Dianne Longley is a South Australian visual artist who works with a range of traditional and digital processes including printmaking, encaustic and oil painting, pokerwork on wooden panels, artist books, on-glaze porcelain, and small scale bronze casting.

In her current work Dianne incorporates a cast of creatures and plants, which have become part of her visual language, to create various scenarios. The upside-down nature of some images reflects the upside-down nature of life. Her characters live in a world where nothing is certain.

Dianne teaches part-time at Adelaide Centre for the Arts. In 1998 she published 'Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates' and runs workshops in printmaking and artist books in Australia and overseas. She is currently undertaking PhD studies at Australian National University with Sasha Grishin.

Dianne recently exhibited 'Fantastic Grotesque' at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery. Many of the works in this exhibition were commenced while Dianne was artist-in-residence in Broken Hill during July 2008. The exhibition comprised artist books, prints, small bronzes and graphic works on wooden panels. The ideas and images in the works related to the history of the grotesque where strangeness is more compelling than normality.

above: random images each time the page is visited, showing a range of works (some are details).

website updated September 2009