Oliver Smith

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With a family background in jewellery and metalwork Oliver Smith began his tertiary studies in the Jewellery & Object Studio at SCA, The University of Sydney, and completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1995. This was followed by a period of work experience - modeled on the traditional journeymanship - which saw him work for significant silversmiths and metalworkers in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Germany and England.

Returning to formal study in the Gold & Silversmithing Workshop at The Australian National University School of Art, Oliver gained First Class Honours in 2000, and a Master of Philosophy in 2003. The recipient of numerous awards and a growing international profile, he now combines a vigorous craft and design practice with lecturing at the Sydney College of the Arts.

Pollyxenia Joannou

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The series of concrete works by Pollyxenia Joannou are the stunning result of the Tim Storrier National Art School Residency for 2006/07. This residency at the renowned CitŽ Internationale des Arts in Paris, produced first a series of Polaroid snapshots which then became quite serious studies in concrete principals realised in oils and charcoals, on rag paper, watercolour paper and on board.

The simplicity of materials and minimalist use of colour allow Joannou to explore more base elements in the composition of her works, playing with depth, scale, light, shade, inclusion and exclusion.The reductive use of drawing only geometric shapes and sharp angles using only charcoal or oils, rag, board or paper is also a conscious step backwards from the medium of photography to the more raw record of drawing. This recession in regards to technology carries over to the notion that recorded memory and realised meaning can be two, often opposing forces.

Polly, teachs at The Northern Institute (TAFE) and the National Art School. Her work spans over 25 years, with prestigious group exhibitions, including the Sulman Prize, the Archibald Prize, and the Portia Geach Memorial Award.

Alan Jones

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Alan Jones’ work explores ideas that surround notions of identity. As he consistently take a very personal approach to subject matter, self-portraits and family members often find themselves the centrepiece of new work. Through this process, Jones aims to communicate to the viewer the intricacies of human relationships and how his own roots subsequently influence his work.

In 1997 Jones gained his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School in Sydney. Jones has since furthered his education abroad as the recipient of the 1997 Pat Corrigan Travelling Art Scholarship and 2004 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.

Sherna Teperson

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Sherna Teperson makes objects and installation-environments. Her practice playfully unravels the potential of everyday materials as she reconfigures these into small theatres of the extra-ordinary. Her works insinuate a poetics of excess, and are reminders of what it is to be mortal in an increasingly unsustainable world.

Sherna has exhibited in numerous group shows nationally, including "40 Degrees", Gertrude Contemporary Spaces, Melbourne (2007) and "The Year in Art", S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney (2007). She has had 8 solo shows in Sydney, including Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, Cambelltown Art Centre, Gallery 9 and James Dorahy Project Space.

Sherna lives and works in Sydney.

Peter Nelson

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Peter Nelson’s work invites the viewer into a strange, surreal world; one that is both similar yet very different to our own. Like Alice’s journey through Wonderland, Peter’s images transport us into a poetic space that is full of wonder, unease, portent and loss.

This post apocalyptic world represents an ongoing concern with melding together the external landscape of the environment with the internal landscape of our imagination. That this melding together should produce such a disturbing, unstable space points to the fraught and unresolved relationship that exists between ourselves and the environment.

Peter has recently returned from a 3 month study tour in Southern China and a 3 month studio residency with Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. The work undertaken during this time will be the basis for his next solo exhibition in early 2010 at Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney.

Suey McEnnally

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For the last few years I have worked mostly with oil pastels, a material that responds to changing light sources and I play loosely with the image/ abstracting where relevant to attempt to render a surface that is itself an energy field, alive and light reflective.

2002 Winner Eco Art Award of $10,000, Sydney Judged by Richard Goodwin, Bronwyn Bancroft and Ian Grant.

2002 Selected from the Wynne Prize for the Salon des Refuses.

2003 Finalist Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW

2004 Highly Commended Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Emerging Artist section and winner of the Peoples Choice Award

2004 Finalist, Paddington Art Prize for Landscape

2005 Finalist, Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of NSW

2006 Finalist Country Energy Prize for Landscape.

2006 Finalist, Paddington Art Prize For landscape and winner of the Peoples Choice Award

2007 Winner, Hunters Hill Art Prize

2007 Finalist, Blake Prize for Religious Art.

2007 Finalist The Paddington Art Prize for Landscape

Laura Matthews

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Graduate from the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art. Two time winner of the International award, The Elizabeth Greenshield’s Bursary. Finalist of the Portia Geach Memorial Award, The Fleurieu Biennale and the Paddington Art prize.

A leading artist in the London art scene, Laura Matthews is widely represented in collections throughout Europe, Australia and the United States.

Lured by the great Australian landscape her ambition is to follow the legacy of the great Australian artists and bring her own interpretation to this genre, in learning to interpret and paint the landscape. This she has superbly achieved in producing stunning imagery that reflects the “scintillating Australian light… vast seas and skies.

Brenda Colahan - Artequity

Ian Thomas

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Ian Thomas has been painting for ten years and has staged seven solo exhibitions plus numerous group shows in Sydney and Melbourne. Ian works with mixed media, producing vigorous, rough-edged abstract works which reference music, film and literature.

Ian's work is held in private and corporate collections in Australasia and Europe and has been purchased by five star hotels through to high profile personalities, such as Collette Dinnigan.

Wendy Arnold

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Scary thing to ask

Scary thing to answer.

Why do we do what we do?

For me it has become more crystalline over the years. And I can say without drama, that creativity is the truth of my existence.

And being a painter has proved to be the most fluid expression of my creativity.

I can knit, I can sew, and I’m not too bad with a hammer, but as a painter I have discovered my self, and defined my life.

I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Zabilou

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Born in Brussels in 1957, married with 3 children, I traveled during almost all my life (Washington D.C.USA, Luanda Angola, Kinshasa Congo, Paris France, Brazzaville Pop. Rep. of Congo, New York USA, Brussels-Belgium, Kinshasa-Zaire, Brussels-Belgium, Abidjan-Ivory Coast).

Interested in glass since the 90s, I arrived in Australia in 2001 with my love for West and Central Africa in my heart.

After receiving my mothers studio glass collection by inheritance in 2005, I knew from that moment on that I had to work mixing these two worlds, Africa and studio glass.

I am influenced by all those cultures, those smells, those sounds, those believes... My life, my understanding of people and cultures, would not be the same if I had not been in contact with them.

Nathaniel Kiwi

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Nathaniel is an emerging painter, a multi-talented artist whose career spans several fields. He is a credited television writer, a TVC Director and filmmaker, whose short films have screened at domestic and international film festivals including Tropfest, Tribeca and Berlin film festivals. Creative Kicks signals Nathaniels return to painting after successful solo shows in 1999 and 2001. This new work is a celebration of the talented people Nathaniel has befriended in the various disciplines of his career, people who continue to inspire him.

Nathaniel has been officially selected to hang in The Blake Prize 2009 and The Black Swan Portraiture Prize 2009.

Tanya Chaitow

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Tanya Chaitow is a narrative painter who tells stories inspired by the world around her. The paintings populate a dream like world where there is little distinction between fantasy and reality. The work links the inner world to the outer world. Chaitow graduated from the College of Fine Art with a Master of Fine Art and was awarded the prestigious residency at the Cité International Des Artes in Paris in 2007.  She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows as well as being selected for the Mosman and Blake Prize on numerous occasions as well as the Dobell Drawing Prize and Art on the Rocks. Chaitow's work is highly influenced by theatre and she has worked with the Bell Shakespeare Company. She is currently represented by Stella Downer Fine Art Gallery.

Lucinda Clift

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In my art I examine moments of nostalgia & intimacy in the human experience through a wide range of works on canvas, hardwood and sewn creatures. Creating things helps me connect the mystery of melancholy and beauty and to follow the threads of people’s stories.

I draw less from my background in graphic design than from story books, letterforms, trees, wooden toys, folk music, vacant hills, tea parties, stamps, Victorian ladies, birds & fairy tales.

Tina Hansen-Jones

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As a figurative painter I am constantly questioning the complexity of the living. The interactive process of different characters be it animal or human, instinctive or intellectual are unique to a single moment and it is my challenge to capture an essence of that moment in the form of my painting.

My paintings are formulated by the application of many layers in an attempt to convey this complexity of life, revealing some sense of personality and character in my subject, but also leaving certain aspects unanswered.

Represented by: Richard Martin Gallery

Sophie Gralton

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Gralton’s treatment of her subject is not saccharine or overly sentimental. She offers a narrative into a child’s world and the fresh-faced innocence of a by-gone era. Her works represent an idea, a mood, manifested through the children’s posture and the objects included in the works, rather than through the child’s gaze.

Gralton’s works have a sense of re-invention. She ‘rescues’ broken objects, finds things that have been deemed obsolete and gives them a new life. Parts of children’s clothing, manila tags, children’s story books, linoleum, lace and postage stamps are all applied directly to the canvas. Block numbers and letters are also scattered throughout her works reminiscent of a 19th century Victorian nursery.

Gabrielle Wilson 2009

Megan Holloway

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I completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Griffith University, Queensland - 2001.

I work with a combination of photographic images, image transfer, drawing and painting techniques. I also work with sculpture using found objects and traditional mediums. The themes in my work emerge from allowing creative process free reign; I find that themes persist and are brought into awareness through reflection on the art making process and end product. My works represent a visual dialogue between private a public spheres reflecting my interest in personal and social history, identity and relationships.

The works completed since 2004 integrate ideas from Masters of Art Therapy program at University of Western Sydney, studying creative processes and theoretical frameworks guiding art psychotherapy.

Cath Brophy

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My work involves creating large-scale abstract mixed-media drawing installations, based on observations of both the natural and built environments.

Combining experimental techniques with a range of traditional drawing media on paper, I incorporate a variety of methods to manipulate my images.  Cuts, tears and adhered seams are necessary structural features of my drawings, revealing the production process of the work and adding a distinctive quality of mark.

The process of making and unmaking, collagen and reconstructing sections of the composition disrupts the representational elements of the drawing, flattening and adding a sense of ambiguity to the images.  The contrasting readings of space thus created and the increasingly large scale of the drawings have become central features of my work.

Carmen Lee Platt

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Inspired by the beauty of everyday life and showing people the beauty that surrounds them, Carmen Lee's personal work has included a collection of work from Antarctica, Bhutan, East Timor and beyond.

Her current project is exploring how individuals deal with grief. On the commercial side, Encapture Photography specialises in corporate portraiture, events & increasingly, architectural photography.

Peter Francis Lawrence

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The Sydney based - Western Australian painter Peter Francis Lawrence is fascinated by the unconscious hold that the landscape has over him and the hearts and minds of the Australian people.

Peter's work is drawn towards sights where land meets the sea and to the textures and forms that inhabit the continent. In an attempt to better understand the multidimensional and strange imagery of Australia, he has produced work that mirrors the unique, rugged and yet pleasing character of our land.

Brendan Gaule

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Brendan is an Irish born artist living in Sydney. He graduated from the National College Of Art and Design in Dublin in 1991.

In each age, artists have acted as observers and chroniclers of the human condition. During my time, i feel a passion to use my art to expose a truth, something beyond the physical. A spirit, a light or energy juxtaposed with the idiosyncrasy of mans never ending trials and tribulations for control over others and his environment.

Martin Campbell

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Martin studied outdoor (plein air) oil painting at the Royal Art Society of NSW and Fundamentals of Life Drawing at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney.

For the past 12 years, Martin has been painting a variety of subject from landscape, seascape and streetscape to industrial scenes of the working harbour. The majority of his work involves painting on site. He is inspired by the effect of light, textures and weathering of objects. In April 2008 Martin became the Inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Sydney Heritage Fleet in Rozelle Bay spending six months painting his interpretation of the restoration processes within the shipyard.

Martin continues to paint traditional plein air paintings as well as exploring more abstract subject with a marine industrial theme.

Martin was accepted as an Associate of the Royal Art Society of NSW in December 2008.

Kate Dorrough

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Kate Dorrough is a graduate of the College of Fine Art, UNSW with a Master of Art. Her work has been selected for numerous art prizes and exhibitions including the Portia Geach Award and the prestigious Blake Prize. She has exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, the SH Ervin Gallery, the Canberra Contemporary Artspace, and Mosman Regional Gallery.

1994 Master of Art, COFA, UNSW, Sydney - Sydney University Archaeological Expedition, Drawing team, Tarone, Greece.  1989 Painting Teacher, Touring School Programme, Teenage Road Show - Resional NSW. 1987 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Dist), Canberra School of Art.

David Wilsher

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I studied in England and spent some years painting on the Greek island of Corfu and as a portrait sketch artist.

I produce calendars of Sydney suburbs from my drawings and paintings and greetings cards from my artwork. My drawings are in the Balmain Local History Collection.

I illustrated two children’s books about the environment. Weather or Not: It’s a Climate for Change, was shortlisted for the 2008 Wilderness Society’s Environment Award for Children’s Literature.

* 2008-9 Artist-in-residence for Sydney Heritage Fleet.

* Exhibiting member of the Australian Society of Marine Artists.

* Exhibiting member of the Royal Art Society

* Highly Commended at the Glebe Art Show 2009.

I teach Life Drawing and Drawing for Beginners at Sydney Community College.