• Renée Estée (b. 1993) is an Australian-born, New York-based artist. She’s a recent Hunter MFA Graduate (Dec 2022) and graduated...
    Renée Estée in her studio in New York, USA, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and COMA, Sydney.

    Renée Estée (b. 1993) is an Australian-born, New York-based artist. She’s a recent Hunter MFA Graduate (Dec 2022) and graduated with a BFA Honors (First Class Honors) from the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Aus) in 2016.

     

    Linking ideas and imagery of the Australian Outback, Hauntology, Orphism and contemplations of afterlife beliefs, Estée’s practice highlights myth-making and rituals surrounding mourning, celebration and commemoration. Operating as visual love letters and epitaphs, her large-scale oil paintings coalesce figuration and abstraction to conjure spaces where she can commune with the deceased and contend with future loss. Taking on apparitional characteristics; figures materialize from layered, loose, gestural mark-making that merge in and out of their surrounding environments, whilst animals wander in the peripheries, simultaneously observing departures and transformations taking place. Carving out spaces from thick impasto marks alongside thin washes and surface stains, Estée considers painting’s ability to omit and transfigure.

     

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  • Artworks
    • Renée Estée I saw you through the fog, 2024 oil, oil bar, pigment, silver leaf, and found fabric on canvas 162.5 x 152.5 cm 64 x 60 in
      Renée Estée
      I saw you through the fog, 2024
      oil, oil bar, pigment, silver leaf, and found fabric on canvas
      162.5 x 152.5 cm
      64 x 60 in
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    • Renée Estée Final Wish, 2023

      Renée Estée

      Final Wish, 2023
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    • Renée Estée I Count The Hours In Between, 2023

      Renée Estée

      I Count The Hours In Between, 2023
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    • Renée Estée To Be Given Your Sight, 2024 oil, pigment, glitter and charcoal on canvas 157.5 x 126 cm 62 x 49 5/8 in
      Renée Estée
      To Be Given Your Sight, 2024
      oil, pigment, glitter and charcoal on canvas
      157.5 x 126 cm
      62 x 49 5/8 in
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  • "Encountering a Renée Estée painting is like stumbling across a book that has been left open. Except here the spine is shaped by timber and the pages clipped from canvas, as if smoothed down mid-chapter and faced out into better reading light."

    Chloe Borich, To Be Magazine, 2023

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