Hannah Dupree - b 1982 Mudgee
CV
Education:
1986 - 1991 Ilford, Millthorpe and Swansea Public Schools
1991 - 1998 Newcastle Waldorf School ( Steiner )
1999 - 2000 Merewether High School
2001 - 2003 National Art School BFA
Work experience:
2002 Costume and Art departments on films “Bootmen” (under Tess Schofield) 1999 and “Postcard Bandit”2002.
2002 - 2003 Lived with Margaret Olley in Paddington
Travel:
2002 Broken Hill, Tibooburra, White Cliffs ant the Corner Country with artists Jane Lander and Kate Tudor Hodgkinson (my mother), July
2002 Flinders Ranges to Lyndhurst for total solar eclipse, then to South Lake Eyre, December
2003 Goolengook old growth forest, East Gippsland, VIC, then to Tarkine Forest west Tasmania
Travels regularly to Ilford, NSW Central Tablelands and Newcastle.
Exhibitions:
2002, John Olsen Drawing Prize, National Art School
2003, Pilate Fini and Giotto, ADDA, monthly shows started in June.
- 'Dabs and Slabs', Cell Block, National Art School
- John Olsen Drawing Prize, National Art School
- Degree Show 2003, National Art School.
Commissions:
2002 Rose Bay Public School, Murals, with artists Alexandra Cornish and Anna Williams, January.
Collection : MGD & GBH
Bush Rhythm II 2003 acrylic on linen 190 x 100 cm purchased at the Degree exhibition National Art School.
Purchased as unstretched canvas - Framed by Linden Stretchers (Hugo Farmer) recommended by Randi Linnegar of King St Gallery
Archive :
Invoice from Linden Stretchers, Hugo Farmer, 21 Jan 2004
See : National Art School
Artist Statement
- (re exhibition of four large works on canvas - City Rhythm I, City Rhythm II, Bush Rhythm I & Bush Rhythm II )
This body of work looks at the Australian Landscape, from the coastline to the city, through the bush and out to the desert. Examining the relationships between the patterns and chaos of nature. It is done with the history of Australian landscape painting in mind from Fred Williams, John Wolseley and Fiona Hall, to the Puppanya Tula. It looks at the picture plane in a modernist sense, while considering the more contemporary ideas on the limits of painting. Finding a way beyond traditional painting practices to other mediums; textas, pencils, pastels, acrylics and aerosol, through weaving and the textile interest in physically building a surface. By continually going into the landscape, both through recording in sketch books and drawing directly onto surfaces, the patterns become internalised, and are able to be constructed more freely in the studio.
These works are a way of getting beyond the horizon. While in the meeting of land and sky there is much drama, there is more to this ancient land, and to art then traditional western perspective. The pattern of a leaf is repeated in the journey of an animal, in an aerial view of a watercourse, in the geography of a continent and the weather patterns. It all comes from the same source, evolution of life. December 2003.
Education:
1986 - 1991 Ilford, Millthorpe and Swansea Public Schools
1991 - 1998 Newcastle Waldorf School ( Steiner )
1999 - 2000 Merewether High School
2001 - 2003 National Art School BFA
Work experience:
2002 Costume and Art departments on films “Bootmen” (under Tess Schofield) 1999 and “Postcard Bandit”2002.
2002 - 2003 Lived with Margaret Olley in Paddington
Travel:
2002 Broken Hill, Tibooburra, White Cliffs ant the Corner Country with artists Jane Lander and Kate Tudor Hodgkinson (my mother), July
2002 Flinders Ranges to Lyndhurst for total solar eclipse, then to South Lake Eyre, December
2003 Goolengook old growth forest, East Gippsland, VIC, then to Tarkine Forest west Tasmania
Travels regularly to Ilford, NSW Central Tablelands and Newcastle.
Exhibitions:
2002, John Olsen Drawing Prize, National Art School
2003, Pilate Fini and Giotto, ADDA, monthly shows started in June.
- 'Dabs and Slabs', Cell Block, National Art School
- John Olsen Drawing Prize, National Art School
- Degree Show 2003, National Art School.
Commissions:
2002 Rose Bay Public School, Murals, with artists Alexandra Cornish and Anna Williams, January.
Collection : MGD & GBH
Bush Rhythm II 2003 acrylic on linen 190 x 100 cm purchased at the Degree exhibition National Art School.
Purchased as unstretched canvas - Framed by Linden Stretchers (Hugo Farmer) recommended by Randi Linnegar of King St Gallery
Archive :
Invoice from Linden Stretchers, Hugo Farmer, 21 Jan 2004
See : National Art School
Artist Statement
- (re exhibition of four large works on canvas - City Rhythm I, City Rhythm II, Bush Rhythm I & Bush Rhythm II )
This body of work looks at the Australian Landscape, from the coastline to the city, through the bush and out to the desert. Examining the relationships between the patterns and chaos of nature. It is done with the history of Australian landscape painting in mind from Fred Williams, John Wolseley and Fiona Hall, to the Puppanya Tula. It looks at the picture plane in a modernist sense, while considering the more contemporary ideas on the limits of painting. Finding a way beyond traditional painting practices to other mediums; textas, pencils, pastels, acrylics and aerosol, through weaving and the textile interest in physically building a surface. By continually going into the landscape, both through recording in sketch books and drawing directly onto surfaces, the patterns become internalised, and are able to be constructed more freely in the studio.
These works are a way of getting beyond the horizon. While in the meeting of land and sky there is much drama, there is more to this ancient land, and to art then traditional western perspective. The pattern of a leaf is repeated in the journey of an animal, in an aerial view of a watercourse, in the geography of a continent and the weather patterns. It all comes from the same source, evolution of life. December 2003.
