Danelle Bergstrom

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Danelle Bergstrom
Born
Jane Danelle Bergstrom

1957 (age 67–68)
Sydney, Australia
Alma mater Alexander Mackie College
OccupationVisual artist
Children2
Website danellebergstrom.com

Danelle Bergstrom (born 1957) [1] is an Australian visual artist known for landscapes and portraits of significant Australians and International figures.

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Biography

Bergstrom was born in Sydney. She attended Hunters Hill High School and studied art at the Julian Ashton Art School (1973-1979) and earned a Bachelor's of Art Education at Alexander Mackie CAE. Her sister is Antarctic ecologist Dr Dana Bergstrom. Bergstrom began her career in the 1980s as a high school art teacher. She moved into tertiary education as Head of Department in a visual design college in the 1990s. She began exhibiting works in the 1980s, in major art prizes and solo shows by the 1990s. [2]

Bergstrom has two works in the collection of the Australian National Portrait Gallery, [3] one of Australian aviator Nancy Bird Walton entitled Pioneer, and another work entitled Vivisector of the Australian playwright David Williamson.

Between 2007 and 2017 Bergstrom completed 24 public portrait commissions, including portraits of all six Chief Justices of the Northern Territory Supreme Court as part of the court's centenary celebration. These are exhibited in the main hall of the Supreme Court in Darwin. [4] [2] Many of her commissioned portraits are found in the collections of Australian courthouses, universities, museums and private collections internationally. [5] [6]

From 2018 to 2021, Bergstrom's notable portraits included Sir Tim Smit, President Tarja Halonen of Finland, Chancellor Ulrika Wolf-Knutts. In 2023, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery presented a major career survey exhibition, entitled 'Afterglow', presenting key works from the last 25 years of the artist’s practice. [7]

Awards and prizes

Between 1995 and 2016, Bergstrom was a finalist nine times of the most prestigious portraiture art prize in Australia, the Archibald Prize, awarded Highly Commended in 2004 and the Packing Room Prize twice in 1995 and 2007.

Bergstrom has been a finalist at the Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize at the SH Irvin Gallery fifteen times between the years 1993 and 2015, winning the People Choice Award five times. [8]

Portraits

Bergstrom has painted portraits of many notable people. She often uses more than one canvas in her portraits to create a time sequence or capture different aspects of her subject. She described her tryptic of Marget Olley saying: "Using three images in one work became important in expressing time and movement in the final concept: our conversations together. The first panel is more distant, a warm, friendly greeting. The second is about dialogue and exchanging ideas. The third expresses an aspect of her cheeky personality." [9] She also creates multiple portraits by depicting reflections such as in 'Two movements - Peter Sculthorpe' and ‘JFS Transposition’ [10]

Prominent portraits included;

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Landscapes

Bergstrom also paints landscapes such as her 2008 Symphony series depicting diverse elements of Australia's Northern Territory [11] and her 2017 Våga series depicting Scandinavian seascapes. [12]

Personal life

Bergstrom is the daughter of Natalie Bergstrom, a commercial artist and sculptor. Bergstrom raised her two children, son Shannan and daughter Alexarndra in Sydney, Australia. Since 2011, Bergstrom has divided her time between Australia, Sweden and Åland, Finland, having connected with her father, Leif Bergstrom's, family in Sweden in 1997. [13]

Notes/further reading

References

  1. ↑ "Danelle Bergstrom". danellebergstrom.com. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2020. Born 1957, Sydney, Australia
  2. 1 2 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "Danelle Bergstrom, National Portrait Gallery". www.portrait.gov.au.
  4. ↑ "Journal" (PDF). www5.austlii.edu.au.
  5. ↑ "UTS Gallery and Art Collection report 2011".
  6. ↑ "Portraits chronicle contributions - Charles Darwin University". www.cdu.edu.au.
  7. ↑ "Danelle Bergstrom: Afterglow". bathurstart.com.au. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  8. ↑ "Bio" (PDF). www.arthousegallery.com.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  9. ↑ "Archibald Prize Archibald 2003 work: Conversation with Margaret Olley by Danelle Bergstrom".
  10. ↑ "Archibald Prize Archibald 1998 work: JF-S transposition by Danelle Bergstrom".
  11. ↑ "Arthouse Gallery / Exhibition / Danelle Bergstrom / Symphony". Archived from the original on 11 March 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  12. ↑ Danelle Bergstrom arthousegallery.com.au Archived 11 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ Danelle Bergstrom Country style arthousegallery.com.au Archived 20 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ FitzGerald, Michael (8 October 2013). "Artist's journey of discovery sheds new light on home". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  15. ↑ "Essay" (PDF). www.arthousegallery.com.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 April 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  16. ↑ Denver Mottau (5 November 2017). "Danelle Bergstrom Collection : Vaga @ Arthouse Gallery". Sydney Arts Guide. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
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