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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
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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/
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Artist Reviews:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Giacobello, Michelle,
‘Gathering’ 30th April 2009
http://michellegiacobello.wordp
ress.com/2009/04/30/gathering/
2009 Leak, Steven.‘Amanda van
Gils’, the golden fish blog
12th April, 2009
http://leakstev.blogspot.com/20
09/04/amanda-van-gils-drops-by.
html
2009 Collins, Simon, BOOK -
Amanda van Gils: Views from
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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...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Amanda Van Gils
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Visit my website www.amandavangils.com or follow me on Facebook for regular interactive updates http://www.facebook.com/AmandavanGilsArtist
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 dynamic psychological relationship to the world around us.
In the past I have explored the idea of people’s place in the environment through various permutations, primarily: the absence of people, people disconnected from the landscape, and moments observing others (most often children) at imaginative play creating their own space. In doing this, I have experimented with juxtaposing elements in unexpected settings to invert traditional notions of perspective and perception.
The landscapes in my works are not grand landscapes, they are small and familiar; these places are part of our everyday lives and they inform our understanding of the world. My paintings share their quietness, yet I draw on the unpredictable and the anomalous to explore how we respond to them.
My current body of work View from a Speeding Train, moves the figure off stage; the viewers are given the view of the landscape yet are drawn to the narrative of the viewer within the painting (the unseen person looking out the window). This interplay between movement and stillness, outside and inside, encourages the observer to make choices in their reading of the paintings that ultimately link to their own specific relationship to place.
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