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Linda Skrolys

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Linda was born in Merredin in 1955 and moved to Esperance during her early primary years. She completed studies in Visual Arts and Art Education at Edith Cowan University.

Linda’s father had to leave Lithuania during the years of the Soviet expansion and met his wife-to-be in  the turmoil of the German tragedy. Linda is representative of many first generation Australians whose parents escaped Europe after WW11 , finding themselves growing up in an environment without relatives and icons that linked their identity to a particular place and time.

 

Linda’s paintings are psychological explorations of the coming to terms with the narratives of parents isolated from their European heritage. She presents a universal issue of identity and home coming through an assemblage of family narratives.


Biography

EXHIBITIONS

2012 The Studio Gallery, Yallingup

2011                 Studio Exhibition

2011                 Group exhibition Gallows Gallery

2010              Quixotic – Margaret River Galleries

2009                 Studio Exhibition Dardanup

2008                 Studio Exhibition  Dardanup

2007                 Studio exhibition  Dardanup

2006                 Studio exhibition Dardanup

2005                 Margaret River Galleries -  It’s a Beautiful  Day

2005                 Journey – Framed Galleries Darwin

2004                 Margaret River Galleries  - Life Matters

2003                 Bunbury Regional Art Galleries -  Biennale

2003                 Group Exhibition    - Women of Passion   Queensland

2003                 Yallingup Galleries  - Life is a horse

2002                 Yallingup Galleries, - Home and beyond

2002                 DARWIN  Framed Galleries ‘Life &  Loves’

2001                 Margaret River Galleries' Painting  Karijini'

2001               Yallingup Galleries-'Brides, Bondage,Bushrangers and other Myths'

2001              Gadfly Gallery ‘The wedding’

2000                Bunbury Regional Galleries- 'She-art'

1999              Yallingup Galleries- "Home Truths'

1999                Margaret River Galleries 'Two  Artists under one roof '            

1999                New Collectables - Birth Death and Ancestry

1998                Margaret River Art Gallery -  This Life

1998                New Collectables - 'To Long in Exile'

1997                Wildwood Gallery - ‘Back from Barcelona’

1997                New Collectables - ‘Trouble and Desire’

1996                New Collectables - ‘Two Interiors’

1995                New Collectables - ‘In the State of  Foreplay’

                        Painting and sculpture

1995                 South West Regional Art Gallery - ‘Drawing from the Past’

1994                 New Collectables - ‘Largesse’

1993                 New Collectables - ‘Magic, Mystery and   Mischief’

1993                 Studio/Gallery Dardanup - ‘Ruby  Summer’

1992                 Mulgara Gallery, Sheraton Hotel, Yalara,  NT

1991               Coming Home   - Exibition with Russell        Sheridan after trip to the centre of        Australia.                        

1990               1-2-3 Jump Exibition with two fellow 1989        graduates from

                        Bunburys first fine arts degrees

1989               Founding member of the south wests most        sucsessful   art gallery .                                                      

       Co-operative  Margaret River Art Gallery 

                       Participated in opening exibition and many group shows.                       

                      Including Margaret River Spring Festival exibition-awarded a highly commended.

1984-89         Participated in group exibitions  such as the       South West Survey                   


 

QUALIFICATIONS

1994                        Bachelor of Education

                        Secondary Art Teaching

                        Painting/Print Making

1992                        Edith Cowan Fine Arts Degree

1988-89            WACAE Bunbury/Mt Lawley

                        Associate Diploma in Art Studies

                        Painting Major

1976-81            Curtin University WA Units in Design

1978-79            WACAE Mt Lawley WA

                        Grad. Diploma in Art Education

1973-75            Churchlands Teachers College WA

                        Diploma of Teaching  - Art Major - Ceramics

1965-72            Iona Presentation Ladies College, Mosman Park, WA