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19 Nov 2024
Amanda Penrose Hart
We are excited to announce that Brisbane born artist, Amanda Penrose Hart, is this year's Artist-in-Residence at PLC Sydney.
Amanda Penrose Hart's 'Deep Deep Blue', acrylic on paper (top) and 'Twins' (above), oil-on-board. Amanda is predominantly an en plein air landscape painter. She lives and works in Sofala and regional NSW and has been represented by King Street Gallery since 2003.
Brisbane born artist Amanda Penrose Hart is predominantly a landscape painter. Penrose Hart graduated from Queensland College of Art in 1983 with a Diploma of Fine Art, and then again from Griffith University in 1991, with a Bachelor of Visual Arts.
Travelling, and en plein air practice is intrinsic to Amanda’s work; she extrapolates the significance of a place through her work. Dr Andrew Frost suggests she evokes a familiarity with landscapes unseen, by connecting the audiences personal experience with her interpretations of (to date) Australian and European landscapes.
Penrose Hart has featured in numerous selective group exhibitions, more often than not following artist trip’s or artist-run projects such as Your Friend the Enemy, and Salient (both commemorative exhibitions of the Great War), and River on the Brink: Inside the Murray Darling Basin, which aimed to raise awareness for the impacts of drought and climate change in Australia.
Amanda won the Gallipoli Art Prize in 2017 and the Clayton Utz Award in 2019. Amanda has also been a finalist in the Tattersalls Landscape Prize, Kings School Art Prize, the Salon des Refusés and NSW Parliament en Plein air, as well as the Portia Geach Memorial Award, the Kedumba Drawing Award, Muswellbrook Art Prize, and the Kilgour Art Prize.
You can see Amanda’s portfolio of work here.
We warmly welcome Amanda to the Croydon and look forward to working with her in the year ahead.
