ROSETTA SANTUCCI
Curriculum Vitae
EXHIBITIONS
2012 Soho Galleries at Art Melbourne VIC
2012 Soho Galleries Sydney NSW
2011 Art Images Adelaide SA
2010 Soho Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2008 Solo show Green-wood Gallery, Victoria
2008 Art Brisbane Green-wood Gallery, Victoria
2008 Art Melbourne Green-wood Gallery, Victoria
2007 Art Sydney Green-wood Gallery, Victoria
2007 Solo show Green-wood Gallery, Victoria
2007 South Australian Living Artists, Barossa Valley, South Australia
2007 Art Melbourne Green-wood Gallery Victoria
2007 Solo show Jackman Gallery, Victoria
2006 Group show Jackman Gallery, Victoria
2005 Solo show Jackman Gallery, Victoria
2004 Double show Green-wood Gallery, Victoria
2004 Group show "Works on paper" Jackman Gallery
2004 Solo show Jackman Gallery, Victoria
2003 Group show "The blue show" Jackman Gallery, Victoria
2003 Group show"Urban Life" Jackman Gallery, Victoria
1999 Group show "Souls in control" Fitzroy Gallery, Victoria
Awards
Runner-up People's Choice Award Art Sydney 07
Publications
IKEA Family LIVE magazine Autumn 2012
The Age, Herald Sun, House and Garden, Home Beautiful, Real Living, My Home.
Collections/Commissions
Vicktrack, Foxtel Film Sets. Private collections in Australia and USA.
ROSETTA SANTUCCI
Artist Statement
With Santucci … there is a pleasure principle at work. The viewer is invited to explore the carpet-like designs as if gazing down at landscapes composed of vineyards, paddocks, roads, creeks and trees.
Santucci enjoys building the image by first creating rich exchanges of colours, textures and patterns then seductively masking and isolating areas using white pigment. Santucci’s exploitation of translucency, particularly in the final overlays … give her images allusive, poetic qualities. Her references also to the specifics of everyday things such as buds, branches, a trowel, trees, roads, the moon and stars introduce a clue-search dynamic to the viewing. There are contexts for this work, more European than Australian. I’m thinking of obvious similarities with Paul Klee’s worlds of invention but more of the painterly values and semi-abstract style associated with post-WW2 artists working out of St Ives in Cornwall, William Scott and Peter Lanyon in particular.
John Neylon, The Adelaide Review, August 2007
Artist statement
Having spent over a decade experimenting with applications like jewellery and textile design, it was a natural progression for me to start painting.
My background in costume for film and television and a passion for textiles - primarily tribal and ethnic designs – has influenced my painting style.
I’m self taught, and it has only been through practice and time that I have nurtured my style. I grew up in the Barossa Valley surrounded by vineyards and wide open spaces, and in so doing, developed a deep concern with natural forms connected to life – plants, bones, feathers, hills, trees and stones. More and more I realise that my paintings are a path of self discovery and an expression of life’s experiences. As an artist, I understand that nature and life have a lot to offer.
This body of work is a continuation of my journey through the landscape. Expanses of land gridded by man and nature. Snapshot memories - recent and childhood - map out my own personal vision.