Sanné Mestrom
Sanné Mestrom is an experimental and conceptual artist who works mainly in the mediums of installation and sculpture. Mestrom has a research based practice and incorporates notions of "play" into social aspects of urban design[1].
Biography
Mestrom was born in 1979, in Heerlen in the Netherlands and came to Australia, via New Zealand, as a 17-year-old. She studied fine art at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), graduating with honours in 2000. In 2008 she completed a PhD thesis on the power of place and the politics of perception, followed in 2011 by a Graduate Certificate in Public Art. Mestrom was appointed senior lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts (Sculpture), University of Sydney, in 2019.[2]
Artistic Development
Mestrom began as a painter in 2004 [2]and moved to explorations of space using sculpture in 2009. In 2010 Mestrom was part of the Group Exhibition "the Nothing" . [3] Her mother is a skilled tapestry maker in regional Victoria. Together they worked on the Black Paintings series in 2015.[2]
Exhibitions [4]
There is a Poem, August 2019, Sullivan + Strumpf
Contour 556, 2018, Tony Albert, Sanne Mestrom, Alex Seton. Canberra Art Biennial
The Waves curated by Kate Britton, S+S Sydney, 2018
Sanne Mestrom: Black Paintings, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, 2018
Tarrawarra Biennial: From Will to Form, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2018
Melbourne Art Fair, 2018
Auckland Art Fair, 2018
2018 Group Show, S+S Sydney, 2018
Corrections Sanne Mestrom, Sullivan +Strumpf, 2017
Sanne Mestrom, Sullivan + Strumpf, Singapore, 2017
Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, Booth 3C16, 2017
2017 Group Exhibition, S+S Sydney, 2017
References
- "Staff Profile". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
- "Know My Name". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
- [thttps://www.daao.org.au/bio/sanne-mestrom/biography/ "Sanne Mestrom"].
- "Artist Exhibitions". Sullivan + strumpf. Retrieved 11 August 2020.