Ceara Metlikovec
Each day new energy moves up our spine ready to nourish our cells. When it gets to the neck it must move through a z like shape. This place in our body. must be carefully moved each day in order to move this new energy through. This is the technology of the body. It requires our participation.
The technology of Cymatics is no different. Sound moves through geometry. Stone remembers sound and stores it - releasing it continuously without end. This is why we fall in love with a sea shell - because of the frequency it. is omitting - the colour caught our eye after our body heard its call.
My Art is no different. Each plant and animal in Nature holds a frequency. My art has been created the same way. I download geometry from the Sun and program them with frequencies that we need here on Earth. To heal our body, homes and reconnect us to the Stars. This is what my Art is. It is not dead - it is alive. And like the flame in the fireplace that asks you to tend to it - my work asks you to live with it. Visit. Bring it flowers, candles, water, birds, feathers. Sit with it. And then watch how your life expands.
Curriculum Vitae
Ceara Metlikovec
Curriculum Vitae
Born Sydney 1981.
Living in the Shoalhaven of NSW.
A Brief Bio
Ceara Metlikovec (born 1981) is an Australian artist. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School in Sydney, 2001. And she received her Bachelor in Art Education from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 2006. She then taught High School Visual Arts, between 2006 and 2011. After which she returned to her Visual Arts practice. In 2017 she presented her first solo show with Fox Jensen McCrory in Auckland New Zealand, and then her first solo show in 2018 in Sydney at Fox Jensen, from which the Art Gallery of New South Wales acquired a piece. Her work has been represented in Francis Gallery Bath, Art Basel Hong Kong, Auckland Art Fair and Sydney Contemporary as well as the curated projects Carbon (2017), Portrait Without a Face (2018, catalogue), Evenfall (2019) and Analogue (2020, catalogue) The Dobell Biennale (2024).
Outline key achievements or career highlights
In 2018 she was awarded first place in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.
Metlikovec’s solo exhibition Maya in Sydney in late 2018 allowed for the presentation of four major drawings, the largest works realized to date. The Art Gallery of New South Wales acquired a piece for their collection.
In 2022 the Art Gallery of New South Wales rehung the 20th Century collection including the acquired drawing Maya 21, August 2018. An interview was conducted with the Head Curator of the Australia Art Collection, Denise Mimmocchi and Metlikovec on December 7th, 2022, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales about her acquired drawing and art practice.
In 2024 the Art Gallery of New South Wales opened The Dobell Biennale. This exhibition hung Metlikovec’s new drawing, The Path of the Solar Barque, 2024 alongside nine other Australian artists.
Education
2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The National Art School.
2006 Bachelor of Art Education, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
Solo Exhibition
2022 The Ancient Future, Jennings Kerr, Robertson.
2018 Maya, Fox Jensen, Paddington Sydney.
2017 Indigo, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland New Zealand.
2015 Falling Blue, Small Spaces, Redfern Sydney.
Group Exhibitions
2024 Dobell Biennale at the Art Gallery of NSW
2023 Untitled, Francis Gallery, Bath UK.
2022-23 Art Gallery of NSW rehang of permeant collection.
2020 Analogue, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland New Zealand.
2019 Hazelhurst Works on Paper Finalist, Gymea.
Evenfall, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland New Zealand.
2018 Portrait Without a Face, Fox Jensen, Paddington Sydney.
Carbon, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland New Zealand.
2017 Carbon, Fox Jensen, Paddington Sydney.
2016 Chippendale New World Art Prize Finalists, Kensington Contemporary, Sydney.
Rick Amor Drawing Prize Finalists, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria.
2015 Geometrica, Mild Manners Gallery, Surry Hills Sydney.
2014 Archie Bottle Finalists, Surry Hills Sydney.
2013 Group show, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Chippendale Sydney.
2002 Mosman Art Prize Finalists, Mosman, Sydney.
2001 The Degree Show, The National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
Imaging the Body, Stairwell Gallery, National Art School.
2000 AQ Wine Prize Finalists, Park Hyatt, Adelaide, South Australia.
Art Fairs
2018 Art Basel Hong Kong, Fox Jensen and Fox Jensen McCrory, Hong Kong.
Auckland Art Fair, Fox Jensen and Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, NZ.
Sydney Contemporary, Fox Jensen and Fox Jensen McCrory, Sydney.
2017 Sydney Contemporary, Fox Jensen and Fox Jensen McCrory, Sydney.
Prizes
2019 Hazelhurst Works on Paper, finalist, Gymea, Sydney.
2018 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, first place, Pymble Ladies College, Sydney.
2017 Rick Amor Drawing Prize Finalists, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria.
2017 New World Art Prize, finalist, Chippendale, Sydney.
2000 AQ Wine Prize, first place, Adelaide, South Australia.
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales. 2019
Publication
2024 Look Magazine, Art Gallery of New South Wales, November 2024.
2022 Journal for Australian Ceramics, April 2022.
2021 Galah magazine, Issue 3, Line, August 2021.
Flore online Magazine, July 2021.
2019 Look Magazine, Art Gallery of New South Wales, November 2019.
2018 Tai Mitsuji. Profiles: Ceara Metlikovec. Artist Profile. Issue 44, 2018.
Art Guide News March 6. Ceara Metlikovec wins Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.
2017 Alison Kubler. What Next: Ceara Metlikovec. Art Collector, Issue 80, April – June2017.
Steve Dow. Group Exhibition: Carbon. Art Collector, Issue 80, April – June 2017.
2000 Cecilia Schubert. Front cover and article. AQ Wine Prize. IMPRINT. Spring, Vol 36, # 3.