Biography |
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Date and Place of Birth: |
![]() 04/04/1974 – Melbourne, Australia |
Art Education:
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1993 – 1996 |
1992
Moorabbin College of TAFE, VIC Certificate of Art and Design |
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1986 – 1991
Sacred Heart Girls College, VIC Victorian Certificate of Education |
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Positions in the Arts:
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1998 – 2018 Freelance Artist / Teacher WA
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1997
Secondary Art and History Teacher Sacred Heart Girls College, VIC |
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Commissions:
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Private Collections
UK, USA, New Zealand, Switzerland, Singapore, NSW, VIC, WA. |
Exhibitions: | May 2018 PLC Art Exhibition Peppermint Grove, WA WINNER PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD |
November 2017 |
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December 2016 Christmas Exhibition The Studio Gallery, Yallingup WA |
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November 2016 Feature artist Pullman's Resort, Bunker Bay WA |
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Dec 2015 – Jan 2016 |
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August 2015 |
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October 2015 |
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April 2014 |
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October 2013 |
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September 2012 The Studio Gallery, Yallingup Joint Exhibition "Spring Exhibition" |
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December 2011 The Studio Gallery, Yallingup Group Exhibition “Twelve Studio Artists” |
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November 2011 |
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June 2011 Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery SOLO EXHIBITION “Water of Life” |
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May 2010 Memorial Gallery Mosman Park. Group Exhibition Between River and Sea |
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May 2010 Gadfly Gallery Dalkeith. Group Exhibition Art for Africa |
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November 2009 Creative Tides - Iona Presentation College, Group Exhibition |
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May 2009 Memorial Gallery Mosman Park, Group Exhibition 'Between River and Sea' |
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March 2009
Atwell Gallery, Atwell, Group Exhibition 'Waterworks' |
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May 2008
Atwell Gallery – Group Exhibition 'Waterworks' |
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2005
Malvern Art Prize Finalist – Group Exhibition |
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2003
City of Stirling – Art Awards Exhibition |
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2000 – 2002
Cottesloe Beach Cafe – Solo Permanent Exhibition |
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2000
Live Webb International, Inglewood – Group Exhibition |
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1999
Camelot Gallery, Mosman Park – Solo Exhibition |
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December 1996
333 Collins St (VIC) – Group Exhibition |
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Awards: | PLC - Peppermint Grove WA - Winner People's Choice Award 2018 Melbourne University – Dean's Honor 1996 Recognition of Outstanding achievement in the Visual Arts Melbourne University - Dean's Honor 1995 |
Private Collections | Queensland, Switzerland, Singapore |
Montgomerie's style weaves effortlessly between social realism and a contemporary take on the techniques of the Old Masters. Painterly yet smooth, inviting yet intimately personal reflections... her works are a testament to the light, depth, moods, possibilities and energies of the cleansing 'Water of Life' she finds herself immersed in!
From the age of 7 it was evident that Genevieve Montgomerie's drawing demonstrated a child's talent for capturing what it was that she saw as opposed to what was in the mind's eye.
An unusual talent for a child of this age, her artwork drew great interest from her teacher and principal among others which in turn inspired Montgomerie to continue to observe carefully and sketch, render and layer – pencil, pastel and eventually paint on countless sheets of butcher's paper, notebooks and visual diaries.
In 1993 Montgomerie began 4 years at Melbourne University studying Visual Arts Education. Following graduation from Melbourne University, and prior to commencing as a secondary teacher at Sacred Heart College, Montgomerie travelled to Western Australia with her (now) husband. Discovering the incredible, intoxicating colour of the Indian Ocean and what magic it shed upon Perth's coastline, Montgomerie commenced sketching and painting Western Australia's coast. While Montgomerie did return to Melbourne to teach at the end of January, the great Indian Ocean had made a lasting impression – eventually drawing her back to the West at the end of 1997.
Montgomerie is probably best known for her intricate acrylic studies, capturing the quality of outdoor life shared by Australians indulging in the pleasures of coastal living. Her Western Australian works, in particular, are spontaneous and simple in subject yet recall for the observers a familiar perspective they cherish as particularly 'western beauty'.
Having lived in Cottesloe, Swanbourne and Mosman Park for 20 years now, Montgomerie feels very much a part of the rich beach culture she reflects in crisp aqua waters and bold golden light of the 'Indiana' hemmed edge of Australia.
Once described as 'technically traditional with a refreshing twist on the realist' Montgomerie's work is strong and vibrant with a determined expression of her national pride.
“A few years ago an Aboriginal spiritual healer friend said to me (about my creativity)...as though the voice of our creator was speaking through him... “stop wading in the water sister... come swim with me”... and from that point I have worried less about my weekly deadlines and people’s opinions of me.. and worried more about my need to watch and to capture, to dive in and reinvigorate - by breathing in all that is mesmerising about the waters that surround us and translating that with paint! "
If at the end of this.... my friends words... “stop wading in the water... come swim with me”.... or in fact my works inspire you to stop and reflect on how good we have got it, surrounded by such beauty and endless opportunities to seize the day at the water’s edge... then your souls might be richer for it!”
Exert from Montgomerie’s Solo Exhibition
“Water Of Life” – Moores Building Fremantle
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