{"id":13243,"date":"2015-07-09T10:23:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T08:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2015-12-02T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T10:15:00","slug":"kim-leutwyler-first-time-archibald-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/kim-leutwyler-first-time-archibald-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Leutwyler – First Time Archibald Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press release by Kim Leutwyler<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Start-the-Riot
\n‘Start the Riot’, Oil on canvas, 152 cm x 102 cm by Kim Leutwyler<\/em><\/p>\n

First Time Archibald Finalist Paints:<\/h2>\n

Activist, Designer and Model, Ollie Henderson<\/h2>\n

[SYDNEY, Australia July 9th] Artist Kim Leutwyler<\/a> is counted among the 50 finalists for this year\u2019s Archibald Prize, having submitted a portrait of activist, designer and one of Australia’s top models, Ollie Henderson.<\/p>\n

A friend of the artist, 24 year old Henderson has received global recognition for founding fashion label and youth empowerment project House of Riot. Henderson\u2019s project started in the form of 100 hand painted T-shirts with positive political slogans worn by her friends in between runway shows at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia, 2014. It soon became a fully-fledged fashion label designed to address social issues such as equality, environment and economic status. Having already graced the cover of major publications like Vogue and Style as a model, Henderson\u2019s House of Riot project has been featured in US Vogue, Us Harper\u2019s Bazaar, French Elle, Brazilian Elle, Nylon Japan and her May 2015 Ted-x talk at the Sydney Opera House.<\/p>\n

How Kim Leutwyler Approached the Portrait<\/h2>\n

Leutwyler is known for her paintings of LGBTQ-identified and Queer-allied women, most recently focusing on her friends and partner. Her work explores the line between glorification, objectification and modification, using patterns and abstractions from each subject\u2019s local and social environment as a subtle vernacular to portray the fluidity and complexities of identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a feminist member of the LGBTQ community, Ollie speaks openly about the objectification inherent to a career in modeling, and the unrealistic modification of images that set unattainable standards of beauty. She is constantly evolving both in relation and opposition to her social environment, fighting against binary gender standards by taking on various permutations of androgyny. I can\u2019t think of a more fitting subject for my work,\u201d Leutwyler explains.<\/p>\n

Completing the painting took 4 days, spread out over 2 weeks. \u201cOn the day I began Ollie\u2019s portrait we spent the afternoon at Moore Park so that I could study her from different angles using indirect natural lighting. Afterwards we went back to my home studio where I began painting straightaway.\u201d Henderson is currently away for a month-long visit to London and will see the finished work for the first time at the artist\/sitter lunch on 16 July 2015 hosted by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.<\/p>\n

About the Artist<\/h2>\n

Born in America, Sydney-based Kim Leutwyler<\/a> migrated to Australia in 2012. She works in a variety of media including painting, installation, ceramics, print media and drawing. Leutwyler holds concurrent bachelor degrees in Studio and Art History from Arizona State University, and additionally graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Painting and Drawing degree. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and Australia, and she is part of a permanent collection at both the Naestved Cultural Center in Denmark and the Brooklyn Art Library in New York. The Archibald Prize will be her first museum show.<\/p>\n

About The Archibald Prize Exhibition<\/h2>\n

First awarded in 1921, The Archibald Prize is Australia\u2019s favorite art award and is exhibited annually at one of Australia\u2019s most prestigious museums, the Art Gallery of New South Wales. \u201cAwarded to the best portrait painting, it\u2019s a who\u2019s who of Australian culture \u2013 from politicians to celebrities, sporting heroes to artists.\u201d – http:\/\/www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au\/prizes\/archibald\/<\/p>\n

Exhibition Dates\/Locations<\/h2>\n

Art Gallery of New South Wales: 18 Jul \u2013 27 Sep 2015<\/p>\n

The exhibition will travel to the following venues:
\nBallarat Art Gallery: 2 Oct \u2013 15 Nov 2015
\nNew England Regional Art Museum: 20 Nov \u2013 10 Jan 2016
\nTweed River Art Gallery: 15 Jan -28 Feb 2016
\nManning Regional Art Gallery: 5 March \u2013 17 April 2016
\nLake Macquarie City Art Gallery: 23 April \u2013 5 June 2016
\nBlue Mountains Cultural Centre: 11 June \u2013 24 July 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press release by Kim Leutwyler ‘Start the Riot’, Oil on canvas, 152 cm x 102 cm by Kim Leutwyler First Time Archibald Finalist Paints: Activist, Designer and Model, Ollie Henderson [SYDNEY, Australia July 9th] Artist Kim Leutwyler is counted among the 50 finalists for this year\u2019s Archibald Prize, having submitted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[620],"class_list":["post-13243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting","tag-kim-leutwyler"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}