ARTIST STATEMENT ; Initially after Art School I focused on a diversity of genres, a mix of still life, portraiture and landscape with influences ranging from Vermeer, Holbein, Magritte, Delafield Cooke, Smart, and Wyeth. .In recent years the landscape and atmospherics have taken dominance with the suggestion of human presence with the inclusion of man-made structures or objects. The sense of narrative is explored but not explicit, the viewer becomes an interpreter deciphering the significance of the imagery. The ‘now-ness of the moment’ with implications of what may have happened or is yet to happen in the scene is part of the intrigue I like to conjure. Exploring paint and its elastic characteristics and playing with colour in the abstract sense is also important to me. My work is quite autobiographical with the changes in my life inevitably becoming the subject matter for my art. Invariably, the landscapes I paint have touched me personally, they are places I have visited and have connected with……undeniably the Uluru and Kata Tjutua National Park have been a major and formidable presence in my Art in recent years….a landscape that offers endless opportunities for an artist’s response. Travel around Australia has opened up the aesthetic beauty/wonder of this extreme country. But I am not satisfied with painting images that are purely beautiful and representational. I aim to make a comment……. arouse a thought ……..about the human condition ……….I want to provoke the viewer.
MISCELLANEOUS
Front Cover for book CHROME CROWDS AND CONCRETE
2004-Finalist in A.N.L. Maritime Art Prize
2005 – Best Painting Bellarine Art Show
2007/ 2008 /2009/2010 Judge at Bellarine Art Show
Installation Exhibits at Ayers Rock Airport-July 2005--Three (2 mt) paintings
2011 Maruku Arts; Working with Indigenous Artists; General work
2012 Maruku Arts; Working with Indigenous Artists; Overseeing Exhibition
2014; Represented as Artist at Mbantua Alice Springs
2014 Living at Yulara LIVE-IN Resort as permanent Artist in Residence
Front Cover for book CHROME CROWDS AND CONCRETE
2004-Finalist in A.N.L. Maritime Art Prize
2005 – Best Painting Bellarine Art Show
2007/ 2008 /2009/2010/ 2012 Judge at Bellarine Art Show
2013 Curator of Community shows at Desert Oak Studio
!Wingilina; Mimili ; Maruku Arts Jan Feb March
2014; Best acrylic; 2014 Bellarine Art Show
2015 MURAL WINTJIRI GALLERY Ayers Rock Resort
*2015 ARRIVAL MURAL AYERS ROCK RESORT AIRPORT 2015 *DEPARTURES MURAL AYERS ROCK RESORT AIRPORT; 2015
Covered over in Jan 2020 by decision of Assistant Airport Manager Dwayne Kalbus; January 2020 ……a stud wall was erected over it.
Please go to my website to see the time-lapse video of the lost work ……………………………………“Twilights Shadows”
SOLO SHOWS
1990 Masters Show. R.M.I.T.
1990 A Decade & More –Massoni Gallery Melb.
2001 The Unreal – Catanachs Gallery Melb.
2005 Mulgara Gallery Yulara-Uluru
2006 Mulgara Gallery Yulara- Uluru
2007 Mulgara Gallery Yulara- Uluru
2008 Mulgara Gallery Yulara- Uluru
2009 Mulgara Gallery Yulara- Uluru
2009 Dunk Island PLANTATION GALLERY; Voyages
2010 Dunk Island PLANTATION GALLERY; Voyages
2010 Mulgara Gallery Yulara- Uluru
2011 Mulgara Gallery Yulara- Uluru April/May
2012 Mulgara Gallery Yulara- Uluru Mid-March-April
2013 Desert Oak Studio Yulara April
2014 Desert Oak Studio Yulara April
2015 Pending Craft in residence OCT NOV
2015-2021 Artist in Res at Uluru every year twice a year
BIOGRAPHY AND CV HEATHER DUFF
ARTISTS PROFILE-HEATHER DUFF
Melbourne…0408318503 artbyduff@gmail.com
www.heatherduff.com artbyduff@gmail.com
Diploma of Art& Design - Painting Victorian College
Of the Arts & Prahran C.A.E.
Painting Award Victorian College of the Arts,
15mths Travel in Europe; 3 month Artist in Residency stay
At the Karolyi Foundation France
Lecturer, R.M.I.T: Design & Drawing,
Tutor at Kangan Tafe
MASTERS OF FINE ART – Painting. R.M.I.T. 1989
GROUP SHOWS
5 Group Show - Ewing Gallery Melb.
The Art of the Real - Macquarie Gallery Sydney.
Young Painters - Macquarie Gallery Sydney.
Mixed Exhibition - Macquarie Gallery Sydney.
Figurative Works - Macquarie Gallery Sydney.
Realist Exhibition - Macquarie Gallery Canberra.
Prahran Show - Warehouse Gallery Melbourne
Drawings - Macquarie Gallery Sydney.
1999 Diversity - Cowwarr Art Space
1999 Diversity - Queen Vic Art Gallery.
2000 Beyond Degrees – Tooronga Rd Melbourne
2003 Motor Works Art Expo – Sth Yarra Melb.
2003 Three’s Company – Catanachs
2003 Art Expo – St. Catherines Toorak Melbourne
2004-5 @ 5 Group Show, METRO 5-Melbourne
2006 Emerging Artist Show – TOYOTA Group
2006 Bellarine Art Show St Leonards Vic
2007 Bellarine Art Show St Leonards Vic
2008 Reconciliation show Lumina Gallery Malvern
2008 Bellarine Art Show St Leonards Vic
2009 Nov Catanachs FASCETS Vic
2009 Bellarine Art Show St Leonards Vic
2010 Bellarine Art Show St Leonards Vic
2012 Bellarine Art Show St Leonards Vic
2014 Bellarine Art Show St Leonards Vic
REPRESENTED IN CORPORATE COLLECTIONS-
1.--SOUTHERTONS ….
2--FOCUS PRODUCTS …
3--MEAD PARTNERS …
4--NAVA HOMES,…
Represented in Private Collections; Worldwide. COMMISSIONS
2003 -“Nuova Vita”-Sunrise for Nava Homes
2004 - Scotch College Main Oval requested by Mc Leod Club
2004 -“Holding back the sea” for Nava Homes
2005 - Robert Kipp “Far Horizons”
2007 – Australian Classic for Thermal Testing Pty Limited
2008 – Being There for Salon 460
2010 – Red Sky and Roo’s renewed; Australia
2010 - Red sky and Roo’s Revisited; Ireland; John Glenn
2010 – Reaching Upward; America; Chris Williams
2010 - Positive / Negative New Uluru; Alfred Mason
2010 – Always; View of Kata Tjuta sunset Andrea Warnock
2011 – Interpretive Bue /Gold Sky; KENJI
2011 – Triptych; Devil Desert Vista; Bennet
2011 – Magic Rock; Nikou
2011 – Electric Kata Tjuta; Residency commission
2012 – Steve Tattersal; Black and White Uluru piece Perth
2013 Genazzano;The Old and New Concept Here and Now
2013; Kata Tjuta Desert Oak and Perentie; Yulara Resident
2013; Electric Uluru revisited; Geckos manager
2014; Devil viewing the Rock; American Client visitor to the Rock
2014; Desert Dwelling (black and white); Maxine Darwin; London
2014; Portrait of Indigenous Youth; Tim Eades
2014; Desert Vista (black and white); Sean (fire chief Yulara)
2015; Lake Amadeus; Sails Manager
2015; Myth revisited ….Rosie Balckmoore
2013 2014 2017; Painted fire helmets (5) for Yulrara
Fire station and Conellan Airport fire station
2016; Living; Desert Commission SYDNEY
2016; Midday Uluru revisited; U S A
I have continued to paint special request pieces; too many to list.