Alessia Sakoff

From Tuesday, 19 December until Sunday, 4 February 2024

Alessia Sakoff’s landscapes centre around the unpredictable and uncontrollable forces of nature, the ‘sublime’. Drawing inspiration from frequent nature walks along Newcastle’s coastline and regional NSW, she sketches as she spots small moments of natural beauty.

"I aim to give audiences a new eye for nature, to appreciate the wonky tree down the road or the moss growing between the cracks in the pavement." 

Using inks, oils, and gouache, she blends abstract techniques with traditional to draw out landscapes from the chaos. The first layers of her paintings are made quickly and instinctively, then are layered with careful detail.

Alessia’s latest body of work has been drawn from bushwalks through Boorganna Nature Reserve, painting and sketching out in the dense rainforest as a contrast to coastal scenes.

^{Image at top: Alessia Sakoff, Grow Till Tall No 2 2020 (detail). Ink and gouache on canvas. 167 x 128cm.}

Opening Night // Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 5pm

This exhibition will be opened by Gillean Shaw, Art Curator at the University Galleries. Proudly supported by Lisa McGuigan Wines.

This is a free event however bookings are essential.

RSVP HERE

Exhibition Times

Tuesday to Friday // 9am - 4.30pm
Saturday and Sunday // 10am - 2.30pm

Closed from 12pm on Friday, 22 December until 9am Tuesday, 9 January 2024.

Artist 

Alessia Sakoff is an environmental artist based in Newcastle, Australia. After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Newcastle, she is now represented by Flinders Street Gallery in Sydney. Primarily focusing on works on paper, her recent work has drawn from experiences in both local and international natural environments.

Featuring in many art prize exhibitions across her career, her recent achievements include winner of the Newcastle Emerging Artist Prize 2018 for the Works on Paper Prize and twice winner of the People’s Choice Award, as well as runner up for the 2018 Brenda Clouten Memorial Travelling Scholarship Prize for Young Achievers in Visual Arts. In 2022 she was highly commended in the Newcastle Art Prize and recipient of the Fresh Talent Award at the Newcastle Foundation Club Art Prize.

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