IRENE TORRES CV

Nature - with its uncontrollable power, its violence, its potential for cataclysmic extremes, its mysteries and majesty, are phenomena for expressing a range of psychological and emotional states.

This ancient and powerful land has become a motivation in which I reveal my perceptions relating to identity and landscapes as complex representations of continuous interactions between people and their surrounding environment, influenced by different factors in the processes of the environment’s evolution.

Employing light as a tool to highlight drama, terror, or awe, my work is a visceral response to landscape.

Born 1981, Melbourne Australia

Education:

Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours, RMIT University 2003
Master of Fine Art candidate, RMIT 2006

Selected Exhibitions:

Hadley’s Art Prize, Hobart, 2023
Glover Prize, Finalist, Evandale Tasmania, 2021
PG Gallery, Window spotlight exhibition, 2022
PG Gallery, Upstairs recent paintings, Solo show 2019
Off the Kerb Gallery, Winter Group Show, 2019
PG Gallery, upstairs I Want to Paint You as a Mountain, Solo show 2018
Hogan Gallery, Recent works, Solo show, 2009
Australian Centre for Photography Red Eyes and Sticky Fingers, 2005
Australian Centre for Photography Zeitgeist, 2005
Hobson’s Bay Contemporary Art Awards 2005
RMIT Story Hall Gallery, 2003
RMIT First Site Gallery, 2003
RMIT Project space gallery, 2003 and 2006
Span Galleries, RMIT Graduate Exhibition 2003

Collections: RMIT University, Private collections in Australia, Spain, USA and Chile.

Achievements: Finalist Glover Prize 2021 - Australia’s most prestigious Landscape Painting Prize
Australian Centre for Photography Zeitgeist, Artists selected by 11 critics and curators - likely to be future influence on Australian cultural life. 2004
Shortlisted for Siemens’ scholarship awards 2003
Shortlisted for Hobson’s Bay Contemporary Art Awards 2004, 2005, 2006
Publications: Sydney Morning Herald, 2005 / Real Time Magazine 2003
Glover 2021 publications

Employment / professional appointments:
PG Printmaker Gallery Fitzroy – Co owner and Director
Workshops in Printmaking and Drawing, PG Gallery
Curating various exhibitions at PG Gallery, Fitzroy from 2010 – 2023.