YANNI FLOROS MELINDA SCHAWEL ADRIANE STRAMPP

ART CENTRAL HONG KONG26 March – 1 April 2018

BOOTH A14

YANNI FLOROS

Adelaide artist Yanni Floros’ new series of hyper-realistic charcoal on paper drawings celebrate the female form as landscape. Attributes such as endurance, patience, courage and bravery are represented in this ongoing series and investigate the female form and landscape as a harmonious and symbiotic relationship.

These works are inspired by the sand dunes of the Sahara desert, the waterfalls of Niagara Falls, snow covered mountain peaks of Alaska and the puissance of the River Seine. The mettle, and fortitude characterised in these works serve as homage to the timelessness of natural landscapes and the female form.

(front detail and above) Sahara, charcoal on paper, 100 x 90 cm (u/f) 115.5 x 104 cm (framed), 2018,

Niagara, charcoal on paper, 100 x 90 cm (u/f) 115.5 x 104 cm (framed), 2018,

Seine, charcoal on paper, 43 x 90 cm u/f, 57 x 102.5 cm, 2018.

Alaska, charcoal on paper, 100 x 90 cm (u/f) 115.5 x 104 cm(framed), 2018.

YANNI FLOROS CV

Education

2004 Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture) National Art School, Sydney

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016 Wolf Market, Michael Reid, Sydney

2014 Ultra Vires, Michael Reid, Berlin

2013 The New Baader-Meinhof, Michael Reid, Berlin

2013 Hostile Takeover, Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne

2012 Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane

2011 First Cut, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Works on Paper, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

2017 Form, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2016 Works on Paper, Hill Smith Gallery National Works On Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery Of Ballarat, Victoria

2015 Represented Artists, Hill Smith Gallery

2014 Walking the Line, Hill Smith Gallery In The Flesh, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

2012 The Game, Tooth and Nail Gallery, Adelaide

2012 This it it, These Walls Don’t Lie Gallery, Adelaide

2011 Yanni Floros + Ben Smith, Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne

2011 Art Melbourne, Lethbridge Gallery, Melbourne

2010 Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

2010 Art Sydney, Lethbridge Gallery, Sydney

Collections

Artbank, Sydney Private Collections

Awards and Prizes

2016 National Works On Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria

2013 Finalist, Mortimore Art Prize, Victoria

2012 Finalist and People’s Choice Winner, Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Adelaide Perry Gallery, PLC Sydney

2011 Finalist, Clayton Utz Art Award Finalist, Lethbridge 10000, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Finalist, Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Adelaide Perry Gallery, PLC Sydney

2010 Finalist, Lethbridge 10000, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Finalist, General Art Prize, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne

MELINDA SCHAWEL

Melinda Schawel’s art practice is a personal and emotional response to phenomena occurring in nature, as well as meditations on the nature of paper itself. Working with a thick 640gsm paper, she drills and tears into the medium with a scalpel and peels it back to create abstract shapes and textures revealing different aspects of the paper’s persona. Drawing ink and fluid acrylics are poured and painted on sections of the torn and perforated paper, creating dynamic interplays between colour and form. Although 2D in format, her sculptural approach to the medium brings attention to the physicality of the creative process, and challenges the traditional limitations of paper as the works often take on a three-dimensional feel. Her intimate knowledge and love of materials and process is apparent and the key to achieving a sense of visual equilibrium.

The pieces in Art Central Hong Kong are a continuation of her exploration into the resilience of fragile ecosystems, which are under threat by both natural and human made events but still able to flourish despite the harshest of conditions.

As arts writer Dr. Sasha Grishin describes her practice:

Schawel creates works of considerable lyricism, where despite the brutality of her making process, there prevails a mood of tranquillity tinged with mystery and wonderment...The perforations in the paper create tiny craters with their own individual pockets of shadow, while the scarred and ripped-up surfaces with traces of graphite form a separate band of textured shapes. It is this constant play with subtle colours, textures and the push-pull qualities of the forms that lead to quite a kinetic and immersive surface...It is possible to see a metaphor in paper as a skin of life or the canary in the coalmine and on it we may notice a reflection on the challenges to the natural environment.

Bleached, perforated paper, 56 x 38.5 cm u/f, 71 x 53 cm framed.

Take a Breath, ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper, 75 x 105 cm u/f, 91 x 120 cm, framed.

Take Me Back, ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper, 56 x 76 cm u/f, 70 x 90 cm framed.

Bommie III, Ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper, 75 x 105 cm u/f, 91 x 120 cm framed.

Below the surface, ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper, 105 x 75 cm u/f, 120 x 89 cm framed.Tumbling down, ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper, 105 x 75 cm u/f, 120 x 89 cm framed.

Re-Growth, ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper, 105 x 105 cm u/f, 120 x 120 cm framed. Resolve, ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper 105 x 105 cm u/f, 120 x 120 cm framed.

(left), Bleached II, Ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper, 56 x 38.5 cm u/f, 71 x 53 cm framed.

Bloom II, Ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper, 56 x 56 cm u/f, 70 x 70 cm framed.

Stonehaven, ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper, 75 x 105 cm u/f, 91 x 120 cm framed.

Flourishing, ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper, 56 x 76 cm u/f, 70 x 90 cm framed.

Take Me Back II, ink, pencil on torn and perforated paper, 56 x 76 cm u/f, 70 x 90 cm framed.

MELINDA SCHAWEL CV

Education

1996 Postgraduate Degree, Fine Arts (Honours) in Printmaking, RMIT, Melbourne.

1993 BA, Fine Arts and Communication Studies (Honours), University of California Santa Barbara, USA.

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Silver Lining, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT Higher Ground II, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide Higher Ground, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney

2016 Protected, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2015 Out from Under Me, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2014 Traverse, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne Traverse, Artspace Foyer Gallery, Mackay

2012 Torn, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2009 Full Circle, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2006 Out of Touch, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2003 Lingua Franca, Global Art Source, Zürich, Switzerland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017 Whyalla Art Prize, finalist, Country Arts SA, Port Adelaide & Adelaide Airport, SA Denfair, with Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne Convention Centre Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Finalist and People’s Choice Award, Sydney, NSW

2016 Works on Paper, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, SA Of Colour & Light, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, Vic The Nillumbik Prize, finalist, Montsalvat, Melbourne

2015 Small Works, Beaver Galleries, ACT

Magical, Neospace, Collingwood, VIC Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Finalist, Campbelltown, Arts Centre, NSW Drawing: A Fundamental Liberation V, Wagner Gallery, Sydney, NSW The Nillumbik Prize, finalist, Montsalvat, Melbourne Roots & Wings, with Belinda Fox, Beaver Galleries, ACT

2013 The Nillumbik Prize, finalist, Montsalvat, Melbourne Grounded, Australian High Commission, Singapore

2012 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW, Australia

2010 Four Squared, Gallery S.P.A.C.E., Savannah, Georgia, USA

2009 Obra Grafica Murtra Edicions, Collegi d’Aparelladors, Barcelona (Mataró), Spain. Four Squared, University Gallery, Uni of Northern Florida, USA 20Plus, Flinders Lane Gallery Paper Works, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, Georgia, USA

2008 Surface Tension, Flinders Lane Gallery The Perfumed Garden, Flinders Lane Gallery

2007 Christmas Collection, Beaver Galleries, Canberra 50, Exchange Folio, Geelong Gallery, Geelong Pure, Flinders Lane Gallery

2006 Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne Art Fair, Flinders Lane Gallery Meeting Place, Keeping Place, George Adams Gallery, Arts Centre, Melbourne Slowly, Slowly, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

2005 Art Sydney 05, Sydney Up to Speed, with Belinda Fox, Beaver Galleries

2004 Ausstellung in der Kupferdruckwerkstatt, Zürich, Switzerland

2003 Del Mar, Kulturbüro Schaufensterprogramm, Bern, Switzerland Grafik und mehr, Galerie Vostry, Erfurt, Germany

2002 Works on paper, Global Art Source, Zurich Land-line, Port Jackson Press Australia, Fitzroy Crossroads, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, VIC Confluence, Warrnambool Regional Gallery, VIC

Awards and Residencies

2016 Residency, The Art Vault, Mildura, Victoria

2015 Residency, Chiang Mai Art on Paper Workshop, Chiang Mai Thailand

2012 Residency, Whitsunday Anglican School, MacKay, Australia

2004 Residency, Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium

2002 Colour Intaglio workshop at La Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miro, Mallorca, Spain Recipient of Pat Corrigan Artist’s Grant (NAVA)

Fine Art Publishers

2006-7 Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne

2003-4 Murtra Edicions, Arenys de Munt, Spain

Collections

Astral (NSW) Jupiters Casino (QLD) Sheraton (VIC) Fraser Suites Perth (WA), Hyatt (Phillipines) Hilton (VIC) Four Seasons (NSW) Stockland Development (NSW) Geelong Regional Gallery (VIC) Royal Museum of Fine Art Antwerp (Belgium) Frans Masereel Centre of Graphic Arts (Belgium) National Gallery of Australia (ACT), Artbank (NSW) Charles Sturt University (NSW) Phillips Fox Lawyers (ACT) Hilton (SA), Sebel Hotel (VIC) Westin (NSW) Park Hyatt (VIC) Crown Casino (VIC) private collections in Europe, USA, Australia, Asia.

ADRIANE STRAMPP

This new work by Melbourne artist Adriane Strampp looks at journeys, travelling to or from one place to another, and momentary stillness, an ongoing interest coming from a peripatetic background.

Strampp’s process begins with a collection of photographs and memories as reference material, a compilation of information gathered from places once visited or inhabited and which continue to have some pull or gravitas. Collectively they conjure up memories, whether physical aspects such as shafts of lights searching an exit or shadow creating mystery, or emotional, such as a sense of anticipation or anxiety.

The information is edited and revised repeatedly as the painting develops and a more intuitive process takes over in an attempt to describe the feeling of a place rather than a direct likeness. Subtle colour shifts merge tonally to create spatial variances, leading the viewer through the work and ultimately guiding them to draw on their own journeys and associations that connect them with the work, and perhaps to a more universal or collective sense of memory.

(front detail and above) The turning, oil on linen, 122 x 122 cm (u/f), 125 x 125 cm (framed) 2018.

Departure, oil on linen, 91 x 91 cm (u/f) 95 x 95 cm (framed), 2017.

Change, oil on linen, 91 x 91 cm (u/f) 95 x 95 cm (framed), 2018.

Pinto, oil on linen, 91 x 91 cm (u/f), 95 x 95 cm, (framed), 2018.

Mooring, oil on linen, 91 x 91 cm (u/f), 95 x 95 cm, (framed), 2018.

Entrance, oil on linen, 91 x 91 cm (u/f), 95 x 95 cm, (framed), 2018. Evening, oil on linen, 91 x 91 cm (u/f), 95 x 95 cm, (framed), 2018.

ADRIANE STRAMPP CV

Education

2010 MFA (By Research), Monash University, Melbourne

1997 New York Studio School Drawing Marathon, Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide

1984 BA (Painting), Victoria College, Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Other Places, Gallerysmith, VIC Pilgrimage, Hill Smith Gallery, SA

2016 Shadowlands, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, Queensland Rosafarben, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, NSW

2015 Vorbeigehen, Fort Delta, Melbourne Transference, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide The Landscape Remembered, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, Queensland

2014 King Street Gallery on William, Sydney

2012 King Street Gallery on William, Sydney

2011 Erlosung: The Animal Gaze, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne

2010 King Street Gallery on William, Sydney Greenhill Galleries, Perth

2009 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney

2007 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney

2006 Eva Breuer Art Dealer@Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne

2005 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney

2004 Contexere, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2003 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney

2002 A Thousand Words, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2001 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney

2000 The Hurlstone Paintings, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2017 Uneasy Idyll, Hill Smith Gallery, Booth C9, Art Central Hong Kong Contemporary Australian Drawing #7, Langford 120 VIC

2016 Menagerie, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia Paddington Art Prize, NSW Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Gallery, NSW John Leslie Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Vic Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic Gallerysmith, 602 Melbourne Art Week Sulman Prize, Art Gallery NSW Glover Prize, Tasmania Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, NSW

2015 Contemporary Australian Drawing, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy Packsaddle New England Regional Gallery, Armidale, NSW Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, NSW

2014 Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic Paddington Art Prize, NSW Walk The Line – Drawing Exhibition, Hill Smith Gallery, SA Salon de Refuses, S. H. Ervin Gallery, NSW

2013 Last but not least, King Street Gallery, Sydney Banyule Works on Paper Award, Vic

2012 Passages of Time, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide The Animal Show, King Street Gallery, Sydney Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Sydney Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Vic Tattersall’s Art Prize, Queensland Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic

2011 Zoo AiR, Newcastle University Gallery, Newcastle Hazelhurst Art Award, NSW Five Miles from the Sea, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne

2010 painthing (as one), Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney ACGA @ Fed. Square, Melbourne

2008 Convergence, a Monash University Research Cluster exhibition, Shifted, Melbourne

2007 Natura, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne

2006 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Tattersalls Club Art Prize, Brisbane Whiteout, Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Victoria

2005 Banyule Works on Paper Art Prize, Melbourne Whiteout, Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Vic Whiteout, Maroondah Art Gallery, Vic Tattersalls Club Art Prize, Queensland

2003 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney University of Anhui, The People’s Republic of China R &M McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery, Victoria Nillumbik Art Prize, Melbourne

2002 ASYLUM, Dante’s Upstairs Gallery, Melbourne We are Australian, Melbourne Immigration Museum, Melbourne

2000 The Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

Awards and Residencies

2018 Nock Foundation, NZ

2016 Hill End Residency through Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW

2011 Acquisition by City of Yarra Contemporary Art Collection

2011 Zoo AiR Artist in Residence, Taronga Zoo, NSW

2010 Kedumba Drawing Award

2009 Travel Scholarship, Monash University

2009 People’s Choice Mt. Eyre Vineyards Prize

1998 Four month studio residency, Umbria, Italy

1993 R.M. Ansett Award

1990 Nillumbik Prize

1988 Nillumbik Prize

Collections

Artbank Arthur Anderson & Co. BHP Billiton City of Hamilton Art Gallery City of Yarra Dovery Manor Museum, UK The Dobell Foundation The Holmes à Court Collection The Kedumba Collection The Leeuwin Estate Melbourne Water Macquarie University Nillumbik Shire Art Collection Private collections in the US, UK, Italy, Belgium, Thailand and Saudi Arabia

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