Since completing her Advanced Diploma of Arts Management, Eve has managed several fine art galleries. She was also the Western Australian arts writer for the Art Review section of the national publication Business Review Weekly between 1996 and 1999.

Since 2002, Eve has been the Event Coordinator and Administrator of the Perth Jazz Society. Through interaction with musicians, Eve’s works are often inspired by music. She is currently working towards an exhibition in conjunction with an album release by celebrated multi Grammy Award winning New York jazz saxophonist Gary Bartz, who invited Eve to create a work for each song on the CD. Her works will also feature on the album cover.

The next project is an exhibition of new works at Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York, in May 2008.

For many years watercolour was Eve’s preferred art medium. By applying multiple layers of watercolour glazes, she achieves a rich, saturated finish, often enhanced by gold leaf, reminiscent of ancient icons.

More recently Eve has explored working in aluminum and copper, under the tutelage of renowned Perth artist Brian McKay. For the artist it is a challenging yet fascinating process to transform industrial sheets of metal into two-dimensional works of aesthetic beauty. Unexpected contrast in texture is achieved by offsetting blank fields against etched and distressed areas. The monochromatic surfaces reflect light in different ways, according to the angle of the light source, resulting in change of appearance depending on the viewer’s vantage point.

Some works are descriptive, others seem abstract yet have symbolic levels of significance; all works express the artist’s enjoyment in line, space and form. These contemporary, streamlined works are enriched by accents of 24 carat gold leaf and set themselves apart through simplicity of line whilst still capturing the essence of the subject matter.

Eve has staged 5 solo exhibitions of her works in Australia and Germany and participated in over 50 group shows.

In Australia, Eve has exhibited at Delshan Gallery of Fine Arts, Melbourne, Livewebb Art Gallery, Mt Lawley, Perth Galleries, Subiaco, Accent Gallery, Subiaco and Yallingup Galleries, Yallingup.

In 2001 she organized and took part in a group exhibition at the Giubbe Rosse Gallery, Florence, Italy . In 2002 Eve received the Farfalla D’Oro Gold Award when participating in the international Concorso Nazionale exhibition in Italy as well as receiving their Judges’ Choice Award in 2003 and another Gold Award in 2004.

In 2007 Eve was commissioned by the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts to create 14 awards for the 2007 Business and th e Arts Partnership Awards .

Eve’s works are held in institutions and private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe, New Zealand and the USA .

“Eve Arnold’s work is delicate and detailed, but with an underlying strength.  There is also a subtle playfulness, as she makes gentle puns on her own name, and explores personal experiences. The images are realistic, but have little to do with direct reporting.  Rather, the meticulously detailed representation of flowers and fruits lifts them out of the ordinary into the symbolic levels of significance. Her works amply repay a careful and thorough analysis of their deeper meanings.” Dr. Jan Altmann, Perth, 2003

EVE ARNOLD ART CV

Solo Exhibitions

2003     Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle

2000     Artist Studio Exhibition, Claremont

1999     Kievernagel Gallery, Düsseldorf/Germany

1998     Kievernagel Gallery, Düsseldorf/Germany

1997     Artist Studio Exhibition, Claremont

Group Exhibitions

Participated in over 50 group exhibitions in Australia, Italy and Germany, amongst others at Delshan Gallery of Fine Arts, Melbourne, Livewebb Art Gallery, Mt Lawley, Perth Galleries, Subiaco, Accent Gallery, Subiaco and Yallingup Galleries, Yallingup.

Awards

2007 Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts, Business and the Arts Partnership Awards Commission

2004 Gold Award, Concorso Nazionale, Riva del Garda, Italy

2003 Judges’ Choice Award, Concorso Nazionale, Riva del Garda, Italy

2002 Gold Award, Concorso Nazionale, Riva del Garda, Italy

Upcoming Exhibitions

Out From Down Under & Beyond, Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York, May 2008

Feminine Side, a project in conjunction with the album launch of the same title by multi Grammy Award winning New York saxophonist Gary Bartz

Represented by

AusGallery, a subsidiary of Austrade, an Australian Government agency

Agora Gallery, New York

Artsource, Perth

Yallingup Gallery, Yallingup

Bibliography

Feminine Side, a selection of Eve Arnold’s artworks will be represented on the album cover of the CD by Grammy Award winning saxophonist Gary Bartz - the album is to be published on the OYO label, USA, late in 2007

Lanfranco Morganti, La Parola E L’Immagine, Trentino/Italy, 2004

Bachisio Tanchis, Le Libellule d’oro parlano al femminile, 50 & PIU, Roma/Italy, September 2003

Lanfranco Morganti, La Parola E L’Immagine, Trentino/Italy, 2003

Lyn DiCiero, Remembering: Women Working for Women, Soroptimist International of Fremantle, August 2003

Lyn DiCiero, Retrospective, Artist’s Chronicle Art Western Australia, May 2003

Ron Banks, Saying it with Flowers, The West Australian Arts + Entertainment, March 2003

Dr Jan Altmann, Forbidden Fruit, Art Seen in Western Australia, March 2003

Stewart Richmond, Forbidden Fruit, Medicus – Journal of the Australian Medical Association of WA, March 2003

Sarah McNeil, Award-winning Artist holds a rare Showing, POST Newspaper, March 2003

Gabby Knowles, Forbidden Fruit, Western Suburbs Weekly, March 2003

Libby Hammer, Forbidden Fruit, Jazzreview WA, March/April 2003

Lanfranco Morganti, La Parola E L’Immagine, Trentino/Italy, 2002

“Eve’s artworks remind me of the best Haiku poetry, combining form and content in a meaningful, yet compact way. They are like meditations; they bring one closer to nature. The subject matter is expressed with a minimum of lines, painting a mental image in the viewer’s mind. As in Haiku, many themes include nature, feelings or experiences.”  Gary Bartz, NYC, 2007