Andrea Sinclair

A finalist in several art prizes in Australia, Andrea Sinclair has also won the inaugural National Emerging Art Prize in 2021, and was a winner of Best Gippsland Landscape in the John Leslie Art Prize. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Andrea now lives and paints full time in Melbourne. Andrea is best known for her portrait paintings, inspired and created from found imagery in mid 20th Century photography and Super 8 film. Andrea collects images which ask to be brought to the present through paint. Sometimes a solid background is used to give the subject all the attention, and also to represent the abyss from which they have been brought forth from due to redundancy of technology from the 20th Century. Andrea takes great pleasure in spending time with the people in her images and bringing them out to be seen. There is no nostalgia here, but rather an unflinching look at the temporality of time —at its brilliance and purity, as well as its distortions and figments of imagination.