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Zoe Young (b.1978) is a rising talent within the Sydney art scene. She is currently based in Bowral, Southern Highlands, NSW with her husband and two young children. Young’s paintings are marked by her eclectic use of colour and sharp eye for unique landscape and still-life compositions.
Despite having graduated from the National Art School, Zoe Young is self-taught in the areas of illustrating, photography, sewing and her passion – painting. Through her use of pastel tones and dramatic shadow, her still life compositions reflect an emotive response to her environment. Zoe adapts her eccentric colour palate to evoke the characteristics of her subject matter – as displayed in her wonderful Archibald Finalist Portrait (2014) of Torah Bright. Zoe Young is a seasoned finalist in the Archibald Portraiture Prize, selected in 2014 with her portrait of Olympic Snowboarder Torah Bright and again in 2016 with her portrait of Indigenous Australian model Sam Harris. Within her portraiture and still life works, Zoe has truly excelled and established herself as one of the forefront painters within a new generation of Australian artists. As one of Australia’s rising talents, Zoe received the 2013 John Briscoe Memorial Prize judged by Lucy Culliton and runner up of the 2014 Yen Young Female Artist of the Year Award with her portrait of Winter Olympian Frank Prihoda. In one of Zoe Young’s landmark exhibitions, ‘Home’ (2015) at The Art Society, Southern Highlands Zoe’s body of work reflected her childhood of seasonal changes – Bowral in spring, Thredbo in winter and summer in Sydney. In the last stages of pregnancy at the time of this exhibition, Young’s art making methods had “turned her eye to the more natural and slower things in life.” Most recently, Zoe has been exploring landscape and still-life inspired by her surroundings in the Southern Highlands ZOE YOUNG EXHIBITIONS 2017 Space between Hours 2017 Salt Life. Servcorp. Chicago. 2017 Salt Life. Mom Tri's Villa Royale. Kata Noi. Thailand (Print Show) 2016 Dadadatism. Servcorp, Tower Two. Barangaroo. Sydney 2016 Dadadatism. Saint Cloche. Paddington. Sydney (Print Show) 2015 Home The Art Society, Southern Highlands, NSW 2014 Geelong Grammar Alumni Exhibition Celebrating 100 Years of Creativity (Hung alongside Grandfather A.E Young) 2014 Ladies The Paint The Art Society, Southern Highlands, NSW 2014 Gold Graduates of the National Art School Exhibition, Studio W. Woolloomooloo, NSW 2014 Burrawang Designer and Artists Festival (Invited Artist) 2014 Celebrity Portrait Reveal (Invited Artist) 2012 National Art School Graduate Show, Sydney, NSW AWARDS 2017 Calleen Art Prize (Finalist) 2017 Veolia Creative Arts Scholarship (Recipient) 2016 Burrawang DNA Emerging Artist Award (Winner) 2016 Frensham Foundation Art Prize (Runner Up) 2016 John Copes Prize for Portraiture (Highly Commended) 2016 Archibald Prize (Finalist) 2015 Cooks Gallery Emerging Art Prize, Newcastle (Finalist) 2015 Wingcarribee Art Prize, Southern Highlands (Finalist) 2014 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize (Highly Commended) 2014 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney (Finalist) 2014 Yen Magazine Female Artist of the Year (Highly Commended) 2013 John Copes Prize for Portraiture (Finalist) 2013 John Briscoe Memorial Art Prize (Highly Commended) 2013 Snowy Mountains Art Prize, Jindabyne Memorial Hall (Winner) RESIDENCIES 2016 Artist in Residence, Mom Tri's Villa Royale. Kata Noi. Thailand. 2015 Artist in Residence, Winifred West Schools, Sturt/Frensham, NSW 2013 Artist in Residence, Crackenback Farm, Crackenback, NSW 2012 Artist in Residence, Arthaus, Thredbo Village, NSW ARTICLES & MEDIA Artist Profile Magazine. 2017 Country Style Magazine. 2017 Design Files. 2017 7.30 Report. 2017 Bangkok Post 2017 Musa, H, Portrait on Olympian purchased by Canberra Airport, July 2016, City News Evans, M, Striking artwork brightens up Canberra Airport, July 2016, Travellers News Marshall, C, Zoe Young portrait of snowboarder Torah Bright, July 2016, The Canberra Times Lee, V, Zoe’s Archibald success, July 2016, Southern Highland News |
