About
Artist Statement
I paint portraits and the occasional landscape, but my heart is truly in my work with ordinary people from the past using analogue imagery found in mid 20th Century photography and Super 8 film. Within the found imagery I collect there are gems which beg to be brought to the present through paint. Sometimes I use a solid background to give the subject all the attention, and also to represent the abyss from which they have been brought forth from. I take great pleasure in spending time with the people in my images and bringing them out to be seen.
An ongoing focus I have is on 'women of a certain age’; the invisible and overlooked, socially undesirable and ignored women over 50. 'Flossie' (winner of the National Emerging Art Prize 2021) is a wonderful example of a woman who may have been forgotten to the past and that would have been our loss. When the right woman passes my way, I’ll record her in paint.
There is no nostalgia here, but rather an unflinching look at the temporality of time —at its brilliance and purity but equally its distortions and figments of imagination.
Bio
Originally from the West Coast of Canada, Andrea has lived in Australia since 1992 with her husband and their two sons. Andrea paints full time in her studio based in Yarragon South, Victoria.
Andrea won the inaugural 2021 National Emerging Art Prize, winner of Best Gippsland Landscapr in the John Leslie Art Prize 2018, as well as being a finalist in the Moran Prize and the Darling Portrait Prize. Her work is available through the galleries below.
https://www.formanartandframing.com.au/collections/andrea-sinclair
https://michaelreidnorthernbeaches.com.au/artist/andrea-sinclair/
https://www.instagram.com/satchandcogallery/
CV
EDUCATION
2016 Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Master of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Solstice, Michael Reid Northern Beaches, Newport - Sydney
2022 A Day Just Like Today, Michael Reid Northern Beaches, Newport - Sydney
2018 ReView, Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood
2017 Not Here, Not Now, Alternating Current Art Space, Windsor
2016 Swim, Tacit Contemporary, Abbotsford
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Human Condition, Off The Kerb Gallery, Collingwood
2021 Oprah Has An Arts Degree, Black Cat Gallery, Collingwood
2021 Winter Days, Off the Kerb Gallery, Collingwood
2019 Scavenger, Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne
2019 Fleeting, Satellite Projects, Melbourne
2018 Graduate Exhibition MFA, RMIT University, Melbourne
2018 Four Legs Good, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2017 At the End of the World, M Contemporary, Woolloomooloo
2016 Graduate Exhibition, BFA, RMIT University, Melbourne
2014 Graduate Exhibition Advanced Diploma, RMIT University
2013 The Work, Nyora Studio Gallery, Eltham
2012 Bonjour, Bonjour, Nyora Studio Gallery, Eltham
2011 Live Love Life, Box Hill Community Centre Gallery, Box Hill
2010 Live Love Life, AGRA Gallery, Camberwell
2009 Five in Cato, Victoria Artists Society, Melbourne
PRIZES
2021 National Emerging Art Prize, Winner - Sydney
2021 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Semi-Finalist - Sydney
2021 National Emerging Art Prize, Finalist - Sydney
2020 Darling Portrait Prize, Finalist – National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2020 Ravenswood Art Prize, Finalist - Sydney
2020. Lethbridge Art Prize, Finalist - Brisbane
2018 John Leslie Art Prize, Winner – Best Gippsland Work, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2017 Clyde & Co Graduate Art Award, Winner, Melbourne
2016 Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Second Prize, Camberwell
2015 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Semi-Finalist, Sydney
2014 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Finalist, Sydney
2013 Nillumbik Prize, Finalist, Montsalvat, Eltham
2010 Red, Winner Second Prize, City of Yarra, Mooroolbark
2009 Nillumbik Prize, Finalist, Montsalvat, Eltham
2008 Nillumbik Prize, Finalist, Montsalvat, Eltham
COLLECTIONS
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria. Private collections in Australia, Canada and USA.