Andrew Svrta
Drawing is my passion. No other medium or process of working, caters for my creative urges like drawing does. The intimate act of making a line that intersects, divides, highlights, suggests, alludes to, defines, and communicates. Passing across or travelling though an imaginative composition of form and structure. It's hard to believe a small stick of graphite can be used to convey our identity and romantic visionary conceptions. Our personality permeates through our work and provides a narrow inlet into our inventive and fertile minds. Granting others access to our visual and representational way of thinking and feeling. There is no greater feeling than plucking an image from your imagination and witnessing it disentangle, expand, evolve, mature, ripen and flourish on paper. Taking on a life of its own. Using the hand as an extension of our mind.
2009
Art Vault, First Solo Exhibition “If you’re having fun, who cares if it
kills you.” (Ned Kelly).
Art Vault, 30*30 Exhibition (Group show)
2008
Art Vault, Opening Exhibition (Group show)
Gallery 25, White Exhibition (Group show)
2007
Graduate Exhibition (Group show)
2006
Old Commonwealth Bank Building, Life Drawing Exhibition (Student
organized Exhibition)
2009
Printmaking Technician (Art Vault)
Exhibition Curator (Art Vault)
Assistant to Master Printmakers: including: Fred Genis, Peter Lancaster,
Bill Young, John Loan.
2007
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Fine Arts), LaTrobe University, Mildura.
Majored in Drawing, Minor subject is painting.
Subjects included: life drawing, painting, sculpture, print making and
photography which included theory
Australian Art Review – November 09-Jan 10. Issue 21.
Inside front cover
Imprint Magazine – Spring 2009 Issue. Volume 44. Number 3. Pg. 2 & 41
Art Monthly Australia – Issue #215, pg.56 November 2008. Ned Kelly’s
Helmet
Skills associated with Visual Arts:
- Drawing
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Photography
- Printmaking
General skills:
- Essay writing
- Cataloguing art work