'Sunny stream', 2024, acrylic on canvas, 650 x 800 mm
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'Deep creek', 2024, acrylic on canvas, 1200 x 900mm
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Installation view
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Installation view
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Bowen Galleries is proud to present selection Anya Sinclair’s latest works, Outside over there.
The exhibition finds Anya returning to landscape painting, rummaging through the digital detritus of stock footage and destination marketing to build something with feeling.
At different points misty, magical and menacing, these works put a stake in the ground for the very same natural world they commodify.
The push and pull of this cognitive dissonance mirrors the viewer's experience of the picture plane itself, as it takes you on a tour of your escape hatch.’ Aaron Hawkins, November 2024
Anya Sinclair (b. 1978) is a painter of spectral landscapes and ephemeral flora. Born in Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland, she studied painting at Elam School of Fine Arts, before completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Dunedin School of Art.
Anya lives in Ōtepoti | Dunedin with her husband, son, and greyhound. Prior to the birth of their child, Anya’s painting practice was dedicated to naturalistic landscapes complete with illusionistic depth.
However, the twin challenges of raising a young child within the constraints of Covid-19 lockdowns catalysed Anya to forge a new mode she calls Fast Flowers: instinctive, impulsive, single session works.
More recently Anya’s practice has been navigating a middle way between studied landscapes and adroitly captured flora.
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Bowen Galleries is proud to present selection Anya Sinclair’s latest works, Outside over there.
The exhibition finds Anya returning to landscape painting, rummaging through the digital detritus of stock footage and destination marketing to build something with feeling.
At different points misty, magical and menacing, these works put a stake in the ground for the very same natural world they commodify.
The push and pull of this cognitive dissonance mirrors the viewer's experience of the picture plane itself, as it takes you on a tour of your escape hatch.’ Aaron Hawkins, November 2024
Anya Sinclair (b. 1978) is a painter of spectral landscapes and ephemeral flora. Born in Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland, she studied painting at Elam School of Fine Arts, before completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Dunedin School of Art.
Anya lives in Ōtepoti | Dunedin with her husband, son, and greyhound. Prior to the birth of their child, Anya’s painting practice was dedicated to naturalistic landscapes complete with illusionistic depth.
However, the twin challenges of raising a young child within the constraints of Covid-19 lockdowns catalysed Anya to forge a new mode she calls Fast Flowers: instinctive, impulsive, single session works.
More recently Anya’s practice has been navigating a middle way between studied landscapes and adroitly captured flora.
