Anna Glynn is an Australian visual artist whose diverse work spans the mediums of painting, drawing, installation, moving image, sound and sculpture. Her works have been shown in multiple exhibitions and are represented in the collections of numerous public galleries.

Early life and biography

Anna Glynn grew up on a one-hundred-acre Yarra riverfront farm at Warrandyte on a property with important wildlife habitat now owned by

Parks Victoria Parks Victoria is a government agency of the state of Victoria, Australia. Parks Victoria was established in December 1996 as a statutory authority, reporting to the Victorian Minister for Environment and Climate Change. The ''Parks Victoria Ac ...

. This bushland location formed the basis for a creative childhood interacting with nature and has influenced the subject matter of her work including her 2006 ''Strange Memories'', featured on ABC Radio in 2011. In 1980, Glynn graduated from

Melbourne State College The Melbourne Teachers' College was an Australian tertiary training institution located on Grattan Street, Carlton. It was renamed the Melbourne State College and then the Melbourne College of Advanced Education. In 1989 it became part of the U ...

, University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Education majoring in sculpture and painting.

Art practice and career

Glynn's artworks feature explorations of nature and the environment, and the human connection to landscape. Her exhibition ''Promiscuous Provenance'', commissioned by Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, explored Australia's colonial identity through a contemporary reinterpretation of early representations of Australian flora and fauna. It toured multiple museums and galleries across Queensland, New South Wales, ACT, Victoria and South Australia from 2018 to 2021, supported by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia touring program. Throughout her career of more than thirty years, Glynn has been a finalist in a number of art prizes and has won awards and commissions both in Australia and internationally, including the Noosa Art Award (2016), Kedumba Drawing Award (2015), the Shoalhaven City Arts Award (2001), and the Shoalhaven Arts Board Millennium Sculpture commission (2000).

Recognition and awards

* 2021 - Finalist, FLOW, National Contemporary Watercolour Prize, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW * 2021 - Finalist, Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW * 2021 - Finalist, Stanthorpe Photography Awards, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD * 2020 - Finalist, Heysen Prize for Landscape,

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, SA * 2020 - Finalist, Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, Webb Gallery, Griffith University, QLD * 2019 - Finalist,

Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize , motto_translation = Always towards better things , established = 1901 , type = Independent, day and boarding , denomination = Uniting Church , slogan = Ravenswood widens her world , principal = Anne Johnstone , founder = ...

, NSW

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

2018–2021 - ''Promiscuous Provenance,'' touring exhibition: Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, NSW; Margaret Whitlam Gallery, NSW; Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD; The World Theatre, QLD; Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre, NSW;

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, ACT; Hahndorf Academy, SA;

Swan Hill Regional Gallery Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery is a public art gallery in the regional Victorian city of Swan Hill. Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery is a public gallery, established in 1966. It opened in its current building, designed by Australian architect Ian ...

, VIC; Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, NSW; Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW. 2013 - ''Wonderment'', Leung Fong Oi Wan Art Gallery, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Collections

In 2021 her moving image works were acquired by the National Museum of Australia, Canberra and the

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Art Collection, both in

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. Other galleries holding her works include: * Shoalhaven City Council Art Collection, NSW *

Broken Hill Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. It is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range. It is ...

Regional Art Gallery, NSW *

Bundanon Trust Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, ...

Collection, NSW

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Glynn, Anna 20th-century Australian women artists 1958 births Living people People from Warrandyte, Victoria 21st-century Australian women artists Australian women painters Australian women sculptors Artists from Melbourne