CARLA HANANIAH
Having spent her childhood in New Zealand surrounded by the country’s breathtaking landscape Hananiah sought to capture the raw and sublime experience of witnessing vast horizons at play with natural light and shadow. Now based in Australia, the overwhelming beauty of nature and our relationship to its bewildering force inspires Hananiah’s work.
Each work of Hananiah’s can be viewed as a travel journal in visual form and a collection of musings on the sublime. Her landscapes seek to document her journeys as an emotional response to the poetry and energy around her. Her subjects include central desert plains, the cloud enshrouded Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, the deserted mountain ranges and sheer drops to lakes of the south of New Zealand, and the wild deserted beauty of northern New Zealand.
It is Hananiah’s technique, however, that has drawn so much attention. Exuberant brush strokes and marbled skies uniquely capture light, shadow and shape across immense spaces. The purity of colour in her works also purveys a sense of mysticism bordering on the spiritual.
Qualifications
2012
Master of Fine Arts by Research, University of New South Wales
2008
Master of Art, University of New South Wales
2004
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
Collections
Macquarie Group Collection
Hornsby Shire Council
Trinity College, VIC
Awards
2012
Winner: The Mosman Art Prize Viewers Choice Award
2011
Winner: The Blake Prize Society’s John Coburn Emerging Artist Award
Winner: Hornsby Art Prize
Winner: Winsor & Newton Start your Studio Scholarship
2009
2nd Runner-Up Award, UNSW Arc Annual Exhibition, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition History
2012
Mosman Art Gallery; Finalist Mosman Art Prize
The Schoolhouse Gallery TAS
Manning Regional Art Gallery NSW
Arthouse Gallery, Solo Show: As Morning Dawns and Evening Fades
2011
Brisbane QUT Gallery
Delmar Gallery NSW
Burrinja Art Centre VIC Manning
National Art School Gallery, Blake Prize
Cherrybrook Community Centre, Hornsby Art Prize
Blacktown Art Centre; Finalist Blacktown Art Prize
Solo Show: “Luminous”, CBP Law Firm, Artereal Gallery
Waverly Woollahra Art School; Finalist Waverly Art Prize
Group Show: “SCAPE”, Artereal Gallery
Group Show: “The Exchange”, Sydney Entertainment Centre
2010
Blacktown Art Centre; Finalist Blacktown Art Prize
Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale SA; Finalist John Leslie Art Prize
2010 - Murrarundi Art Centre; Finalist Norvill Art Prize
Campbelltown Regional Gallery; Finalist Fishers Ghost Art Award
Group Exhibition: “DIRT”, COFA Space, Sydney, 2010
Waverly Woollahra Art School; Finalist Waverly Art Prize
Solo Exhibition: Sublime, Artereal Gallery, Rozelle
2009
Kudos Gallery; UNSW Arc Annual Exhibition
Casula Powerhouse, Finalist Liverpool City Open Art Prize
Erskine St Gallery Space Sydney CBD; Finalist Face of Compassion Art Prize
Mosman Art Gallery; Finalist Mosman Art Prize
Centrehouse Gallery, Lane Cove Council; Finalist Lloyd Rees Art Prize
Waverly Woollahra Art School; Finalist Waverly Art Prize
Galleries on Wentworth Group Show: “Busting Out: Masters of Their Own Domain”
2008
Sydney Uni Campus, Finalist National Tertiary Art Prize
Beowulf Galleries; Group Show: Works on Paper
2007
Archetype Gallery; Solo Show: Reflections, 2007
2004
COFA, UNSW, Sydney; Group Show: BFA Graduation Show
Publications
Magazines: Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum: Open Gallery, May 12 -12, 2012, pg.12
Vogue Living, May – June 2012, pg. 96
Belle Magazine, April – May 2012, pg. 32
Belle Magazine Feb – March 2012, pg.56
Australian Art Review: Issue 25 (Nov 2010 – Jan 2011), LOPEZ Anne- Marie, “Heavenly Pictures” (pgs. 66 – 68)
Online: Online archive: AAR http://www.artreview.com.au/contents/615641189-carla-hananiah-heavenly-pictures
Catalogues: GREGG, Simon; Catalogue Essay (The John Leslie Art Prize), “The Vision Splendid – Beauty in the Natural World”, 2010