Ana Pollak
Born Australia
Lives & Works Hawkesbury River (Kuring-gai)
Ana Pollak lives and works on Dangar Island on the Hawkesbury River, NSW. She began her art studies at the Byam Shaw School of painting and drawing in London and then studied at the Alexander Mackie School of Art.
Since 1988 she has been involved in community actions and art projects to protect the Hawkesbury River environment. After a series of extended drawing trips from 1993 - 2002, with her partner, painter David Collins, Pollak decided to focus her practice on sculpture and drawing. She was awarded the Dobell Prize for Drawing in 2007.
From 2009-2011, Pollak made the hand-drawn film ‘Flux’ which brought together her fascination with Chinese calligraphy and the movement of water. After those years of drawing ‘Flux’ inside her dark studio, Pollak sought the bright outdoors. Since then she has been painting the textures and layers of the foliage of the Hawkesbury sandstone country in clay slips and oxides on plywood.
In 2017 Pollak was granted the Hong Kong Artists Residency with the Nock Art Foundation. Here she was able to meet traditional and contemporary Chinese calligraphers who generously shared their philosophies and aesthetic ideas. This experience led Pollak to explore working with ink and rice paper. In 2019 Pollak made the hand drawn animated portrait film ‘r’. The films use of gestural marks in many layers intensifies the portrait's emotional expression.
Her work is held in the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection and numerous private collections nationally.
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Ana Pollak6th January 2018, 2018ink on rice paper177 x 67 cm, 180 x 70 cm (framed)$4,500
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Ana PollakBorderline, 2022blackbutt, clay wash & ink25 x 70 cm$4,500
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Ana PollakBoundary Lines, 2022blackbutt & clay wash34 x 57 cm$4,500
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Ana PollakBy and By, 2023clay wash and ink on ply165 x 47 cmSold
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Ana PollakCrisscross, 2021clay wash, oxides & binder on plywood58 x 64 cm (framed)$2,600
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Ana PollakErasure, 2024clay wash and ink on ply100 x 70 cmSold
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Ana PollakFuture Tense, 2023clay wash and ink on ply185 x 110 cm
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Ana PollakIn a Wink of Time, 2024clay wash and ink on ply100 x 140 cmSold
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Ana PollakNever Ending or Beginning, 2023clay wash and ink on ply210 x 110 cmSold
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Ana PollakPost Anthropocene, 2022clay wash & ink on plywood72 x 60 cm, 74 x 62.5 cm (framed)$2,800
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Ana PollakPost Anthropocene II, 2023clay wash and ink on ply70 x 60 cmSold
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Ana PollakPremonition, 2024clay wash and ink on ply160 x 47 cm$4,800
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Ana PollakRecalibrate, 2023clay wash and ink on burnt ply110 x 210 cmSold
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Ana PollakReshaping, 2023clay wash and black ink on ply89 x 66 cmSold
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Ana PollakRivertime, 2023clay wash and ink on ply120 x 45 cmSold
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Ana PollakSomewhere to Go , 2021clay oxides on board80 x 60 cm (framed)$2,800
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Ana PollakTo the Sea, 2022clay wash on plywood148 x 110 cm, 154.5 x 112.5 cm (framed) (diptych)$6,000
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Ana PollakTraces, 2021clay oxides on plywood73 x 120 cm (framed)$4,800
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Ana PollakTrans Plant, 2023ink and ricepaper collage on canvas60 x 45 cmSold
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Ana PollakTransitions, 2024clay wash and black ink on ply100 x 70 cm$4,500
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Ana PollakVanishing Act, 2024clay wash and ink on ply140 x 100 cm$6,000
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Ana PollakWorld Wide Web, 2023ink and rice paper collage60 x 45 cmSold
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Ana PollakYesterday Today and Tomorrow, 2023clay wash and ink on ply85 x 220 cm$8,500