CV – Amy Clarke

Solo shows

2015 ‘Nature Play’, Depot II Gallery, Sydney
2015 ‘Meander’, Wild Canary, Brisbane
2014 ‘Playing with the landscape, Part II’, Toowoomba Regional Gallery
2013 ‘Playing with the landscape’, Noosa Regional Gallery
2012 ‘Terrain’, The Gallery Eumundi
2008 ‘New works’, Berkelouw Books Eumundi

Group Exhibitions

2022 MODERN LOVE, AK Bellinger Gallery

2022 TRIO, Michael Reid Northern Beaches

2022 NEAP ACB Selects, Michael Reid Northern Beaches

2021 MAKERS’ MARKS, Latrobe Artspace, Brisbane

2020 ‘Isolation in the Landscape’, CoolArt, Sunshine Coast

2020 ‘Appetite for Abstraction’, Michael Reid Studio Direct, Sydney

2018 The Landscape Abstracted, University of Sunshine Coast Art Gallery
2017 ‘Curated X’, Totem Road, Sydney
2017 ‘Figures & Landforms’, Walcha Gallery of Art
2015 ‘My backyard’, Walcha Gallery of Art
2014 ‘Onefourfour’, Melbourne
2013 ‘Return’, Graydon Gallery
2012 ‘Inside & out’, Brunswick Street Gallery
2011 ‘The light & the dark’, Artpiece Gallery
2011 ‘Exchange Exhibition’, Gatakers Artspace, Maryborough, Qld
2011 ‘Exhale’, Cooroy Butter Factory
2010 The Norvill Prize exhibition
2010 African Eulogy, Eumundi, Qld
2009 ‘An Uncertain Landscape’, Doggett Street Gallery
2009 New England Girls’ School Art Show
2008 ‘Little Ladies’, Culture Gallery
2008 New England Girls’ School Art Show
2007 Frances Reilly Gallery, Eumundi, Qld
2007 Mary Place Gallery
2007 Aspects Art Show
2006 Graydon Gallery
2003 Graydon Gallery
2002 Graydon Gallery

Gallery Representation

Walcha Gallery of Art

Collections

St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney
Sunshine Coast University Hospital

Prizes

2014 The Norvill Prize (finalist)
2013 Lethbridge 10 000 (Finalist)
2013 Aspect Art Prize
2012 Redland Prize (finalist)
2012 The Norvill Prize (Commended)
2011 Aspect Art Prize
2011 The Norvill Prize (Commended)
2009 Arts Queensland Career Development Grant

Education

2014 Post graduate certificate in creative industries, Central Queensland University
2012 Drawing with Peter Sharp, Art Workshops Australia
2011 ‘Natura Morte’ course with Emma Walker, Art Workshops Australia
2010 Drawing (Meaghan Shelton), The Butter Factory, Cooroy
2010 Introduction to printmaking (Meaghan Shelton), The Butter Factory, Cooroy
2008 Patterns of Place (Kim Mahood), Noosa Long Weekend
2003 – 2005 Mixed Media (Pam Cowper), Waverley Woollahra Arts Centre
2003 Experimental Textiles, Willoughby Workshop Arts Centre
2000/2001 Printmaking & Painting weekends (Mieke Cohen/Patrick Shirvington), Riversdale Education Centre, Bundanon, NSW
2001 Painting (Elisabeth Cummings), Willoughby Workshop Arts Centre
1999 Life Drawing (Ross Davis), Willoughby Workshop Arts Centre

Artist Statement

My earliest connection with the natural world was through childhood play. Growing up in the bush in the 1970s did not involve toys. The only toys I recall were a Tonka truck (which I loved!), some Lego and a neglected Barbie doll. I felt in no way deprived. We filled our days playing in the dirt. My paintings are tapping into those feelings and memories. In recent years my work has become increasingly abstract, but to me the landscape is still there.

It is my belief that the directness of this simple childhood and our daily engagement with nature laid the foundations of me being an artist. We were always making. To me painting is part play.

I tend to work quickly and without a plan. It’s an intuitive process that grapples with colour, movement and form. A painting is complete when it can balance these things to create a feeling.

Exhibitions

Amy’s work can be found in collections around Australia including the Sunshine Coast University Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney.

She has exhibited around the country in solo and group shows including Michael Reid Northern Beaches, CoolArt, Walcha Gallery of Art, Depot Gallery in Sydney, Noosa Regional Gallery, University of Sunshine Coast Art Gallery and Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery. She received a Commended in the Norvill Prize (2011/2012) and was a finalist in the Lethbridge 10 000 Art Prize (2013) and Redland Art Prize (2012).

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