Danielle Creenaune
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Overview
Danielle Creenaune is an Australian-born artist who lived and worked in London and Barcelona for 18 years before returning to Wollongong, Australia on Dharawal land in 2019. Working across printmaking, artist books and drawing, her practice explores the intrinsic dialogue between landscape and people, and how our experience of place is shaped through memory, gesture and emotion.
Moving between abstraction and representation, Creenaune’s work captures the sensory experience of landscape rather than a literal depiction of it. Her prints are filled with intimate discoveries – tracks, glimpses of water and the intricate details of the bush. Through layered and intuitive mark-making, she evokes both the vastness and quiet intimacy of the natural world, combining gestural energy with a sense of nostalgia and personal reflection.
Creenaune exhibits nationally and internationally and has received numerous awards including the René Carcan International Printmaking Award, Belgium (2016) and the Manly Artists’ Book Award (2013). Her lithographs have been selected for major international exhibitions including the International Print Triennial Krakow (2015), the Biennale Internationale d’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Canada (2009) and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
She has undertaken artist residencies in remote regions of Spain and Ireland and has been an invited artist and lecturer at KHIO National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway; the University of Aberystwyth, Wales and the University of Barcelona.
Creenaune’s work is held in public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia and the State Library of Victoria. In 2020, she was awarded Associate Membership (ARE) of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, UK.
She completed both a Bachelor of Art and a Master of Art at the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1997.
Studio: Sydney, Australia
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Works
Danielle Creenaune
Luminous Fall, 2022Original woodcut (framed)101 x 80 cm3/10It begins with birds, not water. Danielle speaks of the rainforest birds near her home in Wollongong - indigenous Australian for ‘sound of the sea.' The Illawarra region, south of Sydney is home to over 350 species of birds including the mythical Lyrebird. It also begins with drawing. Drawing is an act of engagement - Danielle literally draws her way into her subject, observing the motifs and rhythms she finds in her surrounding wetlands and creeks. While making these drawings birdsong is ever-present. This soundscape is the invisible backdrop, unseen life, passing through each lithographic and woodcut print she makes. And now to water, the focus of a new body of work. For Danielle art and life coalesce and the mesmeric force of the great waterfalls of the Budderoo national park affect her deeply... "Many times I felt the incidental flow of marks beyond my control, echoing the real life movement of water. I have found that over time, the energy and positive atmosphere of flowing water has become a reference point for me for healing and positivity and represents a grounding that comes with preserving green spaces in urban environments."It begins with birds, not water. Danielle speaks of the rainforest birds near her home in Wollongong - indigenous Australian for ‘sound of the sea.' The Illawarra region, south of Sydney is home to over 350 species of birds including the mythical Lyrebird. It also begins with drawing. Drawing is an act of engagement - Danielle literally draws her way into her subject, observing the motifs and rhythms she finds in her surrounding wetlands and creeks. While making these drawings birdsong is ever-present. This soundscape is the invisible backdrop, unseen life, passing through each lithographic and woodcut print she makes. And now to water, the focus of a new body of work. For Danielle art and life coalesce and the mesmeric force of the great waterfalls of the Budderoo national park affect her deeply... "Many times I felt the incidental flow of marks beyond my control, echoing the real life movement of water. I have found that over time, the energy and positive atmosphere of flowing water has become a reference point for me for healing and positivity and represents a grounding that comes with preserving green spaces in urban environments."Installation shots
