ARTIST STATEMENT

Daniela is an abstract painter who lives and works from her home studio in Sydney. She predominately works with acrylic and oilstick on canvas and board, with a long time interest in drawing with mixed media on paper. 

Daniela is known for her richly textured paintings that are inspired by the Australian landscape which strongly draw upon her plein air studies. Back in the studio, she explores these places with deeper meditations using the materiality of paint to allow these original forms to be met in a more primal and inventive way.

 Her connection to the many places travelled and experienced attempts to convey an intimate subjectivity that evokes emotion and a sense of place through the language of colour , texture, mark and mood, exploring the relationship between the raw beauty of the natural world and all its meeting places.

Says Daniela of her work: “I love learning from the immediate experience of being immersed in the landscape, there is something much bigger than myself out here, which allows me to explore my direction into abstraction. Painting for me is a sensory experience, a dance of deeper conversations of remembered landscapes that I have traveled to and the feelings it leaves me with.  I allow the work to develop of its own accord which is paramount to the process; I don’t just want to paint a pretty landscape, but capture the essence of this spirited land in the most authentic way I can.”

Daniela’s work is exhibited regularly throughout Australia and has been a finalist in a significant number of art awards and accrued in private collections both nationally and internationally.

ART AWARDS + EXHIBITIONS

AWARDS

2021

Inaugural Emerging Artist Prize, Winner The Gallerist

2020  

Contemporary Art Prize Winner, Fairfield Art Gallery NSW

2019

Contemporary Presidential Award, 54th Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, NSW

EXHIBITIONS + PRIZES

2024

Blacktown City Art Prize, Blacktown NSW Finalist

2023

An Ode to Pink, Group Exhibition, Orange NSW

4oU40 Art prize, Sketch Gallery, Sydney NSW Finalist

Fading Presence Of Dust, Solo Show Straitjacket, Newcastle NSW

High Tide’ Group Exhibition Sketch Gallery, Sydney NSW

Inside This Box Group Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

Summer Exhibition, Group Show, Fenton & Fenton Gallery, Melbourne VIC

2022

Summer Salon 2022, Group Show, Straitjacket, Newcastle, NSW

PAST Works on Paper Art Prize, Blackstone Gallery, Newcastle NSW Finalist

The 13th Greenway Art Prize, Art Est, Inner West ,NSW, Finalist

5 Lands Art In The Open, The Art House Wyong NSW, Finalist

Shoalhaven Art Society 55th Annual Exhibition, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Finalist

‘The Unraveling’ By Giorgia bel & Daniela Cristallo, Duo Show Fenton & Fenton Gallery, Melbourne VIC

BAMM Art Show, ‘There’s Still Life’, Bank Art Museum Moree NSW

INCOGNITO Art Show,  Verona Studio, Paddington NSW

Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery Paddington QLD Finalist

‘Fertile Ground’ Group Exhibition, Art Gallery on Darling, Balmain NSW

Cloudbough Art Residency, Kandos NSW March 2022

Inside This Box Group Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

John Villiers Outback Art Prize, Waltzing Matilda Gallery, Winton QLD Finalist

2021

Inaugural Emerging Artist Prize, Winner The Gallerist

The 12th Greenway Art Prize, Art Est, Inner West, NSW, Finalist

Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (Contemporary), Campbelltown Art Centre, NSW Finalist

Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington NSW Finalist

Calleen Art Prize, Cowra Regional Art Gallery,Cowra NSW Finalist

SPRING EXHIBITION, Fenton and Fenton, Melbourne VIC

NEW GROUND , Art Gallery on Darling, Sydney NSW (online)

SBS Landscape Art Prize , Mornington VIC Finalist

BAMM Art Show, ‘The Painted River’ Bank Art Museum Moree NSW

The Best Kept Secret Group Exhibtion, The Art Passage, Miranda NSW

INCOGNITO Art Show,  Verona Studio, Paddington NSW

Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Prize (Online), Paddington QLD Finalist

Wingecarribee Landscape Prize, Bowral Art Gallery NSW Finalist

Grammar Art Show Group Exhibition, Toowoomba QLD

Inside This Box, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

Summer Salon Group Exhibition, Purple Noon Gallery, The Hawkesbury NSW

Summer 20/21 (Online) Group Exhibition. Gallery 139, Newcastle NSW

2020

9 x 5 Landscape Art Prize Waverley Woollahra Art School NSW Finalist

My Place Group Exhibition (online), Australian Landscape Artists, Australia

Blue Mountains Art Prize, Blue Mountains Creative Arts, NSW Finalist

This Place Group Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

BLUE Works on Paper Art Prize, Blackstone Gallery, Newcastle NSW Finalist

HOME Group Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

Abstract Group Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

Kangaroo Valley Art Prize, Kangaroo Valley NSW Finalist

Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington NSW Finalist

Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Prize (Online), Paddington QLD Finalist

Works on Paper Group Exhibition (Online), Gallery 139 , Newcastle NSW

Linfield Art Show, Lindfield NSW

8 x 10 Group Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

Art Aid Gippsland, Gippsland Art Gallery, Melbourne VIC

Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne VIC Finalist

 Online Group Exhibition, Gallery 139, Newcastle NSW

2019

9 x 5 Landscape Art Prize Waverley Woollahra Art School NSW Finalist

Korea-Australia Arts Foundation (KAAF) Art Prize, NSW (Online) Finalist

Blacktown City Art Prize, Blacktown NSW Finalist

Hawkesbury Art Prize, Purple Noon Gallery , Hawkesbury NSW Finalist

Open Air Exhibition, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne VIC

SMALLS Group Exhibition, fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne VIC

Mini Series Art Prize, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW Finalist

Lane Cove Art Prize, Lane Cove Gallery NSW Finalist

Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington NSW Finalist

The Landscape Group Exhibition, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

Colour Is Key Group Exhibition, Fern St Gallery, Gerringong NSW

Her –Story Exhibition, Art Gallery on Darling, Balmain NSW