Alpana Rai

With a blend of bold, bright and contrasting colours, Alpana Rai’s work, much like her
background, is diverse, multi-layered and passionately creative. Immigrating to Melbourne
from her native India more than a decade ago, Alpana Rai is a self-taught, abstract landscape
artist who was raised under a rich tapestry of cultural influences, with an immense love for
painting and artistic expression.
As oppose to adopting a rigid, controlled technique, Alpana embraces a highly intuitive,
spirited approach, grounded in emotional response. Combining memory and experience, and
beginning with a desire to describe a specific situation, she continually seeks unique ways to
translate her conceptualised scenescapes onto the canvas.
Alpana utilises an expressive, rhythmic sense of movement and flow, whilst merging acrylics
with mixed media to construct texture and form. Creating a series of paintings
simultaneously with no particular end point in mind, allows each work to develop its own
distinctive route and establish its history under more liberating means.
Since 2019, Alpana Rai has exhibited extensively across the Melbourne metropolitan area and
is a current member of the RedWest Creatives Co-op and the Melbourne and Victorian A...

2021
Certification :In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting, The Museum of Modern Art(MoMA)
2021
Certification: Modern Art & Ideas, The Museum of Modern Art(MoMA)

2024
Affordable Art Fair , Melbourne with The Toowoomba Gallery
2024
Incognito Art Show, online
2024
Affordable Art Fair with Art to Art Gallery, Sydney
2024
Affordable Art Fair, Brisbane
2024
Unearthed, Art to Art Gallery, Melbourne
2023
Affordable Art Fair, Sydney
2023
Art Red Hill, Art Red Hill ,Mornington Peninsula
2023
Portland Art Show, Portland, Victoria
2022
A Room With A View, Art Lovers Australia, Melbourne

Portland Art Show , Potland

Affordable Art Show , Sydney

2021

Primo Red 2, C & H Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

Mornington Art Show

"Joy" Exhibition by Artisan Society, Space2b Art Space Gallery, Melbourne

Off The Cuff Exhibition,, The Hut Gallery, Ferntree Gully, Melbourne, Victoria

$50-$500 Exhibition, , Sunshine Art Spaces Gallery, Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria

Bendigo Art Show, Bendigo, Victoria

Kernart prize 2021

smArt Exhibition , Track gallery, Mount Waverley, Victoria

Moonee Valley Art Show 2021, Virtual art show

"Emerging Women" group exhibition organised by Artisan society, Box hill community art centre, Victoria

2020
Twin Rivers Lions VIRTUAL Art Show, Twin Rivers Lions VIRTUAL Art Show

Deck The Walls, Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington, Victoria

2019

Deck The Walls, Oakhill Gallery, Mornington , Vi...