2022 - ANH NGUYEN

Art Prizes finalist 2022

MUSWELLBROOK ART PRIZE – WORKS ON PAPER – ‘Low clouds & roundabout’ (2022), 56x76cm, watercolour, soft pastel & wax varnish on paper

MUSWELLBROOK ART PRIZE – PAINTING – ‘Lunar New Year Lunch Dream’ (2022), 57x76cm, acrylic on board

SUNSHINE COAST ART PRIZE – ‘Rainy month, self-portrait in favourite dress’ (2022), 82x118cm, acrylic on gessoed board

RICK AMOR SELF-PORTRAIT PRIZE – ‘Fading light self-portrait with posey’ (2022), 55x63cm, acrylic & oil on board

M16 DRAWING PRIZE – “Looking South” (2022), Oil pastel on paper, drawing transfer monotype

September 2022: “Low Light” duo show with Lucy Roleff at Michael Reid Southern Highlands

Lucy Roleff (Melbourne/Naarm) and Anh Nguyen (Thirroul/Dharawal) pair up for Low Light, their first double-bill together. Both artists are drawn to the ambiguity and mystery of dusk and dawn; those hours that ‘bookend’ the day.

Lucy Roleff approaches this body of work as an instinctive response to the objects around her – candles, an eggplant, snapdragons, asters, a copper plate. Anh Nguyen similarly ‘arranges the scene’, engaging too with the surrounding interior of home life and children, apples, chairs, the trees woven against the subdued sky, the glint of the sea.

“White boots at peak hour” (2022), 47x60cm, Oil on board

“Rainbow dance” (2022), 30x41cm, Oil on board

“May morn with old dahlias” (2022), 35x45cm, Oil on canvas laid on board

“Black plums in white bowl” (2022), 42x42cm, Oil on paper laid on board

“Little dish of cherry guava” (2022), 46x49cm, Oil on board

“Ronja eating apple” (2022), 55x63cm, Oil on board

“Jar of cocoa” (2020), 42x30cm, Acrylic on paper laid on board

“Dried in the sun” (2022), 34x44cm, Oil on canvas laid on board

“Full moon in April” (2022), 57x40cm, Oil on paper laid on board

“Tomato on toast” (2020), 42x60cm, Acrylic on paper laid on board

“Still life under lights” (2022), 42x47cm, Oil on paper laid on board

“Getting dark still life with shenanigans” (2022), 38x42cm, Oil on paper laid on board

“Still life with girls reading” (2022), 61x92cm, Oil on linen

“South Coast bums” (2022), 35x60cm, Oil on canvas laid on board

“Pink moon” (2022), 15x30cm, Oil on board

August 2022: “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”, University of Central Missouri Gallery of Art & Design, USA, international group show curated by A Millis

‘White horses & black ships’, 42x60cm, acrylic and oil on board

April 2022: “Between Brick & Crimson”, solo show Part I , Michael Reid Southern Highlands / MRNB

March 2022: ART OF THE GARDEN x Country Style, Michael Reid Murra