CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Agneta Ekholm

Congratulations to Agneta Ekholm for her selection as a finalist in the 2018 Ravenswood Art Prize

In a way nature is always the starting point. It acts as a mirror on the soul; a reflex. In nature I find something that triggers a kind of personal state of mind.
Agneta Ekholm

Serene, vast and immersive, Agneta Ekholm’s sensitively layered paintings evoke a myriad of emotional and cognitive responses. Her organic compositions suggest movement, the play of light, glass-like formations or the flow of water. The fluid ebb and flow of her paint intuitively renders graceful forms via a technique Ekholm has mastered over the years of her practice.

Ekholm says of her practice, ''Working with fast-drying acrylic and water, I use a sponge to apply layer upon layer of shapes and gestures with solid pigment and transparent washes, while continually washing and rubbing sections away until the final complex image is built. I may work for days on a small isolated section of the painting. It is an obsessive and fastidious process and the work travels a complex journey of twists and turns before I have found the ‘solution’ which is that painting's final incarnation.''

Ekholm has been a finalist in the Calleen Art Award for the past six years (2010-2016), and a recent finalist in the Ravenswood Art Prize (2018), the Wilson Visual Art Award (2013), the Fleurieu Art Prize (2013), the Mount Eyre Art Prize (2012), the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2012) and the Redland Art Award (2012). She has completed a major commission for the newly opened Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Guangzhou, China, Marriott Hotel Beijing, China and has artwork in the JW Marriott Hotel, Miami, Florida & Marriott Dallas Market Center, USA. Agneta is currently completing another commission for The Parisian Sands, Macau, China. Her works are held in major public and private collections nationally and internationally, including Artbank, the Embassy of Finland (Australia), Sony Music Corporation, Google (USA) and Rydges Hotel Group.

CATALOGUE ESSAYS:
Figment, Christopher Heathcote 2017
Unfold, Andrew Gaynor 2015
Elements, by Phe Luxford 2013

Read Ekholm's interview with Daily Imprint here

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