The Poetics of Connection
21 May – 5 June, 2010

Greenhill Galleries welcome the hauntingly talented artist, Adriane Strampp, with a series of refined and sensitively captured images, inspired by the natural world.

Studying the form of the horse, amongst other creatures, with layer upon layer of shadows, Strampp’s dreamlike images pose the question: Is this reality or is this all imagined?

Moving away from her previous style of bright, bold colours and intensely detailed studies of ancient dresses, landscapes and lifestyles stretching back from the 18th Century to the Renaissance era, Strampp has delicately touched upon a rather beautiful and deeply moving ageless darkness, compelling the viewer further and inquisitively into this enchanted land. Her oil paintings have a sense of unique detailing, exploring the graceful lines, shapes and shadows found only in nature. Yet the hazy texture and outlines of her work are rather like watching the dusk settle, that unique time of day where everything comes alive. This exhibition is sure to enthral and captivate.

Adriane Strampp is represented in public and private collections in Australia including: Artbank, Arthur Anderson & Co., BHP Biliton, City of Hamilton Art Gallery, The Dobell Foundation, Holmes a Court Collection, The Leeuwin Estate, Melbourne Water, Macquarie University and Nillumbik Shire Collection.

ADRIANE STRAMPP - CURRIULUM VITAE:
Born Wisconsin, USA 1960
Education UK
Permanent resident of Australia 1983
EDUCATION
2010 MFA (By Research), Monash University 2001 Part-time lecturer (Visual Arts) NMIT, Melbourne 1998 Four month studio residency, Umbria, Italy 1997 New York Studio School Drawing Marathon, Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide 1984 BA (Painting), Victoria College, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 King St 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
1999 Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide; Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1998 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne; Centro Storico, Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne
1997 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1996 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne; The Bride, a collaboration with Mariana Hardwick
1995 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne; Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1994 Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne 1993 Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne; Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
1991 Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne; Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
1990 Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne 1988 Holdsworth Contemporary Art Galleries, Sydney 1986 Holdsworth Contemporary Art Galleries, Sydney; Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne; Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 painthing (as one), Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; ACGA @ Fed. Square, Melbourne
2009 City of Hobart Works on Paper Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; SQUARED, Greenhill Galleries, Perth 2009 Mt. Eyre Vineyards Art Prize, Rex-Livingstone Gallery, Sydney (Winner Viewers Choice); R & M McGivern Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery 2009 Some Recent Painting: The Director’s Cut, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne; Salon de Refuse?, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
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; Whiteout, Span Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Whiteout, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne; Banyule Works on Paper Art Prize, Melbourne; Tattersalls Club Art Prize, Brisbane
2004 Precious Platters, fund-raising exhibition for The Jewish Museum of Australia, Sotheby’s, Melbourne
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; Nillumbik Art Prize, Melbourne
2002 ASYLUM, Dante’s Upstairs Gallery, Melbourne; Just Married!, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne; We are Australian, Melbourne Immigration Museum, Melbourne 2000 The Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria 1997 Exposure, Artists’ portraits of artists, Linden Gallery, Melbourne; Australia Felix, Benalla, Melbourne 1996 A Taste in Art, in support of Community Aid Abroad, Sotheby’s, Melbourne; Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Victoria; Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Queensland 1996 Australia Felix, Benalla, Victoria; Still Life, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney; Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1995 Chelsea Arts Club, London; Australia Felix, Benalla, Victoria
1993 R.M. Ansett Award, City of Hamilton, Victoria; Möet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
1992 Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne 1991 The Open Door, Sotheby’s, Melbourne
1990 Möet & Chandon Touring Exhibition; University of Vermont, USA 1990 Alice *125, City Square, Melbourne 1988 Heidelberg and Heritage, Linden Gallery, Melbourne ; Still Life in the 80’s, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide; University of NSW Invitation Art Purchase Exhibition, Sydney; A Horse Show, Heide Gallery, Melbourne
1987 A Drawing Exhibition, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne; Paintings from The Leeuwin Estate, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
1986 Oz Drawing Now, Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney; Heart and Spirit, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
1985 Six Young Artists, Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney
COLLECTIONS
Artbank Arthur Anderson & Co.
BHP Billiton
City of Hamilton Art Gallery
Dovery Manor Museum, UK
The Dobell Foundation
The Holmes à Court Collectio
n The Leeuwin Estate
Melbourne Water
Macquarie University
Nillumbik Shire Art Collection
Private collections in the US, UK, Italy, Belgium, Thailand and Saudi Arabia