Thinking about it, I realise that as a landscape artist in South Australia, over the past 30 years, I have explored much of Heysen Trail country. I grew up in the Adelaide Hills, later moved to and fell in love with the Mid-North, and who cannot be moved by the Flinders Ranges.
My selection of work traverses these different landscapes. In them all, it is the evidence of human habitation (our place in the landscape, the world) that is the attraction.
Engler addresses the rich tapestry of Australian life in farming areas flirting with the connectivity that mankind builds. His spatial use and juxtaposition of rural impedimenta into uniquely Australian landscapes leaves the viewer questioning the shadows, life and intensity of these spaces. Engler’s unique style leaves an impression on the viewer that needs consideration and thought in order to achieve comfortableness with the landscape they are drawn into.
~ Rebecca Staker, Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
(b.1958, Berlin)
BIOGRAPHY
Dieter has exhibited since 1988 in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia and also in England, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand and Germany.
His work features in many private collections worldwide.
"With Engler it is time to wind the clock back to memories of living in or passing through dusty, half forgotten towns somewhere in the wheat belt. The sun is down, low to the ground. The hour is late and in that last leaning of the light, the simplest of constructions, a light pole, a ladder, a fence or shed take on a quiet monumentality which the artist has had the wit to realise and pay respect to. With Engler's method of tipping the land, up behind his subjects and cutting in hard on the edges with his shadows, strong relief qualities are established which reinforce a sense of graving the subject, like carving stone."
- John Neylon
(The Adelaide Review, April 2000)
STUDIES:
1979 - Diploma of Teaching
1976-78 - Secondary Education Art Diploma, Torrens CAE
Painting under Ron Bell and Geoffrey Harris
Printmaking under Peter Schulz and Barbara Hanrahan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2005 - Red Dot Gallery for Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
2004 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth
- Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
2003 - Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
- Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
2002 - Greenhill Galleries, Perth
- Main Street Gallery, Hahndorf, SA
- Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
2000 - Festival Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
- Greenhill Galleries, Perth
1999 - Exhibition of prints, Main Street Editions, Hahndorf
- Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1998 - Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
- Greenhill Galleries Perth
1997 - Greenhill Galleries Perth
1996 - Festival Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
1995 - Greenhill Galleries Perth
1994 - Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
1992 - Reade Art, Balaklava Courthouse Gallery
1989 - Lake Gairdner Series, Chaff Mill Gallery, Clare
1988 - "Landscape Themes", Mid-North Regional Art Centre
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2006 - The Lane Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2003 - Wilson's at Robe
- Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
- Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2002 - Min Street Gallery, Hahndorf, SA
- 30th Birthday Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
- The Lane Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2001 - SALA Week, St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide
- The Lane Gallery, Auckland, NZ
1999 - Okayama, Japan
- Tsuyama, Japan
1998 - Journey and Discovery, Hill Smith Fine Arts, Adelaide
- SALA Week, Solarplate Prints, Main Street Editions, Hahndorf, SA
- SALA Week, Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
1997 - Purely Prints, Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
- Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
- 25th Birthday Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
- Journey and Discovery, Petronas Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
1996 - Under the Shadow of Light, Adelaide Fringe, John Dunne Gallery
1995 - Journey and Discovery - 7 South Australian Artists, Mall Gallery
- London Summer Exhibition, East West Gallery, London, UK
- Journey and Discovery, Adelaide Hilton International
1993 - South Australian Artists, John Dunne Gallery, Bridgewater, SA
- Less is More, Greenhill Galleries Adelaide
1992 - Medika Gallery, Blyth
- Fine Arts Exhibition, Adelaide Hilton International
1991 - Reade Art
- Fine Arts Exhibition, Adelaide Hilton International
1990 - Landmarks - Mid North Art Survey Exhibition, Prospect Gallery
- Reade Art
1989 - Medika Gallery, Blyth
1988 - Spring Show, Chaff Mill Gallery
1987 - Golden Works Exhibition, Adelaide
1981-85 - Clare, Mintaro Mews, Medika Gallery
1980 - Adelaide Festival, Flinders Street Church
AWARDS
1993 - Winner, Kernewek Lowender Art Prize 1988 -- Commendation, Clare Valley Easter Exhibition
1983 - Commendation, Mid-North Art Awards
COMMISSIONS:
1993 - Artist in Residence, Heathfield High School
1991 - Wilson's Vineyards wine label
SELECTED FOR:
1990 - State of the Art/Art of the State Exhibition, Adelaide Festival Centre.
- State of the Art/Art of the State Touring Exhibition.
1992 - State of the Art/Art of the State Exhibition, Adelaide Festival Centre.
1996 - South Australian Print Survey, R.S.A.S.A.
1997 - International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney, Main Street Editions
1998 - Fleurieu Biennale Exhibition. Ipoh Art Fair, Malaysia
1999 - International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney. Main Street Editions
2002 - Mini Print Biennale, Montreal, Canada
2003 - Sydney Art on Paper Fair, Main Street Editions Short listed for Print Council of Australia, commissioned prints
2004 - Fleurieu Heritage Exhibition and touring exhibition, “Open Borders” Fleurieu Biennale exhibition, Fleurieu Vistas
2005 - Sydney Art on Paper Fair, Adele Boag Gallery Seoul International Print, Photo & Edition Works Art Fair, Adele Boag Gallery
COLLECTIONS:
The Benedictine Community of New Norcia, WA
Federal Law Courts, Adelaide.
Petronas collection, Kuala Lumpur
SABHS collection, Adelaide
Pro Hart Collection, Broken Hill
Bibliographies: The Refining Fire, Dawn Mendham, Albatross Books (1987)
Printmaking in the Sun, Dan Welden and Pauline Muir, Watson-Guptill Publications (2001)
Open Borders, Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, 2004, Heritage Exhibition, John Neylon, Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale Inc. 2004
