- All works, acrylic or gouache or pencil on archival board. Works start from $800 unframed. Please enquire Lornagrear@hotmail ↩︎
Selected life drawings 2022- 2024
Category: Drawing
Exploring Figure Drawing Studies: 2023-2025
- All works- mixed media, watercolour, oil pastel, inks on paper or archival card. Prices range from unframed $400 to framed $1500. Please enquire Lornagrear@hotmail or leave comment. Framed to suit. ↩︎
TEXTA
I have works in TEXTA- opens Thursday 5 October, 2023- Thurs- Sat 11- 5, Sun 12- 5 –
31 A Enmore Road, Enmore, Sydney, NSW – curated by Daniel Press. Curated by Daniel Press
40 x 45 cm
40 x 45 cm
40 x 45 cm
40 x 45 cm
40 x 45 cm
40 x 45 cm
DRAW Space, an independent artist-run space, provides a unique opportunity for artists to engage in new drawing research and showcase innovative works. Following a series of experimental solo and group shows, DRAW Space is thrilled to present the community-inclusive group show TEXTA in October 2023.
Textas, or felt pens, are a ubiquitous medium that many grew up with. These pens encourage a drive to create and a sense of play. Often overlooked as a fine art medium, this exhibit shows how these humble pens can produce bold, forceful artworks that call for attention.
- TEXTA will open at 6pm on Thursday 5 October.
- TEXTA features 9 unique practices that use the medium: Quinn Chen, Jake Alexander Cruz, Lorna Grear, Lily Langley, Jacqueline McIntyre, Ngarra, Charmaine Pike, Jeremy Smith and Yuck.
- The exhibition features a community drawing table at the centre of the room, allowing the attendees to draw and add to an ever-changing work.
- The exhibition runs from Thursday 5 October to Sunday 5 November.
- Exhibiting artists will give an artist talk at midday Saturday 7 October, chaired by curator Daniel Press.
- A special showing of community drawings from the drawing table will then show for one night at 6pm on Tuesday 7 November.
Featured artists also contributed to a colouring book / catalogue essay hybrid that plays on the childhood and lowbrow connotations of the medium. The hybrid book features word puzzles, comics, and academic essays on the medium.
Lorna Grear is represented by Flinders Street Gallery.
Charmaine Pike is represented by Defiance Gallery.
Ngarra is represented by Mossenson Galleries. Ngarra drawings courtesy of Mossenson Galleries and Mossenson Art Foundation.
Jeremy Smith is represented by .M Contemporary.
2022 – Works on art board- gouache
These works were painted as small studies – actually at the time they were not studies at all – I didn’t paint them to think about making other works from – they are works within themselves. They are reactions to light and space and atmosphere. The works represent impulsive and intuitive inspirations to paint.
Works available. Contact Lornagrear@hotmail.com or Flinders Street Gallery; flinderstgallery@bigpond.com
Texta works
My texta works tell a different story. I had been in the bush for a while by myself and had used up all my resources. I found a packet of textas. I used these to create my first texta work. It was made out of necessity.
The texta work gave me a freedom to look at form and composition. I had to find a way to simplify and enhance. The medium allowed me to delve into my love of pattern and complicated space. Conflicting harmonies even kaleidoscopic structures appeared.
I use landscape as the structure on which to realise my daily perceptions about the world we share.
For all enquiries contact Lorna Grear lornagrear@hotmail.com or Insta lornagrear_studio
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
My drawing practice is paramount to my visual art practice. I make many, many drawings as studies and ideas for other work. Inevitably the texta drawings become works in their own right. They are the final works.
The discovery of texta pens has allowed me to work through structures and colour ideas in a different way to painting. I like drawing for its versatility, and directness- the flow of line and quick resolve. This suite of works rely on my memory of real places and my imagination to allow for ‘digressions’ into surreal and colourful landscapes.
When drawing, I find myself thinking of many past and current influences being reworked into new drawings. In drawing, the realisation is instant.
Drawing 2016
Scribbled Tantrum
Hand drawn ink on paper , Digitally manipulated.
Limited edition prints available. Printed by the wonderful Darkstar digital printers. Etching Rag paper 100%. 50 cm x 50 cm, individually signed, print run of 10 only. SOLD OUT
Send enquiries to lornagrear@hotmail.com
structure ink pattern
All drawings ink, texta or pen on paper, 2015
Lorna Grear 