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Hilarie Mais
Hilarie Mais (born 1952) is a British/Australian artist. She primarily works with as a contemporary abstract painter and sculptor. Early life and education Mais was born Leeds, in the United Kingdom, in 1952. She attended the Jacob Kramer School of Art in 1969 and then studied at the Bradford School of Art in 1970 and 1971, the Winchester School of Art from 1971 to 1974 and the Slade School of Fine Art at the University College London from 1975 to 1977. Career Mais held her first solo exhibition in 1977. She travelled to Australia in 1981 and has since exhibited at the Biennale of Sydney and the Australian Sculpture Triennial. Mais's work has been influenced by the abstract movement in the 1960s, especially English constructivism, and later American minimalism, such as the work of Agnes Martin. Style Mais's work often uses grid-like patterns to explore "abstract visualisation". She seeks to merge a rigid grid structure with more organic natural forms. The geometric pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winchester School Of Art
Winchester School of Art is the art school of the University of Southampton, situated 10 miles (14 km) north of Southampton in the city of Winchester near the south coast of England. History The Winchester School of Art was founded in 1870, and originally occupied Winchester's twelfth-century Wolvesey Castle. In 1895 it moved to new premises in the Kings Court wing of Winchester Guildhall. In 1962 it was granted new buildings, which it still occupies. In 1996, the School merged with the University of Southampton. Textile Conservation Centre The Textile Conservation Centre was a specialist centre for research and training founded in 1975 by Karen Finch at Hampton Court Palace. Between 1998 and 2009 the centre was merged with the University of Southampton and housed from 1999 in a purpose-designed building at the Winchester School of Art. In April 2009, it was announced that the University of Southampton had decided to close the Textile Conservation Centre on 31 October 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slade School Of Fine Art
The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as a department of UCL's Faculty of Arts and Humanities. History The school traces its roots back to 1868 when lawyer and philanthropist Felix Slade (1788–1868) bequeathed funds to establish three Chairs in Fine Art, to be based at Oxford University, Cambridge University and University College London, where six studentships were endowed. Distinguished past teachers include Henry Tonks, Wilson Steer, Randolph Schwabe, William Coldstream, Andrew Forge, Lucian Freud, Phyllida Barlow, John Hilliard, Bruce McLean, Alfred Gerrard. Edward Allington was Professor of Fine Art and Head of Graduate Sculpture until his death in 2017. Two of its most important periods were immediately before, and immediately after, the turn of the twentieth cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biennale Of Sydney
The Biennale of Sydney is an international festival of contemporary art, held every two years in Sydney, Australia. It is a large and well-attended contemporary visual arts event in the country. Alongside the Venice and São Paulo biennales and Documenta, it is one of the longest running exhibitions of its kind and was the first biennale to be established in the Asia-Pacific region. History In 1973 the Biennale of Sydney held its first exhibition of 37 artists in the exhibition hall of the then newly opened Sydney Opera House. *1973, ''The Biennale of Sydney'', Coordinator: Anthony Wintherbotham *1976, ''Recent International Forms in Art'', Artistic Director: Thomas G. McCullough *1979, ''European Dialogue'', Artistic Director: Nick Waterlow *1982, ''Vision in Disbelief'', Artistic Director: William Wright *1984, ''Private Symbol: Social Metaphor'', Artistic Director: Leon Paroissien *1986, ''Origins, Originality + Beyond'', Artistic Director: Nick Waterlow *1988, ''From the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Martin
Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004), was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist and was one of the leading practitioners of Abstract Expressionism in the 20th century. She was awarded a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2004. Personal life Agnes Bernice Martin was born in 1912 to Scottish Presbyterian farmers in Macklin, Saskatchewan, one of four children.MoMA , The Collection , Agnes Martin. (American, born Canada. 1912–2004) ''Moma.org''. Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Beard (artist)
John Beard (born 1943) is a Welsh artist and painter born in Aberdare, Wales, Aberdare, Wales, now based in Sydney, Lisbon and London. Recognition In 2006, Beard won the Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne Prize for Landscape painting, and, in 2007, he won the Art Gallery of New South Wales Archibald Prize for Portraiture. Collections * Artbank Australia, Australia * Arts Council of Great Britain, England * Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia * Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australia * Bibliothèque Nationale de France Paris, France * Buckinghamshire Education Authority, England * Canberra National Convention Centre, Australia * Centro do Arte Moderna da Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal * Curtin University, Perth, Australia * Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia * The Irving Deal Collection of Contemporary Drawings, Dallas, Texas, USA * The Kedumba Collection of Contemporary Australian Drawings, NSW Australia. * Macquarie University, Sydney, Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Archibald Prize 2005 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2005 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Rick Amor – ''Shane Maloney''Image *Bruce Armstrong – ''Self portrait''Image *Martin Ball – ''John Pule'' *John Beard – '' Hilarie Mais'' * Jason Benjamin – ''Staring down the past'' – ( Bill Hunter)Image (Winner of the Packing Room Prize) *Annette Bezor – ''Still posing after all this time (a self portrait)'' *Jon Campbell – ''Double Darren'' * Adam Chang – ''Gene & the doorway'' * Peter Churcher – ''Portrait of Jeffrey Smart'' *Esther Erlich – ''Lindy Wills'' * James Guppy – ''Chagrin'' *Robert Hannaford – ''Bob Brown'' *Nicholas Harding – ''Bob's daily swim'' – ( Robert Dickerson)Image Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 Births
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Australian Artists
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Australian Women Sculptors
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Abstract Painters
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Living People
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