Danielle Creenaune

Australian born artist, Danielle Creenaune, lived and worked in London and Barcelona for 18 years before returning to live in Wollongong Australia on Dharawal land in 2019. This experience informs her work which deals with “the intrinsic dialogue between landscape and people, how landscape is perceived through our library of experiences and how this is reflected through the visual language of gesture.”

Her prints are full of tiny precious discoveries – tracks, glimpses of water and the enchanting detail of the bush. When you walk in the bush, it is sometimes akin to meditating in a sacred space where your innermost thoughts and memories combine with the newly discovered elements in nature. It is this sense of intimacy and visual excitement that characterises Creenaune’s art. Like few other artists, Creenaune manages to combine the sense of messy vastness of the bush, the intricacy of detail and personal melancholy that borders on a sense of nostalgia. Although her imagery is never literal, it is anchored in a specific reality.

[Excerpt of essay by Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA Australian National University, 2024]

Creenaune exhibits nationally and internationally and her work has received numerous awards including the René Carcan International Printmaking Award 2016 Belgium and the Manly Artists Book Award 2013. Her lithographs have been selected for exhibition in the International Print Triennial Krakow 2015, 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 in Spain and Ireland and has been invited Artist/Lecturer at KHiO National Academy of Arts, Oslo Norway, University of Aberystwyth Wales, and the Facultat de Belles Arts Universidad de Barcelona, Spain. 

Creenaune’s work is held in BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE collections including the National Gallery of Australia and State Library of Victoria. She was awarded Associate Member ARE of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers UK in 2020.

She completed a Bachelor and a Master of Art at the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1997.

STUDIO: Sydney, AUSTrALIA