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DAAO URL

https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lesley-redgate

Birth Place

Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Biography

Born in London in 1955, Lesley Redgate migrated to South Australia in 1967. Lesley attended the South Australian School of Art, Stanley Street, from 1972 to 1976 after which she began her career as artist and educator. Winning the Thomas Laird Memorial Traveling Art Study award led her to overseas travel in 1994 and 1997. Preferring to paint en plein-air to experience the rapidly changing landscape, Lesley captures the seasons and light of day. Admiring the work of the Post-Impressionists and Australian Modernists, her palette consists mainly of primary and secondary colours, using simultaneous contrast to create subtleties of light as it falls on the form of objects such as hills, rocks, trees and animals. An important part of completing her work is the framing. Lesley carefully selects the picture moulding, paints the frame and completes the assembly. Lesley’s work draws inspiration from the changing rural and urban landscape, reflecting a vibrancy and visual harmony often found in the harsh Australian environment. Preoccupied with describing structure and geometry within the landscape, she captures the unusual from ordinary scenes recording the history of the area where she lives. Her subjects consist of scenes from the coastal areas of Port Willunga to the Willunga Hills. The vineyards and wheatfields provide a contrast to the quarries, expressways and fallen sheds. In later years Lesley has tackled portraiture. She was a finalist of the Portia Geach Memorial Award in 2010. She has also been a two-time finalist in the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize and Heysen Art Prize, and a five-time finalist in the Fleurieu Art Prize. Lesley’s sense of community is evident in the significant number of exhibitions that she has been involved in on the Fleurieu Peninsula. She has been an invited artist to Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize Special exhibitions in 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2008 as well as a Double Vision artist exchange to Bendigo 2006. She is represented in the Victorian National Gallery as recipient of the Michelle Endowment Award. Lesley continues her practice as a visual artist and is a Senior Lecturer of Graphic Design at TAFE South Australia. Writers: Lesley Redgate duggim Date written: 2013 Last updated: 2013

Born

b. 1955

Summary

Lesley Redgate, painter, emigrated to South Australia in 1967 where she attended the South Australian School of Art, Stanley Street, from 1972 to 1976 after which she began her career as artist and educator.

Gender

Female

Died

None listed

Age at death

None listed