Carmel Burns
Is an Artist based in Tasmania, Australia
Burns trained as a printmaker but now ‘paints with oil based inks’ using traditional screen printing techniques to mostly create unique-state images rather than editions.
Her artistic influences stem from formal training in western art as well as a lifetime interest in oriental aesthetics and particularly the cultures of India, Turkey, Japan and China. Her love of paper is readily apparent, particularly in her use of hand-made paper which she often manipulates with tearing, weaving or collage during the painting process. Such ‘de-constructed and re-constructed’ works have a vitality and energy recognisably her own.
Based in Tasmania, Carmel Burns is married to fellow artist Tony Smibert. Their collective projects have included working with Tate Britain, The National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, numerous successful books and other publications. Their corporate commissions include The Gallery Hotel in Singapore and Sydney’s Pier One Hotel where she created the limited edition prints for all rooms and original screened paintings for all premier suites.
Visit Tony Smibert's work here.
Art Consultancy
Get in contact about your space
Get in contact with Carmel to explore commission options for corporate spaces. Carmel has over 30 years experience matching art work to environments: from large scale hotels to medical suites and corporate offices. Original prints or reproductions can be tailored to your space.
Commissions Include
2019
2012
2010
2009
2006
2001
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1999
Hong Kong Hotel Commission through China Art Projects (works for reproduction)
Camerons, Launceston (Consultancy for art works throughout offices and public spaces with Tony Smibert)
Gallery Hotel, Singapore (Consultancy for Smibert art works private and public spaces throughout three floors)
A.T.&M. Tasmania (Consultancy and art works with Tony Smibert for corporate design offices)
St John Ambulance Headquarters, Western Australia (Consultancy and art works for entire building collection in collaboration with Tony Smibert)
Evelyn County Estate Yarra Valley (Corporate art works for range of wine labels)
Westgate Construction, Melbourne (Consultancy for Tony Smibert art works by foyer and corporate suites)
Pier One Hotel, Sydney (Consultancy and Carmel Burns’ art works for entire hotel)
Latest Exhibitions
2019
Drinking Tea on Flower Street
Yi Zhang Jian Fang
Xiamen, China
Studio Editions: New Works
ACAE Gallery
Camberwell, Melbourne
2018
Process + Place
Maunsell Wickes Gallery
Paddington, Sydney
Process + Place
Muse Gallery, Hong Kong
2010
Beyond the Deckle
(Solo Exhibiton)
NEW Gallery, University of Tasmania
Launceston, Tasmania