corrie ancone
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Biography
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CORRIE ANCONE/ BIO
Born in Holland .. I Migrated to Australia 1953..
Settled in South Australia, where i attended Primary and Secondary education..
1963-68 I studied many other ARTS related subjects part time, including Fashion Drawing and Design, working eventually as a lingerie designer in 1967.
1968-1971 , I studied a Diploma of Fine Arts in Adelaide,South Australia at the S.A.School of Arts, where i was introduced to photography as part of my course , I majored in Painting.
In 1973 I had my first painting exhibition.
By that time, i had set up a darkroom with friends as i had developed a BIG interest in this medium (I was pregnant at the time) ....voila baby! ...got into baby pics and i was OFF!.............never looked back........
I practiced and experimented and read and read, for the next two and a half years . I landed myself by accident, ( through my peer group) in the freelancing world in the Film Industry, as a stills photographer!......
It was a very creative time (the 70's) and everyone was doing doing ..theatre /film /art /music/.....
In 1976 i had my first showing as a photographer in a group show . I was singled out very favourably by the critics and my confidence was boosted....
In 1978 I had my first solo show in photography ...(exhibitions are all listed on the exhibition page)...
During those last years i was also teaching various Art classes.
In 1981 i travelled to UK and Europe where i landed myself a job travelling with and documenting the Dutch Th. Group KISS.(aka ..SILK)
On returning to Australia in mid 1982, i toured an exhibition of this work Nationally, as the group performed in various places. When in Sydney on this tour, (i was then living in Adelaide South Australia,)... i was interviewed by the late great master of Australian photographers, MAX DUPAIN for and article/review in the Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper. It was very favourably written up and i was hailed as "blessed with golden fingers" in his crit.
I returned to Adelaide, ran several photographic b/w workshops and returned to freelancing in the photographic industry......................
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By this stage I was heavily experimenting in the darkroom with overlays ( the old sandwhiching technique) but only in b/w, with toning and hand colouring added. I continued to exhibit (see list)
In 1986 i moved to Sydney, NSW, to further my career and broaden my horizons.
After much settling and hustling!I was back in the freelancing world. In my art, i began experimenting with overlaying transparencies.....
I was totally engrossed in the technique and obsessed by the colour collisions and its tendency to create new dimensions with a painterly effect! ...fullfilling my creativity and imagination that had been so trained as a painter.
In 1990 I had my first solo show in Sydney with the transparency overlays that i had created ...all printed on archival Ilfochrome paper... also some B/W's too. A great response.... and i was heralded as the 'Queen of Overlays' ..lol ...........more shows followed in Sydney and other States in Australia (see list)
In Sydney now, I continue to freelance with many clients in : Arts and Entertainment, Film, Music, Community Services and Documentary areas etc.
I am currently liasing/preparing for another show ......................and achieving much PR in PHOTO magazines/book all over the world..
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Statement
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Using the technique of sandwhiching stills, where colors and images collide,I create new visual and emotional images, often painterly and somewhat surreal.
My photography is similar to and reflects the techniques and working styles of the early European Dadaists by whom i am surely influenced along with Romanticism,Impressionism and Baroque.
Drawing my inspiration from mythology , nature and the environment, my creativity stems from my lust for finding and exploring sympathies between the human bod,y the landscape and textures.
I don't care for the certainty of what's in front of my lens, but the creativity, the fantasy, the invention, that can gush from a thought there after or was before.
Between the certain and the uncertain there's a possible space, like in dreams and fables."
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Exhibitions
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EXHIBITIONS
2015 Palazzo Velli-Roma. Exhibition of Australian Artists in Rome (Nov)..........group
2015 Yuga Cafe Glebe SYD: The Kangaroo's visit-Rome Exhibition (Sept)........group
2012 Gaffa Gallery....."Naked Ladies'....................................................................solo
2012 'Art Takes Times Square '. NYc..on Iconic Billboards.................................group
2012 "Wilde in the Country". South Hill Gallery, Goulburn...................................group
2011 BLANCO NEGRO. launch of DeVere405DS. .silver gelatin prints..............group
2011 TAPP GALLERY .Sydney... '"INSIGHT OUT" ':..........................................group
2010 GAFFA Gallery, Sydney, ."SEVEN"..............................................................solo
2010 'ANIMA MUNDI '.."Dante Trilogy". Primo Piano Livin Gallery. Lecce, ITALY
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2008 Chrissie Cotter gallery Sydney. Stone Villa Inc...........................................group
2006 D.I.S.A. Ecuador project. Museo Camilo Egas, Banco Central del ECUADOR
...travelling group show
2006 8TH. INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY.
Athens, GREECE ...group
2006 `StoneVilla Show' Chrissie Cotter Gallery. NSW...........................................group
2005 `CAUSE' 2 . Cultural Centre of Murksum....BELGIUM..............................group
2005 Chrissie Cotter Gallery. NSW......................................................................group
2004 "Silver Halo"..The Lab. Sydney NSW..........................................................group
2004 `CAUSE' 1. Travelling Exhibition..EUROPE & AFRICA ............................group
2004 Grand Forks Gallery ....."A rose is a Rose "
British Columbia CANADA. International Artists........................................group
2003 'Stone Villa Show' Chrissie Cotter Gallery...................................................group
2002 'Stone Villa Show' Chrissie Cotter Gallery..................................................group
2001 'ADELAIDE Festival' Fringe. The Light gallery.............................................solo
1997 PCL Exhibitionists. SYDNEY .........................................................................solo
1997 Malthouse Theatre, MELBOURNE. 'The Rembrandt Connection'
Dutch Migrant Artists living in Australia.....group
1996 'Food Fest Show', Hester Gallery . Sydney................................................group
1996 '"With Grace Glitz & Glam" Chrissie Cotter gallery,
SYDNEY. Mardis Gras Event.......solo
1995 Hester Gallery Sydney...................................................................................solo
1994 Bare gallery. Sydney..........................solo
1993 Victorian Art Gallery "The Second Landing'..MELBOURNE.
Dutch Migrant Artists living in Australia,in conjunction with the `Van Gogh" show
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1990 Art Look . Sydney............................................................................................solo
1986 Moved to Sydney.........................
1985 W.A.M. Adelaide......................................................................................... group
1985 Studio7 Exhibition of S.A. Artists.................................................................group
1984 Studio 20. Adelaide.........................................................................................solo
1983 ANZART. Hobart, Tasmania..........................................................................group
1982 Documentation,Dutch Th. Group "KISS".. travelling National exhibition,
Adelaide,Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland.........solo
1881-82 Travelled & worked O/S...........................
1981 Studio 20, Adelaide........................................................................................group
1981 Experimental Art foundation .Adelaide...........................................................group
1980 Bakery 'Performance'.Exhibtion.......................................................................solo
1980 W.A.M .Art Show..Adelaide............................................................................group
1980 W.A.M. 'Posrtcard' show.. Adelaide................................................................group
1979 University of Adelaide........"Union show".......................................................group
1978 Consortium Gallery . Adelaide..........................................................................solo
1977 Experimental Art Foundation. Adelaide.....'W.A.M.Exh'.................................group
1973 Llewelyns Gallery. Adelaide..............................................................................solo
1971 Skillion Gallery, Adelaide..................................................................2 person show
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