rona green

Rona has received accolades for her printmaking including the Silk Cut Award Grand Prize, Swan Hill Print Award and Geelong Print Prize. Additionally her work is represented in over 70 public collections including the National Gallery of Australia.

Rona Green is known for her figurative printmaking, painting, drawing and sculpture, depicting absurd yet believable animal hybrids.

Specifically, Rona’s interest is in how identity is expressed via the body; physical appearance and the ways it can be altered; the skin and its potential to be the stem point for transformation - how the body can be a vehicle for story by means of transformative devices, particularly anthropomorphism and body decoration.

Born 1972 in the port city of Geelong, Australia, Rona went on to study art at La Trobe University, Bendigo (1992-95), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (1998), and Monash University, Gippsland (2008-12), where she attained a Master of Fine Art degree.

Rona has received accolades for her printmaking including the Silk Cut Award Grand Prize, Swan Hill Print Award and Geelong Print Prize. Additionally her work is represented in over 70 public collections including the National Gallery of Australia.

Since the early 1990s Rona has exhibited extensively nationally, and also internationally. Exhibitions of note include Rona Green: 30 Years of Printmaking which toured Whitehorse Artspace, VIC, and Broken Hill City Art Gallery, NSW, during 2022, and Rona Green: Prints and Poppets 2000-2010 presented by Deakin University Art Gallery, VIC.

Rona is a fancier of Egyptian art, science fiction, B movies, TV, tattooing traditions, subcultures and the animal kingdom. She lives and works in the Dandenong Ranges, Australia.

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