CORINNA HOWELL
Although normally I am a portrait painter, I have recently been taken by the landscape and structures of Battery Point. Having spent the last six months strolling daily through the area on my travels to work, I have had plenty of opportunity to appreciate the iconic cottages and layout of the suburb along with its history. Through stormy winter days and tranquil spring evenings, I have always felt a sense of whimsy when journeying through Battery Point. These works are the beginning to my venture into landscape painting.
Portraiture has always taken my interest as I simply have an obsession for familiarizing myself with the human face and body - though in the last few years of my practice, I have come to concern myself with the identities and relationships we all hold with each other. I find that because of this, it seems appropriate that in my first venture into landscape painting I have taken an interest to the structures and homes we build for ourselves. I am most inspired by buildings that have attention to small detail and unusual combinations of colour and pattern - I find a lot of this in Battery Point
Education
2019 Graduate of a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours majoring in Painting, University of Tasmania, School of Creative Arts and Media.
Awards:
2019 Art Battle Champion, Art Battle Hobart 28th September, Hobart
2019 Artery Emerging Artist Award, Rotary Hobart Art Show, Sandy Bay
2015 Art Studio Practice 3 Award at The DON College, Devonport
2013 Visual Arts Scholarship to Scotch Oakburn College, Launceston
Notable Commissions
April 2019 Illustration work for The Gloamers Pty Ltd for the Stan Original Series The Gloaming currently being filmed in Tasmania.
Solo exhibitions
May 2021 Upcoming solo exhibition
'Food for Thought' at the Top Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
Group exhibitions
July 2020 Kilgour Art Prize, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle NSW
Nov 2019 Tasmanian Portrait Prize, Paranaple Arts Centre, Devonport
Regional Gallery, Devonport, TAS
Nov 2019 Tasmanian Portrait Prize, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Objects Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Oct 2019 Tasmanian Portrait Prize, Salamanca Arts Centre, Long Gallery
Aug 2019 Agendo Exhibition and Award, David Williams Gallery,Canterbury VIC
Aug 2019 Rotary Hobart Art Show, Wrest Point Convention Centre, Hobart, TAS
Aug 2019 Site Energy Construct: Honours work in progress exhibition, Plimsoll
Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Jul 2019 Un-Sensations: exploring the anaesthetized image in progress,
Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Nov 2018 Not Just Paint, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Nov 2018 The Grad Show, School of Creative Arts and Media, Hobart, TAS
Nov 2018 Tasmanian Portraiture Prize, Makers’ Workshop, Burnie, TAS
Nov 2018 Tasmanian Portraiture Prize, Sawtooth Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Oct 2018 Tasmanian Portraiture Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Sep 2018 Subject to Change, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Aug 2017 Impure, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Bibliography:
Swinnen, Lucy: “Inside the Cabinet”, The Advocate, 14 November 2015, p. 30