conchita carambano artwork

Conchita Carambano Artworks

Conchita Carambano’s abstract paintings are filled with a textural fusion of light & colour. Her works have a nuance of playfulness with abstracted figures and elements of the natural world etched into the canvas. No canvas is alike even with the restraint of pallet in some works.

An Australian artist of Spanish origin, Conchita’s exquisite multi-layered artworks are akin to a musical dance with colour inspired by a continued interest in the means by which people communicate with each other. Punctuations and tones of voice take on a musical form as Carambano interprets what she hears with dramatic staccato. Applications of colour, tempered with languid trails of delicate lines, drift seductively across the canvas.

Conchita has won numerous awards and prizes throughout her career and her works can be found in significant corporate and private collections throughout Australia & the world.

Large, Square Canvas Collection: 150 to 180cm

CONCHITA CARAMBANO                      

 

Born in Europe to Spanish parents, Conchita hails from Sydney after having migrated in 1969 where over the last twenty years she has proceeded to make her indelible mark upon the Australian and International art market.

 

 Exhibiting extensively with numerous solo exhibitions and group shows to her name this painter has established herself as an abstract artist revered for her strongly individualised interpretations, and is regularly featured in art publications, reviews and art awards.

A favourite amongst the creative design industries, Conchita’s inspired interpretations elicit a boldly visceral response as this artist depicts her visions and thoughts, pushing inventiveness to the limit upon canvas and paper.

Utilising mixed media, oil, acrylic and wax, Conchita studies her environment and draws inspiration from nature to produce engaging artworks characterised by organic forms and a sensuous use of space, colour and symmetry.

 

ART STATEMENT

An Australian artist of Spanish origin, Conchita’s exquisite multi-layered artworks are akin to a musical dance with colour inspired by a continued interest in the means by which people communicate with each other.

Punctuations and tones of voice take on a musical form as Carambano interprets what she hears with dramatic staccato applications of colour, tempered with languid trails of delicate lines, which drift seductively across the canvas.
Conchita has won numerous awards and prizes throughout her career and her works can be found in significant corporate and private collections throughout Australia including:

St John of God Private Hospital, Perth; St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney; Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney; David Jones, Sydney, Adelaide and South Australia; Hilton Hotel, The Marriot, Hyatt, Duxton, Shangri La, Sheraton and Four Seasons Hotels throughout the country

 

‘Through a fusion of vibrant and unexpected colour, Ms Carambano generates a strongly individualized interpretation of her natural surroundings and experiences.’ 

 

Conchita Carambano’s textured paintings are filled with a fusion of light, colour and a dash of metallic leaf, and have a nuance of playfullness in abstracted figures etched into the canvas. No canvas is alike even with the restraint of pallet in some works.

Her work is full of the joy of the enchantment, working with paint and canvas.

 

Conchita’s art career has consolidated with her progressive reputation as an established, collectable artist.  Her work creates a strongly individual interpretation of her natural surroundings and experiences. The painting technique has been refined over many years as a established career artist working with both canvas and paper mediums. The progress of the work is not determined by time as her painting schedule may take up 16 hours on any day. The colours, texture and content of her paintings have proven over time to be most intuitive, which explains her success with commissioned works including the National Canberra Library and the new Sydney Hilton. 

 

Viewing her work is both absorbing and complex. The artwork is composed of layers, mixed medium detail, and subtleties of colour, light and  form.

CONCHITA CARAMBANO   HISTORY

1961         Born Stuttgart, Germany to Spanish parents

1969         Family migrated to Australia

1979         Completed NSW Higher School Certificate

1981         Completed Fine Arts Course, Sydney School of Arts

1982         Completed Graduate Course – Fine Arts

1983         Completed Post-Graduate Course-Fine Arts

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

SOHO Galleries, Sydney

Gallery One, Petersham

Holdsworth Gallery, Darlinghurst

Bonython Meadmore, Darlinghurst

The Rocks Gallery,The Rocks

Naïve Gallery, Woollahra

Eaglehawke, Glebe

Istral, Woollahra

Hester Gallery, Newtown

Gallery 368, Crows Nest

Salmon Gallery, McMahons Point

Art-Frame, Double Bay

SOHO Galleries, Sydney

LYNTON & KAY , Perth

Mahoneys Gallery, Melbourne

Art Images, Adelaide

Graphis, Woollahra

Quadrivium, Sydney

Salmon Gallery, McMahons Point

Art-Frame, Double Bay

Soho Galleries at Chifley Foyers

 

Commissions & Collections

 

105 Pitt Street Sydney

Amadeus Group, Sydney

ANA Hotel, Sydney

Bangkok Hotel

Bennelong Apartments and Penthouse

Berlie Bra Company

Blessington Judd Solicitors Sydney

BMC Software

Canberra State Library

Camden Awards 1991

Camden Awards 1992

Celsius at the Radisson Hotel, Sydney

David Jones South Australia

David Jones Sydney

Duxton Hotel Melbourne

David Jones, Adelaide

David Jones, Sydney

Duxton Hotel Sydney

Four Seasons Melbourne

Four Seasons, Sydney

Gaia Resort, Byron Bay

Grand Hyatt Melbourne

Grand Hyatt, Sydney

Hamilton Island Apartments, QLD

Hamilton Island, Private Residence

Hesta Head Office, Westmead

Hilton Hotel, Sydney

Hunt & Hunt Lawyers

Hyatt Hotel Canberra

Kingston Apartments, Canberra

Macau Resort, China

Macquarie Town Windsor

Magenta Shores, Sydney

Marriott Sydney

Marriott, Surfers Hotel,

National Library, Canberra

Qualia, Hayman Island, Resort

Quay West, Sydney

Queensland

Regent Hotel, Sydney

Royal North Shore Hospital

Shangri-La, Sydney

Sheraton Hotel Darling Harbour

Sheraton Hotel Puong China

Sheraton Noosa Day Spa

St John of God Private Hospital, Perth

St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney

Stamford on Kent Hotel, Sydney

Veritas Corporation

Walker Corporation

Western Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan

Westmead Childrens Hospital

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Australian Interior, Vol.17 no. 13

The Sydney Weekly, Jan 27-feb 2 1998

Instyle Magazine, February 1998

Look Magazine, NSW Art Gallery 1999

Art in Australia Magazine, 1999

New South Wales Gallery, 1999

Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia by Michael Berry, Published 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AWARDS

Awards

1987 Highly Commended, Camden Art Prize

1988 Open Section Winner, Camden Art Prize

1989 Acquisitive Award, Hawkesbury City Council

1990 Open Section Winner, Camden Art Prize

1991 Winner Camden Art Prize

1992 Camden Art Prize

1993 Highly Commended, Hawkesbury City Council

1994 Highly Commended, DMAS Award

1995 Highly Commended, Hunters Hill

1996 Highly Commended, Hunters Hill

1998 Highly Commended, Camden Art Prize

2001 Highly Commended, Camden Art Prize

2002 Highly Commended Works on Paper

2003 Open Winner Camden Art Prize

2004 Highly Commended, Waverly Art Prize

2005 Highly Commended, Cloncurry Prize

2006 Lino Block Print Prize

2007 Highly Commended Watercolour Prize, Camden

2008 First Prize, North Sydney Painting Prize

2009 Highly Commended, Paper Prize, Waverly

2009 Short Listed, Blake Prize

2010 Highly Commended, Camden Works on Paper Prize

2010 Short Listed, Lethridge Small Scale Artworks Prize, Sydney

2010 Short Listed, St Michaels Archangel Paint Prize, Victoria

2011 Short Listed, Lethridge Small Scale Artworks Prize, Sydney

2012 Short Listed, Lethridge Small Scale Artworks Prize, Sydney