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Exhibition Opening: Denese Oates | The College of Fine Arts
Exhibition Opening: Denese Oates | The College of Fine Arts
When:
Wed, 21 Jan, '09 - Sat, 21 Feb, '09
Where: Stella Downer Fine Arts
Denese Oates, Upswing, 2008, copper wire, 45 x 40 x 40 cm.
COFA graduate and artist, Denese Oates, creates striking, asymmetrical sculptures and wall works
using aged metal and iconic imagery from the natural environment.
Oates says she is “interested in the vulnerability of nature” and “man’s relationship with
the environment”. In this exhibition she has morphed from the biological into the botanical, into a
concern for plant structures, using scale to transform the perception of her partial figurative and
often abstracted imagery.
Born in Orange, NSW, Oates studied at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education in
Sydney (now College of Fine Arts, UNSW). Since 1976 Oates has exhibited in over fifty group
exhibitions and twenty solo exhibitions. Her work is extensively represented in both public and
private collections, including Parliament House, Canberra, University of Sydney Union, Wollongong
City Art Gallery and Christchurch City Collection, New Zealand.
Where: Stella Downer Fine Art, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo NSW
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When: January 21 – February 21, 2009
Opening Wednesday January 21, 6pm