Prudence Flint

🔳Prudence Flint (born 1962) is an Australian artist who’s paints figures in psychologically charged environments enveloped by fields of colour and light. The viewer is invited into an intimate world where the figure’s pose, each articulated detail, and the flat expanses of colour create an interplay of tensions.

The body shape and poses of the female characters are based on intimate observations of domestic settings. Her journals meticulously record daily thoughts and ideas in drawings and words, to form the beginnings of a painting, sometimes many years later.

Focusing heavily on the female figure, painter Prudence Flint combines pastels and flat, geometric shapes in her minimalistic works. Rarely showing their faces directly, Flint’s oil paintings often portray women lying down, sitting, or performing daily tasks like showering while they look straight ahead, adding to the pieces’ pensive atmospheres.

She has held solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and Hobart and has exhibited in major state and regional galleries. 

She is a sixth-time finalist in the Archibald Prize. She won the Len Fox Painting Award (2016), the Portia Geach Memorial Award (2010), and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2004). Her work is held in the collections of the City of Port Phillip, Artbank, BHP Billiton, City of Gold Coast, University of Wollongong, Castlemaine Art Museum and in numerous private collections in Australia and New Zealand. Reproductions of Flint’s paintings have recently appeared in international publications including Oh Comely (UK), It’s Nice That; Printed Pages (UK). Flint is represented by Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Bett Gallery in Hobart.

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