Amanda PENROSE HART (b. 1963) is this year’s Artist-in-Residence at PLC Sydney, in Croydon.
The exhibition opening of ‘Riversdale Dreaming’ at the Adelaide Perry Gallery (PLC Sydney) is from 6-8pm, on the evening of Wednesday May 28. For more information, please click here.
From PLC SYDNEY’s website:
In April, Amanda Penrose Hart travelled to Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon with PLC Sydney’s Year 11 Visual Arts classes as PLC Sydney’s Artist-in-Residence. In Term 2, she joins the classes again in The Croydon Art Studios as Artist-in-Residence. Riversdale Dreaming, an exhibition showcasing the works created by Amanda and Year 11 Visual art opens at 6. 00 pm Wednesday 28 May and continues 8.30 am – 4.00 pm weekdays until 20 June.
Amanda has featured in numerous selective group exhibitions, often following artist trips or artist-run projects such as Your Friend the Enemy, and Salient (both commemorative exhibitions of the Great War), and River on the Brink: Inside the Murray Darling Basin. She won the Gallipoli Art Prize in 2017 and the Clayton Utz Award in 2019. She has been selected as a finalist in numerous art wards including the NSW Parliament en Plein air, the Portia Geach Memorial Award, the Kedumba Drawing Award, Muswellbrook Art Prize, and the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.
About the Adelaide Perry Gallery:
Named in commemoration of Adelaide Elizabeth Perry, a respected Sydney painter and printmaker who taught at the College from 1930 until 1962, the space is an integral and enriching component of Visual Arts and Design & Technology learning at PLC Sydney.
The Gallery offers our students a unique opportunity to broadens their experience and knowledge of art, design and curatorial practice by engaging directly with contemporary professional practitioners. Similarly, the learning and experience they gain through masterclasses and workshops with these artists is invaluable.
