Kerry Dunne
| Initially an academic, teaching and researching in German Studies, Kerry Dunne began her art training at TAFE in the early 2010s, first in Armidale and then in West Wollongong. Once these TAFE courses ceased to be offered, she pursued other avenues, doing workshops with Brett Masters, Judith White, Idris Murphy, Ross Laurie, Jo Bertini and Kerry Gulliver. She is particularly interested in the outback and the Kimberley, where the vast expanses of these landscapes evoke memories of the vastness of the ocean where she grew up at Newport on Sydney’s northern beaches. Kerry’s increasingly well-known works are evocative abstract landscapes. She uses colour and line work to convey her response to the landscape, its beauty and fragility. The line work often includes scraffito, a technique of scratching into wet paint to suggest landscape elements that are there, yet partly erased. The random, wild, ‘scrappiness’ of the Australian landscape fascinates Kerry and is a celebrated feature of her aesthetic. Kerry begins each work with en plain air sketches, which are then completed in the studio. She has exhibited in a number of galleries, winning awards including our own 2023 David Davies Award for Impressionist Landscape. In 2024 Kerry was a finalist in the Pro Hart Outback Art Prize at the Broken Hill Art Gallery. |
A selection of Kerry’s paintings.
Awards
2023 David Davies Award for Impressionist Landscape, Armidale Art Prize
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