All posts by Ann Arora

2025 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing Finalist

Blue Mountains (Before the rain came) Gouache on paper

Drawing is central to my practice, serving as a vital methodology for engaging with the world. I am interested in the role of intuition in the creative process – how it shapes and informs the act of making. Through drawing, I document moments of seeing as immediate, instinctual responses, capturing a snapshot of perception before thought takes hold. This process is both essential and repetitious, a discipline that trains the eye and hand while reflecting the nuances of my optical experience. Each mark becomes a record of gathered information, revealing the particularities of how I encounter and interpret the visual world.

Korea-Australia Arts Foundation – KAAF Art Prize – Commended

Delighted to have received a commendation Award at the Kaaf Art Prize!

Thank you to Judges John Mcdonald – Art Critic and Columnist SMH, Oliver Smith – Senior Lecturer SCA and Professor Suh Yongsun – Faculty of Fine Arts, SNU

A Word from the Judge (published in 2018 KAAF Art Prize Catalogue)

Convergence

“What’s most appealing about this painting is its raggedness, it’s brazen lack of finish. It can take an artist a long time to work up the courage to leave forms and surfaces in such a raw state. The temptation is to fill in gaps and define contours to give a more authoritative result. Ann Arora, by contrast, has produced a seemingly casual image of a group of men in the street in which details are less important than the energy of the brushstrokes, the interplay of flat planes and pattern, the thin and dense application of paint, and a fearless use of colour. It’s a work one returns to again and again, largely because of its unpredictability.”

John McDonald

Art Critic and Columnist SMH

http://www.kaaf.org.au

Venue: Korean Cultural Centre
Dates: 30th Nov 2018 – 25th Jan 2019