About
Artist Statement
I paint portraits and the occasional landscape, but my heart is truly in my work using found imagery from mid 20th Century photography and Super 8 film. I collect images which ask to be brought to the present through paint. Sometimes I use a solid background to give the subject all the attention, and also to represent the abyss from which they have been brought forth from due to redundancy of technology from the 20th Century. I take great pleasure in spending time with the people in my images and bringing them out to be seen.
There is no nostalgia here, but rather an unflinching look at the temporality of time —at its brilliance and purity, as well as its distortions and figments of imagination.
Bio
Andrea Sinclair has been a finalist in several art prizes in Australia a most recently she won the inaugural National Emerging Art Prize in 2021. She was also the winner of Best Gippsland Landscape in the John Leslie Art Prize 2018 and has been a finalist in both the Doug Moran Portrait Prize and in the Darling Portrait Prize in the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Andrea has made Melbourne her home since the 1990’s. She has been painting full time since receiving her MFA in 2018 from RMIT and is passionate about sharing art and creativity with anyone who wants to learn.
https://www.formanartandframing.com.au/collections/andrea-sinclair
https://michaelreidnorthernbeaches.com.au/artist/andrea-sinclair/
https://www.instagram.com/satchandcogallery/
CV
EDUCATION
2016 Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Master of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Solstice, Michael Reid Northern Beaches, Newport - Sydney
2022 A Day Just Like Today, Michael Reid Northern Beaches, Newport - Sydney
2018 ReView, Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood
2017 Not Here, Not Now, Alternating Current Art Space, Windsor
2016 Swim, Tacit Contemporary, Abbotsford
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Human Condition, Off The Kerb Gallery, Collingwood
2021 Oprah Has An Arts Degree, Black Cat Gallery, Collingwood
2021 Winter Days, Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood
2019 Scavenger, Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne
2019 Fleeting, Satellite Projects, Melbourne
2018 Graduate Exhibition MFA, RMIT University, Melbourne
2018 Four Legs Good, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2017 At the End of the World, M Contemporary, Woolloomooloo
2016 Graduate Exhibition, BFA, RMIT University, Melbourne
2014 Graduate Exhibition Advanced Diploma, RMIT University
2013 The Work, Nyora Studio Gallery, Eltham
2012 Bonjour, Bonjour, Nyora Studio Gallery, Eltham
2011 Live Love Life, Box Hill Community Centre Gallery, Box Hill
2010 Live Love Life, AGRA Gallery, Camberwell
2009 Five in Cato, Victoria Artists Society, Melbourne
PRIZES
2021 National Emerging Art Prize, Winner - Sydney
2021 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Semi-Finalist - Sydney
2021 National Emerging Art Prize, Finalist - Sydney
2020 Darling Portrait Prize, Finalist – National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2020 Ravenswood Art Prize, Finalist - Sydney
2020. Lethbridge Art Prize, Finalist - Brisbane
2018 John Leslie Art Prize, Winner – Best Gippsland Work, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2017 Clyde & Co Graduate Art Award, Winner, Melbourne
2016 Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Second Prize, Camberwell
2015 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Semi-Finalist, Sydney
2014 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Finalist, Sydney
2013 Nillumbik Prize, Finalist, Montsalvat, Eltham
2010 Red, Winner Second Prize, City of Yarra, Mooroolbark
2009 Nillumbik Prize, Finalist, Montsalvat, Eltham
2008 Nillumbik Prize, Finalist, Montsalvat, Eltham
COLLECTIONS
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria. Private collections in Australia, Canada and USA.