ARTISTS | Sue Lovegrove
Sue Lovegrove’s painting practice reflects an intimate and personal experience of landscape; often remote and isolated places that are relatively free of the presence of human beings. Antarctica, Macquarie Island, Maatsuyker Island and Tasman Island, and places where the weather and the wildlife dominate, and where the balance and order is still in favour of the natural world.
Lovegrove’s delicate and layered mark-making on canvas explores the patterning and rhythms of the land. At times delicate, soft and wispy and other times sharp and harsh. Her delicate painted linework can become suggestive of sound, text, inscriptions of weather, hair, nests, or habitats, communicate something about the strength as well as fragility and the transience of the natural world.
Born in Adelaide in 1962, Lovegrove completed a Bachelor and PhD at the ANU in Canberra. She lives in Tasmania.
Exhibitions:
Water Sky: Intimate and Distant Landscapes | Sue Lovegrove
GOLD CHIP | one-night-only exhibition
Gallerysmith closes the 2023 curtain on December 12 with the annual exhibition, GOLD CHIP. At this one-night-only event, the gallery presents…
XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE
The River Flows Through You | Sue Lovegrove
I AM WOMAN | International Women’s Day 2021
The Memory of Water | Sue Lovegrove
Towards Abstraction: Paintings from the Stockroom
Landforms & Lagoons | Sue Lovegrove + Charmaine Pike
Cloud Memory | Sue Lovegrove
Sue Lovegrove’s paintings from the last few years have translated her experiences from wild and remote islands including Macquarie Island,…
Out of the Darkness: a group exhibition | Gallerysmith
When shadows lurk in the darkness, senses heighten, sound is amplified, the pulse races, unease escalates. While light allows us…
Glimpse | Sue Lovegrove
Artist Statement: My work has always been about an intimate and personal experience of particular landscapes where I have spent…
CV:
SUE LOVEGROVE
Born Adelaide, South Australia, lives and works in Tasmania
Qualifications
2002 PhD, School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU, Canberra
1990 Bachelor of Arts (Visual) major in painting, School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria; Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, ACT; Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, ACT; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania; Artbank, Sydney, New South Wales; Grafton Regional Gallery, New South Wales; Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales; Bundanon Trust, New South Wales; Maatsuyker Collection, Tasmania Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT; EASS Loans Collection, ANU, Canberra, ACT; Australian Conservation Foundation, Victoria; Holmes a Court collection, Western Australia; ACT Legislative Assembly, Canberra, ACT; Canberra Hospital, ACT; Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria; KPMG, Canberra, ACT; Macquarie Bank, Melbourne, Victoria; Derwent Collection, Tasmania; Island Collection, Tasmania; Artemisia Collection, Tasmania
News:
SUE LOVEGROVE WINNER OF THE ELAINE BERMINGHAM WATERCOLOUR PRIZE
Sue Lovegrove's artwork The Voice of Water, (No 9.24) (2019) has been selected as the winner of the Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour…
SUE LOVEGROVE HIGHLY COMMENDED
Sue Lovegrove was highly commended in the Hadley's art prize today. The Hadley Prize celebrates painting, printmaking and drawing of…