Aida Tomescu

Aida Tomescu is an Australian painter. Born 1955 Bucharest / Arrives Australia 1980.[1][2] Tomescu is well known for her abstract paintings, drawings and prints.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Awards

Tomescu is the inaugural winner of the 1996 Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne LSFA Arts 21 Fellowship. She is also a winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize, the Wynne Prize for landscape and the Dobell Prize for Drawing from the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[12]

Exhibitions

Tomescu's work was the subject of a major survey exhibition at the Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra in 2009 http://sullivanstrumpf.com/artists/aida-tomescu/exhibitions/abstraction/works.[13] [14][15] This is one of over thirty solo exhibitions for the artist.[16] Tomescu’s graphic works were included in the major survey of prints and drawings Out of Australia at the British Museum, London in 2011.[17]

Her works have been a part of many important exhibitions including: ''The Triumph of Modernism'' at TarraWarra Museum of Art curated by Edmund Capon.[18] "Abstraction: The Heide Collection" at Heide Museum of Modern Art (2015); "The Mind's Eye", Art Gallery of South Australia (2013); "Contemporary Encounters", Ian Potter Museum of Art (2010). Tomescu has also participated in a number of international events including Art Stage Singapore (2015) and Art Basel Hong Kong (2015)[19]

Collections

Tomescu’s work can be found in all major institutional collections within Australia. The Art Gallery of New South Wales has over 20 of her works in the collection.[20][21][22][23]

References

  1. ↑ http://ocula.com/artists/aida-tomescu/?gclid=CPnZlfDYwMcCFUiSvQodi00A0g
  2. ↑ McCulloch, Alan; & McCulloch, Susan. Encyclopedia of Australian art. 1994 St Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin (3rd revised edition), p703-704.
  3. ↑ http://johnmcdonald.net.au/2009/mccubbin-last-impressions-aida-tomescu/
  4. ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/australian-painters-are-still-the-stars-of-the-art-scene-20141204-11zjqj.html
  5. ↑ http://www.artcollector.net.au/Assets/358/1/36_tomescu.pdf
  6. ↑ Pearce, Barry. '100 Moments in Australian Painting', 2014, NewSouth Publishing, in association with the Art Gallery of NSW
  7. ↑ Grey, Anna (ed.) 'Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia', 2002, National Gallery of Australia, p. 418
  8. ↑ Kolenberg, Hendrik. 'Australian Prints, exhibition catalogue', 1998, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  9. ↑ McDonald, John. ‘Wild and Wondrous,’ Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 25, 2012
  10. ↑ McDonald, John. ‘Pathways to other worlds’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 September 2007
  11. ↑ McDonald, John. ‘Lines of Thought,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 September, 2011
  12. ↑ http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/channel/clip/435/
  13. ↑ "Aida Tomescu: Paintings And Drawings".
  14. ↑ Grishin, Sasha. ‘Power in the Individual Vision,’ The Canberra Times, 20 October 2009
  15. ↑ http://johnmcdonald.net.au/2009/mccubbin-last-impressions-aida-tomescu/
  16. ↑ http://sullivanstrumpf.com/assets/Uploads/Tomescu-Aida-2015.pdf
  17. ↑ http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=138446
  18. ↑ http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/australia-features/9591122/no-lemons-here/
  19. ↑ "Sullivan+Strumpf » Art Basel Hong Kong 2015". sullivanstrumpf.com. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  20. ↑ http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?images=y&artist_id=tomescu-aida
  21. ↑ http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/171.2011/
  22. ↑ http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/331.2008/
  23. ↑ http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/558.1993/

External Links

Aida Tomescu talks about her paintings

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