Lee-Ann Trewartha
"Inspired predominately by the Baroque period, my work is an expression and reinterpretation of the historical image within the context of contemporary art practices; primarily focusing on the portrayal of emotions, and the passions of the soul, through gesture and expression. Whether an anguished face, a hand pressed to the breast, a face filled with joy, rapture or love, or a sublime landscape these images evoke an emotive response.
Through my interpretation of these works I aim to project my images beyond the normal boundaries into a world of excess, where the body becomes the expression and the sensation; writhing with torment, sexual tension, spiritual ecstasy or the pain of martyrdom. I attempt to address disclosure of a concealed truth; making the invisible visible.
Within my work I aim to create an atmosphere where violence and serenity meet, light and contrast become every bit as powerful as form, where shadows create pools of drama and unease; and where the mark of the artist portrays the essence and being of the emotion being portrayed.
In my work, figures and faces respond and react to unseen emotional triggers, often the subjects are not the main focus of the work, but instead witnesses of something greater, poised on a spiritual, liminal threshold of heightened perception and intensity within an ambiguous narrative".
Recent News
Lee-Anne has been invited, by Blake Prize Director Rev Doug Purnell, to join 15 of Australia's leading contemporary artists in the 2010 Stations of the Cross Exhibition that is held annually during the Easter period at St Ives Uniting Church Sydney. Lee-Anne's Station will be "Jesus Meets His Mother".
Lee-Anne has been selected for the Director's Cut Exhibition of the 2009 Blake Prize (Sydney) with her work "Betrayed with a Kiss".
Education
Bachelor of Fine Art - Latrobe University Bendigo 2003
Bachelor of Honours, 1st class - Latrobe University 2006
PhD of Fine Arts (pending) - Latrobe University 2007-10
Awards
Finalist - The Director's Cut (Blake Prize), Sydney 2011
Finalist - The Director's Cut (Blake Prize), Sydney 2009
Australian Post-graduate Award Scholarship upgrade (Doctoral) 2009
European Travelling Scholarship - Latrobe University 2008
Finalist - The Coburn Prize (Blake Society), Sydney 2007
Finalist - The Blake Prize, Sydney 2007
Finalist - The Tattersall's Landscape Prize, Brisbane 2007
Finalist - Redeemer Lutheran Foundation Art Award, Brisbane 2007
Finalist - National Tertiary Art Award 2007
Australian Post-graduate Award (2 year Scholarship) 2007
Dean's Commendation Award- Latrobe University 2006
Bernard Ollis (NAS Director) Award for Painting (Inaugural) 2005
Latrobe Art Department Sculpture Award 2004
Vice Chancellor's Travelling Scholarship (James Madison University, Virginia, USA 2004
National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Award 2004
Golden Key Honour Society Life Member 2003-2006
Group Exhibitions
Art Promotions Queensland (Brisbane) - 20th Year Celebration Exhibition 2009
Rushcutters Bay Gallery (Sydney) - June 2009
Pivotal Galleries (Richmond) - June 2009
Holy 3 - Centre for Ministry and Theology (Melbourne) - June 2009
Art Melbourne - Royal Exhibition Buildings (Pivotal Gallery) 2009
Linden Post-Card Art Show - Linden Contemporary, Melbourne 2009
Christmas Exhibition - mARTas Fine Art Gallery, Townsville 2008
Sydney Art Fair (Paddington Contemporary Fine Art) 2008
‘Dis-Closure' - Latrobe Art Centre, Bendigo 2008
Art Melbourne - Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne 2008
Summer Exhibition - Paddington Contemporary Fine Art, Sydney 2008
Linden Post-Card Art Show - Linden Contemporary, Melbourne 2008
‘Bent over Backwards' - mARTas Fine Art Gallery, Townsville 2008
Art In the Streets - Bendigo Arts Precinct, Bendigo 2008
Shanghai Art Fair - China (Paddington Contemporary Fine Art) 2007
Sydney Art Fair (Paddington Contemporary Fine Art) 2007
The Blake Prize, National Art School, Sydney 2007
Tattersall's Landscape Prize, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane 2007
National Tertiary Art Award, Latrobe University, Bendigo 2007
Redeemer Lutheran Foundation Christian Art Award, Brisbane 2007
‘On the Loose' Maryborough Art Gallery (public) 2007
‘Futures' Bundoora Heritage Homestead - Melbourne 2007
'12 on View' Visual Art Centre Gallery - Bendigo 2006
Graduate Exhibition - Latrobe University - Bendigo 2005
‘Layered' Smith Street Gallery - Melbourne 2005
‘Printers' - Duke Hall Gallery, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA 2004
Solo Exhibitions
‘Born Again Baroque', Paddington Contemporary (Sydney) 2008
A Lordly Racket: Confession of a Baroque Recluse - Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Maryborough 2008
‘Half Sick of Shadows" - Arts on View 2007
Launch Bendigo Feature Artist - Art Precinct Bendigo 2007
‘Portal to a Foreign Land', Heathcote Winery Gallery 2005
Assorted Works - Spiders Restaurant Gallery 2002
Collections
Central Goldfields Public Art Gallery - Maryborough 2008
Publications
Spectrum - Open Gallery - Sydney Morning Herald - July 2009
The Holy 3 Ex Cat 2009 Art Gaze (Townsville Art Magazine) - Review 2008
Dis-Closure, Ex.Cat. Latrobe Art Centre 2008
City Search Sydney - Editorial Review 2008
The Blake Prize for Religious Art 2007 - Ex Cat 2007
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