Hanna Kay

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Hanna Kay is an Australian artist.

Kay was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, where she held several exhibitions before moving to Europe in 1971 to further her artistic interests. After studying and exhibiting in Austria and Germany she transferred her studio to New York where she lived and worked for almost a decade, exhibiting in the U.S., Europe and Israel. Since 1989 she has been living, working and exhibiting in NSW, Australia, and since 2000, living in Blandford, a small country village near Murrurundi, in the Upper Hunter.

Her work has been reviewed extensively, featured in numerous art books, and is represented in numerous public and private collections around the world. Her work has been featured on ABC Local Radio in Newcastle.[1]

Her book, Notes from the Shed[2] was launched at the University of Sydney by Phillip Adams in August 2007.

[edit] Awards

  • Winner 2007 Muswellbrook Open Art Prize.[3]
  • Finalist Dobell Prize, Country Energy Landscape Art Prize[4] and The Alice Springs Prize.[5]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "New York, Vienna, Blandford - the improbable trajectory of Hanna Kay", Australian Broadcasting Corporation, August 17, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-19. 
  2. ^ Kay, Hanna (July 2007). Notes from the Shed. Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 1 876832 58 4. 
  3. ^ Exhibitions 2007. Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
  4. ^ 2003 Landscape Painting finalists. Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting. Country Energy. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
  5. ^ The Alice Prize. The Alice Prize. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.

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