surviving the pyrocene/let them eat cake 1
$3,500.00
About Artist
BIOGRAPHY
Roxanne Lillis is a Painter and sculptor, living and working in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales.
Lillis began her art education in Sydney where she studied at the Julian Ashton Art School, The Rocks. There, Lillis absorbed the acute attention to form and composition associated with the academic tutoring.
Her passion for the arts led her to successfully undertake a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong in 2000. Subsequent to that she received a Post-Graduate degree in Master of Art (Honours with Excellence) at the University of NSW Art & Design, Sydney in 2018. This is where Lillis developed her own visual language.
Roxanne Lillis’ exhibitions include group and solo shows throughout Sydney and regional NSW. With a growing reputation in the field of arts, accompanied by awards, Lillis now seeks future opportunities to participate in to showcase her unique and celebrated artwork. A W A R D S are as follows:
FINALIST:2024 GalleryAlchemy The Palette Project
FINALIST:2024 Letherbridge Landscape Prize, Salon Des Refuse
FINALIST:2023 Mount Eyre Art Prize
FINALIST:2023 Bay Of Fires Art Prize
FINALIST: 2023 Letherbridge online Art Prize
FINALIST: 2022 Waverley Art Prize
FINALIST: 2022 Letherbridge Art Prize
FINALIST: 2022 REMAGINE, Hornsby Art prize
FINALIST: 2022 Grasslands Art Prize
WINNER: 2021 National Teacher-Artist Prize for “Phoenix Rising #3” “Roxanne Lillis’s “Phoenix Rising #3″ is a powerful, dynamic painting, the pictorial space resolved by both kinetic mark making and confident colour-blocking. Bravo, to a very worthy winner!”
– Del Kathryn Barton
Artist Statement
My artworks are created following sketches on our acreage of virgin bushland. My studio overlooks regenerating bushland and the slow return of fauna. Oil paints and glazes are applied in layers attempting to capture not only the recovery, but the history of trauma. This has become essential in my mode of existence since the devastation of losing everything in a bushfire; seeping into my heart and rationale. The paintings are simultaneously philosophical and literal. My intention is to create ambiguous organic forms. The ambiguity opens diverse interpretations. Whimsical yet solemn