CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Annika Romeyn

Upcoming Exhibitions

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY

*News Updates*
Annika is currently exhibiting at Cox Gallery in Canberra. The solo entitled Across the Distance has been produced in collaboration between Cox Architecture and FLG.
COX Gallery 4 June – 16 July, 9am – 5pm
1/19 Eastlake Parade, Kingston ACT

READ: The Canberra Times Review of 'Across the Distance'

*Other Recent News*
Romeyn's artwork 'Undergrowth (Stockyard Spur)' has been acquired for the ACT Legislative Assembly Collection.

Annika Romeyn has won the 2021 Burnie Print Prize.

Annika Romeyn has just been announced as the Winner of the National Works on Paper Prize

Romeyn's major work 'Endurance IV' has been acquired by the Canberra Museum & Art Gallery for the permanent collection.

Annika Romeyn's 'Endurance 5' has been selected for the prestigious 2020 John Leslie Art Prize at Gippsland Art Gallery.

Annika Romeyn graduated with First Class Honours in Printmaking and Drawing from ANU School of Art and Design in 2010. In 2021 Romeyn was awarded the Burnie Print Prize, in 2020 she won the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award and won the National Works on Paper Award. She was a Finalist in the Megalo International Print Prize (2020, 2019), the prestigious John Leslie Art Prize (2020, 2018, 2014), and the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award (2019) and received the Commendation Prize for the Banyule Works on Paper Award (2019). In 2019 she was invited to participate in Global Print 4, Portugal, one of the largest printmaking events in the world, and was the recipient of a Craft ACT Residency at Corin Dam in Namadgi National Park. In 2018 she was commissioned to create work for the Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat. She has been a finalist in the M16 Drawing Prize (2018), the Splash: McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award (2018), the Gippsland Print Award (2017) and was the winner of the FLG Emerging Artist Award (2014). In 2015 she undertook a Hill End Artist Residency and in 2013 was commissioned to create a unique work for the Print Council of Australia.

Much of my recent work draws inspiration from Guarella (Guerilla Bay) on Yuin Country, NSW South Coast – a beautiful place that will always be intertwined with memories of Summer 2016/17, the last shared with my Mum. The rock formations of Guarella (Guerilla Bay) are some of the oldest on the east coast of Australia, dating back as far as 510 million years, offering a humbling perspective in line with the words of Frédéric Gros, ‘Walking in nature gives you a feeling of duration that exceeds your own existence.’ Rebecca Solnit’s thoughts on ‘the blue of distance’ (the blue at the horizon, which we can never quite reach) have also been an important influence on my Endurance series. Blue remains ever-present in my mother’s wedding ring, set with a stone of lapis lazuli, the same stone that was originally ground down to make ultramarine blue paint. Personal history and art history intersect in this deep, pure blue, famously the most expensive pigment used by Renaissance painters. Ultramarine is now a synthetic pigment, but it’s still symbolic of something precious. Synthetic ultramarine is a particularly vibrant colour with the power to spill off the paper and wash over you. To me, it speaks of beauty and longing, memory and imagination, the intensity of the ocean and the ungraspable nature of the distant horizon. Artist Statement 2021

Annika Romeyn’s work has been acquired by Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, ACT Legislative Assembly, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Canberra Museum & Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, ArtsACT, KPMG, Port Jackson Press, Megalo Print Studio, Print Council of Australia Inc., The State Library of Victoria, Monash University Gippsland, Douro Museum Printmaking Biennial Collection (Portugal), Guangdong Museum of Art (China), and the James E. Lewis Museum (Morgan State University, USA), amongst others.

The encounter between ourselves and the land is a haptic exchange: it overcomes us and we, sadly and slowly, overcome it. Retaining traces of her hand – the white marks made with the tip of her finger and the darker areas with her brush – Romeyn’s works beckon us to step into this in-between space of physiological and psychological encounter; of landscapes felt and landscapes remembered.
Excerpt from exhibition. Essay by Elli Walsh 2020

Watch: Annika discuss her winning piece Endurance 5 at MPRG

Listen: MPRG In Conversation with Artistic Director Danny Lacy

Listen: Annika discussing her her work with GAG Curator Erin Mathews

Read: Canberra Times Review by Sasha Grishin, Aug 2019

Read: Bryce Campbell's review of Precipice

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Media Highlights

Endurance 6 2020
watercolour monotype on paper, unframed
112cm x 76cm (56 x 76cm x 2 panels)
Sold
Sold

Undergrowth (Mt Gingera) 2020
watercolour monotype on paper
168cm x 76cm (unframed)
$5,000 AUD

Double Vision (Mt Gingera) 2020
pencil and watercolour monotype on paper, unframed
168cm x 76cm In artist's studio
$5,000 AUD

Guerilla Bay I 2019
watercolour monotype on paper
168cm x 228cm (9 sheets of paper 56 x 76cm) (unframed) in artist's studio
$9,000 AUD

Endurance V 2019
watercolour monotype on paper unframed
228cm x 168cm WINNER 2020 National Works on Paper Award
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Sold

Chasm III 2018
monotype on paper
228cm x 168cm (unframed) In artist's studio
$8,000 AUD

Guerilla Bay II 2019
watercolour monotype on paper
168cm x 76cm in artist's studio
$5,500 AUD

Guerilla Bay III 2019
watercolour monotype on paper
168cm x 76cm WINNER THE BURNIE PRIZE 2021
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Sold

Ghost II 2017
pencil and monotype on paper
228cm x 168cm (unframed)
$8,000 AUD

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

Chasm IV 2018
monotype on paper
228cm x 168cm (unframed)
In artist's studio
$8,000 AUD

Verge I 2018
monotype & pencil on paper
228cm x 168cm unframed
In artist's studio
$8,000 AUD

Verge II 2018
monotype & pencil on paper
228cm x 168cm unframed
$8,000 AUD

Verge III 2018
monotype & pencil on paper
228cm x 168cm WINNER 2020 Fisher's Ghost Art Award Open Prize
Sold
Sold

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

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

Threshold 2016
watercolour on paper framed
150cm x 100cm in artist's studio
$5,500 AUD

Borrowed Time (Coal) 2019
monotype and pencil on paper, diptych, unframed
112cm x 76cm in artist's studio
$1,800 AUD

Undercurrents 2016
watercolour on paper
76cm x 56cm Finalist in McClelland’s Splash Contemporary Watercolour Award 2021
Reserved

Canyon Wall 2 2013
lithograph, diptych
38cm x 51cm
$650 AUD

Canyon Wall lithograph, diptych
38cm x 51cm
$650 AUD

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

Tuross Falls 2015
six colour lithograph,
61cm x 45cm
$600 AUD

Valle de Ordesa 2012
lithograph, edition 7/8
76cm x 56cm
$550 AUD

Fog Descends I 2012
lithograph, unique state print
56cm x 36cm
$650 AUD

Tuross Falls II 2015
black and white lithograph with yellow tint
61cm x 45cm
$550 AUD

Ravine 2012
lithograph, 2 of 6 editions remaining
76cm x 56cm Printed at Lancaster Press.
$550 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