Romany Steele

Inspired by fairies and folktales as well as medieval paintings and ancient artefacts. The characters from these art forms regularly travel through the work leaving footprints and images. The art is the trails they create.
Based in Canberra after having lived in the countries of four different continents throughout life. These early travels have influenced the art styles subconsciously reach from different art styles from the rich and diverse cultures. In 1990 I was invited to join the Graphic Investigation workshop run by the master artist Petr Herel. From here I completed my Bachelor of Visual Arts degree in 1996 before moving to Rome. Since then I have found the world of online galleries a useful place.
from one of my exhibitions in Italy:
"...Romany's Journey began far away not only geographically but aesthetically... Romany Steele has always sought a unique type of relationship between her work and the lived world, the world of travel, encounters with different cultures and traditions and knowledge of the art of early periods...Her work never appears as quotation but as transmutation as if universal values are data which she has absorbed into something simultaneously new and ancient..The outcome, linking in with the abstract ...

Bachelor of Visual Arts from Australian
National university

Exhibitions:

Australian National University school of Art and Design 2018 drawing prize exhibition finalist 2018

Waves and Particles, exhibition of paintings, UNSW@ADFA library July-August 2005


Linden Postcard Exhibition, Melbourne, March 2005

Bega Valley regional art show, group show, September 2004

Canberra art prize exhibition, group show, September 2003

Winter, group exhibition M16 gallery, August 2003

Vessels, solo exhibition, m16 gallery, Canberra, April 2003

 
 
Graduating Exhibition, Australian National University Canberra, Soror mistica 1996
 
Return to the White Palace, Graduating students exhibition, Canberra School of Art 1996
 
L'isola del Cinema, solo exhibition, Isola Tiburina, Rome, 1998
 
Greenwich Gallery, London, 1998
 
Fiat Lux, Gondwana Gallery, Rome 1998
 
Una Pittura Traversale, solo exhibition, Treviso,1999
 
Glimpses of Eternity, solo exhibition, Stilo 1999
 

 
 









awards:

best oil painting in Bega Valley regional art show 2004