Before The Melt Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Before The Melt
Before The Melt 2018
Before The MeltCarla HananiahBefore The Melt
Before The Melt2018
acrylic on linen
122 x 168 cm
SOLD 
Awakened Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Awakened
Awakened 2018
AwakenedCarla HananiahAwakened
Awakened2018
oil on linen
102 x 84 cm
$4,800  ENQUIRE
The Promise Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - The Promise
The Promise 2018
The PromiseCarla HananiahThe Promise
The Promise2018
oil on linen
122 x 92 cm
SOLD 
Undone Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Undone
Undone 2018
UndoneCarla HananiahUndone
Undone2018
oil on board
37 x 24.5 cm
$750  ENQUIRE
Wilderness Garden Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Wilderness Garden
Wilderness Garden 2018
Wilderness GardenCarla HananiahWilderness Garden
Wilderness Garden2018
acrylic on canvas
130 x 148 cm
$7,000  ENQUIRE
Spring Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Spring
Spring 2018
SpringCarla HananiahSpring
Spring2018
acrylic on board
28 x 35 cm
$700  ENQUIRE
Mirror Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Mirror
Mirror 2018
MirrorCarla HananiahMirror
Mirror2018
oil on linen
92 x 122 cm
$5,200  ENQUIRE
A Glimpse Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - A Glimpse
A Glimpse 2018
A GlimpseCarla HananiahA Glimpse
A Glimpse2018
acrylic on linen
153 x 112 cm
$6,500  ENQUIRE
Fleeting Wonders Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Fleeting Wonders
Fleeting Wonders 2018
Fleeting WondersCarla HananiahFleeting Wonders
Fleeting Wonders2018
oil on linen
102 x 153 cm
$6,500  ENQUIRE
In Response Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - In Response
In Response 2018
In ResponseCarla HananiahIn Response
In Response2018
acrylic on board
40 x 40 cm
$800  ENQUIRE
Exuberance Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Exuberance
Exuberance 2018
ExuberanceCarla HananiahExuberance
Exuberance2018
acrylic on linen
102 x 84 cm
SOLD 
Remembrance Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Remembrance
Remembrance 2018
RemembranceCarla HananiahRemembrance
Remembrance2018
oil on linen
102 x 153 cm
$6,500  ENQUIRE
Ephemeral Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Ephemeral
Ephemeral 2018
EphemeralCarla HananiahEphemeral
Ephemeral2018
oil on linen
122 x 168 cm
$7,500  ENQUIRE
Autumn In The Country Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - Autumn In The Country
Autumn In The Country 2018
Autumn In The CountryCarla HananiahAutumn In The Country
Autumn In The Country2018
acrylic on board
30 x 30 cm
$750  ENQUIRE
In This Moment Carla Hananiah Carla Hananiah - In This Moment
In This Moment 2018
In This MomentCarla HananiahIn This Moment
In This Moment2018
oil on linen
112 x 153 cm
$6,500  ENQUIRE

'Fleeting Wonders is in response to time spent in various areas of Australia and South Island, New Zealand.

En plein air painting adventures during winter and spring in the Snowy Mountains and Jindabyne region resulted in a new appreciation of the ephemeral offerings of each season. The wilderness became a garden in late winter and spring. Capturing this gift of beauty in the passing window of time resulted in several works celebrating the joyful exuberance of the Australian bush in bloom. Flowers in extravagance greet my eye, wattle in brilliant yellows and pastel creams nod in happy abandon. Gum flowers in electric reds and pinks drip nectar and the Gymea lily stately and tall is crowned in a punctuation mark of crimson. The light caresses the land and highlights humble clumps of grass or scrub into something that stops the eyes. I’ve suddenly awoken to the flashes of colour and fragrance on the wind.

As ice melts and winter slowly ends, new pools dot the landscape like temporal mirrors. Springy moss, lichen on stone and the new growth of scrub exposed after the snow set off the last ice in the scape. Streams and rivers rush by, sun shimmers on water.

Expectation of the new captures my breath as beauty heralds the changing season. These paintings are a remembrance of these promises given. Winter ends. I am reminded to be in this moment and partake of all the beauty now on offer, these fleeting wonders.'

Carla Hananiah

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).

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’