Cernak
Cernak is from a non-Indigenous first generation migrant background, born in the Glass House Bay region (Moreton Bay) who has already lived and worked through three major art periods in Modernism, Post-Modernism and the eclecticism we refer to as “Contemporary”.
Cernak studies painting and drawing in the early days at Brisbane Central Technical College before beginning three decades of study and solo exhibiting. She studied art at the Technical University and Art Academy of Vienna in the ‘70s, as well as exhibiting and completing a Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Queensland.
She holds a post-graduate Diploma in Painting from the Qld. College of Art and has taught since 1986 back in Brisbane at the Qld. Art Gallery, the Brisbane Institute of Art, Art Site in the Valley, Communify in Paddington and at the Winter Programme of the Macgregor Art Schools in Toowoomba.
Her art explores the metaphor of the landscape/country as body/Earth, a unique expression that opens inwards and outwards into the realms of the imagination.
Central Technical College (Art theory & drawing) George St., Brisbane, 1964-1966. Life Drawing, Mal Draper 1965-1966 and Painting, David Fowler, 1966-1968. Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts and History), University of Queensland, 1977. Attended Technical University of Vienna & Academy of Art, Vienna, 1973-1975. Post Graduate Diploma in Arts (Painting), Qld. College of Art (Griffith University), 1989.
Exhibitions
2008 |
Mathew Flinders Art Gallery, Bribie Island, Talent Pool, April. Robyn Bauer Gallery: Homelands. June. |
2007 |
Robyn Bauer Gallery: The Lightness of Being. June. Robyn Bauer Gallery: Six Artists, September Show. Robyn Bauer Gallery: Under 500, The Xmas Shows in Paddington. BaBoa Gallery, Paddington: Animal, The Xmas Shows in Paddington. Calendar Launch for 2008 and Goddess Exhibition, Alderlely. |
2006 |
Robyn Bauer Gallery: As Above So Below. June. Calendar Launch for 2007 & Goddess Exhibition, Cleveland. Pine Rivers Regional Art Gallery: The City is My Body, April. Retrotemporary Exhibition: Self Portrait as an Archaeological Site. |
2005 |
Charles-Ginn Gallery: joint shows, The Drawing Show. Winner, Archibelle 2005, Women Painting Women. Goddess Calendar Launch for 2006 & Watercolours, Mullumbimbi Gallery. |
2004 |
Fresh Café Gallery, New Farm: 2005 Goddess Calendar Launch, Watercolour multiples , Glass House Mountains & Eve Charles-Ginn Gallery: joint shows, Archibelle 2004, & Internal Spaces. |
2003 |
Charles-Ginn Gallery: joint shows including Archibelle 2003.& Heavens |
1992 |
Art Site Studio Gallery: Cernak Opus, retrospective 1986-1992, The Valley. |
1990 |
Ardrossan Gallery: Memory and the Artist, Newfarm |
1989 |
Ardrossan Gallery: Memory and Brisbane, Bowen Hills |
1978-1990 |
40 solo exhibitions over 22 years in Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Brisbane, Vienna and Venice. |
Employment Art Teaching
- 2007 McGregor Winter School Workshop- "Viewing the Viewer"
- 2005_2007 Adult Art Class, Ithaca Hall, Communify Qld. Inc.
- 2005-2007 Childrens' Art Class, Ithaca Hall, Communify Qld. Inc.
- 2005-2007 Advanced Art Class, Ithaca Hall, Red Hill.
- 2001 & 2004 Ithaca Hall Studio Group, Red Hill.
- 2000-2003 Charles–Ginn Gallery Studio, Paddington.
- 1996-2000 Scholarship Class, Queensland. Art Gallery.
- 1995-2003 Brisbane Central Primary School, Spring Hill.
- 1988-1995 Art Site & Studio Crow, Spring Hill.
- 1986-1988 Brisbane Institute of Art, Paddington
website: www.visualartist.info/cernakcernak
