Randal Arvilla

Costa Rican - Australian, Sydney-based artist Randal ARVILLA, works in encaustics, oil and acrylic painting. His works examine fragility of nature, his search for his cultural identity and inner healing.

Arvilla’s imagery carries a sense of displacement or re-placement as a global traveller and resident in a new land. Through addition, subtraction, intuitive mark-making, lines, textures, typography, colour intensity and movement, Arvilla creates an energetic oeuvre with abstract and expressive influences.

Arvilla borrows images and stimuli from moments that catch his eye, industrial grid patterns, landscape, historical accounts, typography, letter & number punch sets, creating narratives, yet not literal ones. His colour intensity, use of materials, gesture and intuitive style present in these works depict influences of Costa Rican, Australian and Western Art.

Randal Arvilla’s works suggest impressions, emotions, places, familiar situations, memories, trips that he has made worldwide and are a continuous research where one series leads to another.

2009 – 2011 National Art School, Sydney, Australia, Painting.
1999 Dresden University of Technology - Germany- Course on Sustainable Tourism
1997 International Tour Management Institute, Certified Graduate, San Francisco, California
1992 Costa Rican Tourism Institute, Local Professional Tour Guide Course
1986 – 1989 University of San Francisco, California, College of Arts and Sciences, Graphic Design.
1985 Georgetown University, Washington DC, American Language Institute
1983-1985 Universidad de Costa Rica, General Education Curriculum

Solo Exhibitions:
2016 " Encaustica Contemporánea", Gauge Gallery, Glebe, NSW, Australia.
2012 “Point of Departure” - Xavier’s Art Space, Saint Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
Group Exhibitions:
2017 ADN-CRI (Costa Rica DNA) Municipality Museum of Cartago, Costa Rica.
2017 Miniature, Collab at Pine Street Gallery
2016 Expressions at Kroma Gallery by Costa Rican Association of Visual Artists - Escazú, Costa Rica
2016 Food + Wine Fleurieu Art Prize - South Australia - finalist
2016 The Chippendale New World Art Prize - Sydney, Australia - finalist
2016 "Refugees" at the Hurstville Museum & Dragon's Lair Gallery
2015 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award - Contemporary category - finalist -
2014 Contemporary’s Contemporaries - 140 George St - Sydney - MCA Staff Show
2014 Saint George Art Awards – finalist – Hurstville City Council
2014 Art Now NG Gallery – Chippendale – June 17th to July 5th
2013 “Small is beautiful” Charles Hewitt Gallery – August 16th to August 24
2013 “Is It a Bird, Is It a Plane” Charles Hewitt Gallery – July 1st to July
2013 A seven emerging artists’ group exhibition “Surely you Gesture” Salerno Gallery – May 20th to June 8th
2013 “New, New, New” Charles Hewitt Gallery – May 9th to May 25th
2012 Saint Ge...