Camilla Connolly
Camilla Connolly was born in Sydney. She currently lives and works from her home based studio in Murwillumbah, NSW.
In her recent work, Connolly has been focusing on the local landscape of the Tweed and she is presently working on a series that incorporates ideas of time and memory, using the landscape as the body. She continues to develop both the formal and expressionist elements that have driven her work over the past three years. Increasingly, Connolly has sought a reconsideration of the modernist principles that underpin a sophisticated painting practice.
Connolly believes, "All good painters pursue their own journey, undaunted by the prevailing milieu and current art scene trends". The result is a continually developing body of work that is founded on an integrity of vision and a careful and honest balance between form and content.
Connolly's work is generating increasing interest and is held in private collections throughout Australia as well as in London, France and New York.
Exhibitions
2008 Colin Biggers and Paisley, Private View, Sydney
2007 'Persons of Interest', Newtown Fine Art Gallery, Sydney.
2007 National Portrait Gallery of Australia - online exhibition.
2007 'Portia Geach Memorial Award', S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2007 Country Energy Finalists' Exhibition, Dubbo Regional Gallery
2007 Olive Cotton Award Finalists' Exhibition, Tweed River Art Gallery
2007 Waverley Art Prize, Waverley-Woollahra Art Centre, Bondi
2007 Art Melbourne, Royal Exhibition Centre, Carlton
2007 Gallery Artists at Pivotal, Pivotal Galleries, Richmond
2007 Outback Art Prize 2007 Selected Finalists' Exhibition, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2006 'Family Matters-Fractured Fairytale', Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
2006 Border Art Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery
2006 Bangalow Affordable Art Show, Bangalow, NSW
2006 Countryscapes Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
2006 Redland Finalists' Art Awards, Redland Regional Gallery
2006 Wayside Chapel Charity Auction, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
2006 Country Energy Prize for Landscape Finalists' Exhibition, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn
2006 Art Sydney, Royal Exhibition Building, Sydney Showgrounds
2006 Art Melbourne, Royal Exhibition Centre, Carlton
2006 Women Artists Exhibition Sheoak Shack, Fingal
2005 Barrack Gallery, Sydney
2005 Brisbane Art Fair, Brisbane Exhibition Centre
2005 Border Art Prize Exhibition, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2005 FEHVA Exhibition, Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre. Byron Bay
2005 Discovery Art Show, Gasworks Art Park, Port Melbourne
2005 Pivotal Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne
2005 'Carizma', Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton
2005 "Man's Best Friend", Next Contemporary Art Space, Southern Cross University, Lismore
2004 'A Narrative in Paint', Barrack Street, Sydney
2004 Sheoak Shack Gallery, Fingal
2004 FEHVA Art Exhibition and Auction, Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre, Byron Bay, NSW
2004 Waywood Gallery, Byron Bay
2003 'Icons', Waywood Gallery, Byron Bay
.
.
