Rona Green (born 1972,

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) is an Australian visual artist.

Work

Green is best known for her figurative printmaking, painting, drawing and soft sculptures, which she refers to as

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s, depicting human-animal hybrids.Description of art by Rona Green: * * * * The artist's area of specialty is printmaking and she has utilised various techniques such as

monotype Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to acrylic glass. The ...

, collograph,

linocut Linocut, also known as lino print, lino printing or linoleum art, is a printmaking technique, a variant of relief printing in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief printing, relief surface. A design i ...

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other type ...

lithography Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the miscibility, immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by ...

, screenprint,

woodcut Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that ...

wood engraving Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively l ...

and

digital printing Digital printing is a method of printing from a Digital data, digital-based image directly to a variety of media. It usually refers to professional printing where small-run jobs from desktop publishing and other digital sources are printed usi ...

. Green's favoured medium is hand coloured linocut prints. * * * * * * * Transformation is a recurrent theme in Green's art. Her pictures of

anthropomorphic Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to ...

figures with decorated bodies celebrate individuals' ability to create identity, adopt alter egos and embrace otherness. She champions misfits, outcasts and outsiders - those on the fringe of society. Humour is also an integral part of Green's work.

Education

Green studied

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in the early 1990s. It was at university, under the influential tutelage of Peter Jacobs and John Robinson, that Green decided to major in printmaking. Green studied visual art at

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in the late 1990s, and she was awarded a Master of Fine Art degree from

Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...

in 2012.

Exhibitions

Green has exhibited extensively since 1994, in Australia and internationally. In 201
Deakin University Art Gallery
held a survey exhibition of her printmaking and soft sculpture, titled ''Rona Green: Prints and Poppets 2000-2010,'' and during 2017-2018 ''Rona Green: Champagne taste and lemonade pockets'', a survey show reviewing ten years of Green's printmaking, toured Bendigo Art Gallery and

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Awards

Green has been the recipient of several awards for her printmaking including the Geelong Print Prize in 2003, Swan Hill Print Acquisitive Award in 2004 and the Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints Grand Prize in 2006.

Collections

Green's work is held in numerous private and public art collections including the

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, Bendigo Art Gallery, Geelong Gallery
The Print Council of Australia
an
Artbank

References

External links

ronagreen.com
artist's website *
Rona Green - A Portrait in Ink
documentary (dir
Kate Logan
2014)
Rona Green's artworks in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia

Rona Green at Australian Galleries
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