Inspired predominately by the Baroque period, my work is an expression and reinterpretation of the historical image within the context of contemporary art practices; primarily focusing on the passions of the soul, through gesture and expression. Whether an anguished face, a hand pressed to the breast, a face filled with joy, rapture or love, these images evoke an emotive response. Through my interpretation of these works I aim to project my images beyond the normal boundaries into a world of excess, where the body becomes the expression and the sensation, writhing with torment, tension, spiritual ecstasy or the pain of martyrdom; where violence and serenity meet, where light is every bit as powerful as form, where shadows create pools of drama and unease, and where illusion is so powerful you can reach out and touch it. In my work, figures and faces respond and react to unseen emotional triggers, poised on a spiritual, liminal threshold of heightened perception and intensity.

Lee-Anne Trewartha

Group Exhibitions "Bent Over Backwards"- mARTas Gallery, Townsville, QLD, 2008 "Graduates on the Loose" - Central Goldfields Gallery, Maryborough, 2007 "12 on View" - Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, 2006 "Futures" - Bundoora Heritage Homestead, 2005 "Final Folio" - La Trobe University, Bendigo, 2005 "Layered" - 69 Smith Street, Melbourne, 2005 "Printmaking" - James Madison University, USA, 2004 "Reflections" - Herron Gallery, Castlemaine, 2002 Butterfly House, Castlemaine, 2001 Mully's Bank Restaurant, Bendigo, 2001 The Blake Prize 2007 - National Art School - Sydney The Tattersall's Landscape Painting Prize 2007 - Brisbane Redeemer Foundation Art Award 2007- Brisbane National Tertiary Art Award 2007 -Bendigo Solo Exhibitions "Portal to a Foreign Land", Heathcote Gallery Winery, 2005 Spiders Cafe, Bendigo. "Half Sick of Shadows" - Geoff Sayer Art Space - Bendigo 2007 Launch Bendigo Art Exhibition- Featured Artist for November - Bendigo 2007

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