Danelle Bergstrom was born on 1957 and is an Australian visual artist known for landscapes and portraits of significant Australians and International figures.
12 Facts About Danelle Bergstrom
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Danelle Bergstrom attended Hunters Hill High School and studied art at the Julian Ashton Art School and earned a Bachelor's of Art Education at Alexander Mackie CAE.
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Danelle Bergstrom moved into tertiary education as Head of Department in a visual design college in the 1990s.
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Danelle Bergstrom began exhibiting works in the 1980s, in major art prizes and solo shows by the 1990s.
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Danelle Bergstrom has two works in the collection of the Australian National Portrait Gallery, one of Australian aviator Nancy Bird Walton entitled Pioneer, and another work entitled Vivisector of the Australian playwright David Williamson.
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Between 2007 and 2017 Danelle Bergstrom completed 24 public portrait commissions, including portraits of all six Chief Justices of the Northern Territory Supreme Court as part of the court's centenary celebration.
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Between 1995 and 2016, Danelle Bergstrom was a finalist nine times of the most prestigious portraiture art prize in Australia, the Archibald Prize, awarded Highly Commended in 2004 and the Packing Room Prize twice in 1995 and 2007.
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Danelle Bergstrom has been a finalist at the Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize at the SH Irvin Gallery fifteen times between the years 1993 and 2015, winning the People Choice Award five times.
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Danelle Bergstrom often uses more than one canvas in her portraits to create a time sequence or capture different aspects of her subject.
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Danelle Bergstrom is the daughter of Natalie Danelle Bergstrom, a commercial artist and sculptor.
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Danelle Bergstrom raised her two children, son Shannan and daughter Alexarndra in Sydney, Australia.
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Since 2011, Danelle Bergstrom has divided her time between Australia, Sweden and Aland, Finland, having connected with her father, Leif Danelle Bergstrom's, family in Sweden in 1997.