Lori Pensini

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Born in 1970 in the wheatbelt Railway town of Narrogin, population 4500, 192km south east of Perth.

Ours is a family of pioneering stock, and I have a great love for and attachment to the land, fruit born from generations of the simple sorrows and the simple joys endured.

From humble beginnings on a small horse farm, to the reverence of existence on a million acres north of the26th parallel, north of Perth some 1400kms, and north of anything remotely sentimental or 'womanly', inspiration was lived not searched.

The sheer expanse of the landscape, with its seamless ultramarine sky, and infinite horizon shimmering promises, offered a myriad of contradictions, greatness and trepidation, smallness and strength, fear, fight, love, loss.

Isolation too Jekylled friend and foe, a sense of freedom, a heady mix of never ending enticing realism to dance nonsensical.

The perfect illumination for an already fervent imagination.

Biography

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & STUDIES

2006 Portugal Study Tour
2004 Kimberly & Northern Territory study tour
1989—1991 Certificate Architectural Drafting
ART— Self Taught

SOLO EXHIBITIONS DETAILS

2009 Florence, Italy
           'Home Lies Wide A Thousand Miles'
2009 Buderim, Queensland - Tiffany Jones Fine Art
          'Babes in the Wood'
2007  McKenzie Gallery - Claremont, WA
2006 McKenzie Gallery - Claremont, WA
          'Birds & Birds Alike'
2006 Boranup Gallery - November, Margaret River, WA
          'The Promised Land'
2005 Lynne Wilton Gallery - Melbourne Vic
          'A Fortunate Life'
2005 Narrogin Regional Art Gallery - Narrogin WA
          'A Fortunate Life'
2004 St Bernards - Kojonup, WA
2003 McKenzie Gallery—Claremont, WA
2002 Pilbara Fine Art Gallery– Karratha, WA
2001 Boranup Gallery— Margaret River Wine Festival, WA
2001 McKenzie Art Gallery— Claremont, WA
2000 Pilbara Fine Art Gallery—Karratha, WA
1999 Pilbara Fine Art Gallery—Karratha, WA
1999 Giralia Station Variety Club Bash—Exmouth, WA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS DETAILS

2009   Perth College - WA
2009 She-scapes -   Gallery82 - Adelaide SA
2007 Towoomba - Tiffany Jones Fine Art Gallery, Buderim QSLD
2007 Art Melbourne 07' - represented by Lynne Wilton Gallery, Armadale, VIC
2007 Royal Pines Ladies Masters Tornament - Corporate Art, Burleigh Heads, QSLD
2007 McKenzies Representation - promoting works in over 20 of Perth's leading Charity, School & Variety Exhibitions
2006 Art Sydney 06 - represented by Corporate Art, Burleigh Heads, QSLD
2006 Lynne Wilton Gallery - Royal Childrens Auction, Melbourne VIC
2006 Cossack Exhibition - Karratha, WA
2006 St Bernards - Kojonup, WA
2006 McKenzies Representation - promoting works in over 20 of Perth's leading Charity, School & Variety Exhibitions
2005 Silvery Gibbon Project - Perth Zoo Art Auction, WA
2005 Affordable Art Show - Sydney, NSW
2005 McKenzies Investment Auction - Claremont, WA
2004 McKenzie Gallery Representation—promoting works to over 20 of Perth’s leading Charity, School & Variety Exhibitions
2004 Moerart - Moeralina Exhibition represented by McKenzie Gallery. Painting used as gallery invitition/ promotion
2004 McKillop College Ar X Pose Exhibition—painting requested to promote auction
2004 Silvery Gibbon Project -Perth Zoo Art Auction
2004 Bettongia Gallery, Williams representation
2003 Yeltrah Gallery, Upper Swan—joint exhibit Spring in The Valley Wine Festival
2003 Painting requested to promote Moerlina School Art Exhibition.— represented by McKenzie Gallery
2003 McKenzie Gallery Representation—promoting works to over 20 of Perth’s leading Charity, School & Variety Exhibitions.
2003 Shell Agricultural Awards—Royal Show. Re: Williams Expo
2003 Cossack Art Award—Cossack
2002 Geraldton Grammar School Biannual Art Exhibition, Geraldton
        Joint exhibition with Leon Pericles, Larry Mitchell & Mike Vandeluer
2002 Liberal Party Art Exhibition, Dalkeith — invitation artist
2002 McKenzie Gallery Representation—promoting works to over 20 of Perths leading Charity, School & Variety exhibitions
2002 Feature artist— New Gallery opening Swan Valley—Spring in The Valley Wine Festival  2002 RAS Perth Royal Show
2002 Cossack Art Awards—Cossack
2002 Art Expo—Williams
2002 Silvery Gibbon Project Art Auction— Perth Zoo
2001 Bunbury Catholic College Art Extraordinare Exhibit
2001 Invitation Only Art Auction—Aranmore College, Perth
2001 Silvery Gibbon Project Art Auction —Perth Zoo
2001 Millbrook Art Expo—Williams
2001 Cossack Art Awards—Cossack
2001 Williams Art & Craft Exhibit— Williams
2001 Margaret River Wine Festival—Margaret River Hotel
2001 Moora Art Exhibition—Moora
2000 Bunbury Catholic College- Art Extraordinare Exhibit.
2000 Invitation Only Art Auction - Bunbury Catholic College
2000 Aranmore Catholic College Art Exhibition
2000 Aranmore Invitation only Art Auction.
2000 Narrogin Spring Festival Exhibition
2000 Perth Royal Show
2000 Perth Royal Show - Pilbara Development Display
2000 Cossack Art Awards– Cossack
2000 9' x 5' Williams Art Expo Exhibition
2000 Williams Agricultural Show Exhibition
1999 Northhamption Agricultural Art Exhibition
1999 Mt Magnet Art Exhibition
1999 Bunbury Catholic College- Art Extraordinare Exhibition
1999 Cossack Art Awards—Cossack
1998 Shell Agricultural Awards- Perth Royal Show
1998 Chapman Valley Agricultural Society Art Awards
1998 Geraldton Rotary Art Awards & Auction
1997 Cossack Art Awards
1997 Geraldton Rotary Art Awards

AWARDS

2002 1st Prize     Peoples Choice—RAS Perth Royal Show, Shell Agricultural Award
2002 1st Prize    RAS Exhibition– Williams - Best painting of Rural Theme. Oil
2002  Finalist        RAS Perth Royal Shell Agricultural Art Award
2001 1st Prize    Cossack Aquisitive Art Awards -Best Oil Landscape $2500. Judge— Ken Done
2000 1st Prize     Aquisitive Art Awards Hamersley Iron -Best Oil Landscape $2500. Judge— Robert Juniper
1999 1st prize    Cossack Aquisitive Art Awards Judge— Curator National Gallery
                              Titan Resource Best Oil Landscape $2000
1998 1st prize   Cossack Aquisitive Art Awards - Pilbara
                              Development Commission - Best painting by a Pilbara Artist $1000
1998  1st prize 'The Muster" - Chapman Valley Ag. Society Art Awards
                              Represented C.V.A in Royal Show Shell Awards
1998 Finalist        Shell Royal Perth Show Ag. Society Art Awards
1998 1st prize     Geraldton Rotary Art Awards & Auction
                              Best landscape
1997 Honourable Geraldton Rotary Art Awards
          Mention

NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS

2004 Painting chosen to promote MacKillop College, Busselton 2003
          New works sold @ both McKenzie Gallery Investment Auctions
2004 Painting chosen to promote Moeralina Art Exhibition
2003 New works sold prior to McKenzie Gallery Investment Auctions
2003 Interview—women in small business in remote areas
          www.afascinatingjourney.com.au
2002 Invitation only– Geraldton Grammar School Joint Exhibition with
          Leon Pericles & Larry Mitchell
2002 Painting requested for invitation of new gallery opening–
          Swan Valley (Barrel of Beujoulis)
2002 Commission– Shire of Boyup Brook Tourism committee–
          advertising
2001 Private Collector large commission— Sydney
2000 Collection of paintings representing Pilbara Development
        commission— Perth Royal Show
2000  Invitation only Aranmore Art Auction
2000 Painting requested to advertise AranMore Catholic College Art
          Exhibition.
2000 Invitation only Bunbury Catholic College Art Auction
1999 Painting used in Pilbara Fine Art Gallery Promotion ( titled:
          ' Come Dance with Me' )

COLLECTIONS

Shire of Roebourne, Pilbara Development Commission, Robe River Mining, Hamersley Iron Mining, Titan Resources, Robe River Pastoral co., Medical Group Geraldton, Worsley Alumina,

Private Collections - Western Australia, Canberra, South Australia, NSW, VIC, Queensland, England, Scotland, Texas, New Zealand, Singapore