Richard Claremont

Richard Claremont
Born (1965-05-03)3 May 1965[1]
Residence Shellharbour, Wollongong, Australia[2]
Nationality Australian
Education Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School (1982),[3]
Sydney College of the Arts (1985)[4]
Known for Being «the painting postie»[5][6]
Notable work Dusk, Port Kembla (2013)[7][8]
Style Impressionism[9]
Awards ANL Maritime Art Prize
2015 Dusk, Port Kembla
[7][8]
Website www.richardclaremont.com

Richard Claremont (born May 3, 1965) is a Wollongong-based Australian painter. His style is close to impressionism. Claremont worked for Australia Post from 1988 to 2017 and made sketches while delivering mail. He became known as 'the painting postie' in media.

Early life and education

Claremont was born on May 3, 1965 in Sydney.[4] He attended Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School. While at school he worked at Sydney's Artflow Graphics studio[4] but decided to study Visual Arts instead of Graphic Design and entered Sydney College of the Arts where he studied from 1983 to 1985.[4] Claremont displayed his works in a group exhibition of 4 painters from the College in 1985, earning a positive review from The Sydney Morning Herald's art critic John McDonald, saying that "Claremont, in his landscape and interior works, demonstrates a sensitive feel for colour and handling of paint".[10] Between 1985 and 1987 he travelled throughout Europe, the Middle East and North America, staying in Canada for two years.[11][12]

Art career

In 1988, Claremont returned to Australia and started working for Australia Post as a postman serving City of Shellharbour area.[4][5] What started as a summer job,[2] became his main occupation for almost thirty years. Claremont found inspiration on the city streets, making sketches while delivering mail.[2][5] In 2015 he won ANL Maritime Art Prize awarded by The Mission to Seafarers.[7][8] Claremont's works are on permanent display at Bluescope Visitors Centre at Port Kembla.[11] He was also one of Australia's contemporary artists featured at Donald Keys' Art Heads series of portraits.[13][14]

Awards

Year Award Result
2015 ANL Maritime Art Prize Won[7][8]
2013 Mosman Art Prize finalist[15]
2015 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize finalist[16][17]
2016 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize finalist[18]
2017 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize finalist[19][20]

Exhibitions

Year Exhibition Gallery City Country
1985 Four Artists from Sydney College of the Arts[10] Australian Visual Arts Gallery Darlinghurst Australia
1993 Balloon Over Kenya[21][22] James Harvey Gallery Balmain Australia
1995 Steeltown[23] First Draft Sydney Australia
1998 Broken Hill And Beyond[12] Project Contemporary Artspace Wollongong Australia
2013 Gion[24][25] Salerno Gallery Sydney Australia
2014 Autumn Exhibition (group show)[26] Bradman Centre Art Gallery Bowral Australia
2015 Remembered Landscapes[6] Depot Gallery Sydney Australia
2015 Group show[2][27][24] Galerie Mona Lisa Paris France
2015 Close to Home [28][29] Clifton School of Arts Clifton Australia
2016 Asia Contemporary Art Show[30] Conrad Hong Kong Hong Kong China
2017 Secret Sydney[31] Aro Gallery Sydney Australia

References

  1. ↑ "Richard Claremont: Australian Art and Artists file". WorldCat. March 10, 2018. OCLC 662230569. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Michele Tydd (January 16, 2016). "The artist who always delivers: Postman carries makeshift artist's studio on his motorcycle". The Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Richard Claremont (1982)". Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School. 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "The Story of My Life: Richard Claremont". Sunrise (Australian TV program). February 12, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 Justin Huntsdale (February 26, 2016). "Post and paintings: Wollongong's artist on two wheels". ABC Illawarra. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  6. 1 2 Angela Thompson (February 20, 2016). "Digital delivers for Wollongong's 'painting postie'". Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "2015 ANL Maritime Art Prize declares 'Port Kembla' the winner". Art Almanac. November 11, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Richard takes out the top art prize". Docklands News. December 2, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  9. ↑ Werkhoven, Robyn (November 2016). "Richard Claremont – interview". Arts Zine (18): 11. Retrieved April 29, 2018 – via issuu.
  10. 1 2 McDonald, John (September 6, 1985). "Nixon's theme done to death". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 12. Retrieved April 29, 2018 – via newspapers.com.
  11. 1 2 "Increasingly Impressionistic". Artist's Palette (129): 54–55. December 2015. ISSN 2200-2707.
  12. 1 2 "Notes on Contributors". Literature and Aesthetics: The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics. Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics. 8: 155. 1998. ISSN 2200-0437. Archived from the original on April 29, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018 – via edu.au.
  13. ↑ Ellis, Greg (April 25, 2017). "Prolific Wollongong artist Donald Keys is finished his Art Heads collection of portraits of Australian contemporary artists who inspire him". Illawarra Mercury. Archived from the original on July 8, 2017. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  14. ↑ Werkhoven, Robyn (May 2017). "Art Heads – interview with Donald Keys". Arts Zine (20): 75. Retrieved April 29, 2018 – via issuu.
  15. ↑ "2013 Mosman Art Prize: Selection of 116 Finalists – winners announced Friday 12 July" (PDF). Mosman Art Prize. July 8, 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 27, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  16. ↑ Savage, Desiree (June 24, 2015). "Port Kembla artist Evan Salmon bags Plein Air Painting Prize". Illawarra Mercury. Archived from the original on July 23, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  17. ↑ Savage, Desiree; Lindley, Amy (July 13, 2015). "Port Kembla artist Evan Salmon wins NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize". Illawarra Mercury. Archived from the original on April 27, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  18. ↑ "2016". pleinair.com.au. 2016. Archived from the original on February 12, 2017. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  19. ↑ "2017". pleinair.com.au. 2017. Archived from the original on February 24, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  20. ↑ Savage, Desiree (October 5, 2017). "Illawarra artist Evan Salmon a finalist again in the NSW Parliament House Plein Air Painting Prize". Archived from the original on October 5, 2017. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  21. ↑ Watson, Bronwyn (September 3, 1993). "Vibrant visions of Africa". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 18. Balloon over Kenya, a series of painting which developed from sketches Claremont did during a balloon flight over the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya last year… Claremont has successfully achieved evocative aerial-scapes where the African people and animals coexist, not exactly happily, with Mobil signs and tourists, and where each painting tells a story of contemporary Kenya.
  22. ↑ "Openings". The Sydney Morning Herald. August 20, 1993. p. 18.
  23. ↑ "Art:New". The Sydney Morning Herald. October 20, 1995. p. 23.
  24. 1 2 "Gion". salernogallery.com. November 5, 2013. Archived from the original on January 27, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  25. ↑ "Richard Claremont". Artist's Palette Yearbook: 49. December 2014. ISSN 2203-6458.
  26. ↑ "Bradman Centre Art Gallery: Autumn Exhibition 28th March to 1st June 2014" (PDF). Bradman Museum. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 30, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  27. ↑ "Richard Claremont, Misha Sydorenko, Natalia Kruchkevych, Paula Macedo, Jean-Martial Moreau". Galerie Mona Lisa. September 29, 2015. Archived from the original on April 30, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  28. ↑ Latifi, Agron (June 1, 2015). "Clifton School of Arts exhibition focuses on home". Illawarra Mercury. Archived from the original on September 11, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  29. ↑ Buckmaster Dove, Lizzie. "Close to Home". 2515 (June 2015): 20. Retrieved May 2, 2018 – via issuu.
  30. ↑ "Asia Contemporary Art Show Celebrates New Emerging and Mid-Career Artist: 9th Edition Opens Thursday September 15th" (PDF). asiacontemporaryart.com. July 5, 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 2, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
  31. ↑ "Participating Galleries". sydneyeastartwalk.info. 2017. Archived from the original on May 2, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.

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