ARTIST STATEMENT
Environmental Expressionist
Ursula is concerned by the challenging environmental issues which confront and threaten our global future and she believes in the importance of art to stimulate and encourage discussion of these complex and emotive choices.
Her work explores the relationship that humankind has with the environment. She focuses on the profound spiritual connection we have with nature and the duality of our behaviour to the world. She draws inspiration from the Australian bush around her home, amid remote farms, plantations and quarries.
The strength of these influences has become even more intense after Ursula and her husband faced and survived the Black Saturday fires. Her ‘Fire Series’ focuses on the pervading spiritualism that she poignantly experienced during Black Saturday while defending her home. Transcending known realities to the unknown and otherworldly spiritual presences, her work looks at our interaction with the environment and the perception of ownership, fragility and destiny.
Her paintings incorporate text to assist the viewer in connecting with the emotional and intellectual premise of the artist’s expressions of the profound spiritual bond we have to nature and a need to understand the outcomes of the unbalanced pressures placed on the natural environment.
Ursula’s work has always represented the land as ‘Mother Earth’, a living entity, to create empathy, and help the viewer reflect on the ‘hidden’ and ’surface’, aspects of our perceptions about what we see, understand and experience around us. She has focussed on ‘Erosion’, ‘Forest Management’ and now ‘Black Saturday’. Ursula fears that the Black Saturday bush fires are one of the consequences of global warming and feels an urgency to address these imbalances, so that humankind and nature can travel on their shared journey into a less ominous future.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Ursula Theinert
Date of Birth : 14th December 1955
Phone : 03 51955188
Mobile : 0439699241
Email : wersula@gmail.com
Website: www.ursulatheinert.com.au
ABN : 54 659 060 030 GST Registered
ART ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2009 Salon des Refuses ‘Hidden Faces of the Archibald’ - Leonie Ryan ‘Ethereal Transitions’
Art Melbourne 2009, Royal Exhibiion Building, Carlton
2008 Salon des Refuses ‘Hidden Faces of the Archibald’ - My portrait of Kerrie Warren -
’Child of the Universe’, Park Hyatt Hotel Melbourne
Archibald Portrait of myself, ‘Ursula’, painted by Janette Arnold-Collins,
in the Salon des Refuses ‘Hidden Faces of the Archibald’ - Park Hyatt
Art Melbourne 2008, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
2007 New Energies 2007 - Touring Exhibition - Meeniyan Art Gallery
Salon des Refuses ‘Hidden Faces of the Archibald’, Crown Towers, Melbourne
2006 ’Full Steam Ahead’ - TRUenergy Yallourn Art Collection
Salon des Refuses ‘Hidden Faces of the Archibald’, Crown Towers, Melbourne
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2010
‘Fields of View’ Group Touring Exhibition,
Sale Regional Gallery at Maffra Gallery,
23rd of January to 7th of March
Parliament House Dinner for Launch of Fields of View and
Environmental Expressionism,
Friday, 5th of February
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, in Alan Lane Gallery,
7th of April to 26th of April
Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong,
3rd of June to 26th of June
Solo Exhibition, Art at St. Francis, Melbourne, 9th March to 13th April
Art Melbourne, Stand F4, Royal Exhibition Buildings, 22-25 April
EXHIBITIONS
2009 ’Regionalis’ Exhibition, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, Melbourne
Art Melbourne 2009, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
’ECO’ Exhibition, Abi Edwards Gallery, Tonimbuk
’Forest Management’, Solo Exhibition, Abi Edwards Gallery, Tonimbuk
‘Art Gippsland 2009′, Warragul Art Centre, Warragul
2008 ’Forest Management’, Solo Exhibition, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
6 Degree Art Prize, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
Salon des Refuses ‘Hidden Faces of the Archibald’ - Park Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne
’Interconnections’, Photographic Exhibition, The Vault, Trafalgar
Art Melbourne 2008, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
The 24th Women’s Exhibition, ARC Yinnar
2007 Salon des Refuses ‘Hidden Faces of the Archibald’ - Crown Towers, Melbourne
’New Energies 2007′ Touring Exhibition - Meeniyan Art Gallery, East Gippsland
Gallery - Bairnsdale, Court House Gallery - Yarram, ARC Yinnar.
Celebrating 25 Years at ARC Yinnar
Linden Postcard Show - St. Kilda
GippsTAFE Student Exhibition - Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
The Collector’s Exhibition - Steps Gallery - Richmond
Gippsland Emerging Artists Exhibition - Cardinia Cultural Centre, Pakenham
Gippsland Emerging Artists ‘In the Spirit of Art’- Cardinia Centre
2006 Salon des Refuses ‘Hidden Faces of the Archibald’ - Crown Towers, Melbourne.
The Collector’s Exhibition - Steps Gallery - Richmond
Inaugural Ar Yinnar Drawing Prize, Arc Yinnar
Herring Island Summer Arts Festival - Herring Island, Melbourne
Linden Postcard Show - St. Kilda
2005 Burnley Harbour Festival - Richmond
Latrobe Faces and Places - ARC Yinnar
Noah’s ARC - Yinnar
GippsTAFE Student Art Exhibition - ARC Yinnar
2004 Anger Management - Warragul Art Centre, Warragul
GippsTAFE Student Art Exhibition - ARC Yinnar
EDUCATION
2008 Diploma of Visual Arts - GippsTAFE Yallourn