Axia Modern Art: Transmetropole

Anne Marie GRAHAM

Introducing...

14 - 20 May 2010

The Lake at Royal Botanic Gardens 2010, oil on linen, 80 x 126 cm
Our Magnolia Tree 2010, oil on linen, 85 x 126 cm
Childrens Games 2006, oil on linen, 120 x 240 cm
Autumn in Fawkner Park 2009, oil on linen, 36 x 66 cm
Camberwell Market 2009, oil on linen, 50 x 90 cm
The Longest Table in the World 2002, oil on linen, 91 x 182 cm
Hide and Seek in Fawkner Park 2009, oil on linen, 36 x 66 cm
Mist 2009, oil on linen, 85 x 150 cm

About the Exhibition

Axia Modern Art is now representing prolific Australian painter Anne Marie Graham. Several new works will be showcased in an introductory exhibition to be held at Axia Modern Art from 14 to 20 May. Various subjects painted in her uniquely recognisable style, including a large triptych entitled Childrens Games and two new Royal Botanic Gardens paintings will be shown for the first time.

Anne Marie Graham's art is a celebration of life. Her images, created during a career spanning now more than six decades, are beautiful records of the natural world and sympathetic depictions of people and places. Her work is represented in most Australian state and regional gallery collections and sixty of her Royal Botanic Gardens series are now on permanent display at the Austin Hospital.

After ten years of painting landscapes and subjects outside of Melbourne, Anne will revisit our beloved Royal Botanic Gardens with a brand new series to be shown at Axia Modern Art in November 2011.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Vienna in 1925, Anne Marie Graham emigrated to Australia in the late 1930s where she studied at Melbourne Technical College (RMIT), the National Gallery School of Art (VCA) and the George Bell School. In 1959 she received an Italian Government travelling Scholarship to study under Emilio Greco and Oskar Kokoschka. Graham has been the recipient of numerous professional awards for painting and drawing including, The Springbrook Art Prize, The Australian Newspaper Drawing Prize, The Jacaranda Art Prize, The Carlo Levi Art Prize, The La Trobe Valley Acquisitive Prize and the Melbourne International Centenary Exhibition Award.

Two monographs on her work entitled; Images and Insights: The Art of Anne Marie Graham 2004 and An Essential Vision: The Art of Anne Graham 1988 by author Joan Ackland have been published by Watermark Press, Sydney and Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne. Anne Marie Graham's work is featured in numerous public, corporate and private collections in Australia, Japan, Europe, Israel, the USA and New Zealand.