Fashion, females, fabric and jewellery are the aesthetic concerns of Corinne’s work.
The setting is firmly rooted in the film and literary noirs of the 40s and 50s. Each work takes place in the close and intimate interiors dominated by a solitary female figure. The dim artificial lighting is evocative of a city at night. This is a city populated with femme fatales often in an ambiguous state of dress or undress. Hardboiled men are ever absent from the scene or just out of the picture but their presence is recurrently implied.
The works ooze sensuality and glamour but are often underscored by a darker narrative. Where there is a narrative it is always obscured, much like the female form adorned in clothing and jewellery. This is a highly stylised vision of femininity suggesting both fragility and sexual power. It is an ephemeral vision set in an epoch where all popular cultural ideas about femininity were about to shatter into the feminist resurgence of the 1960’s Corinne’s friends are her models. She styles them in her own fashions and accessories.
A collector of vintage fashions for many years Corinne adorns her models to create her original paintings. Corinne has exhibited her paintings in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Melbourne for more than ten years. She paints full time from her home in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. Cameron, her husband frames all of her work in house as part of their custom picture framing business Two Seas Creative.
Awards and Recognition
2017 Rotary Art Spectacular Finalist
2016 Portia Geach Memorial Award, Finalist. S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2016 Rotary Art Spectacular Finalist
2016 Brett Lethbridge 10 000 online Finalist
2016 Finalist Border Art Prize Tweed River Art Gallery
2015 Finalist Border Art Prize Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2014 Finalist Border Art Prize Tweed River Art Gallery
2013 Finalist Northern Rivers Portrait Prize
2012 Finalist Border Art Prize Tweed River Art Gallery
2010 Finalist Border Art Prize Tweed River Art Gallery
Exhibitions Solo Shows
2013 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Gallery 2120, Brisbane
2010 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Gallery 2120, Brisbane
2009 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Gallery 2120, Brisbane
2008 Metro 5 Gallery Melbourne
2006 Charles Ginn Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Gold Coast
Group Shows
2016 Anthea Polson end of year Exhibition
2015 Anthea Polson Art Christmas Exhibition
2015 Precious Things Come in Small Parcels Exhibition. Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2014 Miniatures Exhibition Anthea Polson Art , Qld
2013 Jackman Gallery Melbourne
2013 The Colour Red Exhibition, Anthea Polson Art, Qld
Artist Biography
Fashion, females, fabric and jewellery are the aesthetic concerns of Corinne’s work.
The setting is firmly rooted in the film and literary noirs of the 40s and 50s. Each work takes place in the close and intimate interiors dominated by a solitary female figure. The dim artificial lighting is evocative of a city at night. This is a city populated with femme fatales often in an ambiguous state of dress or undress. Hardboiled men are ever absent from the scene or just out of the picture but their presence is recurrently implied.
The works ooze sensuality and glamour but are often underscored by a darker narrative. Where there is a narrative it is always obscured, much like the female form adorned in clothing and jewellery. This is a highly stylised vision of femininity suggesting both fragility and sexual power. It is an ephemeral vision set in an epoch where all popular cultural ideas about femininity were about to shatter into the feminist resurgence of the 1960’s Corinne’s friends are her models. She styles them in her own fashions and accessories.
A collector of vintage fashions for many years Corinne adorns her models to create her original paintings. Corinne has exhibited her paintings in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Melbourne for more than ten years. She paints full time from her home in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. Cameron, her husband frames all of her work in house as part of their custom picture framing business Two Seas Creative.
Awards and Recognition
2017 Rotary Art Spectacular Finalist
2016 Portia Geach Memorial Award, Finalist. S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2016 Rotary Art Spectacular Finalist
2016 Brett Lethbridge 10 000 online Finalist
2016 Finalist Border Art Prize Tweed River Art Gallery
2015 Finalist Border Art Prize Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2014 Finalist Border Art Prize Tweed River Art Gallery
2013 Finalist Northern Rivers Portrait Prize
2012 Finalist Border Art Prize Tweed River Art Gallery
2010 Finalist Border Art Prize Tweed River Art Gallery
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2013 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Gallery 2120, Brisbane
2010 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Gallery 2120, Brisbane
2009 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Gallery 2120, Brisbane
2008 Metro 5 Gallery Melbourne
2006 Charles Ginn Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Gold Coast
Group Shows
2016 Anthea Polson end of year Exhibition
2015 Anthea Polson Art Christmas Exhibition
2015 Precious Things Come in Small Parcels Exhibition. Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2014 Miniatures Exhibition Anthea Polson Art , Qld
2013 Jackman Gallery Melbourne
2013 The Colour Red Exhibition, Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2013 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Windhorse Gallery Bangalow,
2012 The Artist Revealed Self Portrait Exhibition, Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2012 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2011 8 Days before Christmas Exhibition, Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2011 Graydon Gallery Brisbane
2010 Portrait show, Anthea Polson Art, Qld
2010 Jackman Gallery Melbourne
2009 Gallery 2120, Brisbane
2009 Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Kiln Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Dean Reilly Gallery (Gallery 2120), Brisbane
2008 Smartcare Charity Auction Brisbane, Gallery 2120 Brisbane
Exhibiting Galleries
Anthea Polson Art Gallery,
Marina Mirage Gold Coast
Jackman Gallery, Melbourne