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Annie Day is an Australian artist working primarily in the fields of printmaking and painting.
Annie has been a practicing artist since gaining her diploma in painting in 1974 from the National Art School, Sydney.
As a celebrated portrait artist she has had work displayed in the prestigious “Portia Geech” portrait prize several times. In addition, she has also been a finalist in the “Doug Moran – Portraits of Australia” international portrait prize.
Amongst the luminaries that have sat for Annie are author Morris West, photographer Max Dupain and successful businessman Sir Ron Brierley.
Annie has had many commissions for mural work from private homes, including that of a previous Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
She has also painted murals for large hospitals and been commissioned to paint a mural for the London hotel The Stafford where she became friends with wartime hero Nancy Wake.
In recent years Annie’s interest has turned from painting to printmaking. Over the past 14 years she has become a passionate advocate of safer, healthier and more environmentally friendly printmaking techniques.
She can be found practicing these techniques at the Warringah Printmakers Studio, Sydney where she is also acts as president.
In the last three years, Annie's research has had a particular focus on Waterless Lithography and she has been aligning her groundbreaking methodologies in this field in particular. These have been taught in workshops in both Sydney and Mildura, Victoria.
In 2009, her printmaking skills took her to Florence, Italy where she gave demonstrations of Aluminium plate etching with a copper sulphate solution.
These safer printmaking techniques span many forms of printmaking practice including Aluminium etching, Photopolymer plate making, Collagraph and other intaglio and relief techniques.
Annie’s CV includes the many projects she has been involved in over the past few years all over Australia and internationally from China to Luxembourg, Denmark, Brazil, Canada, USA, Switzerland, Belgium, Lithuania, Spain, Iceland, Bulgaria, France and UK .
www.annieday.com.au
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Annie Day
