CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAYThe 'Women in Art' 2023 exhibition highlights a vast collection of influential female artists based in Sydney through experiences as emerging or established contemporary artists. The exhibition will expand the prominence of female Australian artists to create exposure and appreciation for their diversity and innovation within practice. This exhibition is on from the 1st - 15th March 2023, celebrating this year's International Women's Day with works by local female artists.
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SHAZIA IMRAN GALLERYWelcoming 2023 with our new gallery at 102-104 George St, The Rocks, Sydney - Shazia Imran Gallery! Previously the Old Coroner's Court, we are happy to announce our new location in one of Sydney's most noted cultural and historical sites of significance, maintaining it's old architectural elements while supporting the display of our collection. Thank you to all gallery supporters for allowing us to gain this amazing achievement with more new works and artists. AAD Gallery will continue to operate in collaboration with the Shazia Imran Art Gallery with the aim of expanding Sydney's contemporary art cultures.
THANK YOU ART CENTRAL HK 2022AAD Gallery would like to say thank you to all exhibiting artists and visitors who came to view the collection this year. We would also like to extend our gratitude to Art Central for hosting such a spectacular event alongside several noted galleries from around the world.
Thank you to international award-winning artist and gallery director Shazia Imran for representing AAD Gallery at this prestigious showcase. We hope to see you again soon. AAD GALLERY AT ART CENTRAL HONG KONG 2022 AAD Gallery is happy to announce our participation in the prestigious Art Central in Hong Kong this year! Running from the 26th to the 29th of May at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong. Art Central is one of Hong Kong's leading art events, displaying the next generation of talent from Asia’s most innovative galleries alongside distinguished artists from around the world.
We are excited to be a part of this spectacular opportunity, with featuring artists Shazia Imran and Rudy Rahme to be showcased at this event. Find us at Booth #B19 or online! View online Viewing Room Artist and Director of AAD Gallery Shazia Imran Please Join us in supporting small businesses and bring life back to Sydney CBD!
This Mural is right in front of AAD gallery located in the Nurses Walk (same Building as the Harbour Rocks Hotel). Come and take a selfie and enjoy art & culture in The Rocks. Theme is based on ‘Spring’ to coincide with Spring season in Australia. By using a common butterfly motif and cut-outs, the mural showcases happiness and rebirth. Butterflies are deep and powerful representations of life. They are a symbolic of endurance, change, hope, and life. That would signify with all of us trying to bring back life to people post-covid.
'Genesis' - a group show of AAD Gallery resident artists
11 May - 5 June 2020 B3, 52 Nurses Walk, The Rocks, NSW, 2000 Sydney, Australia We are very excited to announce the resident artists for our new space in Sydney!
AAD Gallery has been running since 2015 as an online space. The gallery has participated in various international art fairs such as New York Art Expo, Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, Shenzhen International Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair Melbourne and Affordable Art Fair Singapore. The gallery has been working with local and international businesses to sell and lease artwork. We are now establishing a physical space opening in the prestigious historic precinct of Sydney – The Rocks. We will open our doors to public as soon as we can. In the meantime, check out the resident artists work on this website. Our resident artist program is an exciting new venture. We look forward to you getting to know our artists. The gallery takes great pride in connecting our artists and their unique artworks with art collectors all around the world. Introducing our resident artists: Shazia Imran Elizabeth Langreiter Alan Kuczynski Kristine Ballard Melony Smirniotis Gayl Finocchiaro Are you interested to participate in an artist run gallery in Sydney?
AAD Gallery has been running since 2015 as an online space. The gallery has participated in various international art fairs such as New York Art Expo, Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, Shenzhen International Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair Melbourne and Affordable Art Fair Singapore. The gallery has been working with local and international businesses to sell and lease artwork. We are now establishing a physical space opening in the prestigious arts precinct of Sydney. We are working in collaboration with a few corporate patrons as well who would support the gallery and resident/exhibiting artists. The gallery is looking for EOI (expression of interest) from artists to join as resident artists. Resident artists will be partially contributing towards the rent of the space plus minding the gallery a few times a month. If you think you can commit, please email info@aadgallery.com for further details. Please provide a link to your website or social media in the email. Please note we already have a few internationally acclaimed artists onboard so you are in good company and you would be exposed to international exposure as well. Highlights of our recent show in Chicago.
Sculptural and Design Objects Fair - SOFA Chicago was held at Navy Pier 31 Oct - 3 Nov 2019 AAD Gallery presented work of 7 artists at Booth D05, Affordable Art Fair Australia 5-8 September 2019, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
AAD Gallery showcased work of 6 artists at the Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong held at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre 16 - 19 May 2019. CentreVisit us at @aadgallery booth C09 at until 19 May 2019.
Thanks to all collectors and buyers for acquiring our artwork!! What a fantastic show! @aadgallery artists selling up to the last minute. Shazia specialises in figurative art, sculptures and urban paintings. She has exhibited her work internationally and her work hangs in private collections in Australia, USA, and UK.
She will be participating in the Florence Biennale in October 2015. Working in watercolours, acrylics and mixed media, Shazia's recent work explores the infinite expressiveness of the subjects. "Art and design is something I’m very passionate about. Use of colour, shape, texture and light defines my style in capturing the personality and emotions of the subject. Life study is a focus in most of my sculptures and paintings. I also enjoy painting urban scenes. I love the spontaneity of watercolours. I’ve worked with all traditional and new media but I predominantly work in watercolours. Although I don’t want to limit myself with any certain style or technique, I enjoy all mediums and techniques." Some of her paintings are available to purchase online here Contacts us to enquire about painting and portrait commissions Gabriele is a published author and artist, who was born in Germany and live in Australia now.
"I illustrated my children book series and specialise in pet portraits but do any other animal as well especially Australian and exotic wildlife. I also do gilding with Acrylics on canvas using gold/silver and copper leaf." Naomi Miller is a New York based artist.
"Having been painting and taking classes for many years. A recent five day painting retreat led me to become more motivated to focus on my art work. My primary medium is watercolour and my work is moving to incorporate more abstract components to my paintings." Galina is an artist based in KualaLumpur, Malaysia.
"Very cosmopolitan in heart, started traveling the world when I was 17 and never stopped since. Interior designer and artist. Currently paint with coffee, watercolor so, oil, acrylic, do silk screen printing." I am a self taught mixed media artist for the most part. I have been doing mixed media since 2012. I fell in love with it in that year when I was going through some difficult situations in my life. It proved to be very therapeutic and rewarding. I now teach others the techniques to create in my style of mixed media and I find it to be so much fun to see others enjoy it like myself. I have been published this year in Incite 3: The Art of Storytelling and am currently working on be published in other publications as well.
My art is about line and movement, colour and emotion, beauty and positivity and telling a story in the abstract form. I have not undertaken study in art, as I am passionate about developing my own original style and methods. I am proud of my art. I hope you enjoy it also.
Using something as mundane as paint to capture the beauty of nature is such a privilege and challenge that l whenever I come close to doing that...it absolutely feel wonderfu.! I love to use colours, shapes, textures in my work to create a painting that engages the audience deeply whilst exuding positive energy.
"I am a self taught art maker and have been drawing and painting most of my life.
I was chosen the winner of the Local Artist Prize at the Maroochydore Arts Festival in 1997. I have taught art and sold many artworks over the last 25 years to people from many countries. I decided to become a mature age student and am currently finishing a BA in Fine Art through the Curtin University of WA but reside in QLD." Thanks for your support in 2015.
A huge Thanks to all who participated in ‘100 artworks in 100 days’ initiative and shared their work on the Blog and social media. Our new look website is ready. We’ll also share some exciting news with you as we embark on a New Year, with new milestones and aspirations. Wishing a joyful, bright, healthy, prosperous and safe 2016! If you haven’t done already, subscribe to our eNews by joining the mailing list. I have been interested in art, in colour, in design, in making a mess, since I was little. The best part of story books were always the pictures. From drawing in the sand, to drawing in chalk on the driveway art has always been a constant in my life in one form or another.
I studied art all through high school and was accepted into an arts degree in university but decided to defer and go travelling instead (who wouldn't :) I lived in the UK for many years and painted and exhibited my work in galleries in Glasgow. From here I sold pieces to Europe, the UK and Japan. Returning to Australia I discovered many other mediums...in particular polymer clay and mosaics. My polymer clay work has been displayed in art magazines and my stained glass mosaic work has travelled around the world in the form of donated pieces for auctions...in particular for Doctors Without Borders and donations for community projects such as schools and hospitals in the USA, and to the Steve Irwin mosaic memorial at Australia Zoo in Queensland. Now I mostly spend my time painting in acrylic and mixed media. “She couldn’t keep her colours inside the lines. So she drew new lines.”
I am inspired by the glamour of the 20s and 30s, the fantastic street art in Perth WA, vintage Vogue magazine covers, silent movies of the 1920s and fashion illustrations. I also enjoy painting animals and creating art for children. I am influenced by the works of Modigliani, Kees Van Dongen, Rene Gruau, Rennie Mackintosh, Picasso, Sonia Delauney, Malcolm Liepke, Chagall and Jolomo amongst others. I am also very interested in Modernism, Figurative art, Art Deco, the Naive Art movement and Cubism. Olivia Alexander is a multi-awarded experimental artist, born in London in 1961. She uses specialized mixed media techniques to create abstract naturalist paintings. Olivia is inspired by the beauty of the colours, textures and shapes in the landscapes and oceans, not just of Australia but of other countries she has travelled to. Her bold and expressive paintings being an outward expression of the inner self. Her work has been described as ‘having an outstanding character concerning the way in which she expresses the movements of life in the natural world surroundings as well as in emotionally arising abstract universes’. Moving to Australia with her parents as a child, Olivia discovered her love of art at a young age with a natural gift for drawing. After leaving school jobs were scarce in the small seaside town so Olivia moved to Alice Springs in outback Northern Territory to break and train horses. Not exactly a ‘real’ job but exciting none the less! She married in 1984 and focused on raising her four children. In 2001 Olivia made the decision to pursue her art career and undertook many years of classes such as Fine Art, Advanced & Creative Drawing, and Advanced Mixed Media, as well as Interior Design. In 2007 Olivia moved with her husband to Shellharbour, just south of Sydney where she works full time in her art studio. Her work has gained global recognition with many awards including both pewter and bronze medal diplomas from the Paris society of Arts, Sciences and Letters, a silver medal diploma from the French International Academy of Merit and most recently in 2015, the Art Critics Award and the Rome Imperial International award from Italy. She is a finalist in the international Brisbane Art Prize, Sep 2015. Olivia has been in numerous group and solo exhibitions, not just in Australia but also Italy, France, USA, Singapore and Dubai. October 2011 saw her artworks successfully exhibited at the juried, Salon d’Automne in Paris. Olivia’s artworks are owned by private collectors in many countries and she is represented by galleries in Australia and France. She will be having a major collaborative exhibition in Paris at the end of 2015. Eva Chant is Sydney based sculptor and painter. She pursued her creative artistic instincts since she was a child. At the age of 12 she enrolled in a commercial art training program by correspondence at the Melbourne Hotham Street Art College with the view to becoming a commercial artist.
After completing High School, Eva gained a scholarship for High School Art Teacher Training at the Alexander Mackie College in Paddington, which included training at the National Art School. This early experience involved drawing, printmaking, sculpture, oil painting, colour and design, basic architecture and history of art. Upon leaving Teacher’s College Eva joined a portrait painting class with Jerold Nathan for one year. In 1973 Eva joined the Hornsby Art Society and has been honoured with a Life Membership. Over the years Eva has worked in most capacities on the Society’s committee, including President, Secretary, Exhibition Manager, Treasurer and Publicity Officer. When Eva’s two children were in Primary School she enrolled in an Art Certificate course at Hornsby TAFE and commenced 6 years of full and part time participation. Figurative art has always been Eva’s passion and to maintain her development she attended weekly life drawing classes. Eva ran the Hornsby Art Society’s life classes for many years and taught students at the Evening Colleges in Hornsby, Wahroonga and Castle Hill. Eva developed her sculpture at various classes taught by Alan Somerville, Ingrid Morley, Meadowbank TAFE and Christine Simpson. Currently Eva is the Secretary of The Sculptors Society. Eva is also a member of several art groups, which meet to paint from the model on a regular basis, namely The Shed, run by Christine Simpson and Susan Cesarini’s Portrait group at Epping. Eva has been involved in many group exhibitions over the years, with the Sculptors Society and Portrait Artists Australia. Angelika Erbsland is the winner of 27 first prizes and 54 second and other prizes in various competitions in Australia. Angelika won the Packer's Prize in the Archibald portrait exhibition in 1993. Angelika's work covers a broad range of subject matter and media in a modern contemporary style mainly in watercolour, acrylic and mixed media. Best known for use of colour and figurative work, she is also inspired by landscape textures on her travels. Some of her paintings are available to purchase online here She is a member of Portrait Artists Australia and take portrait commissions. Contacts us here to enquire |
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