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Artist Information:
Amanda Van Gils
Hervey Bay,
Australia
Member Since: Apr 2003

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Artist Media:
Drawing Charcoal (1)
Drawing Other (17)
Mixed Media (6)
Painting Oil (79)
Painting Other (1)
Sculpture Mixed (5)
Watercolor (4)
Artist Statement:
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Statement:

My work aims to engage with
the longstanding tradition of
Australian landscape painting
yet offer a contemporary take
on the genre. Through my work
I aim to explore our ...

Further Information
Artist Exhibitions:
New Exhibition

GOING PLACES
2 person exhibition with
(Simon Collins)
Anthea Polson Art
Shop 19-20 Mariners Cove
Seaworld Drive Main Beach QLD
4217
AUSTRALIA
Tel +61 (0)7 55611166 Email
antheapolsonart.com.au

Opening Night SATURDAY 13th
FEBRUARY 2010 6pm - 8pm

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Going Places (2 person
...

Further Information
Artist Galleries:
ANTHEA POLSON ART
Shop 19-20 Mariners Cove
Seaworld Drive Main Beach QLD
4217
(next to Marina Mirage)
Phone: 07 5561 1166
info@antheapolsonart.com.au
http://www.antheapolsonart.com.
au

UNITED GALLERIES - PERTH
281 Newscastle St
Northbridge WA 6003
Tel: 08 9427 5600

http://www.unitedgalleries.com.
au/

To ...

Further Information
Collections:
Public Collections:
Monash University, Victoria,
AUS
Chisholm Institute, Victoria,
AUS
Private Collections:
Auckland, New Zealand
Sydney, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Queensland, Australia
New York, USA
Berlin, Germany
London, UK...

Further Information
Commissions:
Coming Soon!

Reviews for Amanda Van Gils:



BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Giacobello, Michelle, ‘Gathering’ 30th April 2009 http://michellegiacobello.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/gathering/
2009 Leak, Steven.‘Amanda van Gils’, the golden fish blog 12th April, 2009 http://leakstev.blogspot.com/2009/04/amanda-van-gils-drops-by.html
2009 Collins, Simon, BOOK - Amanda van Gils: Views from a Speeding Train 12th April 2009 http://life-draw.blogspot.com/2009/04/book-amanda-van-gils-views-from.html
2009 ‘Amanda van Gils: Views From a Speeding Train’, self-published on Blurb http://www.blurb.com
2009 Leak, Steven.‘Amanda van Gils drops by!’, the golden fish blog 6th March, 2009 http://leakstev.blogspot.com/2009/03/amanda-van-gils.html
2008 Holsworth, Mark. ‘3 Unrelated Reviews’, Melbourne Art & Culture Critic, 17th December http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/3-unrelated-reviews/
2008 Nelson, Robert. ‘Vigilance of the machine’, The Age, 3rd December, p. 22
2008 Bentley-Singh, Emily, 'All Aboard the Glory Train', Melbourne Weekly Eastern, Edition 46, 17th November.
2008 Modra, Penny. ‘Visual Arts Reviews’, M - The Sunday Age, 16th November, p. 32
2008 Nelson, Robert. ‘John Leslie Art Prize’, The Age, 8th October, p. 20
2008 Nainby, Bryony. ‘The Fall into Understanding’, John Leslie Art Prize 2008 catalogue essay, September, p. 5
2008 Gray Steve, ‘Artists at Work - Interviews with Contemporary Visual Artists’ Art Re-source blog, 13th November 2008 http://stevegray.com.au/blog/amanda-van-gils/
2008 Gibney, Triecia. ‘Getting Started with Art Collecting: Amanda van Gils, Simon Collins, Mike Barr, Dianne Gall and Jim Thalassoudis’ A Reason to Paint blog 12th August 2008
http://trieciagibney.blogspot.com/2008/08/getting-started-with-art-collecting.html
2008 Girdham, Ronnie. ‘Exciting time in visual arts’ Courier Mail, 24th February
2006 Montua, Gabriel. ‘Amanda van Gils - A traveller between fiction and reality (The Go-betweener)’, Mimosa Extra, Vol 3/06 Berlin, p.19 – 21.
2006 Davis, Brendan. ‘Amanda van Gils Everything is possible, there are no limits’, Art Interview Online Magazine, Issue 006/06, Berlin.
2006 World of Art, ‘FAMOUS 100 Contemporary Artists Vol 3’, London p. 203.
2006 Branches - Winter 2005, ISSN: 1536-2043, Uccelli Press, USA


December 2006
"Art Interview Online Magazine is proud to introduce the first place winner of the Art Interview - 4th International Online Artist Competition; Australian artist Amanda van Gils"

"Art Interview Online Magazine brings subscribers exclusive interviews with the world's top artists, curators and art dealers. If you are interested in how today's most successful artists began their careers, what it took to make it and who helped them along the way, I encourage you to join us."
Brendan Davis
Editor in Chief
Art Interview Online Magazine

September 2006
"Amanda van Gils - A traveller between fiction and reality (the Go-betweener)" featured as 'Artist Spotlight' in Mimosa Extra Vol 3 2006. Mimosa Extra is distributed in hard copy in Berlin, Paris and New York and is available online as a pdf file.
View the online version here: http://www.mimosaextra.com/html/iii_06_-pdf.html

April 2006
Amanda van Gils awarded 1st place in the Art Interview - 4th International Online Artist Competition.
The competition ran from January 1st to March 31st 2006 and attracted artists from Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States. 141 original works were submitted.
Interview to appear in forthcoming issue of Art Interview http://www.art-interview.com

February 2006
Amanda van Gils awarded Prize of Excellence in the REAL-TIME 2005 /06 award. Prize includes one-page in "FAMOUS 100 Contemporary Artists" volume three (art book edited and published by WoA, value $2,250.00). See entries at: http://www.artoteque.com/artotech/realtime_show1.htm/realTIME_artists.htm

July 2004
.....Amanda’s paintings represent a dream-like state of consciousness, located somewhere between fiction and reality. Depicting the atmospheric transition from night to day, figures traverse through the sky in surrealistic fantasy. Capturing the moment of waking, when a person is caught between dream and reality, the images reflect this sense of disillusion. As hypnotic as they are beautiful, the paintings are meticulously rendered and highly technically achieved, proficiently describing the artist’s intentions while also allowing for individual interpretation......
Melissa Loughnan

August 2003
Amanda van Gils is a young Melbourne artist who has this year been short listed for no less than six art prizes. It is easy to see what has generated this excitement. Her recent works evoke the experience of travel, as twilight sets loose the connections of the familiar landscape and road with our personal histories. As the end of the day is inhabited by our memories, so the road home carries the reminders of its history. Each speaks of small but significant displacement to accommodate the other.
Dr. M. Krautschneider


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