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Sarah Contos
Known forSculpture, Assemblage, Collage
MovementContemporary Art

Sarah Contos is an Australian contemporary artist. She is best known for artworks that incorporate textiles, screen printing, found objects and painting in a practice that can be described as collage, sculpture and installation-focused. Contos has been a finalist in a number of significant art prizes and exhibitions, including the John Fries Memorial Award and Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize,[1] and was the inaugural recipient of the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize.[2] Contos is represented by leading Australian gallery, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney [3] and STATION Gallery, Melbourne.[4]

Education

In 1998 Sarah Contos completed a Diploma of Fine Arts at the Perth Central Metropolitan TAFE of Art, Design and Multimedia.[3] In 2004, she completed a Bachelor of Design for Performance at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and worked as a threatre costume and set designer.[3]

In 2009, Contos moved to Sydney to pursue her career as a contemporary artist.[5] Contos completed a Masters of Art (Painting) at the College of Fine Arts (now UNSW Art & Design), University of New South Wales.[3] [6]

Career

In the late 2000s, Sarah Contos began regularly exhibiting her artworks in group and solo exhibitions. In 2011, she was among six recipients of the Marten Bequest Scholarship.[7] In 2013, she was a finalist in the John Fries Memorial Award [8] and one of three inaugural recipients of the 4a Beijing Study Program, alongside Tully Arnot and Jensen Tjhung.[9] The following year, her work Personification Of Past And Future Mythologies (Double-Headed Barry) was included in the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize.[1]

Two years later she gained representation with influential gallerist Roslyn Oxley.

In 2017, Contos won the inaugural $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia with her work Long Kiss Goodbye.[6]

In 2018, she completed a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and presented a significant installation for the Balnaves Contemporary Series at the National Gallery of Australia called Nikola Tesla Sends Theda Bara to Mars.[10] In 2019, Contos was one of four artists who created site-specific installations for the Sofitel Darling Harbour for Sydney Contemporary.[11]

Contos explores identity, eroticism, femininity, materiality, popular culture and history.[3] She describes her practice in relation to contradictions, saying: “I make quilts for art but never for warmth. I watch cooking shows but never cook. I want to cover my home in florals, but it ends up in wine stained sequins”.[5]

Contos has a studio-based practice. In 2019, Australian artist and curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham reflected on visiting Contos in her studio by saying, “Imagine a happy-sad catastrophe of colour and movement; an inviting lair where tactile sculptural forms appear embalmed in recycled teenage tears.”

Work

Major collections

National Gallery of Australia [12]

Art Gallery of South Australia [13]

Heide Museum of Modern Art [14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize". The Brag. 2014-04-10. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  2. ^ "Ramsay Art Prize 2017". AGSA - The Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 2020-09-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ a b c d e "Sarah Contos - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery". www.roslynoxley9.com.au. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  4. ^ "Sarah Contos | STATION GALLERY". stationgallery.com.au. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  5. ^ a b Miller, Carrie (2019-12-18). "Sarah Contos: The Spellbinder". Art Collector Magazine. Retrieved 2020-09-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ a b "Textile time-capsule wins inaugural $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize". UNSW Newsroom. 2017-05-29. Retrieved 2020-09-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Recipients of our co-investment opportunities | Australia Council". www.australiacouncil.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  8. ^ "2013 Finalist Sarah Contos". John Fries Award. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  9. ^ "HAZE: TULLY ARNOT, SARAH CONTOS AND JENSEN TJHUNG". 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  10. ^ "Sarah Contos: Balnaves Contemporary Art Intervention". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  11. ^ "Sofitel". Sydney Contemporary. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  12. ^ Contos, Sarah. "Rehearsals for a wakeful dreaming". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  13. ^ "Sarah Contos". AGSA - Online Collection. Retrieved 2020-09-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ "Sarah Contos". Heide Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-09-03.

External links


source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Contos&oldid=976457735

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