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oil and acrylic on canvas
153 x 137 cm
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oil and acrylic on canvas
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oil and acrylic on canvas
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oil and acrylic on canvas
153 x 137 cm
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oil and acrylic on canvas
153 x 137 cm
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oil and acrylic on canvas
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SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY — MIRANDA SKOCZEK

Miranda Skoczek is inspired by opulence. Not the kind you see in lifestyles of the rich and famous, though it might be. Nor the sort you find in the troves of the world’s museums and places of worship, though again it could be. But for Skoczek, opulence doesn’t equal luxury so much as joy and the pursuit of it – just as easily found in the slums of India during Holi, when the streets become such a riot of colour and adornment that the harsh living conditions are momentarily overshadowed.

Architecture, pop culture, fashion, religious iconography, antiquities, art history, traditional arts and crafts, music, travel, mysticism, talismans, interior design and customary rituals – these are just some of the influences that shape Skoczek’s practice. Her paintings are spacial and emotional responses to everything she consumes and surrounds herself with, informed by a theoretical understanding of colour and composition.

To what extent her surroundings impact her art practice was brought into strong relief during Melbourne’s protracted COVID-19 second wave. Skoczek continued to paint while juggling home-schooling as a single mother and, though challenging, it confirmed her home as an oasis – an extension of herself and identity, where her dreams are actualised and restored. This sense of happy containment has imbued her practice with deeper contemplations on time, space, change, transience, history and meaning, while simultaneously embracing contrasts as broad as those of the artist herself – materialistic yet spiritual, sometimes physical, sometimes soft and lyrical, intuitive and feminine, strong and self-assured.

Miranda Skoczek graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art – Painting from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004, and won the College’s painting prize the same year. She also holds a Diploma in Visual Art – Painting from Victoria University of Technology (2001) and a Diploma of Applied Arts and Graphic Design from Canberra Institute of Technology (1997). She has exhibited at Linden New Art and Heide Museum of Modern Art as well as McClelland Gallery and internationally in exhibitions in Copenhagen and Hong Kong. Her work is collected by private clients in Australia, Asia, the Middle East and in the UK.

Carrie McCarthy, December 2020

Miranda Skoczek

  • Born 1977, Melbourne
  • Lives and works in Melbourne

EDUCATION

2004

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts - Painting, Victorian College of the Arts

2001

  • Diploma of Visual Art - Painting, Victoria University of Technology

1997

  • Diploma of Applied Arts & Graphic Design, Canberra Institute of Technology

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

  • 'Flowers Look Back at Me', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2022

  • ‘Inner Worlds’, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne

2020

  • ‘Floating Moons, Dizzying Hues’, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
  • 'Spirit and Matter', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2019

  • 'Better Get It In Your Soul', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • The Clayton Utz Art Partnership: curated by 3:33 Art Projects’, Clayton Utz, Melbourne (joint exhibition with Lottie Consalvo)
  • 'Suggesting Icons', Nicholas Thomson Gallery, Melbourne

2018

  • 'Permission to Play', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'Flashes Across The Field', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne

2017

  • 'Rags, Rugs and Lion Heads', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'Physical Thinking', Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
  • Fragments and Sunbeams’, NKN Gallery, Melbourne

2016

  • 'Crazy Patchwork', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'Fragments and Fantasy', Arthouse Gallery, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney
  • ‘All the Places’, NKN Gallery, Melbourne

2014

  • 'Constructed Reality', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2013

  • 'Historical Panorama', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2012

  • 'Spirit Garden', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'Unicorns and Alchemy', Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney

2011

  • 'Animal Fantastical', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2009

  • 'Patterns of Knowledge', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'Rhythm & Memory', Gilligan Grant Gallery, Melbourne

2008

  • 'The Beautiful and the Good', Gilligan Grant Gallery, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

  • 'Common Ground', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, EDWINA CORLETTE

2021

  • Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, EDWINA CORLETTE

2019

  • 'The New Gallery Show', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'Gorman: Ten Years of Collaboration', Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2018

  • Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, EDWINA CORLETTE
  • Melbourne Pop-Up Exhibition, Besser Space, EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • ‘9x5 NOW’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA, Melbourne

2017

  • Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, EDWINA CORLETTE
  • ‘The Human Experience, We Are The Ones Doing works on Canvas/Paintings XXXX’, Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Copenhagen

2015

  • Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2013

  • 'Gorman Choose your own Adventure', Gorman The Galleries, Sydney
  • 'True Self', Jacky Winter Group, Melbourne
  • Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2012

  • 'The Design Files Open House', Melbourne
  • 'Melbourne Art Fair', EDWINA CORLETTE
  • 'The Small Works Exhibition', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2010

  • 'Christmas Show', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'Directors Selection', Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS

  • Artbank
  • Crown Metropol
  • Collection of the Mater Hospital
  • Collection of the Epworth Hospital
  • Brian Tucker Collection

PRIZES

2018

  • Finalist, King's Art Show Prize, The King's School, Sydney

2004

  • Painting Prize, Victorian College of the Arts, Graduate Show

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2020

  • Alice Dingle ‘Miranda Skoczek’ in Art Almanac, July/August 2020

2019

  • Alison Kubler ‘Artefacts: Miranda Skoczek’ in Vault, issue 28
  • ABC Radio National ‘The Art Show’ – ‘Gorman 10 Years of Collaborations’
  • Nicola Heath ‘Heide, Gorman and 10 Years of Artist Collaborations’ Broadsheet Art and Design 5 March
  • Rima Sabina Aouf ‘We were accused of all sorts': Lisa Gorman on learning from old mistakes’ in Guardian Australia, 9 Mar
  • Sally Tabart ‘A New Exhibition of Raw, Gestural Works from Miranda Skoczek’, The Design Files, 12 February

2018

  • Miranda Skoczek’s ‘Flashes Across the Field’, The Design Files, 23 March

2017

  • Feature, Louise Martin-Chew, Art Guide, 9 November
  • Melbourne Fashion Festival: Artist Miranda Skoczek showcases a world of treasures’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March
  • Lucy Feagins ‘The Design Files: The tree change that led to an eclectic artist’s retreat’ in Domain, 17 February

2016

  • Feature, In Residence: Celebrate Colour, Vogue Living, April
  • Mattise Strong ‘Miranda Skoczek at the Arthouse Gallery’ Broadsheet 4 June

2015

  • Feature, The Tale of Miranda & Harper Skoczek, The Grace Tales, 12 May

2013

  • Arent & Pyke, The Design Files, In/Out Design Blog

2012

  • Interview, The Design Files, 12 October

2011

  • Prue Gibson, Art Watch, Review, Australian Art Review

February 6, 2024

MIRANDA SKOCZEK PARTNERS WITH SILK LAUNDRY

"At the time they both connected over their love for nature and now, roughly 10 years later Miranda has collaborated with Katie [Kolodinski] to curate The Protection Collection. Centred around symbolism and the rituals of self-protection including the iconic Aster flower, central to Katie’s upbringing, this was a harmonious alignment given Miranda’s style of art which is deeply influenced by historical references and ancient cultures.

"For Miranda, her art allows people to explore other worlds and she hopes that placing her designs on clothing encourages people to have those conspectus conversations as well.

"In line with this creative endeavour, she shared insights on her practices, creating the collection and her relationship with symbolism."

- Silk Laundry


Image: Courtesy Silk Laundry

READ MORE HERE

March 4, 2023

MIRANDA SKOCZEK FEATURED IN 'ARTISTS AT HOME'

Miranda Skoczek is featured in ‘Artists at Home’ a new book about Australian female artists by Karina Dias Pires, published by Thames and Hudson, out now.

Image: Miranda Skoczek, Karina Dias Pires.

READ MORE HERE

February 26, 2022

MIRANDA SKOCZEK - Interview for Vault Magazine

"There is more to Miranda Skoczek’s paintings than immediately meets the eye. They are built intuitively and in layers, from colours, patterns and objects that she absorbs in her immediate home environment – and all over the world. They are often abstract, sometimes with figurative elements; they focus on paint and colour, process and time, to create a space that takes us somewhere other, outside the material world. Inspiration comes from art and antiquities, folk art and contemporary design – and through obsessive consumption of images. Skoczek describes herself as “a sponge,” confessing to VAULT: “I have 95,000 photographs on my phone.”

"The mystical is evident in Skoczek’s hope that her paintings work like amulets for those who acquire them. Protective elements aside, in their sensual textures and influences, so powerfully evoked, these paintings emerge as poignant and poetic visual essays written to the past and the present."

- Louise Martin-Chew, Vault Magazine

Image: Front Cover of Vault Magazine, Issue 37, 2022, Miranda Skoczek's Dreaming of Betty (Woodman), 2018

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March 22, 2021

MIRANDA SKOCZEK FOR DAVID JONES MAGAZINE

Copywriter and content specialist Elle McClure was asked by the team at Medium Rare Content agency to help produce content for the autumn 2021 issue of the David Jones magazine, JONES HOME. As well as compiling trend pages and writing copy across the issue, Elle interviewed Otis Hope Carey, Louise Olsen and Miranda Skoczek as part of profiles on the artists.

READ MORE HERE

November 30, 2019

MIRANDA SKOCZEK, VAULT MAGAZINE

'Artefacts', Alison Kubler, Vault Magazine, Issue 23, 104-105pp.

March 6, 2019

10 YEARS OF GORMAN | HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

In celebration of Gorman’s decade-long collaboration with visual artists, Heide is presenting a two-week pop-up exhibition in the iconic modernist building, Heide II.

The exhibition will feature garments from a new range by Gorman created in collaboration with ten artists who have worked with the Australian clothing label since 2009, including Miranda Skoczek. The garments will be displayed alongside the artworks which inspired them.

Read More HERE

October 4, 2018

THE KINGS SCHOOL ART PRIZE

Miranda Skoczek, Julian Meagher and John Aslanidis are finalists in The Kings School Art Prize 2018.

The King’s Art Prize is a $20,000 acquisitive award presented to the best contemporary artwork created by an artist resident in Australia and represented by a commercial gallery, supporting both the artists and the fine arts industry. Entry is by invitation only and the finalists are selected by an appointed Art Prize panel.

READ MORE HERE

November 10, 2017

MIRANDA SKOCZEK IN ART GUIDE MAGAZINE

Miranda Skoczek's exhibition 'Rag Rugs and Lion Heads' is featured on the Art Guide website. Miranda spoke with Louise Martin-Chew about her latest exhibition 'Rag Rugs and Lion Heads', her inspiration and the shift in her practice to looser, more expressive works:

Miranda Skoczek’s abstract paintings evoke old walls with layers of forms and shapes that emerge over time. In her studio, she might work simultaneously on nine canvases. Transferring from one to the other, she allows each oil layer to dry before repeatedly painting over it until jewel-like colours resonate and a spatial sensibility has been established within which the viewer may dwell. Skoczek told Art Guide Australia, “I don’t paint about social concerns. I create wholly immersive, beautiful pictures. They are places for escape and restoration: harmonious, calming pictures.”

Miranda's exhibition is at the gallery from 14 November until 5 December 2017.

READ MORE HERE

October 13, 2017

MIRANDA SKOCZEK AT CARLSBERG BYENS GALLERI & KUNSTSALON, DENMARK

Miranda Skoczek was a featured artist in the international group exhibition, The human experience, we are the ones doing works on canvas/Paintings XXXX at the Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon in Denmark. The exhibition was curated by Galina Munroe (Great Britain), Simon Ganshorn (Denmark) and Jordan Kerwick (Australia). The show featured 116 artists each working with abstraction through painting in their own distinct manner to promote diversity and highlight the possibility of medium and painting theory.

Read more on this exhibition here.

March 21, 2017

MIRANDA SKOCZEK 'DESHILADO'

Miranda Skoczek presents her first collection of jewellery works at Pieces of Eight Gallery in Melbourne as part of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2017.

In DESHILADO, Miranda pays homage to the samplers created by stitchers in the early 16th Century. The collection is a three dimensional gathering of a myriad of interests and influences remixing materials and techniques, blurring the boundaries between objects, jewellery and art.

With a desire to connect ancient traditions with fashion, while acknowledging the archaeological importance of jewellery as artefact, Skoczek takes the opportunity to bring permanency to ornaments that have up to this point existed as abstract fragments in her paintings.

The exhibition is current until 25 March 2017. View more here

February 6, 2017

MIRANDA SKOCZEK ON THE DESIGN FILES

Miranda Skoczek is featured on The Design Files blog with a look at her move from an inner city two bedroom apartment, to a bucolic retreat set amongst the verdant landscape of the Dandenong Ranges. Miranda and her seven year old son Harper speak about the influence of nature on their lives and the impact a move to the country will have on her painting practice.

Image: Miranda Skoczek and her child, courtesy Caitlin Mills

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November 30, 2016

MIRANDA SKOCZEK FOR COUNTRY ROAD

Miranda Skoczek is renowned for her engaging, energetic works and her spectacular use of colour. A fixture on the Australian art scene, her work is instantly recognisable for its layers of intuitive colour, pattern and motifs. Iconic Australian label Country Road thought her work was perfect for a collaboration with charity RedKite. Miranda has designed two tote bags and a t-shirt, with all proceeds from each sale going towards providing essential support to children and their families who are facing cancer.

Image: courtesy Country Road

READ MORE HERE

April 8, 2015

Miranda Skoczek and Gorman

Miranda Skoczek has collaborated with Gorman Clothing for their 2015 winter collection. In sync with the label’s aesthetic, Miranda’s artwork blends seamlessly into signature Gorman textures and styles. Her work is featured across all 53 pieces in the collection, with every print originating from five of her artworks.

Read more about the collaboration here.

16 November 2023 – 2 December 2023
Miranda Skoczek ‘Flowers Look Back at Me’

8 – 11 September 2022
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY

26 November 2019 – 14 December 2019
MIRANDA SKOCZEK 'Better Get It In Your Soul'

26 June 2019 – 17 July 2019
THE NEW GALLERY SHOW — A Group Exhibition

12 – 16 September 2018
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR - DAN KYLE, MIRANDA SKOCZEK, MARK WHALEN, YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS

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

14 November 2017 – 5 December 2017
MIRANDA SKOCZEK 'Rag Rugs and Lion Heads'

18 October 2016 – 5 November 2016
Miranda Skoczek ‘Crazy Patchwork’

9 – 13 September 2015
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair

20 – 22 September 2013
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair

10 September 2013 – 12 October 2013
5th Anniversary Exhibition

16 October 2012 – 3 November 2012
Miranda Skoczek ‘Spirit Garden’

26 September 2011 – 15 October 2011
Miranda Skoczek ‘Animal Fantastical’ (Gallery 1)

30 October 2009 – 21 November 2009
Miranda Skoczek ‘Patterns of Knowledge’