Kerrie Warren
| Kerrie Warren | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 May 1968 Melbourne, Australia |
| 🏫 Education | Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne |
| 💼 Occupation | Artist |
Kerrie Warren (born 7 May 1968) is an Australian artist who employs the action painting techniques of abstract expressionism in the creation of large-scale artworks that explore humanity’s relationship with nature. Warren is known for her works in acrylic on linen, such as The Bonfire (2014) and The First Hit (2017), which can extend to over six meters in length and ascend up to four meters in height. Across these broad picture planes, vigorous swirling strokes mimic nature’s constant visual flux while also capturing an underlying serenity and stillness.[1] These themes are also explored through immersive assemblages like Table Totem (2017) and Private Garden (2018) that incorporate wheel-thrown sculpted ceramics and readymade objects.[2]
Early life and education
Born in Melbourne, Australia, to parents of principally British heritage (English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish), Warren’s family relocated regularly, so her childhood memories are a collage of loosely linked impressions that crisscross the landscapes of Australia’s south and south-east: memories suffused with an atmosphere of transience. While Warren’s primary and secondary schooling were necessarily fragmented, she holds a Diploma of Art in Ceramics from the Gippsland Institute of Technical and Further Education, a Diploma of Transpersonal Art Therapy from Ikon Institute of Australia, and a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
Career
Warren has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions both within Australia and internationally since the completion of her Diploma of Art in Ceramics in 2004. She has also been involved in numerous public art projects, has coordinated a two-year touring exhibition of regional artists through Victoria, Australia, and Jiangxi province in China, and her works are represented in public and private collections within Australia and abroad. Currently, Warren works out of her gallery and studios in Crossover, West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
Artwork
Warren’s solo exhibition Australian Panorama (Yering Station Art Gallery, Yarra Glen, Victoria, 2018) brought together a selection of paintings eminently characteristic of her works in acrylic on linen, works marked by an intense vitality and lyricism of movement expressive of both the seen and unseen energy of the land.
Like Scottish-Australian artist Ian Fairweather and American artist Jackson Pollock, Warren paints standing up with the artwork lying flat. In this way, she looks down upon the work in progress from above.[3] Variously described as rhythmic and undulating and at once dynamic and at rest, Warren’s painting has been favourably compared to abstract expressionist American artists Milton Resnick and Richard Pousette-Dart, who work within an overall compositional mode.[4]
In addition, immersive installations like The Last Supper (Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, Victoria, 2018) show Warren employing ceramics and the language of sculpture to explore mankind’s relationship to Mother Nature, who plays a principal role in the installation. The complex composition, incorporating hand-thrown ceramics, crow’s feathers, foraged wildflowers, indigenous truffles, and miscellaneous readymade objects, upon a table cloth hand-embroidered by the artist’s grandmother, evokes a sense of time suspended, while inviting reflection on the fragility, vulnerability, and sublime impermanence of life.
Collaborations
Alongside Warren’s explorations in painting, ceramics, and sculpture are a number of successful collaborative projects such as Wild Dogs from Down Under (2006-08) that reveal an advocacy for the arts that has a regional, national, and international focus. Wild Dogs from Down Under brought works together by Warren and five contemporaries (Leonie Ryan, Jenny Murray-Jones, Gary Miles, Laurie Collins, and Eileen Harrison), and resulted in a touring exhibition. Coordinated by Warren, the exhibition was shown in a number of Victorian galleries (Burrinja Cultural Centre, Upwey; Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell; Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale; Meeniyan Art Gallery, Meeniyan; West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul) and was also exhibited by the Government of JiuJiang, Jiangxi Province, China, and in The Queen’s Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne.
Warren was subsequently involved in the touring exhibition Fields of View, a series of works by five Australian artists (Peter Biram, Leonie Ryan, Kerrie Warren, and Ursula and Werner Theinert) in response to the Black Saturday Bushfires (Victoria 2009). The exhibited works represented the participating artist’s lived experience of the bushfires as perceived through their eyes, hearts, and minds. Mr. Ted Baillieu (at the time MLA Shadow Minister of the Arts) officially opened the exhibition in Queens Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne, before the exhibition toured a number of Victorian galleries throughout 2010 (Gippsland Art Gallery, Maffra; Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong; Maroondah Art Gallery, Ringwood; and the Warrnambool Art Gallery. Elements of Fields of View were later shown in Emergence: Art on the Move at Federation Square in Melbourne, which showcased artists from bushfire-affected communities throughout Victoria in 2011.
Awards
Recipient
2012 First Prize ‘Best Painting – Avant-Garde’, Edrington Grand Art Exhibition, Judge Jon Dwyer
2007 Arts Business RAVE Award, Regional Arts Victoria
2007 SP Ausnet Arts & Cultural Industry Award, SP Ausnet and Baw Baw Shire Council
Shortlist
2019 Finalist ‘Gippsland Sculpture Exhibition’ 2019, Arc Yinnar, Gippsland Victoria
2017 Finalist ‘2017 Yarra Valley, Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards’, Yering Station Winery, Victoria
2017 Finalist ‘Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award 2017’, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster Victoria
2017 Finalist ‘2017 Pro Hart Outback Art Prize’, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill NSW
2015 Finalist ‘2015 John Villiers Waltzing Matilda Outback Art Show’, Outback Regional Gallery, Winton QLD
Collections and commissions
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Mind Insurance, Frankston Arts Centre, The Baillieu Family, MLC Taxation & Business Services, Latrobe Regional Development Group, Khan’s Hospitality, Institute for Breathing & Sleep (IBAS) Bowen Centre, Austin Hospital, Rockwell Bates Lawyers, International Power Mitsui Loy Yang B, Biruu Advisory, Camplex, Provincial Government of JiuJiang China, Data Command, McKenzie Allen Lawyers, Baw Baw Shire Council, Mitsui Babcock Energy Limited UK, Hazelwood Power Station
References
- ↑ Spratt, Siobhan (Spring 2019). "Best of Abstract Expressionism: Kerrie Warren". Art/Edit. Retrieved 16 October 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Warren, Kerrie (2020). "Kerrie Warren Art". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Lucas, Rachael (19 May 2011). "Abstract Expressionism in Gippsland". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 16 October 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Flynn, Maureen (2009). "Kerrie Warren Charts a New Frontier for Abstract Expressionism". Gallery & Studio. June/July/August: 11.
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