Suey McEnnally

The beautiful landscapes of Suey McEnnally entice with a richness of texture, line and mood. Mastering the luxurious medium of oil pastel, McEnnally covers the picture plane with sweeping gesture - building up layers and delineating space as she creates enormous energy across the surface. Deep Prussian blues, opalescent whites and turner golds are hand created with pigment mixed with mica and temper. Whilst her Australian flowering deserts twinkle like stars in the desert sky, the strength of her line recalls Japanese calligraphy and woodblock print.

McEnnally has been recently hung in the Art Gallery of New South Wales as a finalist in the 2005 Dobell Prize for Drawing. A previous finalist in the Sulman Prize, AGNSW, Paddington Art Prize, and winner Eco Art Award 2002 and Peoples choice.  In the Redlands Westpac Art Prize 2004 (an invitation only competition) Suey won the Peoples Choice and Highly Commended sections for emerging artists. Suey is becoming widely recognized as one of this country’s leading contemporary landscape artists. 

EDUCATION

1983 Bachelor of Fine Art, College of Fine Art COFA, University of NSW

2001 Master of Art, College of Fine Arts COFA, University of NSW

PRIZES AND PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS

2010   Selected from the Blake Prize for Religious Art for the St Ives Uniting Church’s

            annual “Stations of the Cross” exhibition, Sydney, along with fourteen of

            Australia’s leading contemporary artists

2007   Finalist, The Paddington Art Prize for Landscape

2007   Finalist, Blake Prize for Religious Art

2007   Winner, Hunters Hill Art Prize

2006   Finalist, Paddington Art Prize for Landscape, and winner of the People’s Choice

            Award

2006   Finalist, Country Energy Prize for Landscape

2005   Finalist, Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales

2004   Finalist, Paddington Art Prize for Landscape

2004   Highly Commended, Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Emerging Artist section, and

             winner of the People’s Choice Award

2003   Finalist, Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales

2002   Selected from the Wynne Prize, for the Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery

2002   Winner, Eco Art Award of $10,000, Sydney, judged by Richard Goodwin, Bronwyn

             Bancroft and Ian Grant

EXHIBITIONS

2010  July        “Gravity and Drift”, solo exhibition, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney

2010  April       “Something Wicked”, mixed exhibition, Sydney Metropolitan Art Gallery,

                           Danks Street Galleries, Depot 1, Sydney

2009  October   “Lux”, solo exhibition, Sydney Metropolitan Art Gallery, Danks Street

                           Galleries, Depot 2, Sydney

2009  August    “Three Artists”, with Joanna Logue and Laura Matthews, Gadfly Gallery,

                           Perth

2008  November   “The High Country”, solo exhibition, Gallery Aloft, Sydney

2008  July         Danks Street Galleries, Depot 1 and Depot 2, Sydney

2008                 “Greetings from Coogee, Streeton Inspired”, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney

2008  January      mixed exhibition, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2006  December   Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney

2005  November   “Lightfield”, solo exhibition, Barrack Street Gallery, Sydney

2005                    “Mica”, solo exhibition, 1+2 Artists Studio Gallery, Sydney

2004  November   “Illuminations”, solo exhibition, Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney

2004  March-April  “A Dream of Resurrection”, solo exhibition, groundfloorgallery,

                               Balmain, Sydney

2003                    “About Landscape”, Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar, Sydney

2003  July-August   “Shimmer”, solo exhibition, groundfloorgallery, Balmain, Sydney

2001                    “Airmilk”, solo exhibition, 1+2 Studios, Lilyfield, Sydney

Plus many mixed exhibitions

COLLECTIONS

Suey McEnnally’s works are held in Macquarie Bank’s Australian Landscape Collection, Heads of National Australia Bank Collection in Melbourne and several private collections.