Services we offer
Landscape, still life and portraits using acrylics, watercolour, pen &wash.
Lesley draws inspiration from the changing rural and urban landscape. Herpaintings reflect a vibrancy and visual harmony often found in the harshAustralian environment. Preoccupied with describing structure, geometry andform within the landscape, her work captures the unusual from ordinary scenesrecording the history of the area she lives.
Admiring the work of the Post Impressionists and Australian Modernists,Lesley's palette consists of primary and secondary colours, using simultaneouscontrast to create subtleties of light. Her subjects are from her homeland;from Willunga & Whites Valley to Sellick's Beach, Port Willunga and McLarenVale depicting vineyards, wheatfields, oceans and rural farms.
ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY
Born London 1955, Lesley Redgate moved to South
Australia in 1967. After completing an Adv Dip Teaching
(Fine Art) 1976 at the SA School of Art, she began her
career as artist and educator. Winner of the Thomas Laird
Memorial Traveling Art Study Award led her to overseas
travel in 1994 and 1997. She is represented in the Victorian
National Gallery as recipient of the Michelle Endowment
Award.
STUDY
2000-2002 Advanced Diploma of Visual Communication & Graphic Design, TAFE SA
1973-1976 Advanced Diploma in Teaching Fine Art Secondary, Torrens CAE / Uni SA
PRIZES, AWARDS, GRANTS
2017 Semi Finalist – DOUG MORAN National Portrait Prize
2017 Finalist & Merit Award - RSASA 3rd Biennial Portrait Prize
2016, 2008, 2004, 2002, 2000 & 1998 Finalist – FLEURIEU ART PRIZE
2016, 2014 Finalist - CHARACTERS OF THE FLEURIEU, Signal Point Gallery
2014 Finalist – WELL MADE, Guildhouse, ACArts
2011 Finalist – FSASA Ex, Adelaide Festival Theatre
2010 Finalist – PORTIA GEACH Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney NSW
2009, 2008 Finalist – HEYSEN PRIZE Hahndorf Academy
2006 – 2007 DOUBLE VISION exchange, City of Onkaparinga / Bendigo VIC
2005, 1998 Merit Award – GOOLWA MARITIME Art Ex
2004 & 2003 Finalist – WATERHOUSE NATURAL HISTORY Art Prize
2002 OUR BELOVED COAST – FLEURIEU BIENNALE HERITAGE EX
2000 & 2002 Touring – ARTISTS OF THE FLEURIEU, Biennale Ex
1999 FINALIST – Port Pirie Art Prize
1996 SACAT Grant – REDGATE / WATKINS Touring SA & VIC
1996 First Prize – JAMESTOWN ART PRIZE SA
1994 First Prize - THOMAS LAIRD MEMORIAL TRAVELING ART STUDY Award
1994 & 1992 First Prize – VICTOR HARBOR ART EX.
1978 THE MICHELLE ENDOWMENT AWARD – Acquisition, National Gallery VIC
1977 Finalist – The CAPITAL PERMANENT AWARD, Geelong Art Gallery VIC
1976 Finalist – YOUNG ARTISTS AWARD, Adelaide Festival Theatre
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE – Promenade
2018 FLEURIEU ~ TIME & PLACE, Kay Bros Winery
2017-18 FLEURIEU ~ HEART & SOUL, Kay Bros Winery
2015 GEOMETRY - Arts Centre, Port Noarlunga
2014 FLEURIEU - Hugo Wines
2013 Adelaide Intercontinental Hotel – Art Images Norwood
2011 RURAL & URBAN – Shingleback Winery
2005 GEOMETRY – Dridan Fine Arts McLaren Vale
2001 CATCHING THE LIGHT – Red Dot Gall, Penny’s Hill Winery
1999 A CERTAIN SYMMETRY – Dridan Fine Arts
1996 – 1997 REDGATE / WATKINS – SACAT Touring Exhibition SA & VIC
1995 SEA & VINES – Wirra Wirra Vineyards
1993 ASPECTS OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN
LANDSCAPE – Wilson’s Gall, Robe
1991 RECENT PAINTINGS – Kensington Gallery
1978 PAINTINGS BY LESLEY REDGATE – CACSA
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria, Hardy’s Winery London, Mt
Lofty House, City of Onkaparinga, Australia, England,
Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Hong Kong, South Africa,
Chile, USA.
www.lesleyredgateart.com
Aquisition - Victorian National Gallery as recipient of the MichelleEndowment Award.
First prize - 1994 Thomas Laird Memorial Traveling Art Study Award & 1996 Jamestown Art Prize
Finalist - Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Award, WaterhouseNatural History Art Prize, Heysen Art Prize, Port Pirie Art Prize, FleurieuBiennale Art Prize, Well Made Guildhouse Ex.
Grants - SACAT Redgate / Watkins touring exhibition; DOUBLE VISION City ofOnkaparinga Bendigo artist exchange