About:

Sydney based artist April Mountfort was born in New Zealand, moving to Australia as a young adult. After undertaking a number of national and international short art courses in disciplines such as photography, painting and metalwork sculpture, she decided to study fine arts full time. Mountfort was awarded a BFA (Hons) from the University of New South Wales in 2021 and is currently studying towards a MFA at the School of Art, Design & Architecture, UNSW.

 Mountfort’s current practice is in expanded video, sculpture, installations and painting with these disciplines often intersecting.

Exhibitions:

Oct - Nov 2024: MFA ‘Vulnerability’ work in progress, UNSW Post Grad Research Group exhibition.

October 2024: ‘Vulnerability” video, installation, ArtLab Group exhibition at AD Space, UNSW, Paddington.

April-May 2024: ‘Mute Vulnerability’ video, installation, paintings at AD Space, UNSW, Paddington. My MFA artwork in progress.

September 2023: ‘Blue Horses’ paintings in group exhibition, Blue Surpasses Dimension at Saywell Gallery, Marrickville, NSW.

July 2023: ‘Me, You, Others’ paintings, solo exhibition, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville, NSW.

May 2023: ‘Evolution Forwards, Evolution Backwards’ solo exhibition, SOL Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, VIC.

May 2022: ‘Fabric of Society’ solo exhibition, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt, NSW.

December 2021: ‘The Annual Exhibition’, UNSW Galleries, Paddington, NSW.

August 2020: Breakout Collective ‘In the Wake’, Randwick Council Community Centre, NSW.

May 2019: Group exhibition ‘(a) Mild Inconvenience’, UNSW AD Space, NSW.

August 2017: Solo painting exhibition, ARO Gallery, East Sydney, NSW.

May 2011: Landscape photography, group exhibition at Sara Roney Gallery, Paddington, NSW.

July 2009: Photography Expo at Sara Roney Gallery, Paddington, NSW.