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| Welcome to my Web site and I hope you will visit again as more images will be added as time allows. Because I work across, often combining, a number of mediums you will find a variety of techniques used, however the major influences either directly or indirectly in concept or direct application, have been painting and photography. The POSTER FOR PEACE is available for purchase by clicking on the poster image above. It is an A1 size printed on duotone on 300 gsm high quality paper and is composed of collaged photogram images. It resembles a very large single photograph. I have been involved with both environmental and peace organisations for many years, and have been able to continue to assist these organisations for a number of years through sales of my work. This image PEACE IS IN YOUR HANDS has been developed from earlier material, originally sold in New Zealand where Greenpeace and the Peace Foundation were and still are prominent in the community. It is held in the collections of the NSW State Library and the Australian War Museum. The photographs are from separate periods. My first camera was a Kodak Box Brownie, a Christmas present received at the age of 8. Animals and people were my first subject matter. Both remain, along with attempts to capture fleeting moments of incident. Later a period of freelance photojournalism, mainly of people in the arts followed. I love black and while prints, but the richness of colour drew me to the use of transparency film. I prefer using natural light. Digital manipulation using Photoshop is an ongoing process. |
Several years ago on discovering the potential in the solar-etching process, printmaking resurfaced. It has strong connections to photography without the lung damaging chemicals. Again, manipulation by digital software programs makes for more varied possibilities. Print images are available for sale on request. Please e-mail me for prices. Drawings and paintings are often inspired from photographic "discoveries" with ideas connecting, interweaving, integrating and sometimes separating over time. Three animated films, together with a number of still and displayed imagery and background material were recently shown at the Manly Regional Gallery in Sydney, where I gave three public presentations in November 2005. Commissions in various mediums can be undertaken, please contact me for more information. More later,
BFA, MA (hons), Cert. Animation |
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Jill Carter-Hansen - Brief Biographical Details www.visionaryimages.com.au Born in New Zealand, She combined writing and visual images from a very early age. She attended Elam School of Art in Auckland - aged 17 - full time for three years in a design course. At 20 she left for Europe. On returning to New Zealand she exhibitiedin many group and solo shows, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1986 in Photography and Printmaking at the University of Auckland Among her early lecturers was Colin Mc Cahon at the Auckland Art Gallery. He remains an influence, as do Ralph Hotere, Rodney Fumpston and a number of also early Photographers, including Julia Margaret Cameron and Man Ray. She taught Painting, Drawing and Design and freelanced in photo-journalism-mainly on people in the arts Her work - in both solo and group shows - appeared firstly under the names of Jill Carter and tafter 1963 Jill Stewart. In 1980 her name became Jill Carter-Hansen, combining both her adopted and birth names. Around this time she also designed and produced printed posters and cards to support the fund-raising for environmental and peace organisations. In 1987 she moved to Sydney, Australia, freelancing as an illustrator and photographer and tutoring part-time at Randwick TAFE and at other Tertiary Art Institutes and Universities. Around this time three of her children's books - written and illustrated - were published by Hodder and Stoughton and Random House in Sydney. In 1990 she completed a Certificate in Animation, finishing her first film Messenger in her studio in Darlinghurst,Sydney in 1992. It became the pre-feature for Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein on that film's release in Australia. Two more films followed, Songs of the Immigrant Bride and Eclipse supported by the New South Wales Film Office and the Australian Film Commission. These works - incorporating paintings drawings, collage and photography - were nominated for and won a number of awards. She attained an MA (hons) in Fine Arts (University of Western Sydney)i n 1996. Between 1989 and 1997 she visited major Public Galleries on several trips to the US and Northern Europe while. presenting her work. Carter-Hansen often combines mediums, both traditional and contemporary - using the more environmentally protective photo-polymer plate process when printmaking. She continues developing directions and ideas. Her work often incorporates digital processes. "Both her paintings and photography are dramatic with rich use of images emerging from darkness.....and shadow is a major feature in her work. In other mediums, earlier images often depicted figures in dramatic performance of some kind, more surreal than literal. Her work now often appears more edgy and evocative, where the physical elements depicted - whether objects or figures - symbolise (through the juxtaposition of light and darkness,) the Invisible. A major theme of her work, is that of transition." Marie Geissler - International Arts Commentator 27/2/04 Collections Include Te Papa - NZ Museum of Art - Wellington New Zealand School of Architecture - Auckland University New Zealand NSW University Library College of Fine Arts - Sydney Australia Screen Sound Australia - Sydney Australia United Contemporary Collection - Auckland New Zealand State Library of NSW - Sydney Australia U W S Nepean Arts Library - Sydney Australia Auckland University - Fine Arts Library Auckland New Zealand Auckland University Architecture Library Auckland New Zealand Auckland Memorial Museum - Auckland New Zealand Australia War Museum - Canberra Australia Australian Film, Television and Radio School Sydney Australia Waikato Art Museum - Hamilton New Zealand Ku Rees Archives Canberra Australia Angela Morton Collection - Auckland New Zealand Dromkeen Collection - Victoria Australia International Film Festival Archives Selected Group Exhibitions 2006 - Contemporary Printmaking - Antiques Centre Gallery, Surrey Hills Sydney Australia - Creative Madness - Orson and Blake Gallery Surrey Hills Sydney Australia - Greenpeace Changing Nature (exhibition and auction The Gallery Sydney, Australia - The VAANA Fragments-Visual Artists Against Nuclear Arms-Art Station Auckland NZ 2005 - Garvan Institute Exhibition Garvan Institute Foyer Sydney Warringah Printmakers Annual Show Sydney Australia - Remuera Gallery - Nine Women Auckland NZ - CPM Print AwardsPrints Group Show Tweed River Regional Gallery NSW Australia Global Gallery Sydney Australia - Pearl Group Show Sheffer Gallery Sydney Australia 2004 - Australian Maritime Art Award Melbourne Australia Art Auction Steven Mori Gallery Sydney - Infusion ( FONAS ) National. Art School NSW - Spectrum - National Art School Parliament House, Sydney 2003 - Artists Paintings for Peace Foyer Display. Manly Gallery NSW - Barossa Australian Artists Barossa Regional Gallery NSW - CMP Print Awards Tweed River Regional Gallery NSW - FONAS Members Exhibition National Art School Sydney - Garvan Institute Exhibition Garvan Instittute Foyer Sydney 2002 - Art 4th 4th Floor Gallery - Sydney 2001 - Redlands/Westpac Art Award Sydney Mosmon Cultural Centre Sydney Mosmon Art Prize Sydney Mosmon Cultural Centre Sydney - Leaping Boundaries - NZ Government Sponsored Ex. Mosmon Arts Centre More Recent Solo 2D Shows 2005 - (Artwork stills from 3 films by 1artit) Manly Regional Gallery, Sydney NSW 2004 - Sites of Warning, Sites of Mourning Pivotal Gallery Melbourne VIC Australia 2000 - Acrylic on Canvas Peters Muir Petford Gallery Auckland NZ - Tricks of Light-Stills from artist Films (invited) North Shore Winter Arts Festival. Auckland 1999 - Can't buy me Love - Combined/med. Film Stills - shared with Bruce Petty ex. Silicon Pulp Sydney 1997 - Solo Show Sturt Regional Gallery NSW Australia 1990 - Legends/ drawings Charlotte H Gallery Auckland NZ Felling the Citadel-photography ASA Gallery. Auckland NZ 1987 - Midway Connections-paintings Southern Cross Gallery Wellington NZ 1986 - Paintings Acrylic/canvas Scott Pothan Gallery Auckland NZ Awards Grants Sponsorships 2000 - Air NZ Travel Sponsorship for Gallery Presentations - Dunedin, Christchurch, Auckland 1999'96'95 - Australian Film Commission Funding Australia 1998 - Youth Jury Award / Songs of the Immigrant Bride. Montecatine Terme Int. Film Fest. Italy Artist in residence COFA University of NSW Australian Film Commission Production funding Australia 1997 - NSW Arts Grant - Women in Technology Australian Film Commission 1996 - 4 x International Film Nominations - Art Animation Sound and FXs Brisbane Film Festival Finalist Dendy Awards Int. Film Festival Sydney 1995 - Sponsorship - Canon Australia & Macworld Sydney 1994 - Grants/film development Film TV//Ministry of Arts NSW 1993 - Finalist Award - MESSENGER. World Short Films - Huy, Belgium 1991 - Folio Award for Illustration Australia 1990 - Finalist - United Sargent Photographic Award New Zealand . Sponsorship-/Valhalla Prod. - Felling the Citadel - photography ASA Gallery Auckland 1989 - Finalist-Lothian Award (Children's unpublished book - The Elegant Elephant) Melbourne Australia 1986 - Grant - Q E II Arts Council New Zealand 1980 - Finalist - Painting Award - Team Mac Millan New Zealand - Finalist - Painting Award - Air New Zealand New Zealand - Winner Ida Eise - Painting Award Auckland NZ |
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