CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Bronwyn Hill

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Congratulations to Bronwyn Hill who has been announced as a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize 2024

Bronwyn Hill is a Brisbane based painter whose practice predominantly focuses on portraiture and figurative representation. Recognized for her sensual photo-real oil paintings, full of poetic narratives and gentle observation, her work often explores ideas of self-analysis and introspection within moments of personal solitude. Imbued with a sense of stillness and contemplation, Hill’s use of light and shadow and its emotional impact is a recurring feature of her images, as is her subtle use of colour and exquisite depiction of natural forms.

In her most recent paintings Hill collapses the traditional boundaries between portraiture and still life. Working within a rigorously minimalist aesthetic, her subjects - figures, bodies and animals alike - are presented as isolated forms within a field of pure, light filled clarity. Stripped of narrative proclivities or cluttered contexts her subjects are transported to a place of contemplative otherness.

Hill’s portraits join a long tradition of artist’s documenting their studio life. Many have recorded themselves gazing out at the viewer, capturing not only the site of their practice and the tools of their craft but also the experience of peering into the soul. For Hill the gaze is never direct. She is not looking at us, or at herself explicitly. There are no selfies here, but the self is still central to her investigation.
Excerpt from essay by Phe Luxford, 2023

ARTIST PROFILE:
Bronwyn Hill is a multi award winning artist, having won the Sylvia Jones Award for Women Artists (2019), the Clayton Utz Launch Art Award (2017), the People’s Choice Award at the Kennedy Prize (2018), the People’s Choice Award, Manning Art Prize (2015) and the People’s Choice Award, Clayton Utz Art Award (2015). She has also been a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize (2024, 2021, 2020, 2019), the Clayton Utz Prize (2020, 2018, 2017, 2016), the Lethbridge Prize (2021, 2020) among others. Hill has been involved in many exhibition showcases throughout Australia, including portrait prizes such as the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award and the Portia Geach Memorial Award. Hill completed a Diploma of Fine Arts in 2011.

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Green Flash 2024
oil on canvas
60cm x 90cm
$8,000 AUD

Red Apple II 2023
oil on board
38cm x 30cm
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Heap 2023
oil on canvas
91cm x 91cm
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In the works 2023
oil on canvas
200cm x 200cm
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Ragged 2023
oil on canvas
122cm x 150cm
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Smoko 2023
oil on canvas
91cm x 122cm
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