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DESIREE A PRINSLOO - A.R.A.S

A.W.I

Desiree trained formally in visual art and has painted full time since 1984. She is an Associate of the Royal Art Society NSW and has had several solo exhibitions and group shows between Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

She is an active and prolific artist, served on many art society committees, tutored painting, donated work to charitable organizations, won awards, executed private commissions, contributed widely to art magazines and newsletters and was a founder member of Combined Arts Society and Portrait Artists Australia.

Essentially a landscape painter, Desiree worked extensively with local Australian landscape. Her focus however returned to figurative and portraiture work looking at the deeper subtleties of these genres and their parallels to landscape.

1986 Arrive Sydney Australia. Exhibit widely in collective shows, and teach painting over the next ten years.

1996 Arrive Auckland, New Zealand.

1997 Travel throughout NZ painting.

1998 'New Zealand, a Journey' Studio of Contemporary Art, Auckland.

1999 Collective shows in and around Auckland.

2000 Arrive back in Sydney Australia.

2001 Featured in Australian Artist Magazine, March. Several selective exhibitions, Royal Art Society NSW.

2002 Finalist Dough Moran Portrait Prize. 'Venice' Studio of Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ. Selective exhibitions, RAS.

2003 'Three Artist Show', Sydney. Selective exhibitions, RAS.

2004 'Venice' L'Incontro, North Sydney. Selective exhibitions, RAS. Australian Watercolour Institute, Mosman Gallery. Rosslyn Gallery, New Zealand.

2005 'Bella Vista' Canvas Gallery, Bondi. 'North to South' Canvas Gallery Bondi. AWI Gosford Regional Gallery. Selective exhibitions, RAS. Rosslyn Gallery, New Zealand.

2006 Paint away Greece. Selective exhibitions, RAS.

2007 Michael Commerford Gallery, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney. Paint away, Europe. Selective annual exhibitions, RAS.

Desiree was the inaugural art editor of the travel magazine, Arrivals and Departures, published in May 2005.

2008 January: Invited to join the Australian Watercolour Institute.
June: Exhibition at the Blue Door Art Studio, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.

AWI 85th Annual Exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery.

2009 March: State Parliament House, Sydney.

She enjoys travel and painting en plain-air, with a preference to the subtle quality of Mediterranean light where she works for a few weeks every European summer. Otherwise Desiree works from her studio in Darlinghurst, Sydney.

2009  August:  Solo exhibition 'Karavakia' Old Harbour, Spetses, Greece.

2009  October: Solo exhibition 'Summer Light', Melina Mercouri Centre, Hydra,  Greece.

2010  Feb: Finalist Shanghai International Watercolour Biennial Exhibition.

2010  March: Exhibition with AWI, Gosford Regional Gallery.

2010  March: Exhibition with AWI, Wollongong City Gallery.

2011  April: Spoleto, Italy. Dyptich for Spoleto Public Hospital.

2011  October: Exhibition Melina Mercouri Centre, Hydra, Greece.

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