exhibitions | prizes | media
Ann was born in Sydney in 1970 and has always loved to paint. Her mother was a watercolour artist and her dad was an avid bushwalker. Family camping trips to the South Coast began a passion for wild adventures and vintage vans. Creating art has always been a part of her life.
Ann completed the Visual Communications at the University of Technology, Sydney, graduating with Honours. She then spent 25 years as a creative director in the publishing industry while working as an artist, painting and exhibiting in Sydney.
“… to be painting while travelling is my idea of heaven. It can be a Kombi adventure into regional Australia or a spectacular trip to New Zealand. I take my painting journal where ever I go. I sit with my case of graphite, charcoal and a small palette of paints and start making marks, letting the landscape tell me what to use and how. Without overthinking what I’m seeing I record the colours and the energy of the landscape.
I take these smaller journal paintings and start to work them into larger paintings in my studio. I layer with paint and colour, working with flux, alternating layers of mark making and veiling until I sense I have reached the balance between the mood and the energy of what it felt like to be in that place… ”
Photo by Monty Armstrong
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Solo Exhibition Marking Ground, Art 2 Muse Gallery, Woollahra
Wall Works, The Corner Store Gallery. Orange
A Day to be Remembered, The Moree Gallery
Terrain Group Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange
The Artists Landscape Group Exhibition, The Moree Gallery
2022
Darlings Summer Exhibition, Curatorial + Co, Redfern
Group Exhibitions at The Corner Store Gallery, Orange
Group Exhibitions at The Moree Gallery
2021
Darlings Summer Exhibition, Curatorial + Co, Redfern
Group Exhibitions at The Corner Store Gallery, Orange
Mistress 2, Group Exhibition at Blackstone Gallery, Newcastle
2020
Darlings Summer Exhibition, Curatorial + Co, Redfern
Gallery Artist Exhibition for the IGN Art Fair, Blackstone Gallery, Newcastle
HOME Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange
Abstract Landscape Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange
2019 HOME Block J Studios, Botany
2016 Frances Keevil Gallery Group Exhibition, Double Bay
2015 Group Exhibition, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington
2014 Group Exhibition Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay
2013 Group Exhibition Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay
2012 Group Exhibition Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay
2011 Group Exhibition Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay
2008 Group Exhibition Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay
2007
Group Exhibition Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay
Group Exhibition Glen Street Gallery, Belrose
2006
Art Sydney 2006
Melbourne Affordable Art Show
2005
Art Sydney 2005
Melbourne Affordable Art Show
Group Exhibition Arty Girl, Artier Gallery
2004
Edge 5, Paddington
Group Exhibition Global Gallery, Paddington Frances Keevil Gallery
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Off the Wall, Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay
2010 Tell Tales, Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay
2009 Urban Stories, Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay
Prizes
2021
Finalist for the Blackstone Works on Paper, Blackstone Gallery, Newcastle
Finalist for the Fishers Ghost Art Award 2021, Campbelltown Arts Centre
Finalist for “Mini Series Art Prize”, Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange
Finalist for “Inside this Box”, Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange
2020
Finalist for the Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery
Finalist for the Works on Paper “Blue” Prize, Blackstone Gallery, Newcastle
Finalist for the Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington
Finalist for the Southern Buoy Landscape Prize, Mornington Peninsula
Finalist in 8x10” Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange
2019
Finalist in The Greenway Art Prize
Finalist in The Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery
Finalist in The Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche, Paddington
Finalist in The Northern Beaches Prize
2018
Highly Commended 9x5 Waverley Landscape Prize
2015
Finalist Mosman Art Prize
Finalist Waverley Prize (2 works)
Finalist in Little Things Art Prize
Education
1988 - 1991
Honours Degree Visual Communications, University of Technology, Sydney
Publications + Media
House and Garden, Commissioned Artwork Featured
The Weekend Australian, Mansion Magazine - Etc. Artwork featured
Home Beautiful Magazine - Artist Profile
Art Edit Magazine - Full page Showcase
Inside Out Magazine - Artist Profile
Womens magazine Prevention - Inspiring women in art
Commissions
Collectors in Vaucluse, Bondi Beach, Blue Mountains, Northern Beaches, Clovelly, Cornwall, Hong Kong
On the road with Gus the Bus
Camping on the North Coast with sketch books and surfboards…