Speak To Me In The Light Of The Dawn Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Speak To Me In The Light Of The Dawn
Speak To Me In The Light Of The Dawn 2012
Speak To Me In The Light Of The DawnCarla HananiahSpeak To Me In The Light Of The Dawn
Speak To Me In The Light Of The Dawn2012
oil on board
92 x 122 cm
SOLD 
Solitary Vision Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Solitary Vision
Solitary Vision 2012
Solitary VisionCarla HananiahSolitary Vision
Solitary Vision2012
oil on board
92 x 122 cm
SOLD 

Intimate knowledge of colour frames the foundation for Carla Hananiah’s balancing act between nature and artifice. Her paintings depict vast stretches of New Zealand and Australian mountain and sky most often at the “magic hour” – at dawn or dusk when unreal and powerful, dramatic slanting sunlight moves fleetingly across the landscape, creating tonalities and hues to dazzle the eye.

In the studio she returns to field notes and sketches and, in an almost diaristic fashion, responds to the land and sky in paint. The tension she sets up between the self and the impersonal grounds her work: her use of heightened, complementary colour and shimmering fluorescent paint underscores inquiry into consideration of the environment and our place within it as well as our present moment’s complex relationship to “Nature”.

“When I arrive into the landscape, it’s almost as if I’ve let go of a breath I’ve been holding for a long time,” she says. “I am a Romantic, and I paint to capture the essence of the sublime expressed through natural beauty”.

Carla holds a Masters of Fine Arts through Research, a Master of Art and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales. She has exhibited throughout Australia and is the recipient of multiple prizes including Mosman Art Prize Viewers’ Choice Award (2012), the Blake Prize Society’s John Coburn Emerging Artist Award (2011), the Hornsby Art Prize (2011) and the Winsor & Newton Start Your Studio Scholarship (2009).

Carla Hananiah

Born 1982, Auckland, New Zealand

Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

EDUCATION

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

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

  • 'Fleeting Wonders', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane (forthcoming)

2017

  • 'Full Immersion', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney

2016

  • 'In the Wait', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2015

  • 'Mapping the Insurmountable', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
  • 'Traversing, Undaunted', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2013

  • 'Ever Brighter', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
  • 'Late have I loved you, o’beauty ever ancient ever new', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney

2012

  • 'In the Cool of the Day', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
  • 'As Morning Dawns and Evening Fades', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney

2011

  • 'SCAPE', Artereal Gallery, Sydney
  • 'The Exchange', Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney

2010

  • 'DIRT', College of Fine Art Space, Sydney
  • 'Sublime', Artereal Gallery, Sydney

2009

  • 'Busting Out: Masters of Their Own Domain', Galleries on Wentworth, Sydney

2008

  • 'Works on Paper', Beowulf Galleries

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015

  • 'Unfolding Splendour', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney

2014

  • 'Sense of Surround', Edwina Corlette Gallery
  • 'Land of Wonder', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
  • 'Under the Sun', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
  • Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

2013

  • 'Imaginings', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
  • 'In the Scheme of Things', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney

2012

  • Mosman Art Prize, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Tasmania
  • The Schoolhouse Gallery, Tasmania
  • Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW
  • 'Small Works Summer Show', Edwina Corlette Gallery

2011

  • Blake Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney,
  • Blake Prize Touring Exhibition
  • Queensland University of Technology Gallery, Brisbane
  • Delmar Gallery, Sydney
  • Burrinja Art Centre, Victoria
  • CBP Law Firm, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
  • Hornsby Art Prize, Cherrybrook Community Centre, Sydney
  • Finalist Blacktown Art Prize, Blacktown Art Centre, Sydney
  • Finalist Waverly Art Prize, Waverly Woollahra Art School, Sydney

2010

  • Blacktown Art Prize, Blacktown Art Centre, Sydney
  • John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Regional Gallery, NSW
  • Norvill Art Prize, Murrarundi Art Centre, NSW
  • Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, NSW
  • Waverly Art Prize, Waverly Woollahra Art School, Sydney

2009

  • UNSW Arc Annual Exhibition, Kudos Gallery
  • Liverpool City Open Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse,
  • Face of Compassion Art Prize, Erskine St Gallery, Sydney
  • Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
  • Lloyd Rees Art Prize, Centrehouse Gallery, Sydney
  • Waverly Art Prize, Waverly Woollahra Art School, Sydney

2004

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graduation Show, COFA, UNSW, Sydney

AWARDS AND PRIZES

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
  • Finalist, Blacktown Art Prize, Blacktown Art Centre, Sydney
  • Finalist, Waverly Art Prize, Waverly Woollahra Art School, Sydney

2010

  • Finalist, Blacktown Art Prize, Blacktown Art Centre, Sydney
  • Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Regional Gallery, NSW
  • Finalist, Norvill Art Prize, Murrarundi Art Centre, NSW
  • Finalist, Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, NSW
  • Finalist, Waverly Art Prize, Sydney

2009

  • 2nd Runner-Up Award, UNSW Arc Annual Exhibition, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
  • Finalist, Liverpool City Open Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse,
  • Finalist, Face of Compassion Art Prize, Erskine St Gallery, Sydney
  • Finalist, Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
  • Finalist, Lloyd Rees Art Prize, Centrehouse Gallery, Sydney
  • Finalist, Waverly Art Prize, Waverly Woollahra Art School, Sydney

2008

  • Finalist National Tertiary Art Prize, Sydney University Campus, Sydney

COLLECTIONS

  • Trinity College, Melbourne, Victoria
  • Macquarie Bank, New South Wales
  • Hornsby Shire Council, New South Wales
  • Private collections in Australia and Internationally

July 8, 2017

CARLA HANANIAH: MAD ABOUT MINI COLLABORATION

Carla Hananiah has collaborated with Australian children's wear label Mad About Mini for their 2017 Winter Collection.  Of the collection Mad About Mini says:

We had the privilege of collaborating with one of Australia’s up-and-coming artists, Carla Hananiah, whose painting “Mountains” is featured for the 2017 Winter Collection. Carla has been the recipient of several prestigious awards and has showcased her work in regular exhibitions since 2009. Carla has an incredible talent for capturing all that is breathtaking and majestic about nature. This particular watercolour is a scene from one of her favourite spots in the south island of New Zealand, a place she refers to as ‘paradise’. For Carla, this immense beauty takes her beyond her ‘everyday’ and awakens her imagination to new discoveries and new adventures! 

View more here.

February 28, 2015

Carla Hananiah features in Daily Life

In an article from Daily Life, Carla Hananiah was named one of seven young artists to invest in now. 

Carla’s technique has drawn great 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.

Read the full article here.

29 August 2018 – 15 September 2018
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

22 May 2018 – 9 June 2018
Carla Hananiah ‘Fleeting Wonders’

12 July 2016 – 2 August 2016
Carla Hananiah ‘In The Wait’

9 – 27 September 2014
Sense of Surround (Gallery 2)

18 June 2013 – 6 July 2013
Carla Hananiah ‘Ever Brighter’

25 September 2012 – 13 October 2012
Carla Hananiah ‘In the Cool of the Day’