Exhibition Opening 

6pm Fri 29th November 2024

Lady Franklin Gallery, 268 Lenah Valley Road, Hobart

To be opened by Lucinda Sharp, Forty South Publishing

In 2021 Rick Crossland made the transition to full-time artist after a busy 36 years as an agronomist. His work has received recognition through a long list of awards, including: finalist in the prestigious Alice Bale Portraiture 2007 and Travelling Scholarship 2018 Awards, finalist in the Lloyd Rees Art Award 2017, twice overall winner of the Art Society of Tasmania Annual Award 2015 and 2020, and overall winner of the Tasmanian ‘Art on Show’ Award in 2017. In 2022 he was awarded both the national AME Bale Travelling Scholarship and the AME Bale Award for Painting in Oils.

The AME Bale scholarship enabled him to travel to Europe to increase his skills and confidence in portraiture and figurative painting through studying the works of old masters and attending Studio Escalier in France and workshops at the Newlyn School of Art and in Rome, Italy. The upcoming exhibition, ’From Life’, is a collection of some of the portraits, figurative work and small plein air studies done during his study trip and on his return home to Tasmania.

Open Fri—Sun, 11-4pm from 30 November to 5th January 2025. 

For more about RickCrosslandArt see www.rickcrosslandart.com and updates @rckcrossland on Instagram and Facebook.