FALLEN INTO LINE

Artist Biography

One of Australia’s leading contemporary painters, Ildiko Kovacs is renowned for images that, whilst grounded in her sense of the Australian landscape, are at the same time deeply personal meditations on her life and emotions. Alive with energy and movement, the surface of Kovacs’ works are known for their sensual flowing line played against passages of consummate mark-making. Washes of underpainting reveal themselves from beneath layers of colour, while Kovacs’ elegant and bold lines dictate the movement of our gaze across the picture plane.

Kovacs has been exhibiting since the 1980s and has been shown in a number of significant solo and group exhibitions; including her major mid-career survey exhibition The DNA of Colour, ANU, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra (2020), Down the Line, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery,  NSW (2014), Crossing Paths II, Raft Art Space, Alice Springs (2013); and Fieldwork, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW (2011) and MCA, Sydney (2010).

She has been a finalist in notable prizes including the Sir John Sulman and Wynne Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and was the winner of the prestigious Bulgari Art Award (2015). Kovacs’ work is numerous significant collections; most notably the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, NSW; Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW; National Gallery of Victoria, VIC; Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW; and various private collections in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America, France, and Italy.

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