia 1991

'In judging the Print Section I was looking for works that combined the distinctive quality of the chosen print technique, with the artist's personal view of life, as well as an aesthetic arrangement of formal design. The winning work 'Hotel Bondi' by Yoli Salmona is a highly accomplished use of the silkscreen medium, and strikingly dramatic in its crisp economical arrangement of form and colour. However, its outstanding feature is the irony of concept - the presentation of an historical respectable façade with masks the true nature of the environment and contempory life style...'
Ruth Faerber, 1986

PUBLISHED, REPRODUCED IN PRINT AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA

ABC New England North West NSW Steam, liquid and ice
exploring themes around water -
-http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2011/09/14/3317881.htm
RADIO EASTSIDE RADIO, Monday Arts programme, December 13, 2010
INSIDE OUT MAGAZINE Blog spot, Aug 4, 2009, "A look at WORKSHOPPED 09"
WORKSHOPPED 09 CATALOG
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY WEBSITE September 2007
CHANNEL TVS Sydney June 06
EAST WEST ARTS Sept-Nov 2005
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY WEBSITE October 2004
AUSTRALIAN ART COLLECTOR Jeremy Eckles July 2003
SMH SPECTRUM Suzan Wyhdham “Family hangs up” March 1st 2003
AUS. FIN. REVIEW John Mc Donald “The Archibald close brush with fame” 8 June 2002
SBS Radio March 14, 2002
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Bruce James“The cheek of it” 6 Nov 1999
ABC TV 6 o’clock News Selection from The Portia Geach Award 1999
LE COURRIER AUSTRALIEN April 1998
WHO’S WHO of Australian Visual Artists, DW THORPE/NAVA 1995
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD /Arts/ 16 June 1993
FR3 TV France ”CILAOS” 5 june 1993
VOGUE Entertaining Jan 1988 & Sept 1993
VOGUE Hommes France, Charlélie Couture Oct 1992
CARNETS AUSTRALIENS, Daniel Leuwers France1991
THE WENTWORTH COURRIER, ‘A legend is created in east’: DINGO
MOVIE POSTER and CD cover for “DINGO” with Miles Davis
STUDIO COLLECTIONS Dec1988
THE COURRIER MAIL Brisbane 30 May 1986
HARPERS BAZAAR Dec 1986
GRAPHIS Magazine August 1986
GRAPHIQUE DE FRANCE, ARTISTWORKS, BRUCE MCGAW,
FLAMMARION, POSTER EDITIONS and many more Poster catalogs 1985-90
ACTUEL Magazine Paris Dec 1982 ...

Artist Collections



National Portrait Gallery of Australia
Dayko Group
Ferrier Hodgson collection
Waverley Council
Pacific Bank, USA
Mariott Hotels, USA
Private collections, Australia, Europe, Tahiti, Japan, USA
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