Archie 100 | Artist Panel with Ruth Della

12th Aug

Join HOTA Curator Ruth Della in conversation with renowned Australian artists Wendy Sharpe, Robyn Sweaney, Keith Burt and David Fenoglio as they reveal what inspires and informs their creative practice.

Wendy’s prize-winning ‘Self-portrait as Diana of Erskineville’ for the 1996 Archibald Prize in currently on exhibition in Archie 100, whilst Robyn’s ‘Mullum Magic’ and Keith’s ‘Boonah plain air’ are finalists in this year’s Wynne Prize, and Keith’s portrait of Sam Leach and David’s portrait of Christopher Bassi are finalists in this year’s Archibald Prize.

Works by Wendy and Robyn are also held in the HOTA Gallery Collection.

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Dates

12th Aug

Where

The Studio - HOTA Gallery

Ages

All Ages

Duration

1 hr

Tickets

All tickets $15

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Times

Sat 12 August - 11:00am

#Artist Bios

Robyn Sweaney

Robyn Sweaney is an artist based in Mullumbimby situated on the far North Coast of NSW. Sweaney’s art practice excavates the complexities of Australian identity and place by responding to the suburban mundane of rural and urban environments. She is drawn to the quirkiness of the Australian landscape and is interested in how homes and streetscapes function as aesthetic incarnations of the belief structures influencing human behaviours on emotional, intellectual and spiritual levels. Over the years her practice has also included still life, landscape and portraiture.

Sweaney has been the finalist of major awards including in the Wynne Prize, Sulman Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Award, Moran Portrait Prize, Salon Des Refusés, The Ravenswood Australian Womens Art Prize, Tattersall’s Landscape Prize, Fleurieu Art Prize, Mosman Art Prize, Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Paddington Art Prize and the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Prize (JADA). In 2019 she was awarded the Trustees Watercolour Award in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW. In 2016 her paintings were exhibited in the Popular Pet Show exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra and her painting The Promise won the Alan Gamble award at the Mosman Art Gallery. Her work is held in public and private collections throughout Australia, such as The State Library of NSW, Artbank, HOTA (Home of the Arts), Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Stanthorpe, Grafton and Lismore Regional Galleries.

Image credit: Mark Mohall

Wendy Sharpe AM

Wendy Sharpe is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and awarded artists. She lives and works in Sydney and Paris. She has won an extensive list of prizes, residencies and scholarships; including winning the Archibald Prize, the Sulman Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Award (twice), the Calleen Art Prize, the Adelaide Perry Art Prize and the Gold Award.  She has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize 8 times and the Sulman Prize 12 times (more than any other artist).

She has had many international artist residencies in places as diverse as Antarctica and Egypt, and has also been artist-in-residence with the Australian Ballet, Opera Australia, Circus Oz and more. Sharpe was commissioned by the Australian War Memorial as an Official War Artist, the first woman since WWII where she was posted to East Timor. Sharpe has held over 70 solo exhibitions around Australia and internationally.  Her next major exhibition is ‘Where of Fortune’ at King Street Gallery on William Sydney 1-26 August. 

Image credit: John Fotiadis 

Keith Burt

Since 2010, Keith Burt has had solo exhibitions every year in Brisbane and, in 2017, also in Melbourne. In 2020, Burt won the Brisbane Portrait Prize with a portrait of Matthew and Daniel Tobin (founders of Urban Art Projects). He is a five-time Archibald Prize finalist (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023), a finalist in The Wynne Prize (2023), The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition (2010, 2011) and the Clayton Utz Art Prize (2013). Keith Burt also features in a Thames and Hudson publication Still Life (2021) and has completed commissions for Brisbane Grammar School, the Mater Hospital, Brisbane, Churchie Grammar School and Spicers Potts Point.

Image courtesy of Jan Murphy Gallery.

David Fenoglio

David Fenoglio is an artist based in Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia. A 2011 graduate of Queensland College of Art, Fenoglio has exhibited nationally and internationally. While situated in a contemporary context, he draws inspiration from the natural world and art history. Fenoglio has recently been a finalist in the Archibald Portrait Prize in 2023 and 2022, the Doug Moran Portrait Prize in 2022 and previously won the Rick Amor Drawing Prize in 2021.

Image courtesy of the artist.