CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Annika Romeyn

Congratulations to Annika Romeyn as her major work 'Endurance IV' has been acquired by the Canberra Museum & Art Gallery for the permanent collection.
Annika was the recipient of the Commendation Prize for the Banyule Award for Works on Paper 2019. She has also been selected a finalist in the 2020 Megalo International Print Prize, the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2019 and the 2019 recipient of a Craft ACT residency at Corin Cottage within the Namadgi National Park.

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 Artist Statement

Canberra Times Review by Sasha Grishin, Aug 2019

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Romeyn graduated with First Class Honours in Printmaking and Drawing from ANU. In 2019 she was awarded the Commendation Prize for the Banyule Award for Works on Paper and in the same year was invited to participate in Global Print 4, Portugal, one of the largest printmaking events in the World, and was the the recipient of a Craft ACT Residency at Corin Cottage within the Namadgi National Park. She has been a finalist in the Megalo International Print Prize (2020), the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award (2019) and received the Commendation Prize for the Banyule Works on Paper Award (2019). In 2018 she was commissioned to create a unique work for the Biennale of Australian Art. 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 Canberra Museum & Art Gallery, 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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Media Highlights

Endurance I 2019
watercolour monotype on paper unframed
168cm x 228cm Framed price $11,500
$9,000 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

Guerilla Bay II 2019
watercolour monotype on paper
168cm x 76cm framed
$5,500 AUD

Guerilla Bay III 2019
watercolour monotype on paper
168cm x 76cm framed
$5,500 AUD

Endurance V 2019
watercolour monotype on paper unframed
228cm x 168cm Framed price $11,500
$9,000 AUD

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

Ghost III 2017
pencil and monotype on paper
228cm x 168cm framed
$10,000 AUD

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

Chasm I 2017
monotype on paper
228cm x 168cm unframed (framed $11,000)
$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 unframed
In artist's studio
$8,000 AUD

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

Undercurrents 2016
watercolour on paper
76cm x 56cm unframed
$1,800 AUD

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

Canyon Wall 2013
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, edition 3/10. Printed at Lancaster Press
61cm x 45cm
$600 AUD

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

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

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

Tuross Falls II 2015
black and white lithograph with yellow tint, edition of 4. Printed at Lancaster Press
61cm x 45cm
$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