CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Annika Romeyn

Annika Romeyn has been announced as a Finalist in the 2018 M16 Drawing Prize, Finalist in Gippsland Art Gallery's 2018 John Leslie Art Prize and the 2018 Splash: McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award

Striving to connect the realms of micro and macro, representation and abstraction, Romeyn’s recent artworks are inspired by rock formations and geomorphology. Beyond describing the rock-face and its multiplicity of form, Romeyn hopes to create experiential artworks coloured by her memories and feelings of wilderness areas actively explored by foot, raft or kayak. Working across the mediums of drawing, painting and printmaking she is particularly interested in manipulating the luminosity of watercolor to bring the canyon wall to life, as a site of intersection between the intimate and the infinite, the immediate and the ancient.

There is so much curiosity and so much deep looking in Annika’s exquisitely detailed work. Her dramatic use of perspective forces us to look upward like ground-hugging insects. In multi-layered drawings, perspectives shift and intersect inviting us to move through and within the landscape. The earth is always there, mediating our self-image.
Excerpt from Tess Howitz catalogue essay 2018

My starting point is often an object collected, or photograph taken within the landscape. This source of material is then pushed, pulled and studied from multiple perspectives, allowing me to revisit and reimagine the environment whilst exploring connections between the humble and the sublime.
Annika Romeyn 2012

Canberra Times Review by Sasha Grishin, Oct 2017

Click here to read Bryce Campbell's review of Precipice

Romeyn graduated with First Class Honours in Printmaking and Drawing from ANU. She has been a finalist in the M16 Drawing Prize (2018) , the Splash: McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award (2018), the Gippsland Print Award (2017) and the prestigious John Leslie Art Prize (2018, 2014) and was the winner of the FLG Emerging Artist Award (2014). In 2013 she was commissioned to create a unique work for the Print Council of Australia and undertook a Hill End Artist Residency in 2015. Her work has been acquired by Gippsland Regional Gallery, Arts ACT (A.C.T. Government), KPMG, Port Jackson Press Australia, The Australian National University Library, Megalo Print Studio, Print Council of Australia Inc., The State Library of Victoria, Canson Australia, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Monash University Gippsland, Print Biennial Douro Collection, Portugal and The Brooklyn Art Library, New York amongst others.

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Chasm III 2018
monotype on paper
228cm x 168cm (unframed) Currently finalist in Burnie Print Prize
$8,000 AUD

Chasm I 2017
monotype on paper
228cm x 168cm unframed (framed $10,000)
$8,000 AUD

Ghost 5 2018
pencil & monotype on paper
228cm x 112cm framed
$7,500 AUD

Ghost II 2018
pencil and monotype on paper
228cm x 168cm (unframed)
$8,000 AUD

Ghost III 2018
pencil and monotype on paper
228cm x 168cm framed
$10,000 AUD

Chasm IV 2018
monotype on paper
228cm x 168cm (unframed)
$8,000 AUD

Holding On 2018
pencil and monotype on paper
76cm x 56cm (framed)
$2,000 AUD

Fallen Sentinels 2015
pencil on paper, concertina artist book
21cm x 221cm
$850 AUD

Solace 2017
watercolour on paper
150cm x 100cm
Finalist, 2018 John Leslie Art Prize
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Threshold 2016
watercolour on paper framed
150cm x 100cm
Finalist in the 2018 Splash:McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award
$5,500 AUD

Sea Cave 2014
8 coloured lithograph, edition of 10
76cm x 56cm
(framed size 91cm x 70.5cm x 3.5cm)
($680 unframed)
Printed at Lancaster Press
$1,100 AUD

Field Studies (Bittangabee Bay, Ben Boyd National Park 2) 2014
watercolour on paper
18cm x 25cm (34 x 40.5 x 2cm framed)
$550 AUD

Anisclo Study 2012
lithograph, edition 1/5
56cm x 76cm
$350 AUD

Thunder Rush Rapid - Concertina book with clamshell box 2015
digitally printed pages with archival pigment inks. Cover features hand printed woodcut
12cm x 16cm 3cm (box dimensions.) Edition of 10
$350 AUD