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Janie Benzie
Janie is a graduate of Claremont School of Art and has been painting professionally for 20 years. She paints with a variety of mediums and in different genres.
Her still life work is primarily about her past and time spent with her Mother and Grandmother. She collects china which she uses in her work. Her lighting is dramatic with heavy darks, reminiscent of the darkened rooms that her Mother preferred. She is also exploring her femininity, revelling in being a female and enjoying depicting the sensual objects relating to her gender.
Janie has been drawing the nude body for 26 years and often uses these sketches as the basis of paintings in acrylic or oil and most recently watercolour and printed paper which she creates herself.
Before starting Artspace Janie was part of the "Open-Bite Studio" in Fremantle.
Janie paints in watercolour, oil, acrylic and and teaches watercolour, oil in her gallery.
Janie is the author of "Things my Mother Taught me" - a book of illustrations and sayings. Profits go to Cancer Research.
PRIZES
2010 City of Melville Art Prize
Highly commended
2006 City of Melville Art Prize
Highly commended
2005 Town of Mosman Part Art Awards
Highly commended
2002 City of Melville Art Prize
Highly commended
1999 Northam Art Prize
Highly commended
1998 Northam Art Prize
First Prize
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Mindscapes 2019 Gomboc Gallery
2018 Mindscapes 2018 - Moores Building, Fremantle.
2017 Melbourne Exhibition
2016 "Unrestricted by Reality" Kidogo Arthouse with CASM
2013 "Fine Lines" Artspace Gallery Nedlands
2010 Solo Exhibition - "Presence" - Artspace Gallery - Nedlands
2010 "Favourites" Exhibition - Artspace Gallery - Nedlands
2009 "Beyond Botanica" - Artspace Gallery - Nedlands
2008 “Christmas Exhibition” – Artspace Gallery, Nedlands
2007 “Christmas Exhibition” – Artspace Gallery, Nedlands
2006 “Of Two Views” – Artspace Gallery, Nedlands
2006 “Mix” – Artspace Gallery, Nedlands
2007 MLC Collegians and Friends Exhibition, Methodist Ladies’ College,
Claremont
2006 City of Melville Art Prize Exhibition, Council Chambers, Melville
2005 City of Melville Art Prize Exhibition, Council Chambers, Melville
2004 “Laughter” - Open Bite Studio, Fremantle
2005 MLC Collegians and Friends’ Exhibition, Methodist Ladies’ College,
Claremont
2003 “Open Bite at the Moores” – Moores Building, Fremantle
2002 “Maritime Exhibition” – Open Bite Studio, Fremantle
2002 City of Melville Art Prize Exhibition
2003 MLC Collegians and Friends’ Exhibition, Methodist Ladies’ College,
Claremont
2001 “Quartet” – Accent Gallery, Nedlands
2001 MLC Collegians and Friends’ Exhibition, Methodist Ladies’ College,
Claremont
1999 Northam Art Prize Exhibition
1999 MLC, Collegians and Friends Exhibition, Methodist Ladies’ College,
Claremont
1998 Northam Art Prize Exhibition
1996 “Five at Amberley”- Amberley Gallery, Yallingup
1996 MLC Collegians and Friends Exhibition, Methodist Ladies’ College,
Claremont