Ann Abrahmsen - the artist

Hi.

I am Ann and I was born in Terang, Victoria, Australia. I had the good fortune to grow up in multiple locations in rural Victoria. Dad was a contractor and mum was his best friend. Between them they produced nine of us so they were very busy.

I have reinvented myself many times in my very full life. I spent 13 years on a 20 acre property chasing sheep and chooks, mending fences, creating stone work, building, tinkering with alternative energy, gardening, weaving and creating with textiles.

I went to university for a year or two but got distracted having children which was great because by the time I went back again I had finally made up my mind about what I wanted to do!

After modest success as a writer/poet/editor, I have returned to my first love, the Visual Arts. After 9 years of tuition with Patricia Semmler at the Geelong School of Fine Arts, I am currently gaining my formal qualifications doing a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) at The Gordon. What Bliss! Photos of some of my work produced during the last 10 years are located in the gallery section of this website. Of course, it is never the same as viewing art 'in the flesh' but, hey, I love creating it and I am happy to share the images with you.

Solo Exhibition

• 2007 Wool Exchange Restaurant, Conference and Wedding Reception Centre, Geelong Victoria.

Group Exhibitions

• 2010 Art Town, public art event by Chapel Street Traders, Prahran, Victoria.
• 2009 Art is Magic, Adrianakis Fitzroy Gallery, 274 Fitzroy Street, Victoria.
• 2009 The End of The Decade, Geelong School of Fine Arts, Victoria.
• 2008 In Search of Sanctuary, Geelong School of Fine Arts, Victoria.
• 2007 Dada Now, 2007 Geelong School of Fine Arts, Victoria.
• 2006 Sex and Mayhem, Geelong School of Fine Arts, Victoria.
• 2005 Ages of Art, Geelong School of Fine Arts, Victoria.
• 2004 Facets of Beauty, Geelong School of Fine Arts, Victoria.
• 2003 Landscape, Geelong School of Fine Arts, Victoria.
• 2002 Toys, Text and Texture, Geelong School of Fine Arts, Victoria.

Commissioned Works

• 2008-10 Regular portrait commissions.
• 2008 A 6-Panel floor to ceiling mural (apprenticeship with Peta-Louise Williamson) Café Blah Blah, Pakington Street, West Geelong.

Publications

• 2010 Abrahmsen, Ann ed., The Big Tick, The Gordon, Victoria, 5 art works and 1 poem, pp. 6-11.
• 2009 Australian Life Scientist, Vol 6, Issue 4, July/August, 2 photographs, pp. 18, 20.
• 2009 Anti Cancer Council, Carlton, Victoria, 12 October, mailout to 50,000 Victorians, 5 photographs.

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