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