Lucila Zentner
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Lucila Zentner

Australia
Dr Lucila Zentner is an Australian Contemporary oil painter Artist. Lucila’s key theme - spanning several gallery and private exhibitions in Australia - is the floral still life. Lucila has a painterly impressionistic style. She paints outlined flowers with energetically abstracted elements in a painterly impressionistic style. Her influences include Van Gogh’s movement expressed in the brushstrokes, Gaugin’s outlines and flattening of form, and in places Joaquin Sorolla’s use of light and colour. In this exhibition “Flowers in blue vase” are floral (mostly poppy) 2024 paintings, some named ‘Surrender” (signifying a surrender to the beauty of the flowers) and ‘Flowers for …’ (celebrating the presence of a vase of flowers as an accompaniment to a moment or an event). The blue vase pictured, is a real vase, gifted to Lucila by her mother. The vase becomes variations of itself in the paintings. Lucila’s favourite flower to paint is the poppy, for the grace of its unfurling buds, the curve of the stems and the extraordinary colour of the petals. Since starting her art practice in 2015, Lucila has had many national exhibitions, won the AGES Society Art Prize and been a finalist and semifinalist in national and international competitions. Her works have been commissioned for a hospital ward and a community center in Ballarat, VIC, and form part of the Gippsland Art Museum collection. Lucila regularly shows in galleries in NSW and Victoria Australia. Her works are in the home of private collectors in several countries and most notably in regional areas of Australia. Professionally, Lucila also works as a doctor, specialised in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.

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2024 Smallacombe Portrait Prize Finalist: Self portrait 2023 Longlisted for Visual Artists Association (UK) professional prize: The tree at Mrs Macquarie's point Finalist National Capital Art Prize: Studio moments Finalist Vincent Prize: Martin as Sherlock Holmes 2022 Finalist: John Leslie art prize Finalist Basil Sellers art prize Finalist: Kangaroo Valley art prize 'The land itself grew in shapes to mimic his art" 2021 Finalist: Hawkesbury Art Prize: KANGAROO DREAMING Finalist: Southern Buoy Landscape prize 'I closed my eyes and I could still see trees' Finalist: The Vincent Prize ‘Monday’s dream’ 2020 Finalist: The Vincent prize 'Girl with Duck’ Finalist: Mission to Seafarer's Art prize ‘Australia 2020 - between lands and longings’ Finalist: Southern Buoy portrait prize -'Girl with duck' Finalist: Southern Buoy landscape prize 'Old Shoreham' 2019 Winner: AGES Society art prize 2019/20 (https://ages.com.au/resources/ages-society-art-prize/) 2018 Finalist: Southern Buoy Studios Portrait Prize 'Martin 6' Finalist: Basil Sellers Art Prize ‘Daylesford Garden’ Finalist x 2: Kangaroo Valley Art Prize - ‘Fishing’ and ‘Chasing Seagulls’ Finalist: Hurford Hardwood Portrait prize ‘The Professor’s Daydream’ Finalist: Fleurieu Biennale Art prize ‘Rising Waters (Swan Hill)’ Finalist: Pro Hart Outback Prize ‘Storms over Nulla Vale’ Semi finalist: BP Portrait Award UK ‘Civilisation’ Finalist: Percival Portrait Prize ‘Hide and Seek’ Finalist: Maldon and District Portrait Prize : ‘Merlyn’ Finalist: Maldon and District Portrait Prize : ‘Joie de Vivre’ 2017 Hidden Faces of the Archibald, (Victoria’s ‘Salon des Refuses’)Melbourne ‘Merlyn Quaife AM’ Finalist: Portia Geach Memorial Award ‘Breakfast Dreaming’ Finalist: Manning Prize, Naked and Nude ‘Into the Wilderness’ Finalist: Corangamarah Art Prize ‘Cape Horn in Colour’ Finalist: Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize ‘Self Portrait’ 2016 Hidden Faces of the Archibald, (Victoria’s ‘Salon des Refuses’) Melbourne ‘Dr Paul Carter’ Semi Finalist: Doug Moran Portrait Prize, ‘Self Portrait’ Finalist: Australian Contemporary Art Awards: ‘Wildfowers of EMKATDEE’ ‘Flooding at the Rivergums’ Finalist: Australian Contemporary Art Awards: ‘Flooding at the Rivergums’ 1994 Winner: University of Melbourne Student diary cover competition: 'Faces in the crowd’

2024 Group exhibition Winter Feast Grainger Gallery Canberra Solo Exhibition Surrender Owen Dixon Chambers East (Melbourne) 2023 Solo Exhibition Seaview Gallery Solo exhibition Purple Noon Gallery ' Impressions, Flowers and Landscapes in a moment' 2022 Gippsland Art Gallery: Accepted piece into the permanent collection 'After the Rain' Solo Exhibition: My Flowers, Seaview Gallery Queenscliff, Vic Finalist: Kangaroo Valley art prize 'The land itself grew in shapes to mimic his art" SALON DES REFUSES: S.H Ervin Gallery National trust "Kangaroo Dreaming" Solo exhibition: Seaview Gallery Queenscliff VIC, AU Solo exhibition: Murrurundi, Michael Reid, NSW- Dancing Poppies 2021 Solo exhibition: Dancing Poppies Murrurundi Invited speaker: Kuringai Arts Society June Featured artist - A COUNTRY STYLE MAGAZINE “Picture this, Doctor-turned Artist draws on her love of the country to create oil paintings that sing of Australia’ March 4 2021 (back issues available https://www.isubscribe.com.au/country-style-digital-subscription.cfm) Featured artist- Art Edit magazine ‘Remembered Innocence’ July 2001 (https://artedit.com.au/lucila-zentner-remembered-innocence/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3afDltCx8QIVjh0rCh3ywwpFEAAYASAAEgLbUvD_BwE) Allambee inaugural Art Show Painting donated to the Echuca-Moama Bridge project fundraiser Group show with Michael Reid in conjunction with A Country Style Magazine Group show in Grammar Art show in Toowoomba Ongoing pieces in Purple Noon Gallery Freeman's Reach NSW Portrait used in back cover of published novel ‘Further Tales of a country Doctor’ by Dr Paul Carter 2020 October 2020 - group exhibition Purple Noon Gallery group exhibition 'Across the table’ May 2020 - group exhibition 'A Timeless moment' at the Moree Gallery, Moree March 2020 - group exhibition 'A Country Interior' at Michael Reid Murrurundi in combination with Country Style Magazine March 2020 - group exhibition 'Florals' at Michael Reid Direct, Sydney March 2020 - group exhibition 'Plants' in Royal Botanic gardens Sydney 2019 Group Exhibition Purple Noon Gallery "Indoor Garden" Solo exhibition: 'LANDSCAPES, INTERIORS AND LOVE' Accent Gallery/Gallery on Sturt, Ballarat VIC Group exhibition: ‘Points of view’ Purple Noon Gallery 2018 Group exhibition: Grace Cossington Smith Gallery – ‘Mystery Artist’ fundraiser Group exhibition: Rochfort Gallery North Sydney, ‘Petals and Pods’ 2017 Hidden Faces of the Archibald, (Victoria’s ‘Salon des Refuses’)Melbourne ‘Merlyn Quaife AM’ Highly Commended: Echuca Moama Arts Initiative Portrait prize ‘Martin’ Solo exhibition: "In the Bright Sun" an exhibition in the Foundry Echuca, VIC Invited speaker: Addressing the Mothers day luncheon on ‘Babies, Motherhood and Art’, Shepparton Art Museum. Press coverage by Shepparton News: ‘Hear of Artists Link to Whimsy through Children” January 2017 Public Commissioned painting: ‘The medical Cow’ for the University of Melbourne rural medical school in Shepparton. 2016 Hidden Faces of the Archibald, (Victoria’s ‘Salon des Refuses’) Melbourne ‘Dr Paul Carter’ 2015 Solo exhibition: 'Time is a Thief' Accent Gallery/Gallery on Sturt, Ballarat, VIC, coverage in The Courier “Art Works” Public commissions x4 : Lucas Community Centre Ballarat Public commissions x4 : St John of God Hospital 1994 Exhibition: 'Through one hundred eyes’ Trinity College Melbourne, VIC