الأحد، 4 مارس 2012

Kathrin Longhurst





Kathrin’s work reflects her diverse cultural background, having lived in many European countries and finally settled in Australia in 2000. Kathrin grew up in Communist East Germany where she started taking life drawing classes at age 14. Her work is strongly influenced by socialist realism and communist propaganda art. Kathrin spent a decade in Scandinavia visiting galleries in Denmark and Sweden as well as a year in Belgium where her work gained its Art Nouveau influences. She travelled extensively through Europe, Asia and America
Kathrin has been a fulltime artist for the past 8 years. She is actively involved with Portrait Artists Australia, Australia’s largest industry association for professional portrait artists, partaking on the committee for the last 5 years and as Vice President for three years
Her work has been selected finalist in many art prizes such as the Portia Geach Award, Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize, The Mosman Art Prize and the WA Black Swan Prize. It sells successfully in galleries inAustralia as well as in the US

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