Nel Ten Wolde
Nel Ten Wolde wurde am 30.04.1957 in Holland geboren und lebt seit 1986 mit ihren zwei Töchtern (geboren 1985 und 1988) und ihrem Mann in Melbourne.
Nel Ten Wolde has travelled extensively in South America, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. These travels have exerted a great influence on her work, in particular the wide open desert spaces abd the colours of South America and Australia.
In her work she aims to captivate the eye by creating a balance between the harmony of the colours on one hand and the dynamics of the composition n the other.
Australia inspires her with the colours that can only be found in the Australian bush, outback and coast, because of the brilliant light.
After several tours in the outback, she is drawn to the multicoloured desert and inviting warmth of the open space, the loneliness, harshness, droughts, winds and sandstorms.
The outback makes her feel at home. Starting from that feeling within, she is painting in her distinctive way the Outback Landscapes.
Her aim is to catch the brilliant colours and light of the desert, the dynamics of the wind and the sun, that create the landscape as it is. The brightness of the sun in the morning, the harshness in the afternoon and the soft coloured sky in the evening changes in many different colours and feelings.
Her paintings of the "outback" are a modern abstract representation of the Australian landscape.
BIOGRAPHY
1957 Born, Netherlands
1975 -79 Academy For Drawing and Fashion Design; Amsterdam
1979 – 84 Gerrit Rietveld Academie; Amsterdam, specialist studies in painting and sculpture
1985 -86 Maintained a studo in Utrech, The Netherlands
1986 Emigrated to Australia
1986 -89 Lived and worked in Canberra
1990 - Lives and works in Melbourne
EDUCATION
1975 – 79 Academy For Drawing and Fashion Design; Amsterdam
1979 – 84 Gerrit Rietveld Academie; Amsterdam, specialist studies in painting and sculpture
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Yering Station, Gallery Yarra Glen, Victoria
2007
Wine House, Southbank, Melbourne
2006
Moving through landscape, Gallery 101, Melbourne
2004
Embracing The Land, Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne
2002
Installation & Recent Paintings, Gallery 101, Melbourne
2001
Wilsons Promontory, Foster Gallery, Foster
2000
Fourth Annual Solo Exhibition, Cheltenham, Victoria
1999
Land Shape Paintings, L’Atelier, Bendigo
Vineyards, Lindengate Gallery, Yarra Glen, Victoria
1998
Third Annual Solo Exhibition, Eaglemont, Melbourne
Australian Landscapes, Manningharn, Victoria
1997
Annual Solo Exhibition, Eaglemont, Melbourne
1996
Lindengate Gallery, Yarra Glen, Victoria
First Annual Solo Exhibition, Eaglemont, Victoria
1995
Convent Gallery; Daylesford, Victoria
1994
Springmount Gallery; BaIlara Victoria
Distlefink Gallery, Melbourne
Convent Gallery, Daylesford, Victoria
1992
Utrecht, The Netherlands
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Finalist Nillumbik Art Prize Exhibition, Eltham, Melbourne
2006
Broken Hill Art Prize, Broken Hill Art Gallery, Broken Hill, Nw.S.W.
2003
Nillumbik Art Prize Exhibition, Eltharn, Melbourne
2002
Bendigo Bank Tattersal’s Club Art Prize, invitaflon exhibition, Waterfront Place, Brisbane Broken Hill 32nd
Annual Arts Prize, Broken Hill Art Gallery, New South Wales
2001
Australia, You Are Here! A Centenary of Federation Celebration Exhibition presented by Gallery 101, Victoria
Racing Club Grandstand, Flemington
Broken Hill Arts Prize, Broken Hill Art Gallery, New South Wales
2000
SQuaRE 2000, Gallery 101, Melbourne
Open Views, Eltham Library, Melbourne
1999
We Care, Juelich, Germany
1996
Art by the Waters, Yarra Valley Arts Council, Maroondah Dam, Victoria
1995
Art Exhibition; St Kevin’s College; Melbourne, Victoria
1990
CAS Members Group exhibition, AMC Building, Melbourne
1984
Exposition des Ecoles d’Art d’Europe; Strassbourg, France Start 84; Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
PRIZES
2007
Finalist Nillumbik Art Prize
2006
Broken Hill Art Prize, Broken Hill Art Gallery
2003
Nillumbik Art Prize Exhibition, Eltharn, Melbourne
2002
Bendigo Bank Tattersal’s Club Art Prize, invitation exhibition, Waterfront Place, Brisbane
32nd Alice Art Prize, Finalist, juried exhibition, The Araleun Centre, Alice Springs
2000-2002
Broken Hill Arts Prize, Finalist juried exhibition, Broken Hill Art Gallery, New South Wales
PUBLICATIONS
2002
Art Streams
2001
The 101 Quarterly, 101 Collins Street Magazine, Summer Edition Broken Hill Arts Prize, Exhibition Catalogue
1999
Art Streams
Peter Dougherty, Emptiness, Colour and Energy
1998
Art Streams
Peter Dougherty, Land Shapes
1997
Jan Stracke, The Rembrandt Connection, Dutch Australian Artist pays homage to the master painter
REVIEWS
2006
Broken Hill Art Prize, Daily Truth
2001
Broken Hill Art Prize, Barrier Daily Truth
2000
Broken Hill Art Prize, Barrier Daily Truth
1999
Julicher Nachrichten vonSamstag Germany Konzempte mit Australischer Kultur L’Atelier Fine Art Shapes of
Wilsons Promontory, Bendigo Advertiser
‘Artist paints her own protest, Diamond Valley News
1998
‘Flashes of Outback’, Dutch Courier
1997
‘Inspired by the colour of the Outback’, Diamond Valley News
1996
‘Pupils develop sense of abstract Mural at Eltham East Primary Schoof , Diamond Valley News
1995
Contemporary Art in Warrandyte’, Warrandyte News
1994
Different Styles at Convent, Daylestord News
‘Dutch artist making an Impression in Australia’, Dutch Courier
