Janine Dello
About the artist
I am an Adelaide based figurative painter.
The figure dominates my work as I am fascinated with its continuous changes. My work explores ideas of the contemporary female experience, commenting on themes such as feminism, female culture, excess, private pleasures and body image anxiety. Focusing on the tension between desire and consumer culture, my recent work explores the contradictory emotions relating to female consumption habits, such as anxiety, addiction, longing and pleasure.
Primarily working with oil on canvas, linen or board, I use my own photography as the basis for my painting compositions. I draw inspiration from lived experience and contemporary culture such as fashion, print and digital media, film, music and poetry.
CV
Education:
2016 Bachelor of Visual Art, Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia
Exhibitions
2021 Solo exhibition: Inhabit, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
Finalist, Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize, Adelaide, SA
Finalist, Royal South Australian Society of Arts/SALA Portrait Prize, Adelaide, SA
Finalist, Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
Birds of a feather, The Metropolitan, Adelaide, SA
Art on Parade, Norwood, SA
2020 Finalist (x2), Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Finalist, Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW
Finalist, Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
Finalist, Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Qld
Dark Places, Newmarch Gallery, Prospect, SA
Instant Gratification, Praxis Artspace, Bowden, SA
Belle ArtStart Emerging Artist Exhibition, Melbourne,
2019 Solo exhibition: Notes to self, BMG Art Gallery, Adelaide
Finalist, Prospect Portrait Prize, Newmarch Gallery, Prospect
I didn’t see it coming, Collective Haunt Gallery, Norwood
Loreto SpringART, Loreto College, Maryatville
Finalist, Royal South Australian Society of Arts/SALA Portrait Prize, Adelaide
St. Ignatius Art Show, St. Ignatius College, Norwood
It’s only natural, SALA Festival, Urban Cow Gallery, Adelaide
Finalist, Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
Finalist, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, Gordon, Sydney
Finalist, Wyndham Art Prize, Werribee, Victoria
2018 Wish you were here, Adelaide Central School of Art Gallery, Glenside
Finalist, Kennedy Art Prize, RSASA Gallery, Adelaide
Instill, SALA Festival, Rosies, Unley
Bloom, Art Bar Gallery, Adelaide
Beauty, Art Bar Gallery, Adelaide
Finalist, Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham, Victoria
2017 Peculiar Portraits Art Prize, Melbourne
Finalist, Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scale Award, Brisbane
Finalist, Royal South Australian Society of Arts/SALA Portrait Prize, Adelaide
Star Portrait Artist, Loreto SpringART, Loreto College, Maryatville
On the Cusp, SALA, East Borough Eatery, Glen Osmond
Praise You, Ambush Gallery, Sydney
FRAN Fest Poster Project, ACE Open Gallery, Adelaide
All about her, FRAN Fest, Ensemble Gallery, Adelaide
Adelaide Finalist, Cliftons Art Prize, Cliftons Gallery, Adelaide
Wish you were here, Adelaide Central School of Art
Finalist, Prospect Portrait Prize, Prospect Gallery
Colour me, PRAXIS Gallery, Bowden
Keep the lights on, Floating Goose Gallery, Adelaide
2016 Sensory Narratives, Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide Central School of Art
Wish You Were Here, Adelaide Central School of Art
10x10 Exhibition, Adelaide Central School of Art
Finalist, Emma Hack Art Prize, Adelaide Festival Centre
Finalist, Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize “Who Is Looking At You”
Press
John Neylon, The Adelaide Review Online, ‘Dark Places’ exhibition, March 2020
Jane Llewelyn, The Adelaide Review, ‘Instant Gratification’, exhibition review, January 2020
Adorn Me, Poets & Artists Publication, 2019
City Mag, Artist Interview for SALA Festival, 2019
Jane Llewelyn, The Adelaide Review Online, ‘Notes to self’, exhibition review, January 2019
Art Guide Australia, Issue 117, pg. 207
Art/Edit Magazine, ‘Ones to watch’, Issue 19, pg. 23, 2018
Fritz Magazine, online, ‘Loreto SpringART: Star Portrait Artist’, 2017
Alex Saba, Praise You 2017/The Butterfly Foundation, Artist’s Interview, 2017
Collage Adelaide Publication, Artist Spotlight, 2017
Rachel Darling, This is Radelaide, ‘Feminism in Art: 5 Adelaide Artists you should be following’, 2017
The Adelaide Review, Back page image credit for Adelaide Central School of Art, “Bittersweet”, 2016
Clique Magazine Online, ‘Behind the Canvas’ Artist Interview, 2016
Sensory Narratives, Graduate Exhibition Catalogue, Adelaide Central School of Art, 2016
Sensory Narratives, Graduate Exhibition, Artist Interview, 2016
| Notes to Self |
| Inhabit |