Aida Tomescu

Aida Tomescu is one of Australia's most prominent painters. Born 1955 Bucharest / Arrives Australia 1980.^[1][2] Tomescu is well known for her abstract paintings, drawings and prints.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Awards

Tomescu is the inaugural winner of the 1996 Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne LSFA Arts 21 Fellowship. She is also a winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize, the Wynne Prize for landscape and the Dobell Prize for Drawing from the Art Gallery of New South Wales.^[12]

Exhibitions

Tomescu's work was the subject of a major survey exhibition at the Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra in 2009 http://sullivanstrumpf.com/artists/aida-tomescu/exhibitions/abstraction/works.^{[13] [14][15]} This is one of over thirty solo exhibitions for the artist.^[16] Tomescu’s graphic works were included in the major survey of prints and drawings Out of Australia at the British Museum, London in 2011.^[17]

Her works have been a part of many important exhibitions including: ''The Triumph of Modernism'' at TarraWarra Museum of Art curated by Edmund Capon.^[18] "Abstraction: The Heide Collection" at Heide Museum of Modern Art (2015); "The Mind's Eye", Art Gallery of South Australia (2013); "Contemporary Encounters", Ian Potter Museum of Art (2010). Tomescu has also participated in a number of international events including Art Stage Singapore (2015) and Art Basel Hong Kong (2015) http://sullivanstrumpf.com/art-fairs/art-basel-hong-kong/art/works

Her most recent exhibition, 'Eyes in the Heat', is on at Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney from 7 - 28 November 2015 ^[19] Watch Aida talk about it here.

Collections

Tomescu’s work can be found in all major institutional collections within Australia. The Art Gallery of New South Wales has over 20 of her works in the collection.^{[20][21][22][23]}

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