Curriculum Vitae
Anna Van Stralen
Education:
2018-present, PhD candidate, School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania, Inveresk, Launceston Australia (approaching completion in February 2021)
2014 -Bachelor of Contemporary Art with Honours, First Class, School of Visual and Performing arts, University of Tasmania, Australia.
Selected Awards:
2021- Finalist, Henry Joes Art Prize, Henry Jones Art Hobart, Tasmania.
2019- Winner, Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, Bell Bay Aluminium Peoples’ Choice Award
2019- Finalist, Tasmanian Women’s Art Prize, Touring Tasmania-wide, Australia
2014 - Sawtooth Honours Award, University of Tasmania, Australia
2014 – Highly Recommended, Birchalls Tertiary Art Prize, Art award
Based in Launceston, displayed at NEW Gallery, University of
Tasmania, Australia.
Employment: 2016-present: Casual Lecturer and Tutor, School of Creative Art, Utas Inveresk,
Launceston, Australia.
Residencies: 2018- Jansz Women and Business Artist in Residence
Residency situated in a Vinyard at Piper’s River, Northern Tasmania,
Australia.
2017- CREATIVEaccomplice Artist in Residence, Darwin, Australia.
A three-week creative residency connecting with the Community of Darwin
And responding to the location’s unique arid ecology and sense of place.
Publications:
2020- Alternative Law Journal, 13th September, Cover art and Article “Beyond Dystopia- Paintings by Anna Van Stralen ” by Deborah Candy, A Monash University Melbourne-based Publication.
2020 - NiTRO, 24th of July , “The Escalating Relevance of Research in Progress” by Anna Van Stralen.
Curation Work:
2020 – Scope: Tools for Seeing, Selected Artists, Poimena Gallery Launceston Church Grammar School, Launceston Australia
2019 - Intersections: Utas Staff Selected Works, Academy Gallery Inveresk, University of Tasmania, Australia.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2019- Empathy and the Swamp, Stillwater Restaurant, Launceston.
2018 - Prisms, Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery, Tasmanian
Central Coast Wilderness Trail.
2017- Blended Landscapes, Blue Café, Launceston Tasmania.
2017- Residency Work in Progress, Creative Accomplice Darwin,
Australia.
2017- Terraforma, Stillwater Providore and Gallery, Launceston.
2015- Possible Life, Sawtooth Artist Run Initiative, Cimitere Street, Launceston.
2014 - Life Support, Brave Gallery, Longford, Northern Tasmania.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021: PAINT_2021, Selected Artists, Poimena Gallery, Launceston
Church Grammar School Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania.
2019- Art of the Body, Mona Foma Northern Arts Festival, Academy
Gallery, University of Tasmania.
2018-Jansz Women and Business Residency Exhibition, Piper’s River
and University of Tasmania Academy Gallery, Launceston.
2018- Drawing without Words, Tamar Valley Writers Festival,
Northern Tasmania.
2017- MonaFoma SPEED, Academy Gallery University of Tasmania
School of Creative Art.
2017- Powerhouse Gallery TCoTA Staff Show, Tasmanian College of
The Arts, Launceston Tasmania.
2016- Stillwater Group Exhibition , Launceston,Tasmania.
2014- TcoTa Best of the Best Graduates, University of Tasmania.
2014 - Longford 200 years, Brave Gallery, Longford, Northern
Tasmania.
2014- Wish You Were Here, Brave Gallery, Longford,
Northern Tasmania.
2014 - Emerge, Launceston Easter Community Festival, Albert Hall,
Launceston Tasmania.
2013 - Selected Graduates Exhibition, Tasmanian College of the Arts
Launceston, Tasmania.