The Contemporary Art Society of Victoria Incorporated Collectors' Exhibition 2005 A selected exhibition of Australian Contemporary Art 6 - 21 February 2005 Steps Gallery, 62 Lygon Street, Carlton, Melbourne information from the artist....

ANITA SINCLAIR

Background

Research trips: Paris, London, Tokyo, Venice, Naples, Malta, Frankfurt, Vienna, Warsaw, Los Angeles, Washington, Singapore and other.

Exhibitions of Sculpture:

• Since 1965 - Ferntree Gully Art Society, Cosmopolitan Art Society, Prahran TAFE, Caulfield TAFE, RMIT, Munster Arms Gallery, Allied Artists Gallery, Peter Graham Gallery, Gryphon Gallery, Qudos Gallery, Omell Manyung Gallery.
• Victorian Artists' Society, 2000. Association of Sculptors of Victoria M1F&GS 2001.
• ASV Telstra Exhibition 2001.
• Recent years: Contemporary Art Society of Victoria and Contemporary Sculptors Association exhibitions.

Awards:

Awarded William Hoggen-Thomas Award and Mabel Pryde Memorial Award 2001 for wood sculpture: 'Awakening Man'.

Publications:

• 2003 'A CROWDED SOLITUDE' a collection of poems, prints and sculptures by Anita Sinclair.
• 2001 2nd Edition 'The Puppetry Handbook' selling locally and internationally since 1st Edition in 1995.

Artist's Statement

My approach to any of my art works is to offer images to be experienced now, but also to allow a lot to be realised later.

My recent pieces have all been required to reflect the current era, and myself in it. The new millennium. The dramas on the world stage. The new roles for men and for women. Some of the questions and confusions.

I'm interested in what changes can occur in and around humans and what never changes eg. unexpected and violent death; grief, the capacity, for regeneration, hope: issues which are very much in our sights right now, but have never been absent in human history.