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Dance in Motion
Art Almanac - 20 June 2024
Each piece is a testament to Debra Winn’s profound connection with the world of dance, translating movement, light, and feeling onto canvas…
Light
Art Almanac - 2 April 2022
Light celebrates the work of artist Debra Winn through sixty-eight artworks inspired by life models and dance companies from New York to Australia over the past sixteen years….
Dancing from the Dark, Looking for the Light
Print Council of Australia - James Noonan
27 September 2019
With fifty-two pieces exhibiting at Melbourne’s fortyfivedownstairs gallery this month, Debra (Winn’s) next series of prints, Dancing from the Dark, Looking for the Light, shows how her new textures, palettes, and…
Dancing from the Dark, Looking for the Light
Onya Magazine, Arts & Culture - 23 September 2019
Of her experience, (Winn) says: “It is such a privilege to sit in the studios, at times at the dancers’ feet, and watch, photograph and draw them as they rehearse. It allows their movements to sink deeper into my consciousness…
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Print Council of Australia - Megan Whitfield
17 October 2019
Drawing inspiration from rehearsals of The Australian Ballet's Murphy, Filigree and Shadow and Aurum productions, Debra (Winn’s) Dancing from the Dark, Looking for the Light is a series of…
Exhibition Briefs: A Decade of Dance
Art Almanac - 19 September 2017
Aptly titled ‘A Decade of Dance’, the curatorial focus of Debra (Winn’s) solo exhibition at Melbourne’s forty!vedownstairs looks at how the artist’s signature style of monotype prints has developed over the last ten years of her career…
Debra (Winn) – The Dream & the Dance
Dance Australia - Issue 165 pg. 12
December 2009 / January 2010
The themes of this show – titled The Dream and the Dance – continue Debra’s unique and painterly examination of the figure. This was Debra’s main reason for seeking collaboration with a dance company, but the surprise for her…
Opening Speech for ‘Images of Dance’, New York
Stephen Fredericks
March 2010
When Debra (Winn) first approached me with the idea of providing a brief talk tonight I immediately accepted her invitation. Nothing, it struck me, could be timelier in terms of current events in the print world, or more relevant…
Opening Speech for ‘The Dream and the Dance’
Dr Alana O'Brien
November 2009
The present exhibition The Dream and the Dance: Images of the Queensland Ballet is the result of time that Debra (Winn) had with the Queensland Ballet while it was rehearsing and performing Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.…
Thomas A. Middlemost
September 2007
While in New York she lectured to the students of the Art Students League. This august institution was founded in 1875 and it has an interesting connection with the international history of monotypes…
Art around the Galleries
The Age A2 - Megan Backhouse, pg. 20
22 September
Debra (Winn's) best pictures have her dancers straining, so there is a sense of pain as much as grace. Backs are arched, legs are stretched and muscles have definition that undercuts the prettiness of (Winn's) touch…
Newsletter, New York
Tiffany Mills Company
2007
The Company will receive further international exposure, as LandFall will “live” through an art exhibit in Australia, where artist Debra (Winn) showcases her work.…
The Mercury - Joerg Andersch
18th November, 2006
Patricia Giles, Sandra Jenkins and Debra Luccio are the artists behind a wonderful collection of new work showing at the Colville St Gallery…