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Mangrove - The Long March by Lea Kannar

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ARTIST NOTES: Artist Statement
Mangroves… These hold their memories like badges. They show the scars of their lives with pride for all to see.
Unlike the gum which sheds its bark each year... like putting on a new dress Mangroves are witnesses to the memories of the landscape.
I am moved by what they tell us.

The journey they have been part of, unwilling companions to our impositions of changes we demand of the world around us. I am in love with their twist and turns, mangroves walking toward a new life. Some like sentinels on the sand, where you feel like an interloper into a world beyond your mind, one where they move quietly and gracefully as though dancing upon the sands. Like mangroves, many have fallen to human settlement but in the darker places under the canopy they spread. You can see their true selves, with their walking legs.

DIMENSIONS (Height - 39.00 cm X Width - 79.00 cm )
MEDIUM ON BASE Charcoal on Paper
GENRE No Genre Entered
REGISTERED NRN # 000-1566-0137-01
COPYRIGHT © Lea Kannar
PRIZES AND AWARDS No Awards
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ARTIST BIO

Lea Kannar

Born Sydney 1964 - Painting & Drawing since 1989; Printmaking since 2000; Mosaicing since 2004

Completed a MSA Masters of Studio Arts at SCA (Sydney College of the Arts) 2014 and a MFA Masters of Fine Art 2016

AWARDS & GRANTS

2017   

Ocean Grove Art Prize (Vic) 1st Prize

2014   

PRSS Sydney University Research Grant – for travel to research in the Galapagos Islands

2013   

Ocean Grove Art Prize (Vic) – 1st Prize

2012   

Phyllis Arnot Print Prize– Hornsby College NSW

Corowa Art Prize (Vic) – 1st Prize

2011   

30:30 Vision Touring Exhibition – (National) Highly Commended - Selected for Touring

2010   

Warrnambool Art Prize (Vic) – 1st Prize

Henry Lawson Grenfell Art Awards (NSW) – 1st Prize

2009   

Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize – S.A. Museum - Selected for Touring

30:30 Vision Touring Exhibition – (National) Highly Commended - Selected for Touring

41st Bendigo Easter Art Exhibition (Vic) - 1st Prize

2008   

Bayside Art Show Brighton (Vic) - 1st Prize

Henry Lawson Grenfell Art Awards - 1st Prize

Royal Canberra Art Awards - 1st Prize

Tarra Festival Art Prize (Vic) - 1st Prize

2007   

Wagga Wagga Rotary - 1st Prize

Tarra Festival Art Prize (Vic) - 1st Prize

2006   

Scone Art Prize - 1st Prize

Orange Blossom Festival - 1st Prize

Altona Art Exhibition (Vic) - 1st Prize

2005   

Yea (Vic) Art Prize - 1st Prize

Winmalee Arts Festival – Peoples Choice

2004   

Kiama 26th Annual Exhibition - 1st Prize

Wangi Dobel - Landscape - 1st Prize

Wangi Dobel – Contemporary - 1st Prize

2003   

Narrabri Art Exhibition - Betty Berriman Bequest- 1st Prize

Henry Lawson Grenfell Art Awards - 1st Prize

Great Southland Art Awards - 1st Prize

Great Southland Art Awards - Pashley (Packing Room) Prize

Royal Canberra Art Awards - 1st Prize

2002   

Cootamundra Soroptimist International - 1st Prize

Singleton Art Prize - Peoples Choice

2001   

Foundation Week Art Awards - 1st Prize

Selected group exhibitions - INTERNATIONAL

2017   

Venice Summer Academy Exhibition, Palazzo Zenobio - Venice

Impressions Print Exhibition – Galway International Art Festival - Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Centre for Creative Arts & Media - Ireland

ASCI Biodiversity/Extinctions - The Silva Gallery of Art Pennington School

2016   

Stunning Edge Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition - Taiwan

10th Arte Laguna Prize – Shortlisted - Sculpture & Video

2015   

ASCI Biodiversity/Extinctions – New York Hall of Science

2014   

Where’s the Art in Bio-Art? (School of Visual Arts) SVA Flatiron Gallery Manhattan

NYABF – MoMA PS1 Long Island – SVA (School of Visual Arts)

Living Things are NOT Cooperating – Bio-Art Residency Exhibition SVA (School of Visual Arts) New York

2013   

Semi Living – Bio-Art Residency Exhibition SVA (School of Visual Arts) New York

MGC - Manhattan Graphics Juried Print Exhibition – New York

Portrait in Print – Centre for Contemporary Printmaking – Norwalk Connecticut USA

2012   

Exploration of a Medium: Printmaking – Centre for the Arts Evergreen - Colorado USA

The Irish Connection Lorg Printmakers & Warringah Printmakers Exhibition Ballybane - Ireland

2009   

Crusty Oceania - DOMO Exhibition - Australian Embassy - Berlin

2008   

Red Cross Summer Exhibition – Nulthus Centre The Hague - Netherlands

RESIDENCIES, RESEARCH AND COLLABORATIONS

2017   

CAW Culture at Work Ultimo – Residency working with research from Antarctica - Mar 6 to June 10

Deception Island (Antarctica) – Research 19 days The Ninth Wave project ‘Floating Lab’ on board the Guluk of the Netherlands Jan 6 to 27

2016   

Faroe Island Residency – Research 4 weeks The Clipperton Project ‘Floating Lab’ on board the Johanna of Vagur June 3 to 28        

2015   

Lord Howe Island – Water sampling, sound recording, filming and research April 25 to May 9

The Clipperton Project – Inaugural floating lab Western Australia March 2015

2014   

Galapagos Islands Researching – filming, sound recording and research October 1 to 15

Bio-Art Summer Residency – SVA (School of Visual Arts) New York - May 19 to June 20

Lord Howe Island – Water sampling, filming and research January 12 to 26

2013   

Bio-Art Summer Residency – SVA (School of Visual Arts) New York - May 21 to June 21

OMG – Octopus Mandala Glow – Collaborative Performance work with Prof Victoria Vesna chair UCL Art/Sci - August

Selected group exhibitions – AUSTRALIA

2017   

Harbour Sculpture – Woolwich Sydney

2016   

Inkmasters Print Exhibition – Cairns Qld

Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize S.A.

North Queensland Ceramics Award (biennial)

Elemental – M Contemporary Projects – NSW

2088 Mosman Regional Art Gallery NSW

‘Fresh Paint – Grilled Chicken’ Articulate Project Space NSW

2015   

SCA Post-Graduate Show - NSW

CNWAP - Chippendale New World Art Prize - NSW

2088 Mosman Regional Art Gallery NSW

2014   

Inkmasters Print Exhibition – Cairns Qld

Art Concerning the Environment – Scope Gallery Vic

Print & Works on Paper Awards - Swan Hill - Vic

Swan Hill Print & Drawing Prize – Swan Hill Regional Gallery - Vic

Under Pressure Printmedia Exhibition – Red Gallery Glebe NSW

2088 Mosman Open Exhibition – Mosman Regional Art Gallery NSW

2013   

Fishers Ghost Open Art Prize - NSW

Verge Art Awards finalist in 2D & 3D – Sydney University

SCAP -   Sunshine Coast Art Prize - QLD

2012   

Kenilworth Arts Council Art Awards – Kenilworth Qld

Wilson Visual Arts Award – Lismore NSW

Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award – Online Gallery

SCOPE Galleries Art Award – Warnambool - Vic

Hunters Hill Art Awards – Hunters Hill Town Hall - NSW

Print & Works on Paper Awards - Swan Hill – Vic

2088 Mosman Open Exhibition – Mosman Regional Art Gallery NSW

2011      

30:30 Vision MAANZ National Touring Exhibition – Australia (visiting 6 states & 1 territory)

Hornsby Art Prize – Hornsby NSW

Hunters Hill Art Prize – Hunters Hill Town Hall –NSW

Fishers Ghost Art Award – Campbelltown Arts Centre - (NSW)

Flanagan Art Prize – Ballarat - Vic

Lethbridge Art Prize – Online Gallery

‘Radiance’ – Grenfell Regional Art Gallery - NSW

2010  

Waterbrook Art Prize – Greenwich - NSW

Blacktown Art Prize – Blacktown - NSW

Yinnar Drawing Prize – Yinnar - Vic

Flanagan Art Prize – Ballarat - Vic

Print & Works on Paper Awards - Swan Hill - Vic

Gallery Adagio Group Exhibition – Glebe - NSW

Brisbane Senses Art – Riverside Centre Brisbane - Qld

2009   

‘The Studio’ Art Sydney 09

30:30 Vision Touring Exhibition – Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, S.A.

Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize - South Australian Museum (SA & ACT)

Hunters Hill Art Prize - Hunters Hill Town Hall (NSW)

2008   

Taylor Galleries – Summer Hill (NSW)

Redland Art Awards – Redland Art Gallery, (Qld)

Fishers Ghost Art Award – Campbelltown Arts Centre, (NSW)

Heysen Prize – Hahndorf Academy, (SA)

Mosman Art Prize – Mosman Art Gallery, (NSW)

Waverley Art Prize – Waverley Arts Centre, (NSW)

Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing – Adelaide Perry Gallery, (NSW)

Small Works - Brunswick Gallery (Vic)

Stanthorpe Art Prize – Stanthorpe Regional Gallery (Qld)

2007   

6º Art Prize – Walker St Gallery (Vic)

Oceania Art Prize – Port Douglas Community Centre (Qld)

Linden Postcard Exhibition – Linden Centre for Contemporary Art (Vic)

Collectors Exhibition – Steps Gallery Carlton (Vic)

2006   

‘Mosaic Now’ Touring Exhibition, (Mosman Art Gallery NSW, Bundoora Homestead Vic, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery Vic, National Wool Museum)

MAANZ 30:30 Vision – Touring Exhibition (Newspace Gallery NSW, Floriade ACT)

Taylor Galleries – Summer Hill (NSW)

Collectors Exhibition – Steps Gallery, Carlton (Vic)

Cowra Art Prize - Cowra Regional Gallery (NSW)

Jacques Cadry Art Prize (NSW)

Stanthorpe Art Prize (Qld)

2005   

Taylor Galleries - Summer Hill (NSW)

Delmar Gallery – Small Wonders, Trinity College NSW

Heysen Art Prize, Hahndorf Academy (SA)

Dymocks Art Prize, George St Sydney (NSW)

Walkom Manning Art Prize

John Copes Art Prize (NSW)

MAANZ National Exh Firestation Gallery Rozelle, NSW

Muswellbrook Art Prize (NSW)

Norvill Art Prize - Murrurundi (NSW)

EXHIBITIONS solo

2017   

Deception – Accelerator Gallery Pyrmont NSW May 27 to June 10

Gagged in Dystopia – Interlude Gallery Glebe Point Rd Glebe NSW Jan 27 to Feb 4

2015   Colliding Worlds – Hazelhurst Community Gallery – the Kingsway Gymea NSW March 6 - 17

2013    Coding the Future – GAFFA Gallery (Clarence St Sydney)

2010    Focus on Print – Invitational (CAS) exhibition Fitzroy Library (Vic)

2009    Memories of the Landscape - BSG Brunswick St Gallery (Vic)

2007    Landscapes - CUSP Gallery (Vic)

2006    Renewal - Lane Cove Cultural Centre (NSW)

2005   Visions: Land + Sea – Fire Station Rozelle (NSW)

2003   Discovering the Centre - Newspace Gallery (NSW)

2002   

New works by Lea Kannar - Breewood Gallery – Leura (NSW)

Grand Opening Exhibition- Breewood Gallery – Richmond (NSW)

Moods and Colour - Newspace Gallery (NSW)