Richard Claremont

Richard Claremont (born 3 May 1965) is a Wollongong-based Australian painter. His style is expressionistic and related to impressionism. Claremont worked for the Australia Post from 1988 to 2017 and made sketches while delivering mail. He became known as 'the painting postie' in media.

Richard Claremont
Born(1965-05-03)3 May 1965[1]
NationalityAustralian
EducationGlenaeon Rudolf Steiner School (1982),[2]
Sydney College of the Arts (1985)[3]
Known forBeing «the painting postie»[4][5]
Notable workDusk, Port Kembla (2013)[6][7]
StyleImpressionism[8]
AwardsANL Maritime Art Prize
2015 Dusk, Port Kembla
[6][7]
Websitewww.richardclaremont.com

Early life and education

Claremont was born on 3 May 1965 in Sydney.[3] He attended Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School. While at school he worked at Sydney's Artflow Graphics studio[3] but decided to study Visual Arts instead of Graphic Design and entered Sydney College of the Arts where he studied from 1983 to 1985.[3] Claremont displayed his works in a group exhibition of 4 painters from the College in 1985, earning a positive review from The Sydney Morning Herald's art critic John McDonald.[9] Between 1985 and 1987 he travelled throughout Europe, the Middle East and North America, staying in Canada for two years.[10][11]

Art career

In 1988, Claremont returned to Australia and started working for Australia Post as a postman serving City of Shellharbour area.[3][4] What started as a summer job,[12] became his main occupation for almost thirty years. Claremont found inspiration on the city streets, making sketches while delivering mail.[12][4] In 2015 he won ANL Maritime Art Prize awarded by The Mission to Seafarers.[6][7] Claremont's works are on permanent display at Bluescope Visitors Centre at Port Kembla.[10] He was also one of Australia's contemporary artists featured at Donald Keys' Art Heads series of portraits.[13][14]

Awards
Year Award Result
2015 ANL Maritime Art Prize Won[6][7]
2013 Mosman Art Prize finalist[15]
2015 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize finalist[16][17]
2016 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize finalist[18]
2017 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize finalist[19][20]

Exhibitions
Year Exhibition Gallery City Country
1985 Four Artists from Sydney College of the Arts[9] Australian Visual Arts Gallery Darlinghurst Australia
1993 Balloon Over Kenya[21][22] James Harvey Gallery Balmain Australia
1995 Steeltown[23] First Draft Sydney Australia
1998 Broken Hill And Beyond[11] Project Contemporary Artspace Wollongong Australia
2013 Gion[24][25] Salerno Gallery Sydney Australia
2014 Autumn Exhibition (group show)[26] Bradman Centre Art Gallery Bowral Australia
2015 Remembered Landscapes[5] Depot Gallery Sydney Australia
2015 Group show[12][27][24] Galerie Mona Lisa Paris France
2015 Close to Home [28][29] Clifton School of Arts Clifton Australia
2016 Asia Contemporary Art Show[30] Conrad Hong Kong Hong Kong China
2017 Secret Sydney[31] Aro Gallery Sydney Australia
2018 Bright New Day[32] Brightspace Gallery Melbourne Australia
2019 Terra Flora[33] Brightspace Gallery Melbourne Australia


References
  1. Richard Claremont: Australian Art and Artists file. WorldCat. 10 March 2018. OCLC 662230569. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  2. "Richard Claremont (1982)". Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School. 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  3. "The Story of My Life: Richard Claremont". Sunrise (Australian TV program). 12 February 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  4. Justin Huntsdale (26 February 2016). "Post and paintings: Wollongong's artist on two wheels". ABC Illawarra. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  5. Angela Thompson (20 February 2016). "Digital delivers for Wollongong's 'painting postie'". Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  6. "2015 ANL Maritime Art Prize declares 'Port Kembla' the winner". Art Almanac. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  7. "Richard takes out the top art prize". Docklands News. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  8. Werkhoven, Robyn (November 2016). "Richard Claremont – interview". Arts Zine (18): 11. Retrieved 29 April 2018 – via issuu.
  9. McDonald, John (6 September 1985). "Nixon's theme done to death". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 12. Retrieved 29 April 2018 – via newspapers.com.
  10. "Increasingly Impressionistic". Artist's Palette (129): 54–55. December 2015. ISSN 2200-2707.
  11. "Notes on Contributors". Literature and Aesthetics: The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics. Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics. 8: 155. 1998. ISSN 2200-0437. Archived from the original on 29 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018 – via edu.au.
  12. Michele Tydd (16 January 2016). "The artist who always delivers: Postman carries makeshift artist's studio on his motorcycle". The Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  13. Ellis, Greg (25 April 2017). "Prolific Wollongong artist Donald Keys is finished his Art Heads collection of portraits of Australian contemporary artists who inspire him". Illawarra Mercury. Archived from the original on 8 July 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  14. Werkhoven, Robyn (May 2017). "Art Heads – interview with Donald Keys". Arts Zine (20): 75. Retrieved 29 April 2018 – via issuu.
  15. "2013 Mosman Art Prize: Selection of 116 Finalists – winners announced Friday 12 July" (PDF). Mosman Art Prize. 8 July 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  16. Savage, Desiree (24 June 2015). "Port Kembla artist Evan Salmon bags Plein Air Painting Prize". Illawarra Mercury. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  17. Savage, Desiree; Lindley, Amy (13 July 2015). "Port Kembla artist Evan Salmon wins NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize". Illawarra Mercury. Archived from the original on 27 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  18. "2016". pleinair.com.au. 2016. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  19. "2017". pleinair.com.au. 2017. Archived from the original on 24 February 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  20. Savage, Desiree (5 October 2017). "Illawarra artist Evan Salmon a finalist again in the NSW Parliament House Plein Air Painting Prize". Archived from the original on 5 October 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  21. Watson, Bronwyn (3 September 1993). "Vibrant visions of Africa". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 18. Balloon over Kenya, a series of painting which developed from sketches Claremont did during a balloon flight over the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya last year… Claremont has successfully achieved evocative aerial-scapes where the African people and animals coexist, not exactly happily, with Mobil signs and tourists, and where each painting tells a story of contemporary Kenya.
  22. "Openings". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 August 1993. p. 18.
  23. "Art:New". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 October 1995. p. 23.
  24. "Gion". salernogallery.com. 5 November 2013. Archived from the original on 27 January 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  25. "Richard Claremont". Artist's Palette Yearbook: 49. December 2014. ISSN 2203-6458.
  26. "Bradman Centre Art Gallery: Autumn Exhibition 28th March to 1st June 2014" (PDF). Bradman Museum. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 April 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  27. "Richard Claremont, Misha Sydorenko, Natalia Kruchkevych, Paula Macedo, Jean-Martial Moreau". Galerie Mona Lisa. 29 September 2015. Archived from the original on 30 April 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  28. Latifi, Agron (1 June 2015). "Clifton School of Arts exhibition focuses on home". Illawarra Mercury. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  29. Buckmaster Dove, Lizzie. "Close to Home". 2515 (June 2015): 20. Retrieved 2 May 2018 – via issuu.
  30. "Asia Contemporary Art Show Celebrates New Emerging and Mid-Career Artist: 9th Edition Opens Thursday September 15th" (PDF). asiacontemporaryart.com. 5 July 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  31. "Participating Galleries". sydneyeastartwalk.info. 2017. Archived from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  32. "Richard Claremont: Bright New Day". Brightspace Gallery. 29 May 2018. Archived from the original on 1 March 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  33. "Richard Claremont: Terra Flora". Brightspace Gallery. 20 June 2019. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2020.

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