CV | Marcella Kaspar

Born in Prague, Lives and works in Sydney
Full Time Studio Practice in Oil Painting since 1997

EDUCATION
LLB Sydney University Law School Life Drawing studies, Sculpture and jewellery design at East Sydney Tech (now the National Art School)
1994 Julian Ashton
1983-1991 Study Tour of Europe and USA…Painted in Bali
2004 Charlie Sheard Studio School
2005 Charlie Sheard Studio School
2007 Drawing Study, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan SOLO SHOWS
2007 ‘Peonie Series’,( Charles Hewitt Gallery), Renault New Generation Art Sydney07 2007 ‘New Works’, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney 2007 ‘Layers’ ,Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne 2006 ‘Transience’, Charles Hewitt gallery, Sydney 1999 ‘Flowers’,Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne PRIZES 2005 Paddington Art Prize- Peoples Choice Award 2005 Waverley Art Prize-Highly Commended 2005 Shoalhaven Contemporary Art Prize-Winner 2005 Northbridge Oil Painting Prize-Winner
SELECTED AND GROUP SHOWS 2008 Rarity Summer Salon Show,Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece 35th Alice Art Prize Finalist,Alice Springs, NT Linden Postcard Show, Melbourne
2007 Mosman Art Prize, Finalist, Sydney
Waverley Art Prize Finalist, Sydney Art Commission Show, Abu Dhabi Frances Keevil Gallery Group Sow, Sydney Shoalhaven Art Prize Art Commission Show,Dubai,Emirates Art Auction, 65 Roses Day, Sydney Woollahra Public School Art Auction, Sydney
Frances Keevil Gallery,Group Show,Sydney
Linden Postcard Show, Melbourne
2006
‘Festivite”, Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne
“Treasure Trove:, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney ‘Drawcard” National Art School, Sydney Frances Keevil Gallery, Group Show, Sydney
Northbridge Art Prize Finalist Sydney
Storyteller’ Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
Shoalhaven Art Prize, Sydney
Blake Art Prize Exceptions Exhibition, Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney Art Sydney 2006
Linden Postcard Show, Melbourne
Melbourne Art 2006
2005
Paddington Art Prize Finalist,Sydney -(Peoples Choice Award)
Exchange Square Fundraising Art Show,Sydney
Linden Postcard Show - Melbourne
Melbourne Art 2005
Fonas Infusion Exhibition…Cellblock National Art School,Sydney
Waverley Art Prize Finalist, Sydney - (Highly Commended)
Charlie Sheard Studio School Group Show ‘INTERLUDE’ at MLC Gallery Sydney
Shoalhaven Art Prize - winner of contemporary Art Prize
Art Sydney 2005
Northbridge Art Prize, Sydney -( Winner of Oil Painting Prize)
North Launceston Art Prize, Tasmania
Frances Keevil Gallery, Group Show,Sydney
2004
Shapiro Gallery,Sydney
Frances Keevil Gallery, Group Show,Sydney
Waverley Art Prize Finalist,Sydney
Art Sydney 2004
2003
Frances Keevil Gallery, Group Show, October, Sydney
Frances Keevil Gallery, Group Show, March, Sydney
Sydney Art 2003
Leukemia Fund Raising Art Auction
2002
Mosman Art Prize Finalist, Sydney
Frances Keevil Gallery, Group Show,Sydney
Sydney Grammar Art Show
Tudor House Art Show,Sydney
2001
Frances Keevil Gallery, Group Show,Sydney
“Ephemera” Salmon Gallery, Sydney
2000
Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney, Group Show - October
Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney, Group Show - March
1999
Solo Show at Sofitel Hotel Melbourne

COLLECTIONS:
Apart from significant private collections in Australia, New Zealand,Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, USA, Switzerland, France ,Canada, UK and Czech Republic, Marcela has been involved in architecture and design leading to numerous
commission works.

Marcela works in oils on linen and focuses on the beauty and repetition in nature, freezing the moments and imprisoning, concentrating on refining and perceiving light and dark through the 17th century techniques of opaque layering with transparent glazing. The paintings are tapestries of colour and tonal studies jutting out of receding dark spaces. The paintings are a study of complex tonal variations, with an emphasis on color relationships._the study of changeability and the delicate nuances of color. The proportional scales invite the viewer into exotic cocoons, switching the focus onto beauty, stillness and meditation. “There is an obsession in my work with the ephemeral nature of flowers and how they reflect the transient nature of life. There is also a constant fascination with the transparency of water,and the play of light,color, temperature and atmosphere that makes up the subject”.