Danielle Creenaune

Having lived abroad for the last 18 years, Australian born artist, Danielle Creenaune, worked out of her print studio in Barcelona and since 2019 she returned to live in Australia in Wollongong NSW. Her central motivation “is the intrinsic dialogue between landscape and people, how landscape is perceived through our library of pre-lived experiences and the ways in which this is reflected through the visual language of gesture.”

Her work has received numerous awards internationally including the René Carcan International Printmaking Award 2016 1st Mention in Belgium and the Corsair Prize for Innovation at Inkmasters Cairns 2018. Her lithographs were selected to represent Australia in the International Print Triennial Krakow 2015 and her book ‘When the Sea Wakes Inside You’ was exhibited in the 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London 2018. Creenaune’s work is held in public collections including the National Gallery of Australia.

She completed a Bachelor and a Master of Art at the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1997.

26 | Danielle Creenaune, Epic, 2021, lithograph, mokulito and relief print. 107 x 177 cm (framed). $5500 (framed), $4000 (unframed).

Epic is a response to the full circle from when I first arrived in the snow covered Catalan Pyrenees in 2000 to where I am now 20 years later living by the escarpment in Australia. These places have had a profound impact on my practice and life over this period living abroad. Each marks the skyline in a dramatic way, both offering the promise of something new and unknown while also a constancy and refuge.

This work challenges traditional approaches to lithography, drawing and landscape within my practice. Some plates were molded over rock platforms, creating 3D forms and textured surfaces atypical to lithography. Responding to this intervention, I drew onto the plate using these incidental textures, creating a physical landscape on the surface on the matrix. Some sections of the image use Mokulito (Lithography on Wood) combining natural wood grain textures with painterly qualities of lithography. Other elements use textures present on the underside of the lithography limestone, and sections using plate lithography reveal mountainous landscapes through the rhythm of line and contour in a graphic way that is new to my drawing practice.