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Hulbert, P (2018) Inside Out and Upside Down, 152 cm x 76cm (diptych), Oil on Canvas

 

 

Penny Hulbert is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Wollongong. She has lived, studied and worked in the UK, Tokyo, Germany and Australia and this experience informs her research topic, Themes of Displacement in Contemporary Art.

Penny originally trained as a fashion designer, before completing a BA (Hons) in Visual Culture, specialising in the historical and critical study of visual representations from the late eighteenth century to contemporary cultural productions. Penny completed further studies in Fine Arts, specialising in painting and sculpture before undertaking postgraduate studies to teach Visual Art at Secondary school.

In 2005, Penny won the Goulburn Regional Gallery Art Award, resulting in a solo exhibition at the Goulburn Regional Gallery in 2006. She has been exhibiting since 2003, whilst teaching  Visual Arts, Photography & Digital Media and Textiles at high school. She has also taught historical and critical studies in tertiary education (TAFE), delivered workshops at the Goulburn Regional Gallery, and tutored students at the Woolyungah Indigenous Centre at the University of Wollongong.

In 2011, Penny completed an MCA-R (Master of Creative Arts – Research) at the University of Wollongong. The research topic  The Sublime; water, flux and duality referenced a  collaborative research project in 2007 initiated by the Tate Gallery, UK, which commemorated Edmund Burke’s 250th anniversary of his treatise A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful (1756).  Penny’s Masters research and subsequent graduating exhibition was concerned with exploring the relevance and manifestation of the sublime in past and contemporary contexts. In these works, the predominantly small scale of Penny’s paintings is deliberate. By engaging the possibility of a limitless imagination, the work invites the viewer to an experience of immersion and a poetic encounter with a watery otherness: liquid, solid or vapour. The paintings slip between attempts to represent the ‘unpresentable’ – the feeling, mood and sound of water, and the more figurative depictions of the flux of the surface.