PROFILE
Born in the UK in 1967, Al Strangeways now lives in remote Alice Springs. Her work has been seen in solo and group exhibitions in the Northern Territory and is held in private and public collections in Australia and overseas. She paints in oils, and subjects include portraits, landscapes and experimental work.
Her portrait commissions range in price from $900 to $8000, depending on size, number of subjects and complexity of composition. She prefers to work from a minimum of one or two life sittings of about 90 minutes each.
Al Strangeways
WEBSITE http://www.alstrangeways.com
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
‘I’m fascinated by the identity of things, and interested in how things express this, or aspects of this. My paintings are an attempt to represent a moment of glimpsing or catching what poet GM Hopkins calls the ‘inscape’ of the thing, be it a cloud, a place or a person. I enjoy exploring the way light works to shape and convey inscape. The quality of the light in Australia still astonishes me after years here.’
AWARDS
2007 – People’s Choice Award, Advocate Art Award, Alice Springs
2008 – ‘Faces’ Section Award, Advocate Art Award, Alice Springs
2008- Acquisition Award, Portrait of a Senior Territorian Art Award, Darwin
2009 – People’s Choice Award, Portrait of a Senior Territorian Art Award, Darwin
2010 – Selected for exhibition in The Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
2010- Acquisition Award, Portrait of a Senior Territorian Art Award, Darwin
2011 – ‘Faces’ Section Award, Advocate Art Award, Alice Springs
2011- People’s Choice Award, Portrait of a Senior Territorian Art Award
2012 – People’s Choice Award, Portrait of a Senior Territorian Art Award
2013 – People’s Choice Award, Advocate Art Award