Anoushka Akel
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Anoushka Akel, 🙁 Johny, 2023, oil on canvas, 600 x 900mm
Anoushka Akel, LOVE and Choices, 2023, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Eyes, 2019-2023, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Endless Beginnings, 2023, acrylic, pastel and oil on canvas, 1800 x 2000 mm
Works by Anoushka Akel in Spring Time is Heart Break, 2023-2024, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Anoushka Akel, Wrack Lines, 2022, lithographic ink, acrylic and clay on canvas, 920 x 1420mm
Anoushka Akel, Woman (Hands that hold, salve), 2022, oil, charcoal and wax pastel on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Wet Birds II, 2022, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Group Portrait, 2023, oil, acrylic and wax pencil on canvas, 1410 x 2000mm
Anoushka Akel, Michael Lett at the Aotearoa Art Fair, 2023.
Anoushka Akel, Hiss (J.A.), 2022, oil, clay, oil and chalk pastel and wax pencil on canvas, 1000 x 1500mm
Anoushka Akel, How does it start the sea?, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 1400 x 2000mm
Anoushka Akel, Justitia, June, 2022, oil, acrylic, charcoal, chalk pastel on canvas, 1115 x 835mm
Anoushka Akel, Nerves Blue, 2023, oil and wax pencil on canvas, 450 x 350 x 25mm
Anoushka Akel, How does it start the sea?, 2023, oil, lithographic ink, acrylic, charcoal and wax crayon on canvas, 1140 x 1260mm
Anoushka Akel, Medieval Messaging 2023, oil and wax pencil on canvas, 450 x 350mm
Anoushka Akel, (M.K.’s mother) Cover, 2023, oil and pastel on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Works by Anoushka Akel in Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show. Sat 3 Sep 2022 — Sun 26 Mar 2023. Photo credit: © Exhibition installation view, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022
Anoushka Akel, Wet Physics, 2021, oil, pastel and wax pencil on canvas, 1000 x 1500mm
Anoushka Akel, Hiss (2), 2022, oil on canvas, 800 x 600mm
Anoushka Akel, Wet Contact, 2022, installation view, Michael Lett, Auckland
Anoushka Akel, Protective Painting, 2021, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Group Portrait (Red Eye), 2021, lithographic ink, acrylic, oil, charcoal, turmeric, sea silt on un-stretched canvas, 1050 x 1130mm
Anoushka Akel, Wet Contact, 2022, installation view, Michael Lett, Auckland
Anoushka Akel, Being Marthe, 2021, oil, coloured wax pencil on canvas, 350 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Examiner (4), 2021, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Stokes Waves, 2021, oil on canvas, 1100 x 1500mm
Anoushka Akel, Bathing (Lamplight or Urine), Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Anoushka Akel, Bathing (Lamplight or Urine), 2020, detail, oil and lithographic ink on un-stretched canvas, 1200 x 1000mm
Anoushka Akel, Silver Tongue, 2021, oil on canvas, 450 x 350mm
Anoushka Akel, Silver Tongue, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Anoushka Akel, Red Legs, Hot Head, Installation view, Goya Curtain, Tokyo, 2020
Anoushka Akel, Examiner (2), 2020, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Examiner, 2019, oil on canvas, 350 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, LOVE and Choices, 2023, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Endless Beginnings, 2023, acrylic, pastel and oil on canvas, 1800 x 2000 mm
Anoushka Akel, Wrack Lines, 2022, lithographic ink, acrylic and clay on canvas, 920 x 1420mm
Anoushka Akel, Wet Birds II, 2022, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Michael Lett at the Aotearoa Art Fair, 2023.
Anoushka Akel, How does it start the sea?, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 1400 x 2000mm
Anoushka Akel, Nerves Blue, 2023, oil and wax pencil on canvas, 450 x 350 x 25mm
Anoushka Akel, Medieval Messaging 2023, oil and wax pencil on canvas, 450 x 350mm
Works by Anoushka Akel in Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show. Sat 3 Sep 2022 — Sun 26 Mar 2023. Photo credit: © Exhibition installation view, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022
Anoushka Akel, Hiss (2), 2022, oil on canvas, 800 x 600mm
Anoushka Akel, Protective Painting, 2021, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Wet Contact, 2022, installation view, Michael Lett, Auckland
Anoushka Akel, Examiner (4), 2021, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Bathing (Lamplight or Urine), Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Anoushka Akel, Silver Tongue, 2021, oil on canvas, 450 x 350mm
Anoushka Akel, Red Legs, Hot Head, Installation view, Goya Curtain, Tokyo, 2020
Anoushka Akel, Examiner, 2019, oil on canvas, 350 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel
Anoushka Akel (b. 1977, Tāmaki Makaurau) lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts in 2010. Her work in painting and print draws on art history, philosophy, biology, and social science to explore how pressure and plasticity shape human experience.
Akel’s work has been included in: Spring Time is Heart Break, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 2023; Group portrait, Michael Lett, Auckland; Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2023; Painting: A Transitive Space, 2016, St. Paul Street Gallery 3, Auckland and Necessary Distraction: A painting show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2015. Recent exhibitions include: Michael Lett at the Aotearoa Art Fair, 2023; Wet Contact, 2022, Michael Lett, Auckland; the body and its outside, 2021, Michael Lett; (Red Legs) Hot Head, 2020, Goya Curtain, Tokyo; Learners, 2019, Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington; Biographies of Transition: Too Busy to Think, 2017 Artspace, Auckland, NZ; Chain of Mountains, 2016, TCB, Melbourne; Back, Front, Brain, 2016, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington and Hop Scotch, 2012, Artspace, Auckland.
Akel artist in residence at Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Bremen, Germany in 2013 and in 2018 she was the recipient of the C Art Trust Award. In 2024 Akel will take up a residency at Parehuia Colin McCahon House.
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Anoushka Akel, 🙁 Johny, 2023, oil on canvas, 600 x 900mm
Anoushka Akel, LOVE and Choices, 2023, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Eyes, 2019-2023, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Endless Beginnings, 2023, acrylic, pastel and oil on canvas, 1800 x 2000 mm
Works by Anoushka Akel in Spring Time is Heart Break, 2023-2024, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Anoushka Akel, Wrack Lines, 2022, lithographic ink, acrylic and clay on canvas, 920 x 1420mm
Anoushka Akel, Woman (Hands that hold, salve), 2022, oil, charcoal and wax pastel on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Wet Birds II, 2022, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Group Portrait, 2023, oil, acrylic and wax pencil on canvas, 1410 x 2000mm
Anoushka Akel, Michael Lett at the Aotearoa Art Fair, 2023.
Anoushka Akel, Hiss (J.A.), 2022, oil, clay, oil and chalk pastel and wax pencil on canvas, 1000 x 1500mm
Anoushka Akel, How does it start the sea?, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 1400 x 2000mm
Anoushka Akel, Justitia, June, 2022, oil, acrylic, charcoal, chalk pastel on canvas, 1115 x 835mm
Anoushka Akel, Nerves Blue, 2023, oil and wax pencil on canvas, 450 x 350 x 25mm
Anoushka Akel, How does it start the sea?, 2023, oil, lithographic ink, acrylic, charcoal and wax crayon on canvas, 1140 x 1260mm
Anoushka Akel, Medieval Messaging 2023, oil and wax pencil on canvas, 450 x 350mm
Anoushka Akel, (M.K.’s mother) Cover, 2023, oil and pastel on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Works by Anoushka Akel in Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show. Sat 3 Sep 2022 — Sun 26 Mar 2023. Photo credit: © Exhibition installation view, courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022
Anoushka Akel, Wet Physics, 2021, oil, pastel and wax pencil on canvas, 1000 x 1500mm
Anoushka Akel, Hiss (2), 2022, oil on canvas, 800 x 600mm
Anoushka Akel, Wet Contact, 2022, installation view, Michael Lett, Auckland
Anoushka Akel, Protective Painting, 2021, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Group Portrait (Red Eye), 2021, lithographic ink, acrylic, oil, charcoal, turmeric, sea silt on un-stretched canvas, 1050 x 1130mm
Anoushka Akel, Wet Contact, 2022, installation view, Michael Lett, Auckland
Anoushka Akel, Being Marthe, 2021, oil, coloured wax pencil on canvas, 350 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Examiner (4), 2021, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Stokes Waves, 2021, oil on canvas, 1100 x 1500mm
Anoushka Akel, Bathing (Lamplight or Urine), Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Anoushka Akel, Bathing (Lamplight or Urine), 2020, detail, oil and lithographic ink on un-stretched canvas, 1200 x 1000mm
Anoushka Akel, Silver Tongue, 2021, oil on canvas, 450 x 350mm
Anoushka Akel, Silver Tongue, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2021
Anoushka Akel, Red Legs, Hot Head, Installation view, Goya Curtain, Tokyo, 2020
Anoushka Akel, Examiner (2), 2020, oil on canvas, 600 x 450mm
Anoushka Akel, Examiner, 2019, oil on canvas, 350 x 450mm