Hendrik Kolenberg Rotterdam, The Netherlands, b. 1946

Hendrik Kolenberg emigrated with his parents and elder brother to Australia in 1952. After several months at the Bonegilla migrant camp near Wodonga, Victoria, the family settled in Adelaide. There, at the age of sixteen, Kolenberg began taking private lessons in painting with the Australian painter Carl Lock and, two years later, studied drawing and watercolour with a relative, Kas Vandelaar. After completing a degree in art teaching from the South Australian School of Art, Kolenberg embarked on a long and distinguished career in the arts, including as Senior Curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1995 to 2012, which he nonetheless kept at some distance from his own painting practice. From this distance, Kolenberg pursued his own standards of making, ceaselessly but privately. It was not until 1996, in Sydney, that Kolenberg exhibited his work for the first time; yet the first serious articulations of his practice—his recognisable urban subjects, city streets and buildings, and his concern to capture the fall of light over them—date back to 1975 and to walks taken through the city of London. Today, Kolenberg’s work is held in major public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the State Library of New South Wales, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, the University of Technology Sydney, and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

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