Irena Grant-Koch Tasmanian Artist born in Lithuania
2021
Group Exhibition Musee de Peinture de Saint Frajou, France
2020
Group Exhibition Scottsdale Art Gallery, Tas., Australia
2019
Group Exhibition Musee de Peinture de Saint Frajou, France
2018
Group Exhibition The Mill Providore & Gallery Tas., Australia
2017
Group Exhibition The Mill Providore & Gallery Tas. Australia
Group Exh. Trinity, L.A.S. Tas., Australia
2016
First Prize winner Religious Art LAS
2015
Semi-finalist D. Moran National Portrait Prize
International Exh. prize winner (3rd) , San Frajou, France
Musee de Peinture de Saint Frajou, France
Group Exh. Trinity, L.A.S. Tas., Australia
"Gestalt" Exhibition Scottsdale Art Gallery Tas., Australia
2014
Group Exhibition Sawtooth Ari Gallery Launceston, Tas., Australia
Solo Exhibition Country Club Mezzanine Gallery Tas., Australia
Group Exhibition Launceston Art Society, Tas., Australia
Group Exhibition The Mill Providore & Gallery Tas., Australia
Group Exhibition Tas. Art Award at Eskleigh, Australia
Group Exhibition "Meandering" Country Club Mezzanine
Gallery Tas., Australia
Group Exhibition Scottsdale Art Gallery Tas., Australia
2013
Group Exhibition Country Club Mezzanine Gallery Tas., Australia
2012
Solo Exhibition Cube Gallery Richmond, Victoria, Australia
2011
Solo Exhibition Leoni Duff Galleries, Launceston, Tas., Australia
Tasmanian artist Irena Grant-Koch has a background in the arts having trained at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in her youth, and later producing ceramic sculpture under the name of Koch. The sculptures have been purchased by private collectors of Australiana as well as some being housed with the Easterbrook collection in the Hobart Museum.
In recent years she has been working as an assistant in the studio of successful Melbourne painter David Keith Milne: known as The Alchemist. Grant-Koch’s work has developed out of this experience
Irena Grant-Koch's work has a wonderful and personal sense of colour and composition.
There is a strong sense of and organic connection with her feeling for paint and her understanding of music.
The feeling for balance and design is instinctive and almost classical. Her work consists of a multitude of rich layers of complementary and harmonious colours that are rubbed back and glowing through from underneath one-another.
The effect is richly evocative: a tapestry of colour and texture in paint.
* Leoni Duff Galleries