American born and UK educated, Adriane Strampp has been living and working in Australia for over 30 years.
Strampp completed a BA in Fine Art at Prahran College (1983) and an MFA (by Research) at Monash University (2010), and has held 30 solo exhibitions as well as participating in many group shows. She has been short-listed multiple times for the Sulman, Geelong Contemporary, Paul Guest, John Leslie, McGivern, Möet & Chandon and Tattersalls prizes, as well as being a finalist in many others, including the Len Fox, Glover, Adelaide Perry, Hutchins and City of Hobart Works on Paper prizes.
Her work is held in public collections, including Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW (2019), City of Yarra, Victoria (2011), Kedumba Collection (2010), Hamilton Regional Gallery (1993), Nillumbik Shire (1988), Artbank and Macquarie University. In 2016 Strampp was awarded a Hill End residency through Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and in 2011 was a Zoo AIR Artist in residence at Taronga Zoo.
Drawn to finding connections from a fragmented past to the present, Strampp gathers imagery from across time to create scenes that are imbued with both personal meaning and collective familiarity. Whilst landscape — as a vehicle for exploring places and moments remembered — remains a recurring subject in Strampp’s work, her interest lies not in its mimetic representation, but in its suggestion of an elusive and unreachable presence. Hers is the emotional journey of a landscape remembered, and the search for the familiar that helps us connect with the past.
Adriane’s 2022 solo exhibition at King Street Gallery, ‘In the Stillness’, was created during Melbourne’s austere lockdowns. Adriane was restricted to her Collingwood home for months at a time, separated from her studio in Fitzroy. In this forced stillness, she created a new series of work that turned toward the subject of the domestic interior as a site for contemplation, studying the light changing through the seasons, and night light reflections on restless nights.
King Street Gallery has represented Adriane since 2010. She currently lives and works in Melbourne, Victoria.
Adriane Strampp discussing her latest body of work, 2020
2022
In This Stillness, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2021
Pentimenti, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2020
Small Moments, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2019
Transient Journals, Jan Manton Art Gallery, Brisbane
2018
Luxation King Street Gallery on William
Limen Gallerysmith, Vic
2017
Pilgrimage, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
Other Places, Gallerysmith
2016
Shadowlands, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
Rosafarben, King Street Gallery on William
2015
Transference, Hill Smith Gallery
The Landscape Remembered ,Jan Manton Art
Vorbeigehen Fort Delta, Melbourne
2014
The Lake Paintings, King Street Gallery on William
2012
Passages of Time, Hill Smith Gallery
Istoria, King Street Gallery on William
2011
Erlosung: The Animal Gaze diane tanzer gallery + projects
2010
Imaging the Gap, King Street Gallery on William
2009
Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
2007
Eva Breuer Art Dealer
2006
New Paintings Eva Breuer Art Dealer @ Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne
2005
Allegory Eva Breuer Art Dealer
2004
Contexere Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2003
Eva Breuer Art Dealer
2002
A Thousand Words Flinders Lane Gallery
2001
Eva Breuer Art Dealer
2000
The Hurlstone Paintings Flinders Lane Gallery
1999
Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1998
Flinders Lane Gallery
Centro Storico, Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne
1997
Robin Gibson Gallery
1996
Flinders Lane Gallery
The Bride a collaboration with Mariana Hardwick, Melbourne
1995
Flinders Lane Gallery
Robin Gibson Gallery
1994
Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
1993
Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery
Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
1991
Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery
Holdsworth Galleries
1990
Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery
1988
Holdsworth Galleries
1986
Holdsworth Galleries
Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
2024
Bayside Painting Prize, Bayside Gallery, Victoria
2023
Aliferous: Having Wings King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, NSW
XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE, Gallerysmith, VIC
2022
The Len Fox Painting Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum, Vic
2021
Storylines + Songlines Justin Art House Museum, Vic
2020
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
Muswellbrook Art Prize Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Mosman Art Prize Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2019
Inside/outside King Street Gallery on William
Darebin Art Prize Vic
Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize Vic
2018
Hill Smith Gallery Art Central Hong Kong
John Leslie Art Prize Gippsland Art Gallery, Vic
2017
Uneasy Idyll Hill Smith Gallery, Art Central, Hong Kong
Contermporary Australian Drawing #7 Langford 120 Vic
2016
Menagerie Hill Smith Gallery
#celebrate End of year show King Street Gallery on William
Paddington Art Prize Sydney, NSW
Sulman Prize Finalist Exhibition Art Gallery of NSW
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing PLC Sydney
Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Sydney
The Glover Art Prize Falls Park Pavilion, Tasmania
John Leslie Art Award Gippsland Art Gallery, Vic
Len Fox Painting Award Castlemaine Gallery, Vic
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2015
End of Year Exhibition King Street Gallery on William
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing PLC
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Gallery
Contemporary Australian Drawing SACI Gallery, Florence
2014
Salon des Refuses S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Drawing Show Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
Paul Guest Drawing Art Prize Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic
Paddington Art Prize Sydney, NSW
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2013
Banyule Works on Paper Award, Vic
Last but not Least King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
Looking Forward King Street Gallery on William
2012
Paul Guest Prize Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic
Tattersall’s Club Art Prize, Brisbane
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize Geelong Gallery, Vic
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize Pymble Ladies College Sydney
The Animal Show King Street Gallery on William
2011
Zoo AiR Newcastle University Gallery, NSW
Five Miles from the Sea Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne
Hazelhurst Art Award Hazelhurst Art Gallery, NSW finalist
Exquisite Corpse Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, USA
2010
Painting (as one) Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Sulman Prize Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
ACGA @ Fed Square Melbourne, Vic
2009
City of Hobart Works on Paper Prize Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Tas
SQUARED Greenhill Galleries, Perth, WA
Mt Eyre Vineyards Art Prize Rex Livingstone Gallery. Sydney (Winner – Viewers Choice)
R & M McGivern Prize Maroondah Art Gallery, Vic
Salon des Refuses National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Some Recent Painting: The Director’s Cut John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2008
Convergence a Monash University Research Cluster Exhibition, Shifted, Melbourne
2007
Natura 45 Downstairs, Melbourne
2006
Sulman Prize Art Gallery of NSW
Tattersall’s Club Art Prize Brisbane
Whiteout Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Vic
Whiteout Span Gallery, Melbourne
2005
Whiteout Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne
Banyule Works of Paper Art Prize Mosman Art Gallery
Tattersall’s Club Art Prize Brisbane
2004
Precious Platters fund-raising exhibition for the Jewish Museum of Australia, Sotheby’s Melbourne
2003
Sulman Prize Art Gallery of NSW
University of Anhui The People’s Republic of China
R & M McGivern Art Prize Maroondah Art Gallery
Nillumbik Art Prize Melbourne
2002
We are Australian Melbourne Immigration Museum Monash Uni
ASYLUM Dante’s Upstairs Gallery, Melbourne
Just Married! Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2000
The Exquisite Corpse Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic
1997
Exposure Artists’ portraits of Artists Linden Gallery
Australia Felix Benalla Melbourne
1996
A Taste in Art in support of Community Aid Sotheby’s Australia
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize Victoria
Conrad Jupiters art Prize Gold Coast, Qld
Australia Felix Benalla
Sulman Prize AGNSW
Still Life Robin Gibson Gallery
1995
Chelsea Arts Club, London
Australia Felix Benalla
1993
R.M. Ansett Award City of Hamilton, Vic
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
1992
Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
1991
The Open Door Sotheby’s Melbourne
1990
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition
University of Vermont, USA
Alice *125 City Square, Melbourne
1988
Heidelberg & Heritage Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Still Life In the 80’s Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
University of NSW Invitation Art Purchase Exhibition, Sydney
A Horse Show Heide Gallery, Melbourne
1987
A Drawing Exhibition Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
Paintings from Leeuwin Estate, Greenhill Galleries
1986
Oz Drawing Now Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries
Heart & Spirit Greenhill Galleries
1985
Six Young Artists Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries
Artbank
Arthur Anderson & Co.
BHP Billiton
City of Hamilton Art Gallery
City of Yarra Contemporary Art Collection, Vic
Dovery Manor Museum, UK
Macquarie University
Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Melbourne Water
Nillumbik Shire Art Collection
The Dobell Foundation
The Holmes a Court Collection
The Kedumba Collection
The Leeuwin Estate
Finding a sense of place – from Arnhem Land to the Mornington Peninsula
Daily Review Online
Janurary 2018
Archibald Prize 2016: Esther Stewart wins Sulman Prize with abstract painting by Elie Choueifaty
Sydney Morning Herald
July 2016
