Salon des Refusés

Artist Name: PAULA IRENE PAYNE

Artwork Title: HUMAN NATURE

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 91 x 122cm

About the Artist:

My work continues my interest in landscape, but through the lens of how the impact of the Anthropocene affects the ways we relate to land - or to Country - or to place.

I draw from personal experiences: from places I've walked across; from tracts of land into which I've been a visitor; from sites I've dreamed of. These works started in my childhood, when I took long sea journeys with my mother to lands, I'd only imagined, and they've continued to develop as memory-maps that also trace the parameters of global environmental anxiety.
Yet they also offer refuge - images that can soothe as much as they can raise concerns.

Artist Statement:

This work developed from walking the surrounding beaches on Minjerribah in particular Dunwich.
The fluid energy of the blue green ocean tide is viewed as a living surface that mutates in depth and movement with the moon cycles. The notion of temporality as a state of existing within time is explored as a procession of the past and the present and the future become visible in the landscape through the human interventions that are ever prescient.
Connections between the landscape and human nature become relatable.
This work also confirms my continued interest in the processes and material of painting.

Artist Name: PAULA IRENE PAYNE

Artwork Title: SHADOWLANDS

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 135 x 135cm

About the Artist:

In the mid to late nineties, I trained as a painter at the Queensland College of Art.
Through my painting I continue my interest in exploring new ways of relating to landscape, but through the lens of how the impact of the Anthropocene affects the ways we relate to land - or to Country - or to place. I draw from personal experiences: from places I've walked across; from tracts of land into which I've been a visitor; from sites I've dreamed of. These works started in my childhood, when I took long sea journeys with my mother to lands, I'd only imagined, and they've continued to develop as memory-maps that also trace the parameters of global environmental anxiety.

My works confirm my interest in the processes and material of painting, manifest environmental anxieties by employing elisions, doubts, and uncertainties in painting techniques. There is deliberate ambivalence in the iconography too

Yet they also offer refuge - images that can soothe as much as they can raise concerns.

Artist Statement:

The term ‘shadowlands’ is used to refer to ‘a shadowy or borderline area, where normal rules and boundaries do not apply’. Yet if this title is used to refer to a body of paintings, what are the ‘normal rules’ that might be being broached here? And if it refers to place – through the tradition of landscape painting – to what kind of ‘shadowy borderline areas’ might this refer?

The work is built up through the application of semi-transparent skeins of paint. Over time forms emerge – incandescent, liminal forms suggested by indistinct edges, bleeds of colour, fields of tone. And every so often the sharp, surprising brittleness of a line appears; though indistinct, quivering, on the brink of being swallowed up again by the amorphous bodies of form from which they emerge.

This work is presented as part of the landscape genre and is driven as much by the impulse to seek out inward realms as to visually explore a tangible world beyond the mind. Observation is overlaid by the mutable imperfections of memory; illusions are fleeting reminders of fugitive and fragile realities. The process of painting alters as do intentions that modify clarity. As a painter I am always adjusting through the process of painting.

Artist Name: SOPHIE DALGLEISH

Artwork Title: POSITIVE THINKING

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 30 x 30cm

About the Artist:

"Sophie's fascination with the Australian landscape is present throughout her work and her response to the country has focused on the observation of nature and its different interpretations. Her paintings are an exquisite offering of 'views through small windows', these are evocative vignettes of those soft warm, sensual experiences that we associate with luxuriating in beautiful countryside and feeling 'at one with Nature'. "

Artist Statement:

This view brings me calm , represents contentment and induces positive thinking .

Artist Name: ROD BAILEY

Artwork Title:

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 40 x 1000cm

About the Artist:

Rod is a self-taught artist. He believes that art starts with an emotion, and its purpose is to have an impact the viewer. The light is so important in his work, and the values are the dominate feature that forms the language and speaks to the witness.

Artist Statement:

The first barge of the day is bringing the tradies to Macleay Island as the sun rises, and the sky catches fire. The water is important to everyone who lives on the island. Many barges, and ferries come and go each day, but the early morning inspires my art.

Artist Name: LEIGH SCHOENHEIMER

Artwork Title: THE MEANING OF (STILL) LIFE: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY -THE RICHMOND BIRDWING BUTTERFLY

Medium: Acrylic on Plywood

Size: 61 x 137cm

About the Artist:

Routinely shortlisted in national art prizes and represented in both public and private collections, Shoenheimer’s 2D and 3D work features extensively in the Visual Art textbook - ‘Creative Inquiry’. (Cambridge University Press - 2019). Her solo exhibition ‘Iterate | Elaborate’ toured Queensland’s regional galleries in 2020 - 21, courtesy of Flying Arts Alliance.

Artist Statement:

Imperilled by land clearing and host-plant confusion with the invasive and poisonous Dutchman’s Pipe, Queensland’s Richmond Birdwing butterfly has teetered on the brink of survival for many years. The creature, its habitat, its taxonomy and the threat of urban sprawl are all referenced in this conceptually expanded work.

Artist Name: CHRIS BYRNES

Artwork Title: SEQUENTIAL LIGHT

Medium: Photography

Size: 73 x 45cm

About the Artist:

Chris Byrnes works predominantly in the medium of photography. Highest academic achievement is MFA from National Art School Sydney. Current research explores beyond photography. Work has been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally in:
Glasgow, London, Midlands, England, Barcelona, New Mexico, Texas, Honolulu, Peru, Outside Paris France, Budapest

Artist Statement:

I live through a contemporary approach to the history of the medium of photography itself. Light is always my subject and the handmade, the physicality of process and the surface that is left behind are all paramount. Pinhole photography, hand printed allowing light to fall over the edge of the paper.

Artist Name: MAX BUTLER

Artwork Title: MY COUNTRY #559

Medium: Oil

Size: 75 x 50cm

About the Artist:

Over a period of seven years, Max Butler traveled all over Australia in his van Morrison, taking hundreds of photos of the landscape as he passed through. He uses these as a reference in creating his dramatic oil paintings depicting the brilliant colours of our country.

Artist Statement:

Rather than giving the paintings a creative title, the artist calls them all "My Country" and numbers them in order of execution. These are all places the artist has passed through, emphasising the true colours that an untrained eye might not see.

Artist Name: MICHAEL MURCHIE

Artwork Title: VESPERA AUSTRALIS

Medium: Digital Print

Size: 100 x 150cm

About the Artist:

Michael is a self taught photographer who has been working since 1988. Primarily working with 4x5 and medium format film. Shooting both landscapes and people he has had several solo exhibitions and been featured in many group exhibitions. He has been a multi-year finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Artist Statement:

On a lonely road is a small dwelling - the tourists see it and romantic images of pioneering hardship come to mind - they photograph it for posterity - but it is just a film set.

Artist Name: CHRISTOPHER MCLEOD

Artwork Title: RAY OF HOPE

Medium: Oil

Size: 101 x 101cm

About the Artist:

CHRISTOPHER MCLEOD has had a long career in the Arts with many one man shows and his paintings have been sold all over the world.

Artist Statement:

I saw this incredible cloud formation over the waters of Macquarie Harbor in Tasmania while on a boat trip and while I was thinking if it was a sign of better things to come a local couple in their tinnie drove past us obviously much more in tune with the local conditions than I was. The waters can be very dangerous there and I thought their appearance on the scene showed we should never give up.

Artist Name: ROBBI NEAL

Artwork Title: WHERE WE WALKED

Medium: Digital Artwork

Size: 70 x 100cm

About the Artist:

Robbi is a writer and painter who dissapointed her very strictly religious grandparents who believed tertiary education was wasted on a girl, by studying painting at the Victorian College of the Arts.
She was a finalist in the 66th Blake Prize, Lethbridge Small Scale (2021and the Ravenswood Prize (2022).

Artist Statement:

My heritage informs my artwork and this work is about the places in the Australian bush where, before my husband became ill with Parkinson’s, we walked through the scrub and trees and it was a place where my grandmother had walked before me, places we all like to walk.

Artist Name: ANDREA KIRKHAM-HOPGOOD

Artwork Title: RIVERVIEW REFLECTIONS

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 103 x 93cm

About the Artist:

Artist Name: Andrea Kirkham-Hopgood

Throughout a long career of teaching Art in Secondary Schools, Andrea has maintained her own Arts practice from her art studio/gallery in Berwick. Victoria.
Andrea is a prolific artist who has works in various galleries within Australia and collections worldwide. She creates work that observe the ordinary, but celebrate the beauty within, inviting the viewer to find a different way of seeing.
Andrea holds weekly classes, monthly workshops and creates work using a wide range of mediums, including: clay, wire, pastel, oil and acrylic.

Artist Statement:

"RIVERVIEW REFLECTIONS" is a painting very close to my heart.
The river and its reflection depicted, is from our family farm. Much time has been spent, sitting by the Goulburn and reflecting on life. My children grew up with this body of water, we've kayaked on it, swam in it, we have laughed with it, bathed with it and cried just looking at it, The power of the river is a reminder that much in life is beyond our control.

Artist Name: SHERYLYN ROULSTON

Artwork Title: A VIEW FROM KAY'S ROAD

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

About the Artist:

I have been painting for over 10 years now and have sold numerous works at local galleries and art shows as well as on-line.

My first love will always be watercolour, followed closely by Oils. I do dabble in acrylic, pastel and mixed media as I love them all for different reasons.

Artist Statement:

This painting is inspired by my road home as I come around the hills and look into the valley in which I live, the changing colour's, sometimes rich and vibrant, sometimes more subtle. My aim was to capture the variation of the light, grasses and the mountains in the distance. Trees are a special delight to me.

Artist Name: PATRICK ZAIA

Artwork Title: NATURHORROR (SUBTERRANEOUS ACTIVITY)

Medium: Digital Print

Size: 42 x 30cm

About the Artist:

Patrick Zaia is an artist, writer and occasional musician currently based in Brisbane, Australia.

Artist Statement:

The following artwork is composed of 23 different pencil drawings of the Australian landscape, which have than been digitally superimposed unto another to create a single image. By doing so, the artwork aims to convey the natural world as abstract yet dynamic unfolding of evolutionary processes.

Artist Name: DAVID MACNAMARA

Artwork Title: THE PINE TREE PADDOCK

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 79 x 104cm

About the Artist:

Happy artist for many of my younger years until business and family and life in general took priority.
Art has always been my passion and now is the time to set goals and targets to recreate that lifelong ambition.
I’m happy to paint anything and everything, landscapes, flowers, portraits, animals, nudes.
Most of my work is oil on canvas and or linen, some are framed, all the materials used are of the best quality.

Artist Statement:

This is a truly beautiful place where the mountains hide the sun as it drops behind and creates a whole range of late afternoon colors
The cattle yards are timber logs cut from the hills and valley in this farming community
this work has been painted on canvas using quality oil paints and finished with a non-intrusive eternity wooden frame.

Artist Name: JOHN DONEGAN

Artwork Title: BLUE

Medium: Multimedia print on Ilford Cotton Rag

Size: 80 x 80cm

About the Artist:

John Donegan sold his first photo to a newspaper when he was 14. After 40 years as a photojournalist, Donegan has turned his eye to the landscape on Yorta Yorta Country.

Artist Statement:

Blue, from the 'Evolution' series, is my continued exploration of my relationship with the waterways and bush around Yorta Yorta Country, and how living in this environment influences how I relate to myself.

Artist Name: JOHN

Artwork Title: PURPLE

Medium: Multimedia print on Ilford Cotton Rag

Size: 80 x 80cm

About the Artist:

John Donegan sold his first photo to a newspaper when he was 14. After 40 years as a photojournalist, Donegan has turned his eye to the landscape on Yorta Yorta Country.

Artist Statement:

Purple, from the 'Evolution' series, is my continued exploration of my relationship with the waterways and bush around Yorta Yorta Country, and how living in this environment influences how I relate to myself.

Artist Name: DAVID USHER

Artwork Title: SMOKE ON THE WATER (A FIRE IN THE SKY)

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 90 x 90cm

About the Artist:

My arts practice involves generating both painted and ceramic works as a response to moving through the Australian Landscape and the endless possibilities it offers the artist for developing new visual narratives. My work celebrates the order (and disorder) of the human presence in the landscape.

Artist Statement:

I am currently working on a new body of work that continues to explore new ways of interpreting the landscape through the act of painting. My hope is that the viewer engages with these works and perhaps rethinks the way they see and understand the landscape that surrounds them.

Artist Name: EVA BELTRAN

Artwork Title: WINDOWS IN TIME

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 122 x 153cm

About the Artist:

I have an expressionist approach to subjects, aiming to depict an emotional experience more than a physical reality. My work explores landscapes and memories through abstract figurations where intricate perspective is conveyed through linework variations and layers of paint. These storytelling paintings often incorporate symbolic elements.

Artist Statement:

Do places have memory? Are they energetically charged? I often wonder how some landscapes can take us back in time by being untouched. Like magnets, like windows in time, they lure us into an introspective journey. Silently, they allow us to look through the eyes of another human being standing in that same spot centuries ago. We enter those windows and emerge from them grasping a deeper understanding, a connection to a place. Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair is a window in time.

Artist Name: EVA BELTRAN

Artwork Title: AKURRA'S TRAIL

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 90 x 120cm

About the Artist:

I have an expressionist approach to subjects, aiming to depict an emotional experience more than a physical reality. My work explores landscapes and memories through abstract figurations where intricate perspective is conveyed through linework variations and layers of paint. These storytelling paintings often incorporate symbolic elements.

Artist Statement:

According to the Adnyamathanha Aboriginal people, Akurra the giant serpent was very thirsty and drunk a whole lake. On his way back home, his bloated body carved gorges and made waterholes at places he camped. Arkaroola is one of them. A true wilderness sanctuary in the outback environment of the Flinders Rangers.

Artist Name: TANIA GLANVILLE

Artwork Title: 12 MONTHS ON COMMON GROUND

Medium: acrylic paintr

Size: 156 x 117cm

About the Artist:

Tania lives and works in Weymouth on Tasmania’s picturesque North East coast and her most recent solo Exhibition was held in 2022 at the ‘Gallows’ gallery in Launceston In 2021 was a finalist in the prestigious Stanthorpe Art Prize.

Artist Statement:

This work is a homage, in good faith to my visual and physical relationship with the land I live on. In creating the work, I both rejoice in the strength of traditional owners, the Trawoolaway people and ache for the cruel losses they have suffered. I’m still working on what it means to be Australian and to exist in a space which I have essentially appropriated.

Artist Name: DE GILLETT COX

Artwork Title: ORIGINS TAPESTRY

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 91 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Painter of large, vibrant canvases, De Gillett Cox captures intensity in acrylic. Her highly textured canvases demand our attention with a vibrant new take on familiar subjects. Juxtaposing opacity & transparency, positive & negative, textures & glazes; she fills her canvases with sumptuous celebration and an organic neo-futurism.

Artist Statement:

Formal patterns invoke a cascading landscape of water fall and flow. Such seasonal richness is bountiful in the hinterland of Southeast Queensland, here depicted stich by stitch as a painted embroidery of lands which always were and always will be Aboriginal land.

Artist Name: MERON SOMERS

Artwork Title: FOREST

Medium: acrylic

Size: 61 x 92cm

About the Artist:

A passion for gardening has led Meron Somers along tha pathway to the joys of painting nature both flowers and landscapes. The subject matter is constantly evolving and is shaped by Meron's daily experiences. Colour, shape, texture and light are all part of the composition of each painting, all that are quite different but all linked by the love of gardening and landscapes in general.

Meron enjoys painting with acrylics, the ease of blending the paint and using both fine and bold strokes ensure every painting has it's own unique quality and character.

Artist Statement:

Whilst on a hike in the South Island of New Zealand the cool dense forest evoked mystery and beckoned one to adventure into it's unique atmosphere.

The mist created a softness and silence that needed to be explored with caution and awe by the vastness of the forest.

Artist Name: LINDSAY CRAWFORD

Artwork Title: AFTERNOON PARK IN LUTWYCHE

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 61 x 51cm

About the Artist:

Lindsay Crawford is an artist currently working in Brisbane, who explores using a variety of traditional mediums including pencil, charcoal, ink and oil. His practice is an engagement with everyday experience, materials, art history and process.
Lindsay also performs ambient experimental music solo and in collaboration with other musicians using various electronic instruments.

Artist Statement:

This painting evolved from a series of drawings made over different days in a park in Lutwyche. The purpose of the drawings was to create a feedback loop of looking and drawing, searching for shapes and responding by mark making from multiple perspectives. These drawings were a starting point for transposing that experience from pencil on paper to oil on canvas.
In that process, the looking and drawing (in pigments) continued, through determining intervals of colour responding to the recollected afternoon light that the drawings commenced in.

Artist Name: ROB BARTOLO

Artwork Title: OUTBACK UNDERGROUND

Medium: Oil and acrylic paint on canvas

Size: 76 x 61cm

Artist Name: DOUG MCNEILL

Artwork Title:

Medium: oil on hessian and canvas

Size: 102 x 102cm

About the Artist:

Doug is an emerging artist who currently completing a Bachelors of Fine Art through Griffith University Queensland College of Art, he enjoys exploring the landscape and responding to it through his art practice.

Artist Statement:

“Coplicks Bend” Tallebudgera vistas are a source of inspiration in my practice, this is close to where I live. I love that it’s on a piece of privately owned land that still runs dairy cattle so close to the busy lifestyle and hectic pace of the Gold Coast.

Artist Name: DOUG MCNEILL

Artwork Title: BUSH CARVE

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 1170 x 1170cm

About the Artist:

Doug is an emerging artist who currently completing a Bachelors of Fine Art through Griffith University Queensland College of Art, he enjoys exploring figuration the landscape and figuration responding to it through his art practice.

Artist Statement:

I reside in Tallebudgera Valley and am drawn to its natural environment, Bush Carve was inspired from watching heavy rain carving the land out in the Valley sloping bush, leaving these beautiful earthy red tones juxtaposed against the prevalent green’s blues and browns of the Australian bush and sky.

Artist Name: ABBEY BRYON

Artwork Title: RED HILL ONE

Medium: Acrylic & oil pastel on canvas

Size: 33 x 33cm

About the Artist:

Abbey Bryon is an emerging abstract artist, originally from rural New South Wales, now based on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Working from memory and experience and informed by the unapologetic Australian environment, her work is an unforced and organic abstraction of the natural world. Her process involves intuitive and playful mark making which loosely reflects the landscape, either imaginary or recalled from memory or muse. Utilising colour theory and mood, she develops unexpected palettes and compositions.
Her latest series, Renewed, explores unique landscape compositions and mirrored imagery through diptych. Various pieces have been painted to allow the collector to arrange them in four different ways: either side-by-side or mirrored vertically. Through this process, she invites the viewer to challenge bias and perspective, and encourages holistic views, experimentation, and open minded exploration of ideas.
Highly receptive to her environment, the artist finds a wealth of inspiration in her studio space at Eramboo Artist’s Environment in Terrey Hills, surrounded by bushland and bordering the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park. She uses mixed media including acrylic, charcoal, oils and pastel to convey her connection to the land.
Abbey was highly commended in The Gallerist’s Emerging Art Prize 2021 with her work “Amateur’s Hill After A Thunderstorm”. She has exhibited with The Other Art Fair in Sydney, where she was a featured artist within the Saint Cloche curation as well as the Art Money Curation in December 2021. Her work is featured and sold via Art Lovers Australia and Bluethumb Art, and has been featured in several issues of Art Edit Magazine.

Artist Statement:

One half of a diptych that can be arranged four different ways, either side-by-side or mirrored vertically. The piece depicts three overlapped landscapes from varied viewpoints, inspired by the bushland surrounding the artist’s home.
The artist’s process is swift and intuitive, yet deliberately accidential, with considered and organic mark making that creates a finish similar to a screenprint on the canvas. The raw linen substrate creates negative space between the layers of landscape imagery, allowing the viewer to arrange the diptych as they wish to interpret it.

Artist Name: LUCY HERSEY

Artwork Title: LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOWS ON A BOAT

Medium: Ground earth and clay on cotton

Size: 40 x 30cm

About the Artist:

Sustainability, and a connection to nature is central to Lucy Hersey's practice, as she collects natural materials, mainly pigmented clays and earth, to mix her own natural, textured paints. Her local landscape, and plein air studies inform her studio paintings, which she completes in 'earth paint' using techniques she has developed herself as a self-taught artist.

Artist Statement:

This painting is based on a study I made while artist in residence on board 'The FLOAT' - a purpose-built off grid floating artist studio/observatory (houseboat) on Bung Yarnda (Lake Tyers). Accessible only by kayak, and only the bird and aquatic life for company - it was an extraordinary experience, challenging and inspiring in extreme measures. With windows on all sides, the reflection of the view from the windows behind would often sparkle and distort what I could see, creating multiple views at once, a delightful, boaty phenomenon.

Artist Name: JUANITA SANGANITHY

Artwork Title: REACHING OUT - REFLECTIONS OVER DOVE LAKE

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 81 x 56cm

About the Artist:

Juanita is an Australian artist who enjoys being immersed in nature, observing the colours, light and textures, and bringing these to life on the canvas. Capturing images from the natural beauty in her surroundings and painting these to incredible detail in a photorealistic style serves as a meditation for Juanita.

Artist Statement:

On a chilly winter day at Dove Lake, breathtaking snow-capped mountains reflected their glory in the still waters, while the twisting eucalypt reached towards the light of the cool afternoon. Painting this scene takes me back to a moment in time, now everlasting.

Artist Name: MAGGIE CROSS

Artwork Title: CITYSCAPE

Medium: charcoal & acrylic on board

Size: 30 x 25cm

About the Artist:

I am primarily a landscape artist where trees dominate my compositions. I paint with oils and acrylics but love drawing, particularly with charcoal. I am also developing works with monoprints and mixed media. Negative shapes interest me.

Artist Statement:

Our urban landscape reflects nature. Main arterials with intersecting secondary limbs weaving among them creates a chaotic landscape. But somehow there is a sense of order.

Artist Name: PAUL REES

Artwork Title: WOMAN WITH BUCKET FLEES DORNOCH TCE CRIME SCENE

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 915 x 61cm

About the Artist:

Paul Rees is a Brisbane-based painter who works in oils and watercolours. He is a finalist in the 2023 Harden Landscape Prize. He is a previous winner of ABC Radio National's Short Story Competition. He has been involved in many community and environmental activities over the years.

Artist Statement:

This painting is from my 'Towering' series showing West End being encircled by apartment towers and tower cranes building yet more towers.

This view from Dornoch Terrace bridge shows a woman who has just pasted a poster on the bridge. It asks, 'which is the crime,’ and 'who is committing it’?

Artist Name: FELICIA ARONEY

Artwork Title: PURPLE MOUNTAINS

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 83 x 83cm

About the Artist:

Represented by 8 Australian Art Galleries. Over 50 Exhibitions, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul and Florence Italy. Mosman, Hornsby, Lethbridge small scale, Lake Macquaries and Waverley Art Prize finalists. Renowned for her many layered textural landscapes Felicia draws inspiration from the appearance and antiquity of European architecture combined with her Australian environment.

Artist Statement:

The light of the sun evolves throughout the day and I am moved by the soft, cool tones reflected at dawn and dusk. Purple Mountains is my tribute to the cycles of light and dark and how thy come together twice a day in absolute harmony.

Artist Name: MARGIE LIGHT

Artwork Title: MORETON BAY FIGS RE-IMAGINED

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 57 x 77cm

About the Artist:

My inspiration comes from nature. It may be something I have spotted while walking in my neighbourhood or on one of the bushwalking trails I love. My painting is a way of bringing the outside beauty inside where it comforts and reminds me how wonderful this world is. Watercolour is my preferred medium.
I hope that in all my paintings there is something of nature and something of me.

Artist Statement:

I walk past these magnificent Moreton Bay Figs regularly and have wanted to paint them for some time. They are native to Australia and have been part of the landscape I've grown up with all my life. It is very satisfying to have honoured them in my work.

Artist Name: SUXING ZHANG

Artwork Title: MIST #1

Medium: Oil

Size: 40 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Suxing Zhang (张素行) is a Chinese visual artist currently residing in Sydney. Zhang’s works focus on contemporary paintings and photography.

Artist Name: JULES FARRELL

Artwork Title: RISING ABOVE THE SCENIC RIM

Medium: Oil

Size: 45 x 58cm

About the Artist:

‘Rising above the Scenic Rim’ captures the breathtaking peak of Mt. Cordeaux at Cunningham's Gap. With bold brushstrokes and vibrant colours, I have sought to convey the mountain's powerful majesty and commanding presence, inviting the viewer to experience the raw beauty of this rugged landscape.

Artist Statement:

Jules Farrell is a contemporary landscape impressionist from Brisbane who seeks to create work that evokes deep reflection on our love and connection to the Australian landscape. Drawing inspiration from his late father, also a landscape painter, Jules is dedicated to continuing this legacy through the exploration of his own artistic journey. Painting en plein air is integral to his practice, allowing him to capture the essence of the natural world through energetic and painterly mark making.

Artist Name: ANGELA PARR

Artwork Title: IT'S OURS NOW

Medium: Pastel

Size: 24 x 44cm

About the Artist:

Angela has been drawing and painting for as long as she can remember and has used all mediums in her artworks, switching to pastels a few years ago. The pastel medium seems to suit her style and subject matter; however, she still picks up a brush from time to time.

Artist Statement:

This 130 year old house rests near where I live. I photograph it almost daily, each time seeing it in a new light, watching the changing patina of the roof and walls, and how the cows often mill around it. It is a very significant landmark of our local area.

Artist Name: REINA MULLER

Artwork Title: RAINFOREST IN AUSTRALIA ZOO

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 30 x 40cm

About the Artist:

Reina want to be landscape artist in a future then she has been painting for nearly 10 years specialised in acrylic painting.

Reina has gotten awards from Gympie Show First prize in 2018, and highly recommend in 2017.

Reina studied Graphic Design in 2021 and expecting to go to art university for visual art course.

Reina does digital design but she likes analogue way to paint better most of the time.
And she wants to be a painting art teacher in her future.

Artist Statement:

When I went to Australia Zoo, after saw the birds and monkeys, I saw this beautiful scenery in the zoo.

It was hard to believe the scenery is a part of the zoo.

I took the shot with camera then I painted the beautiful rainforest.

Artist Name: SANDRA JENKINS

Artwork Title: LIFFEY FALLS

Medium: oil

Size: 101 x 76cm

About the Artist:

Sandra Jenkins lives and works in Latrobe, Tasmania. She creates artworks depicting her surroundings, both interior and exterior. She aims to capture an impression of the beauty of our daily lives.

Artist Statement:

The short bushwalk into Liffey Falls is always worth it. Whether it’s summer or winter, heavy or light flow, there is always something beautiful to see. Those who have made the effort sit quietly for a while in nature, before making their way back up the same track and back to their busy lives.

Artist Name: RAFAEL BUTRON

Artwork Title: RIVER OF ASH

Medium: Oil on archival jute

Size: 153 x 183cm

About the Artist:

Rafael Butron is an artist whose detailed works are a highly personal and subjective response to climate and the effect this has on the environment. Working in oil painting, Butron delves into recent events and explores the implications of ruined landscapes.

Artist Statement:

'River of Ash' is a response to fires in the South coast region of NSW in 2020, where the fire was most savage, altering the ecosystem of the area. Water was replaced with mud from the ash creating a sludge meters in depth.

Artist Name: DANIEL SCOTT

Artwork Title: MARYVALE, COWS

Medium: Oil

Size: 46 x 61cm

About the Artist:

Dan Scott is a self-taught Australian oil painter with a particular interest in capturing nature’s beauty using impressionist techniques.

Artist Statement:

Cows nestled on the hillside in Maryvale. Brushes and palette knives were used to build up layers of broken color and impasto texture.

Artist Name: DENNIS JOHN MCCART

Artwork Title: WHAT LIES BENEATH

Medium: ink, graphite, charcoal, watercolour pens and pencils on watercolour paper

Size: 84 x 84cm

About the Artist:

My practice explores the collaboration between artist and machine learning to facilitate and enhance creativity. My methodology is grounded and engaged with transitional liminal sites found at the fringes of forests and urban habitation. I apply technology, narrative and symbolism revealing landscapes that are vital expressions of creative engagement.

Artist Statement:

My artwork highlights the Tarkine forest in Tasmania where ancient myrtle trees stretch across hundreds of hectares. Threatened by logging interests that seek to degrade its beauty and an invasive fungus known as "myrtle wilt". The fungus chokes the flow of sap to the tree crown, killing the tree.

Artist Name: DANE BEESLEY

Artwork Title: 100

Medium: Giclée print

Size: 61 x 61cm

About the Artist:

Dane Beesley (born 1978) is an Australian photographer based in Brisbane. He has created photography books; exhibited widely; and his photographs are held in public and private collections. Using the family basement as a darkroom, he began taking pictures from an early age but when he purchased an enormous jumble of old cameras and photography equipment from a deceased estate, he started experimenting

Artist Statement:

100 is an authentic portrait of urban sprawl, Beesley's minimal approach draws the viewers attention to detail.

Artist Name: GEOFFREY ODGERS

Artwork Title: ROCKS COILA BEACH SUNNY DAY

Medium: Oils on Canvas

Size: 100 x 76cm

About the Artist:

Born Bacchus Marsh 1948
Self Taught
I have featured in 14 Solo Exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, 1973 - 2002 and 26 Group Exhibitions.
I was chosen as one of 25 International Artists to be published in the book Omnia Vincit Amor by the Italian Collagists Collective, 2022.

Artist Statement:

My painting Series Rocks Coila Beach are entwined in my identity both objectively through my Cornish ancestry, and subjectively through my creative practice seeking the essence of identity.
I seek the elegant repose of Morandi’s composition, the found imagery of Schwitters and the sheer exuberance Kokoschka.

Artist Name: JOSEPHINE HILL

Artwork Title: MIMOSIFOLIA

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 76 x 76cm

About the Artist:

Josephine's works are featured in homes across Australia and as far as the UK. Josephine combines her formal training in Colour Design with her passion to create opportunities for individual interpretation and shared experience about the story behind a landscape. The result is a joyful dramatic collision of pattern and colour across the canvas.

Artist Statement:

The city became awash with purple. As far as the eye could see pops of purple engulfed the streets of Brisbane. Jacarandas uplift ones spirits bringing a sense of promise and joy. Mimosifolia captures the bliss and delight of this season.

Artist Name: ALISON MCDONALD

Artwork Title: SILENT ITERATIONS OF CHANGE

Medium: Discarded library cards, stainless steel & brass

Size: 10 x 50cm

About the Artist:

Alison McDonald’s 20-year practice sits at the junction of sculpture, consumer culture and environmental concern and ranges in size from epic sculpture to microscopic jewellery. Her artworks also aim to explore and inspire social change by combining multiples of consumer waste. More can be seen at alisonmcdonald.com.au.

Artist Statement:

This undulating landscape continues my exploration into human emotions. Creating it became a battle as rogue cards would not conform. Eventually during this silent negotiation between artist and material, we compromised, as I went with the flow and imperfections, and then allowed them their own way to mutual benefit.

Artist Name: PETER TANKEY

Artwork Title: THE DREAM

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 51 x 76cm

About the Artist:

As a painter who works across still life, landscape and figuration – I explore narratives that capture the beauty and struggles of contemporary life.
At the end of the day – what I want is for my work to be both thought provoking and technically captivating.

Artist Statement:

"The Dream" is an homage to Henri Rousseau's masterpiece of the same title, reimagined in the context of contemporary urban life. A man asleep in front of a partially demolished building, lost in his music, while a cat watches from the shadows. The painting captures a moment of tranquility in the midst of urban decay, inviting reflection on the relationship between humans and nature.

Artist Name: RICK BARDSLEY-SMITH

Artwork Title: PULPIT HILL CREEK

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 54 x 75cm

Artist Statement:

Pulpit Hill Creek
Sunlight penetrates deep in the ravine. The water babbles over the rocks and through pools. Blue light and green moss complement the warm colours of our sandstone. We found this delight on the Coachwood Glen Nature Trail, Blue Mountains.

Artist Name: RICK BARDSLEY-SMITH

Artwork Title: BEVERLY PLACE

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 51 x 74cm

Artist Statement:

Beverly Place
Our Australian landscape includes the all too familiar rear facades of shops fronting a main street in a regional town. The mundane of brickwork, windows, openings, doors, gates, air conditioning units, pipes & service lines comprise the canvas. In this case it has been celebrated.

Artist Name: KEVIN MARRIAGE

Artwork Title: END OF THE BITUMEN

Medium: Erasure drawing on plaster

Size: 82 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Kevin Marriage is using research into ancient drawing techniques to portray his view of a human dynamic which has lost its sense of place in the world, searching for short term profit with no regard for the cost of our endeavour. Using egg tempera as a medium on a plaster surface, he erases to produce his vision of how our planet could look.

Artist Statement:

My work is erasure drawing, scratching through the painted surface to produce an image. This erasure reflects the subject matter, the disappearance of wild places, the flora and fauna that rely on these diverse habitats for their survival and ultimately our own survival. We are the problem; we cannot procrastinate any longer.

Artist Name: TANYA OGILVIE-WHITE

Artwork Title: THE VELVET CALM

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 42 x 30cm

About the Artist:

I'm an encaustic artist from Brunswick Heads in the Northern Rivers. I'm captivated by light - especially twilight. In my work, I use ancient hot and cold wax techniques to capture the moment the sun disappears and the landscape softens. To see more of my encaustics, follow me on Instagram @scorchingskiesart.

Artist Statement:

"The Velvet Calm" shows a white-cheeked honeyeater perching on a twig at the edge of the Brunswick River. I've tried to capture serenity in this piece, burning layers of hot wax and raw pigments into my landscape photograph and applying deep-toned cold wax in the shadows.

Artist Name: LYNNE METTAM

Artwork Title: DINGO COUNTRY

Medium: Oil

Size: 54 x 64cm

About the Artist:

I have been a working artist now for 40 years and have moved recently from Perth to Brisbane. My work in various mediums and subjects has been seen in many exhibitions, solo and group in Perth, sold to buyers in the US, New Zealand, New Guinea, locally and Australia wide.

Artist Statement:

This piece - Dingo Country, depicts our native dog who is found in many states of Australia and still hunted variously - although recently it seems its life has been understood a little better. He is fairly secretive but can be bold when predatory or its food sources are stressed.

Artist Name: SALLY WEST

Artwork Title: KENT STREET

Medium: Oil

Size: 120 x 180cm

About the Artist:

I work mostly in oils and have been painting for over 30 years. I enjoy studying the landscape and the connection to humans. Hence why I am often drawn to street scenes. I am predominantly a plein air painter but in situations like this it is awkward to set up in the road so I work from photographs. What I learn in the landscape working on site is brought to the studio.

Artist Statement:

Kent Street is in Sydney and feels very Gotham City to me. It is dark from the shadows cast by large buildings. I liked the contrast of the pink English cab against the backdrop which drew me into paint it. As in any situation there is lightness and darkness, softness and hardness.

Artist Name: JENNY REDDIN

Artwork Title: SEEN FROM ABOVE

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas

Size: 75 x 75cm

About the Artist:

Jenny Reddin is a painter and sculptor based in the Yarra Valley in Victoria. Jenny is informed by the world around her from grand vistas and open skies to the intricate details of nature. She is a survivor of the 2009 bushfires and her landscapes often suggest that experience. Jenny is influenced by artists such as Hughie O'Donough and Adrienne Gaha,

Artist Statement:

The earth seen from above gives endless inspiration. I was interested in capturing the impact of recent flood waters on the land, in particular, the aftermath.

Artist Name: LEA KANNAR-LICHTENBERGER

Artwork Title: FOREST VISIONS

Medium: Acrylic on microscopic archival photographic image

Size: 100 x 70cm

About the Artist:

I am an artist with an interdisciplinary practice creating artworks and installations that examine the impact of the Anthropocene and consumerism on the Utopian destination. My interdisciplinary eco-critical vision as the artist/tourist/traveller, observer embraces various mediums from painting, printmedia, photography and drawing, to bioart, projection, video, sound and installation.

Artist Statement:

Beneath all life the complex microscopic world is the driver. This is an examination of the micro and macro; a forest lays across the surface of the microscopic image, transformed into something new. Emerging into a unique narrative this examination acknowledges that all life is connected on a cellular level.

Artist Name: DAVID BIGNELL

Artwork Title: 5PM FLINDERS STREET

Medium: Photographic art

Size: 41 x 23cm

About the Artist:

David Bignell worked for decades in the TV graphic arts and now focusses on conceptual photography.

Artist Statement:

My photographic art captures the chaotic energy of the crowds outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne.
I am conveying the frenzied movement and bustling atmosphere of this iconic location. By embracing the dynamism of the scene, I hope to engage the viewer and evoke a sense of excitement and vibrancy.

Artist Name: CATHERINE APHRA HIGHAM

Artwork Title: INSIDE DAZZLER RANGE

Medium: Encaustic/board

Size: 90 x 90cm

About the Artist:

Catherine exhibits extensively including four solo and numerous group exhibitions. Work is held in private and corporate collections. Qualifications include a Bachelor of Contemporary Art (Honours), Grad.Dip.Ed., and Grad.Cert.Ed., (Design and Technology).

Artist Statement:

Shy Susan/Tetratheca gunnii is a critically endangered wildflower that does not produce nectar. The landscape that interacts with Shy Susan, achieves pollination via native bees attracted to neighbouring flora. Shy Susan is 'sum total' of the unique floral landscape of the Dazzler Ranges, in northern Tasmania.

Artist Name: FLORENCE WANG

Artwork Title: RAINY DAY ALONG SYDNEY ROAD

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 41 x 51cm

About the Artist:

Florence is a visual artist based in Naarm, Melbourne. Her art practice focuses on the narrative aspects of visual medium and using subject matter for storytelling. Presently, she takes an interest in portraiture, still life, and landscape paintings that represent everyday life experiences.

Artist Statement:

My paintings are the depictions of where I live and work in Brunswick, Victoria. Some days when the weather isn’t ideal, I particularly enjoy walking along Sydney Road and seeing the busy shop fronts, as they never look dull even on the gloomiest day.

Artist Name: MEG FRANCES

Artwork Title: SUMMER'S END

Medium: acrylic

Size: 53 x 63cm

About the Artist:

Meg is a self-taught artist, living in Brisbane with her husband and three kids and painting from her home-studio, surrounded by the bush and her garden. Her time spent living with her family in central Queensland, along with holidays exploring rural Australia, provides the inspiration for Meg's art.

Artist Statement:

This landscape celebrates the glittering afternoon light of late summer over the trees and hills of the Lockyer Valley, near Toowoomba, Queensland. The browns and golds of the land hint towards the coming of Autumn and the subtle pinks of the clouds are reflected in the waving grasses of the foreground.

Artist Name: ANDREW SMITH

Artwork Title: KING'S CANYON

Medium: Oil

Size: 30 x 60cm

About the Artist:

I began painting as a teenager but had a 30 year hiatus due to work and family commitments. In the past five years I have picked up a brush again and have been mainly painting portraits and pets for family and friends. I have a lifelong love for all types of art but a particular affinity for the postimpressionist style of the early 1900’s.

Instagram - andrewpsmithart

Prizes - 3rd place Brookfield Art Show 2021

Artist Statement:

Pointillist interpretation of the magnificent King's Canyon

Artist Name: CASEY CHARLES

Artwork Title: WENDY'S GARDEN NO.1

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 76 x 101cm

About the Artist:

Casey Charles is a Brisbane artist painting in oils on canvas. His paintings have a distinctive personal style that emanate joy and are inspired by the people, places and the colours from his travels. Behind each of these works there lies the feeling of an equally intriguing story.

Artist Statement:

Wendy's Garden is a salute to the wonderful space created over a 20 year period by Wendy Whiteley and is an inspiration to artists and writers who have been privileged to sit quietly and enjoy its beauty and energy.

Artist Name: GITTE BACKHAUSEN

Artwork Title: ARBOREAL WONDERS

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 92 x 107cm

About the Artist:

Gitte Backhausen is a Danish-born Australian Artist who lives between the South Coast of NSW and Sydney. Multidisciplinary in her practice she predominantly works in painting. Her practice explores, questions and expresses the human experience through the visual language of nature.

Artist Statement:

From the series “Between Earth and Sky”. There is a fascinating invisible world of communication between all aspects of our arboreal eco systems.  Evidence shows, a forest community thrives through a variety of invisible networks of communication that supports, sustains and helps each member to coexist, thrive and survive.

Artist Name: GEOFF CUNNINGHAM

Artwork Title: 'BE MORE LIKE GEORGE'

Medium: Acrylic & aerosol

Size: 76 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Geoff Cunningham is a Stencil Artist living & creating in Melbourne. His distinctive works often combine the themes of streetscapes, nostalgia and humour to form a backdrop for his thought provoking narratives.
"I love the challenge of bringing so many different artistic disciplines together to create a finished piece that allows the viewer to step into a world that is familiar, yet somehow beautiful and unexpected”

Artist Statement:

'Be More Like George' is a snapshot of a typical morning street scene in front of this beautiful old building in Fitzroy, Melbourne. I love this area and was originally planning to paint the entire building, but instead, decided to focus on the people going about their daily routine.
The background is multi-layered and textured to symbolise generations of history and also to create visual interest. This is achieved by using a combination of impressionist, abstract and hand cut stencil techniques.

Artist Name: PENELOPE MCMANUS

Artwork Title: UP STREAM

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 81 x 99cm

About the Artist:

See above

Artist Statement:

'Up Stream' is a painting from a series I am developing on the theme 'Water.' A difficult subject to many in the Northern Rivers of NSW due to the devastating and destructive forces of the 2022 floods.

Artist Name: TAMMY WHITWORTH

Artwork Title: OFFERINGS

Medium: oil on board

Size: 31 x 23cm

About the Artist:

Tammy Whitworth is a Brisbane based artist who uses oil paint to convey her experiences of anxieties, Mothering and the natural world.

Artist Statement:

As a Mother, the weight that I may feel is relayed through compositions which are both real and impossible. Finding these connections to nature, to the universe is imperative to our journey.

In the silence, if we look, signs of inspiration and beauty are all around us.

Artist Name: BRENDAN LANGFIELD

Artwork Title: OUR SUNSHINE

Medium: Oil

Size: 101 x 76cm

About the Artist:

I believe art should be for everyone, and endeavour to create vibrant and accessible work. Like many, I appreciate and admire aesthetics, but have at times felt intimidated and alienated by the art world. When I began painting 12 months ago, I set out to create work that a) makes me feel good, and b) lets people in. By capturing familiar subjects, with dynamic and interesting palettes, I create pieces that I think look nice. Colours and shapes on canvas. Nothing more complex than that. Created for comfortable & joyful consumption, without timidity or pretension.

Artist Statement:

Two trees locked in a dance. This work highlights the beautiful shapes created as trees overlap, intermingle and intertwine. Spotted on a hike, surrounded by hundreds of other trees, I placed the pair in a vacant landscape, removing distractions and highlighting the light and shadow created by their dance.

Artist Name: LOUISE GOW

Artwork Title: FLOAT (REVISITED)

Medium: Mixed Media Collage/Painting

Size: 70 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Inspired by Dada and Surrealism, I utilise visual expression as a means of storytelling. While my practice is still eclectic to some degree, I aim to create works which strike the perfect balance between chaotic movement and cohesive meaning, between intricate detail and striking focus.

Artist Statement:

Our little spinning chunk of rock is changing. Temperatures and oceans are rising, forests and biodiversity shrinking. As bushland dries out, bushfires increase, and as the water table drops, our farmers’ land crumbles away. We’re all just trying to build homes and raise families, to survive on a floating island.

Artist Name: GEORGE ARNOLD

Artwork Title: GORDON’S BAY, SYD

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas

Size: 105 x 80cm

About the Artist:

27 years old, professional since 2022, student at QCA.
I aim to combine modern painting techniques with traditional form. This essence, I believe, can be captured through accuracy of composition and colour.

Artist Statement:

Recent southern travels lead me to this beach known to many though realised as truely amazing only by those who don’t take it for granted.

Artist Name: OWEN HUTCHISON

Artwork Title: ...AND THEIR TEARS RAN DOWN TO THE SEA.

Medium: Woodcut

Size: 32 x 65cm

About the Artist:

Born at Sandgate, Queensland, 1944. Became a teacher of and humanities. Near retirement I became serious about printmaking - established Steephill Studio at Maleny. Nearly all of my prints are woodcuts as I enjoy working with wood and I have an eclectic mixture of subject matter. But I really like to have a narrative within my artwork.

Artist Statement:

…....and their tears ran down to the sea.

My image depicts a major theme of the Aboriginal legend of the origin of what European Culture calls the Glasshouse Mountains.
In Aboriginal culture, the family of mountains experiences a serious domestic incident which culminates in a major disappointment for all ….and their tears run down to the sea.
I'm hoping to acquaint more Australians with the legend.

Artist Name: FIONA COWARD

Artwork Title: RASPBERRY CREEK CROSSING

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 50 x 40cm

About the Artist:

Fiona Coward is a self-taught artist who reignited her passion for painting as an adult in 2019. Fiona uses various acrylic techniques to create vibrant, abstracted landscapes.

Artist Name: ELLA HOLME

Artwork Title: LITTLE POOL

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 31 x 42cm

About the Artist:

Finishing my first year of fine art in 2016, i didnt take to oil painting until 2019. I practised mostly with stilllife since the beginning because it was flexible and accessible, still life almost became my landscape.

Since 2021 i have started to look outside as well as trying some portraits.

Little Pool was 2nd in a series of my first plein air studies, around my mums pool

Artist Statement:

This painting is was a quick plein air painting at my mums house. When my daughter goes to her grandma's for a play or a swim, i always freight about the pool gate, incase its been left open. She is still learning how to swim and how to respect water. This painting i feel captures the waters surface as glimmering in the afternoon light, as well as one of a mother's biggest fears.

Artist Name: PETE ROSS

Artwork Title: SUNSET OVER SOUTH BEACH

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 150 x 100cm

About the Artist:

Pete Ross lives and works in Fremantle Western Australia.
A past finalist in the Black Swan Prize and semi finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.
Today, Petes practice primarily focuses on interpretation of environment.

Artist Statement:

Sunset over South Beach is an interpretation of environment drawn from observation from journeys across the vast and beautiful West Australian landscape.

Artist Name: RODERICK ANDERSON

Artwork Title: LIFE CYCLE (ON THE BIBBULMUN TRACK, DWELLINGUP)

Medium: Oil on hardboard

Size: 88 x 149cm

About the Artist:

Roderick Anderson is an artist based in Perth, Western Australia. His artistic career spans more than 50 years, working mainly in oil paints, in a non-abstract and vaguely traditional manner.

Artist Statement:

This is a view of the forest just outside Dwellingup on the Bibbulmun Track. I have tried to capture the density of the trees and the variation of growth from young, to old, to fallen. The Western Brush Wallaby represents the endangered wildlife of the area.

Artist Name: CRAIG HANDLEY

Artwork Title: THE PERFORMER 2021

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 152 x 183cm

About the Artist:

Craig Handley Artist Bio
Craig Handley is a realist painter who lives and works in Berry on the South Coast of NSW. On leaving school he completed a sign writing apprenticeship. He then moved into a long career in the animation industry. Both of these experiences have had a marked effect on his approach to painting. He has held several solo exhibitions Sydney and has been a finalist in major prizes around the country including The Sulman Prize, The Moran Prize, The Mosman Art Prize, The Fleurieu Art Prize, The Glover Prize, The Hadley’s Art Prize and The Wynne Prize 2016/2018. In 2015 he was the winner of The Kogarah Art Prize, Sydney and in 2017 he won the KAAF Art Prize, Sydney.

Artist Statement:

The Performer 2021 (self-portrait as the sad mad clown)
I get up and put on my clowny shoes, my clowny hat and pants and head out into a clowny world to learn what to do. Or, more importantly, what not to do.
(Insert Clowny guffaw here!)
CH 2023

Artist Name: RAQUEL COBB

Artwork Title: DRY RIVER

Medium: Linocut

Size: 40 x 40cm

About the Artist:

COBB, RAQUEL -Statement: I have interpreted the landscape from the Central Desert in my prints. The essence of the dry red landscape, the rock formations and their patterns, the unique vegetation, and the way light affects the colours of the rocks at different times of the day.

Artist Statement:

Dry River, Trephina Gore, at midday when the sun is punishing hot, and the colours are glorious.

Artist Name: RAQUEL COBB

Artwork Title: FINDING WATER

Medium: Linocut

Size: 40 x 40cm

About the Artist:

COBB, RAQUEL -Statement: I have interpreted the landscape from the Central Desert in my prints. The essence of the dry red landscape, the rock formations and their patterns, the unique vegetation, and the way light affects the colours of the rocks at different times of the day.

Artist Statement:

"Finding Water", near Ross River, is the response to the desperate search for water by the brumbies at the bottom of the "chocolate rock".

Artist Name: KAREN DYER

Artwork Title: MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 92 x 92cm

About the Artist:

Karen is a self-taught artist who seeks to convey a memory or emotion that her chosen subject evokes. As she says - 'the distortions are a reflection on how I feel rather than what I see'.

Artist Statement:

Melbourne after dark is a completely different experience to Melbourne during the daylight hours. Gone is the sunny, vibrant and bustling CBD and instead a dark underworld of almost animalistic buildings are revealed. Nightmarish stuff.

Artist Name: SUZANNA HAY

Artwork Title: WIDGIEMOOLTHA CROSSING

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 72 x 56cm

About the Artist:

I am drawn irresistibly to the elusive qualities of watercolour and seek in my paintings to create images that please the eye and pose a question.

Artist Statement:

Where rail and road cross the salt country, the water forms shapes in the landscape. So too when I add pigment to the water on my paper, the shapes emerge and evolve.

Artist Name: ROBBIE ERSKINE

Artwork Title: GLITCH

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 80 x 80cm

About the Artist:

I am inspired by the wonders of the natural world, the animals, the magic within it. My favourite genres such as surrealism, magical realism and contemporary narrative allow my imagination to flourish and develop works that keep me in love with creating beautiful and intriguing works of art.

Artist Statement:

Man's capacity to manipulate the natural world to his own needs and increasing interference with natural systems may eventually backfire, with "glitches" or malfunctions interrupting even the most natural phenonema. The "glitch" is often associated with technological or electrical faults, but what if human interference affects even a rainbow of light?

Artist Name: MIKA NAKAMURA-MATHER

Artwork Title: MY OLD COUNTRY HOME (FURUSATO)

Medium: Japanese timber, photographic transfer, ink, Japanese pigment, steel hinges.

Size: 15 x 101cm

About the Artist:

Mika Nakamura-Mather was born in Fukushima, Japan and studied at Toyo University. She has been a resident of Australia since 2002, living in both Sydney and Brisbane. Mika graduated from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University with a DVA and BVA (Hons First Class).

Artist Statement:

Decorative or narrative folding screens called byobu have been part of Japanese culture since the Nara Period in the 8th century. This miniature version celebrates moments of family life in rural Japan during the changing seasons set to the words of 'Furusato', a famous Japanese children's song.

Judge’s Comment:

Beautiful way of visual story telling, using her cultural background, but at the same time transcending it. Giving a feeling of strong connection to the land and memories, depicting them in the well-merged traditional and contemporary way.

Artist Name: INEL DATE

Artwork Title: LOOK AROUND YOU AND KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN

Medium: oil on marine ply

Size: 44 x 124cm

About the Artist:

Inel Date is an artist based in regional NSW. With a Master’s of Arts degree in Geography and Art, she is inspired by documenting and responding to landscape. Painting plein-air or in the studio the experience of place is explored. A deep reverence for nature, culture and history guides her work.

Artist Statement:

En plein air palette knife painting in Wollemi National Park. Aptly the aboriginal meaning of Wollemi is “look around you and keep your eyes open”. This ancient landscape has been sculpted over the millennia, with soaring sandstone escarpments, plunging gorges and limestone pagoda outcrops with towering scribbly gums. Completely immersed in this landscape and its history this painting pays respect to those that walked before me, capturing the energy and sense of place.

Artist Name: SAMANTHA PAXTON

Artwork Title: KITCHEN DOOR

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 54 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Sam is a graduate of QCA, NIDA and QUT. She has worked as a designer for SBS, ABC-TV, Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir Street (Company B), Expressions Dance Company and Queensland Theatre. Sam teaches art part-time and paints personal domestic spaces and portraits of friends and family on her days off.

Artist Statement:

Our house is an old Queenslander in great need of refurbishment. It’s neither wind proof nor sound proof and it’s barely rainproof! Nature ebbs and flows through this home. Despite this fact, buttering bread or puddling in the kitchen can be enthralling in the afternoon light: a heady mix of domesticity and wilderness.

Artist Name: EFFIE MANDALOS

Artwork Title: CLOSE BY.

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 90 x 90cm

About the Artist:

I have been practising as a professional artist for 30 years since completing a Fine Arts Degree at Monash University. My main focus is to capture and express a mood through tone and colour, and to play with the tension between space and shape. I look to work with the subtleties and variations in colour and tonal values – the way objects, light, shape and planes relate to one another.
I constantly rework my paintings, at times going over old work in order to play with underpainting. This always seems to me to give the work depth by virtue of its history.
I prefer to paint on a small scale as I’m especially taken by the quiet intimacy that this creates between the viewer and the painting – seeking perhaps to have a conversation rather than to make a statement.

Artist Statement:

My painting is of Karkarook Park (meaning "sandy place") located South east of Melbourne. I was drawn to this landscape because of its overground walking tracks and twisted and broken vegetation.

Artist Name: FIONA CHIVERS

Artwork Title: MORE THAN A MEMORY AT GALAH CREEK...PORCUPINE GORGE

Medium: acrylic

Size: 90 x 120cm

About the Artist:

Fiona Chivers is a Brisbane based artist whose work focus on landscapes from within Queensland, particularly Central and Western Queensland, where natural formations of tablelands, gorges, creeks, outcrops and waterholes provide a source of inspiration for her paintings, that encompass both the shared human experiences of the landscape, along with our associated memories of place.

Artist Statement:

"More than a memory at Galah Creek" focuses on our associated memories of place and the natural cycles of erosion and fragility of the environment. Colour has always been a part of my process of self expression and used here to explore the contrasts within the landscape

Artist Name: MARION RODGERS

Artwork Title: COVID WAITING ROOM

Medium: Photograph

Size: 60 x 90cm

About the Artist:

Photography gives Marion the freedom to experiment with both digital and analogue techniques. Her aim is to walk down the avenue of experimentation to capture thought and emotion in visual form, liberating the viewer from reality.

Artist Statement:

The shadows of others gone before,
fill the room, bleak, desolate
and unclean, with foreboding.

Artist Name: PETER BERNER

Artwork Title: PAST PRESENT FUTURE

Medium: Acrylic on ply

Size: 77 x 77cm

About the Artist:

Peter is based in Sydney. He exhibits regularly and has had some success as a finalist in several art prizes.

Artist Statement:

The work was built over time. Constantly returning to the work and adding subtracting and turning it upside down until landing in an image that arrests the viewers gaze for a moment. Hopefully the work contains a level of psychological drama and is not merely a representative landscape.

Artist Name: CHRISTINE ASHLEY

Artwork Title: SHADES OF GREEN AT NARRABEEN

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 51 x 40cm

About the Artist:

I've always loved painting in oils. and for the most part, like to paint realistically, though I use some abstraction in some landscapes.
I paint a variety of subjects: still life, portraits, and animals, but landscapes (in particular water landscapes )are a magnet for me, the reflections are so complex and beautiful.
The last exhibition I was accepted into was the Mosman 2008 shown 2022.

Artist Statement:

The effect of light has always been of the most interest to me. Light, the absence and presence of it, changes everything. Sun sparkling on the water, a grey flat brooding sky, the green grey light of bush reflected into water.

Artist Name: PAT HALL

Artwork Title: ADVANCE

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 91 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Pat Hall’s large scale watercolours are inspired by the natural beauty that surrounds us every day. Her stretched paper canvases are sealed, front and back, with a UV stabilised and waterproof coating. She floods her paintings with colour, breathing new life into the medium.

Artist Statement:

ADVANCE

Popular amongst gardeners for its showy flowers, the Agapanthus is gaining ground across the landscape, displacing all other vegetation in its path. It follows natural water courses and can be found throughout urban bushland, particularly in the Blue Mountains and Victoria, where it has been declared a noxious weed

Artist Name: BRUCE OWENS

Artwork Title: SNAPPER ROCKS CHALLENGE

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 101 x 101cm

About the Artist:

Largely a self taught artist with a passion for light and colours of the environment.

Artist Name: ALAN C MORRISON

Artwork Title: THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES

Medium: Oil / Acrylic

Size: 76 x 76cm

About the Artist:

Alan trained at Glasgow School of Art 1976-81
Moving to London in 1986 he joined Ian Fleming Illustration Associates where he did work for Royal Shakespeare Co, 20th Century Fox and Pioneer Music to name a few.
His portrait of Andrew Celli was included in the John Player Portrait Award in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
He relocated to Brisbane in 2007 where has been painting and mentoring students.

Artist Statement:

I was invited at Christmas time to a friends brothers house in the outer Brisbane area.
Within the grounds I was amazed to find a group of old Chrysler cars in various states of disrepair; ferns growing within, tyres and car doors lying around, it was like a graveyard.
In the moonlight later on they evoked old Film Noir , taken from stories in the city and replaced in nature.
The palette was kept to a minimum to convey the nightlight using glazes of greens and blues.
Originally started as an abstract , some areas I kept as they worked in its favour for the finished work.

Artist Name: KATHERINE BOLAND

Artwork Title: BACKWATER NO 1

Medium: Digital Photograph on archival paper

Size: 93 x 61cm

About the Artist:

Katherine Boland works across the disciplines painting, photography and digital media with an aim to connect viewers to an emotive and sensual contemplation of the landscape and our place within it. Katherine was awarded The Heysen Art Prize for Interpretation of Place in 2009 and the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale Art Award in 2023.

Artist Statement:

This work is a digital blend of photographs I captured while walking the Mundooi Track behind Tura Beach on the Far South Coast of New South Wales. A large pool of water, strewn with debris, had formed deep in the bush after days of flooding rain.

Artist Name: TANNYA

Artwork Title: CAPE BYRON 2

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 120 x 107cm

About the Artist:

Tannya Harricks is known for her lush paintings of Australian landscapes and figurative work. Intent on capturing the energy of the subject through spontaneous gesture. She has been a finalist in many prominent Australian art awards and has been awarded the Waverley Art Prize and Hornsby Art Prize.

Artist Statement:

I am interested in the connection between the “push and pull” of both painting and of nature. How to balance the warm and cool, the seasonal extremes, surface and depth, destruction and regeneration, history, and the present? Watching the humpback whales migrate north along the NSW East coast last year, thinking about the symbiotic relationship between nature and humankind.

Artist Name: INNES ALAN

Artwork Title: NEIGHBOURS

Medium: Pen and pencil on heavy drawing paper

Size: 44 x 34cm

About the Artist:

Alan Innes has a 50 year design background in architecture, urbanism, landscape and graphics. His work includes sketches and hybrid drawings depicting Brisbane and Ipswich street views including many heritage sites. He was invited to exhibit his work at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020 and again in 2023.

Artist Statement:

A portrait of Brisbane backyard daily life that could reasonably have taken place anytime over the last 80 years. A scene intended to capture an idea of neighbourliness from an era when neighbours chatted and dividing lines were lightly marked … in contrast to contemporary suburban living where homes are objects separated by impervious barriers.

Artist Name: NIALL O’DONNELL

Artwork Title: STILL HERE

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 16 x 20cm

About the Artist:

Niall O’Donnell is a University student whose primary medium is Oils. Showing particular interests in Australian landscapes and portraits, aiming to capture the beauty and detail of the subject matter and bring out themes and stories from within its environment.

Artist Statement:

The Glen Helen Gorge, a natural beauty of red stone cliffs and intricate rock formations, located on the traditional land of the Western Arrernte people. A scared place for the Arrernte people who have lived in the area for tens of thousands of years, having a long-standing spiritual connection to the land, with a complex system of laws and customs.

Artist Name: MEGAN FORWARD

Artwork Title: ENTER INTO THE STORY

Medium: Watercolour, ink and collage

Size: 57 x 73cm

About the Artist:

Megan Forward is a Brisbane-based artist, illustrator and author. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Bachelor of Teaching specialising in Visual Art and English. As a young girl who loved reading and painting, Megan dreamed of one day creating her own picture books and becoming an artist. She is thrilled to be combining this dream with her passion for connecting to the earth, through engendering a love of nature through art and literature, because you care for what you love. Megan’s picture books have been shortlisted in the prestigious Children's Book Council Awards and her titles include: A Patch from Scratch (PenguinRandomHouse), All I Want For Christmas Is Rain, and Emily Green’s Garden (New Frontier Aust/Uk), Jacaranda Magic and Scribbly Gum Secrets (Ford Street Melbourne).

Artist Statement:

Inspired by a native forest near where I live, this became the front cover art for a book I illustrated called 'Scribbly Gum Secrets' (published by Ford Street Publishers Melbourne). The overarching theme was connecting to our local pockets of nature, to rest and find connection with our land, flora and fauna, and find the path back to ourselves that nature offers.

Artist Name: DANIEL GIBBINGS-JOHNS

Artwork Title: CHANGING WEATHER OVER THE MOUNTAINS

Medium: Oil

Size: 78 x 183cm

About the Artist:

I am an Australian Landscape Artist and have been painting for over 20 years.
Even as a child I loved the beauty found in the landscape around me, it could change from something so subtle and serene to something imposing and strong.
My painting gives me a way to capture the feeling of a scene, whether it is the sheer magnitude of a mountainous range or a gentle ray of sunshine glistening across a pool of water.

Artist Statement:

This painting is all about the mountains and the changes you see as the weather passes over them.

Artist Name: SOPHIE BRAY

Artwork Title: NOCTURNE 36

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 61 x 41cm

About the Artist:

Bray’s artworks evince feelings of immersion and the connectedness one senses by the sea. Her practice reflects upon the beauty and fragility of the natural environment. She explores the physicality of water, wind and salient currents, which create the shifting tides and atmospheres over the tense and captivating point between land, sea and sky.

Artist Statement:

I am interested in finding points of tension in my painting practice. Pulling between, abstraction and representation, gestural marks and smooth blended surfaces, monochromatic palettes and vibrant coloured grounds. Pausing in the moment before the blending obliterates form and still alludes to representation, connecting to the immersive experience one feels by the sea.

Artist Name: BARBARA ANN RIX

Artwork Title: RESPECT FOR THE FALLEN

Medium: Coloured Pencils

Size: 41 x 59cm

About the Artist:

Education - BEd, Cert IV Interior Design

A diverse career in teaching, interior design and small business has provided opportunity to develop skills necessary for art. Visual literacy, knowledge of colour, understanding principles and elements of design, research and short term art courses have informed my practice of representing the world using varied media and technologies to produce realism.

Artist Statement:

Respect our fallen trees in farmlands, woodlands and urban environments. They protect and sustain the delicate balance of the surrounding ecosystems in providing soil nutrients, moisture and stability, wildlife shelter and foraging grounds within a microclimate for small creatures and wild plant diversity. Make our modern landscape healthy, resilient and diverse.

Artist Name: ANNETTE BUKOVINSKY

Artwork Title: FIELD OF VISION

Medium: Fired clay and bamboo box

Size: 22 x 39cm

About the Artist:

My practice focuses on investigating humanity's relationship with nature predominantly via the use of clay. Clay is a material that is known paradoxically for its strength and fragility. As such, it has many relatable characteristics that may increase the dialogue regarding the challenges that threaten the vitality of our planet.

Artist Statement:

Field of Vision takes the form of a diorama. The word diorama is Greek, meaning 'to view'. Historically, dioramas were created as convincing depictions of a specific reality. Field of Vision adopts this intention and reflects my view to creating an opportunity for restoring the Australian landscape to ecological sustainability.

Artist Name: BRIDIE O'BRIEN

Artwork Title: BAY OF FIRES

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 122 x 92cm

About the Artist:

As a visual artist and lifelong musician, I grew up on a farm in country NSW with an affinity for wide-open spaces and endless adventures. Although I graduated from the Australian Institute of Music in 1998 with big dreams of a music career, the urge to paint became overwhelming. After veering out of my studies at the National Art School to pursue my musical endeavours, I spent the next 15 years travelling the world. In 2020, I began to seriously dedicate myself to oil painting and today I am a full-time visual artist living in Sydney, painting my interpretation of Australian landscapes using bold colours and impasto techniques.

Artist Statement:

As a young girl, my dad yanked us from our dusty farm in Forbes, NSW, for an all-night ride in the old station wagon. Our destination? The edge of the Victorian peninsula, where the Abel Tasman awaited, ready to ferry us to the mystical land of Tasmania. Along the way, we explored national parks, often pausing to gasp at the awe-inspiring vistas of the East Coast.
But one sight, above all others, remains etched in my mind. Bay of Fires, Tassie. I painted it to capture the very essence of the place, transporting the viewer to the scent of salty rocks and the taste of briny air. I toiled over the canvas, scraping and layering paint, ecstatic as new hues and textures emerged before me.
Set nestled within the Great Lagoon, a stone's throw south of Mateys Gulch. A secluded shore, where slumbering rocks reign supreme. I offer a subtle, playful nod to the prehistoric nature of the place. Some boulders may appear to morph into familiar shapes, some sunbaked and sand sunk forever, others rage; their granite aflame.
An East Coast marvel, painted in the enchanting magic of twilight.

Artist Name: ANTHONY QUIDONG

Artwork Title: REMNANT, KING ISLAND WELLINGTON POINT

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 76 x 111cm

About the Artist:

As an artist, I paint from my instincts. I use colour to record a scene’s atmospheric effect and to capture the fleeting effect of light for a planned landscape painting. I love to capture the extraordinaries from the ordinary .

Artist Statement:

I walked the pilgrimage from Wellington Point to King Island. I witnessed nature reclaiming remnants of man made objects resembling rocks to own it in sea of contrasting colours and textures. It illustrates that beauty is an evolutionary trait shaped by natural selection

Artist Name: ALIJAH FORREST

Artwork Title: INTERCONNECTED

Medium: Digital Media

Size: 40 x 27cm

About the Artist:

Alijah Forrest is a Brisbane based digital and mixed media artist.

He graduated with an Associate degree in Animation at the London University of Arts and also completed a BA in Digital Media Design at Swinburne University of Technology.

Moving from London to Australia he experienced off-grid living on the Sunshine Coast and finds his creative nuances in realms of natural and ethereal worlds.

Artist Statement:

'Interconnected' is a 1530px wide X 1020px high, 60 sec' animation, created using real life photograph, digitally edited and animated.

The piece depicts a lone tree among grasses, moving ever so slightly in the wind, and a majestic view of Glass House Mountains.

Multiple moving elements and light effects reveal a 'living photograph', provoking feelings of calm
and serenity.

Link to animation:
https://vimeo.com/812752032

Artist Name: OCHRE LAWSON

Artwork Title: LAKES EDGE

Medium: oil on birch

Size: 120 x 90cm

About the Artist:

Ochre Lawson is a Sydney based artist who spends her time getting out of Sydney into wilderness areas to hike and sketch en Plein air. These sketches form the basis of works in the studio that are one step removed from the reality. Its the memory of colours, sound, textures and movement that are painted with expression trying to find the essence of place. She completed her studies at National Art School, is in the Art Bank collection and has been a finalist in many art prizes.

Artist Statement:

This painting is based on plein air sketches of Lake St Claire, in the Cradle Mountain National Park in Tasmania. Lake St Claire holds a special place in my heart as a place that felt so wild and primeval that humans were a mere speck amongst its still deep waters and towering craggy summits.

The memory of this special lake stays with me and keeps me sane in knowing there are places still peaceful and away from the mess that humans want to make of the earth.

Artist Name: LAWRENCE FURZEY

Artwork Title: NO DIVING

Medium: Photography

Size: 80 x 140cm

About the Artist:

Lawrence Furzey is a Sydney / Guringai Based Based commercial & Water/ Landscape Photographer When shooting landscapes Furzey relentlessly questions sense of place. What gives a landscape its sense of place, can a landscape be reduced to just shape, texture or tone, and still be recognisable to a viewer?

Artist Statement:

This isn’t the sea, it’s an ocean pool, we have order here. But it's too late. As the viewers eyes are lead by the curved metal handrail into the calm water the enticement is there. Dive In. Break the surface tension. Disrupt the order. Shatter the clean lines. Make Ripples.

Artist Name: AL ROBERTS

Artwork Title: SOMETHING MORE SINISTER

Medium: Oil on canvas board

Size: 46 x 46cm

About the Artist:

My work revolves around an ongoing theme of personal self-reflection, with the meaning coming to fruition through the creative process. My aim is to use the combination of aesthetic beauty and the somewhat questionable subject matter, to create a conflicting yet intriguing experience for the viewer.

Artist Statement:

As I walked behind coles, I couldn't help but think there was something more sinister going on. The ominous presence of a black crow, accompanied by pigeons carrying a secret message while congregating around a derelict skip bin. Am I receiving a message? or was I just overthinking it?

Artist Name: PHILLIP ROLTON

Artwork Title: TEA TREE BAY

Medium: Mixed Medium

Size: 460 x 740cm

About the Artist:

After many years working within the abstract genre, I have recently adapted my style of painting to PhotoRealism and now work predominantly with watercolour and pen & wash. My subject matters are drawn from the environment, city built form and ‘on the street’ moments and utilise high resolution photography and sketches as the foundation for my art pieces.
Early years in Sydney and London as a colour retoucher in the printing trade, provided me with intricate brush and pen skills, but importantly, the discipline to commit to this difficult ‘attention to detail’ style of painting.
Studying at the Sydney Art School, the Melbourne Gallery School under the tuition of John Brack as well as life drawing classes by Jon Molvig in Brisbane, offered me an appreciation for form and interpretation.

Artist Statement:

As an artist, I am fortunate to live and walk through the traditional land of the Gubi Gubi people now known as Noosa National Park. Tea Tree Bay with its stately paperbacks provided many uses for the the Gubi Gubi people, but it also affords me unique landscapes of paperbark trees with their intrinisic, artistic qualities.

While the paperbarks are predominant in my painting, they are interwoven with the hardy Pandanus and coastal underground vegetation fringing Tea Tree Bay.

Artist Name: NERIDA WOOLLEY

Artwork Title: HAYTERS HILL

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 84 x 104cm

About the Artist:

Nerida is a landscape painter based on the Northern Rivers NSW where she was born and raised. She enjoys painting picturesque rural scenes reflecting her strong love for, and family connections to the land. She was a past finalist in the Australian Ravenswood Womens Art Prize and a semi-finalist in the Byron Arts Magazine Prize, BAM.

Artist Statement:

Hayters Hill is a small NSW rural location within the Byron Shire. Nerida has always admired this view on her many trips to the coast via the old Bangalow Road. She hopes to convey in this painting the peaceful beauty and calmness it evokes in her.

Artist Name: LEAH THIESSEN

Artwork Title: SONGBIRD

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 103 x 123cm

About the Artist:

Leah has been selected as a finalist in many prominent contemporary art shows, such as the Paddington art prize, The Gold Coast Art award, The John Leslie art prize, the Calleen art award, The John Glover Art Prize in 2020 as well as the Muswellbrook art prize 2021. She has also received a highly commended at the prestigious Natural Science Art Award in 2014 and in the Gosford Art award 2017.
Leah s work has also been acquired for the Arthur & Suzie Roe Collection in Melbourne- 2020.

Artist Statement:

The images are a direct emotional response to the bush and mangroves that surround my home. My paintings explore the unique way of capturing the diversity of the natural terrain. I often start my paintings with the small delicate details found in the bush and then depart to a place of frantic energy.

Artist Name: SUE TREGEAGLE

Artwork Title: MESSAGE

Medium: Oil

Size: 45 x 56cm

About the Artist:

I am a Brisbane artist who has returned to painting after years working in other media. I paint under my maiden name, Sue Tregeagle

Artist Statement:

This is a message from my beach belle aunts who left me photos of their time on pristine beaches, having fun, unawares

Artist Name: DELLENE STRONG

Artwork Title: SWIRL

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 64 x 74cm

Artist Name: JULIE LITTLE

Artwork Title: BLUE JEANS II

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

About the Artist:

My artworks are a direct expressive translation of the world and
environment around me. Each artwork is a documentation of a time and
place and my relationship with it. Many of the things I paint are personally
meaningful to me and I focus on landscape and still life as a
preference. Working from a strong background in drawing and
photography, my paintings present a growing and diverse practice
concerned with the creation of an image through immediacy and
observation.

Artist Statement:

"Denim Jeans" are hanging on the clothesline in the suburban backyard in Everton Park, a suburb in Brisbane. There is a narrative that can evolve from this landscape. A story of a postwar home in Brisbane suburbs with a trampoline and shed in the background of the composition. Additionally, there are two wheelie bins in the other corner of the painting which leads the audience to enter into the life and 'home' of the occupants. There is an invitation for the audience to identify with the occupants, even though you cannot see who lives here, you feel you know them. The audience identifies with the symbolic meaning of the denim jeans, the trampoline, the age and style fo the home and the wheelie bins, and there is a relationship established between the audience and the artwork. There is a capturing of the landscape in a time and place. It is now an opportunity for the audience to make up the rest of the narrative to make it there story.

Artist Name: KAREN HALES

Artwork Title: BRISBANE RIVER AT CHUWAR - JUST UPSTREAM FROM COLLEGES CROSSING

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 91 x 91cm

About the Artist:

Karen Hales lives in the leafy Western Suburbs of Brisbane. After a 30 year break from painting landscapes she took up the brushes again in 2022 to help deal with stress and anxiety. She finds the repetitive action of adding the dots and fine details to her landscapes soothing and grounding.

Artist Statement:

The peaceful ancient rhythms and contrasting textures, shapes and colours of the Brisbane River and its banks near Chuwar. Rocky ridges rising above the wind rippled waters, clad in soft sparce native grasses, scrubby trees and towering gums.

Artist Name: JENNIFER CROWLE

Artwork Title: PARADISE LOST

Medium: Digital print, collage

Size: 62 x 87cm

About the Artist:

The artist moves between collage, painting and photography, often appropriating found material.

Artist Statement:

Inspired by Palm Springs style, apologies to Milton and Warhol, ‘paradise lost’ becomes a social commentary without glamour.

The Palm Springs foliage comes from found wrapping paper, the print an opportunistic appropriation of a landscape.

Artist Name: HYE WON LEE

Artwork Title: BEYOND THAT WHICH IS TANGIBLE

Medium: Acrylic, oil and pencil on canvas

Size: 102 x 76cm

About the Artist:

Hye Won Lee is a Brisbane based emerging artist whose practice explores the felt experience of spiritual faith within the context of everyday life. Lee takes landscape imagery from her own immediate surroundings and reproduces it into mixed media (mainly oil, acrylic and pencil) paintings on canvas.

Artist Statement:

Beyond that which is tangible, is aimed to encourage viewers to consider the idea that the sublime is not reserved, only to be experienced on rare occasions, but that it is hidden in every moment, available to all who may seek it.

Artist Name: JACLYN POKE

Artwork Title: SEARCHING

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 90 x 120cm

About the Artist:

I am an artist, art teacher and therapist from Tasmania. My works are predominantly abstract landscapes based on the NW coast of Tas. I have had various group and mostly solo exhibitions around Tasmania. I sell work through Instagram, on my website and recently through Art Lovers Australia.

Artist Statement:

For me, the landscape is intricately made up of millions of textures and patterns, all projected onto the earth and making their mark somehow. I have a fascination with replicating some of these natural patterns and abstracting them with paint. I am searching for meaning here in the ocean and clouds.

Artist Name: CLARE PURSER

Artwork Title: BORDER RANGES WITH ZINNIAS

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 100 x 120cm

About the Artist:

I’m a full time practicing artist living on Moreton Bay. My work is concerned with and reflects the fragility of my environment with a particular emphasis on the landscapes of the Border Ranges and the islands of Moreton Bay. I have an Honours Degree from the Queensland College of Art and I’m represented by several galleries down to Sydney. I’ve been a finalist in many national prizes and in 2016 won the Milburn Art Prize.

Artist Statement:

Recently, I’ve been spending time travelling and painting en-plein air around the Border Ranges. I like the direct response painting in the landscape requires and the challenge of translating this in the studio to larger work. I wanted to portray these mountains of Gondwana rainforest as a kind of sentient being, looking over us.

Artist Name: MICHAEL VINCENT MURPHY

Artwork Title: PUSHING UP THE SKY TO REVEAL THE FIRST DAWN

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 91 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Resides in Mandurah, Western Australia.
Works in acrylics and oils in the realistic tradition.
Mainly still life although my muse will sometimes lead me to landscape and surrealism .
EXHIBITIONS:
23 Solo.
43 Group.
REPRESENTED IN COLLECTIONS IN:
South Africa, England, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, Germany, Italy, Spain, America.

Artist Statement:

I based the painting on a Noongar Dreamtime story …… ‘Once the sky was close to the ground and all was dark. Animals had to crawl, birds couldn’t fly. The magpies took sticks and pushed at the sky until it sprang into place, revealing the sun and the first dawn.

Artist Name: ALYCE DUHS

Artwork Title: LOOMING STORM AT MOFFAT BEACH

Medium: Chalk Pastel

Size: 50 x 70cm

About the Artist:

Alyce’s vision is to create artworks that explore the depths of passion, spirituality, and emotion across various subject matters. Alyce believes her art has the power to make one view the natural world in a new light. To discover beauty in nature that otherwise might seem dull and often overlooked.

Artist Statement:

This engaging pastel piece illustrates Moffat Beach in a beautiful but less than typical setting. Although a storm looms in the distance, a peaceful energy radiates from this piece. One can almost feel the cool sea breeze whist being captivated by the interesting rock formations and fine detailing.

Artist Name: JAMES STICKLAND

Artwork Title: BRIGHTSIDE OF MOOLOOLABA

Medium: oil

Size: 90 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Stickland is predominantly a figurative painter working in oils living on the Sunshine Coast. Self-confessed addict to the arts since 2019 when he decided life is too short and needed to liquefy his emotions to canvas as often as possible. Finalist in Lethbridge 20000, Percivals, Brisbane, Lester Portrait Prizes, and semifinalist in the Doug Moran.

Artist Statement:

While out hunting a figurative painting, nature stopped me in my tracks. Bright, demanding and engaging this fungus brightened up a rainy bland morning.

Artist Name: LANA DAUBERMANN

Artwork Title: SPRING EVENING SWANSEA

Medium: Oil on plywood

Size: 53 x 53cm

About the Artist:

Lana Daubermann is a Melbourne artist who enjoys the immersive qualities of paint and it’s endless possibilities in mark-making. Fleeting feelings, the passing of time and a sense of nostalgia are common threads that weave through her work.

Artist Statement:

The sunset was a special one, as was our night without technology and all the quietness that comes with feeling remote. The next day we cooked fresh eggs from the farm on an old camp stove. The light between day and night is such a magical time of day, one of reflection and introspection between what has been, what is now, and what is to come.

Artist Name: VICKI WHITE

Artwork Title: TINONEE TENNIS

Medium: Video Still, Archival Pigment Print on Cotton Rag Paper

Size: 594 x 840cm

About the Artist:

Vicki White's figurative painting practice has evolved to explore video & multi media with a performative aspect using her own body. Her work invites the viewer to contemplate the references to the delicate shifts & balances of the human condition, & our relationship to the changing landscape both physically & spiritually. Vicki works in Sydney & Taree NSW.

Artist Statement:

‘Tinonee Tennis’ is part of an ongoing series on ‘Pilgrimage’, returning to work in the familiar landscape of the Manning Valley on the Mid North Coast of NSW.
As a child, my mother used to hit a tennis ball against the wall of this chimney, which remains as an expression of memory and a standing sentinel, to the lives once lived on the old dairy farms in the lush hills of Tinonee.

Artist Name: DAVID WELLS

Artwork Title: MOUNT COOROORA, WITH NIGHT TERRORS

Medium: Acylic on canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

Artist Statement:

Based on recurring nightmares I experienced while living in Pomona in 2006.

Artist Name: ANDREA BAUMERT HOWARD

Artwork Title: BOTTLE ALLEY

Medium: Photograph on handmade paper from junkmail and office discards

Size: 70 x 50cm

About the Artist:

I am a small batch multi-disciplinary artist. Working in a backyard studio in Ipswich. I’m currently obsessed with handmade recycled paper, seeing how the medium can be manipulated and how far it can be pushed. I seek to showcase the beauty in the ordinary moments in life whilst highlighting the waste problems our society has created.

Artist Statement:

The view at the back of heritage listed buildings. This piece is a photograph on recycled junk-mail and office paper, sparking conversations about recycling and mindful reuse of resources.

Artist Name: PAUL WHITEHEAD

Artwork Title: MORNING MIST - LAKE KING WILLIAM, TASMANIA

Medium: Watercolour on panel primed with absorbent ground

Size: 65 x 183cm

About the Artist:

I'm a self-taught award winning artist and photographer. Travelling extensively from a young age has provided me with the inspiration and material for my photography and art making. I paint ‘plein air’ whenever possible, but equally enjoy time in my studio where I work in various mediums, including oil, gouache, watercolour, acrylic and charcoal.

Artist Statement:

I was greeted by this stunning vista when I exited my tent on the shore of Lake King William, Tasmania. Despite human destruction inflicted upon the environment through the flooding of the valley to create hydro electricity, nature still manages to create a breath-taking landscape.

Artist Name: KAREN STANDKE

Artwork Title: TREE SPIRITS TRIPTYCH #30

Medium: Oils on Linen

Size: 46 x 168cm

About the Artist:

Karen Standke is a contemporary Landscape Artist who has worked and exhibited internationally for over two decades.
Her paintings are informed by thorough research into the changing face of the landscape and the impact of climate change, introduction of weeds and non-native fauna and flora.

Artist Statement:

The "Tree Spirits" series is an ongoing project, started in 2004, which draws its inspiration not only in the magnificent detail of the bark of all kinds of Eucalypus Tree I see, but also hints at people’s spiritual belonging to nature, with our ancestors and spirits surrounding us.

Artist Name: ALEX LOUISA

Artwork Title: THE ROAD UP MOUNT BARROW

Medium: Oil on Panel

Size: 100 x 75cm

About the Artist:

Brisbane artist Alex Louisa works mainly with oils, PanPastel and watercolour, but also loves to experiment with new materials.

She focuses on elements of the natural world that grab her attention - birds have always been her favourite subject, but she also enjoys creating intriguing still life compositions and landscapes.

Artist Statement:

This scene is painted from a tiny 5cm-wide photo my mother took almost 50 years ago.

It's a sentimental process - painting these scenes at a larger scale to really show off the gorgeous compositions. The colours borrowed from the ageing photograph bring a sense of comfort from a time gone by.

Artist Name: LIAM WALDIE

Artwork Title: NOCTURNAL PLAYGROUND

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 90 x 120cm

About the Artist:

Liam Waldie is an emerging Artist based on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. His contemporary Australian landscapes are drawn from personal experiences and often depicting movement through winding paths toward an endless horizon, implying subtle messages to appreciate but also respect our mother earth.

Artist Statement:

The last colour to be named in every language was ‘blue’. If you see something yet can't see it, does it exist?

Artist Name: VICKI GARDEN

Artwork Title: EDGE OF THE EARTH

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 76 x 51cm

About the Artist:

Vicki, 32, is a self taught artist from the Sunshine Coast. Having travelled around Australia several times with her husband and daughters, she has grown a love and appreciation for the unique shapes and colours of the land. Vicki has a fondness of working with oils and creates her art using bright and bold colour.

Artist Statement:

Edge of the Earth shows the distinct divide between the earth and water. Cliffs centre the piece, splitting the blue ocean waters from the vast red land of native bush.

Artist Name: DAVID KAS

Artwork Title: MYSTIC SAFARI

Medium: Encaustic

Size: 915 x 182cm

About the Artist:

David is a landscape artist who has been devoted to his craft for over three decades. He spent his formative years in Sydney, studying art at the National Art School in the mid-80s. David has called northern NSW home since the mid-90s and has had his work featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He has received numerous awards and accolades for his paintings, including the Countryscapes art prize and the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award. David's works can be found in public, corporate, and private collections in Australia, Europe, and the US.

Artist Statement:

My paintings are a visual journey that invites viewers to contemplate the majesty of nature and its hidden mysteries. Drawing influence from my surroundings, I create fictional landscapes using a mix of experience and creativity. Through encaustic wax, I bring vivid colors to life while portraying strong tonal forms to create a sense of depth and dimension, offering a unique perspective of our world.

Artist Name: JAMES RHODES

Artwork Title: SNAKE

Medium: Oil Paint and Silver Gelatin on Board

Size: 39 x 84cm

About the Artist:

Dr James Rhodes is a distinguished multi-disciplinary artist renowned for his exceptional work with photo media, painting, and sculpture. Rhodes ingeniously incorporates his acute awareness of time and memory, leaving subtle symbols behind. By exploring the inherent illusion embedded in the memetic arts, Rhodes unravels his unique perception of the world around him.

Artist Statement:

‘Snake’ depicts the snowy mountains in Kosciuszko National Park in a state of transition. Spring is a time of new life and rebirth; it is when the landscape wakes from its hibernation and comes alive. This work seeks to convey the constant transition of life through the experimental depiction of the Kosiciusko landscape.

Artist Name: MICHAEL SIMMS

Artwork Title: HOLD ON

Medium: Oil canvas

Size: 86 x 40cm

Artist Name: DONOVAN CHRISTIE

Artwork Title: CORNER BOUYS

Medium: Oil

Size: 60 x 90cm

About the Artist:

The self taught artist makes his statement by addressing the symbiotic relationship between man and manmade surroundings, objectifying and highlighting the purity of things that are often overlooked. Emerging as a teen graffiti artist, he learnt to look at his environment different from others, with an acute eye for detail.

Artist Statement:

My work portrays the sign of times. In an attempt to create thought provoking narratives within the landscape, my paintings document and immortalise these snapshots of our current day, capturing the character and charm of these modern day relics.

Artist Name: SONIA PAYES

Artwork Title: TERRA MADRE

Medium: Type C Print On Metallic Paper

Size: 112 x 160cm

About the Artist:

Payes artistic practice evolved by exploring possible & parallel futures using the narrative of humanity’s present impact on the environment.
Her works show there is hope to the vital phenomenon that drives all of creation. Endless adaptability, indestructible by adapting & changing, working with mother nature not against her.

Artist Statement:

A narrative about our relationship with our natural resources required for the regeneration of life and life forms.
Payes has captured images of the environment that illustrate and reflect upon the beauty and fragility of the natural world.

Artist Name: ANNA RYAN

Artwork Title: SONGS OF STONE AND WATER 12

Medium: Archival pigment print

Size: 70 x 100cm

About the Artist:

I was born in Poland.
I have a Master Degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, faculty of Graphic Techiques.

I’ve been living in Australia since 2001.

For years I worked in the field of branding and graphic design. Recently I focus mainly on my artistic practice.

Artist Statement:

Captivated by scenery of Sunshine Coast I created Songs of stone and water 11.

I use photography, traditional and digital painting to create the landscape. 

I do not attempt to recreate the scene, rather try to find a poetry of forms, colours and rhythms it evokes in me.

Artist Name: LOUISE WALDER

Artwork Title: SUNSET ON THE CORNER OF TEATREE AND HAYTER

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 76 x 102cm

About the Artist:

My attention is drawn to the rediscovery of the ordinary in the everyday. I’m inspired by the textural differences between natural and manufactured structures and surfaces. I’m intrigued with capturing fragments of time, using the medium of photography to record patterns and lines; as well as shadows created by nature through architectural spaces which produce spatial forms.

Artist Statement:

This painting focuses on deconstructing what a traditional landscape painting is and focuses on recognising the geometric elements that have been captured on location during an afternoon. To refine an image down to basic shapes and colours creates a tension and interplay between the forms, and questions the idea of landscape.

Artist Name: JINGJING YANG

Artwork Title: ENDLESS SUMMER

Medium: Screenprint on paper

Size: 76 x 56cm

About the Artist:

I am a visual artist currently based in Providence, RI and Shanghai, CHINA. Born and raised in a coastal city in mainland China, I also studied and lived in coastal cities such as San Francisco, Sydney, and Providence. My concentrations are print media and image making. I wish to explore the possibilities of paper media with the forms of printmaking, artist books, new media, etc.
My works primarily focus on purifie minds and bodies, achieving environmental and inner peace through oriental traditions and philosophies. In my works, I want to create a sense of detached, absurd, unreal realism by contrasting the real and the fantastic, the calm and the tense.

Artist Statement:

The Iceberg Pool in Sydney was a place for me to relax and re-thinking myself before the pandemic. Although it has been several years, I still remember the feelings when facing the Pacific Ocean on the other side of the Earth: it’s like all the good things about summer are here. When the warm, melting sun shines on the body and the open-air seaside pool under the cliff, all the worries and exertions seem to melt away in this scene, leaving only warm, peaceful and beautiful emotions.

Artist Name: MADELEINE PALMER

Artwork Title: BOUNDARIES OF HABITATION II

Medium: Oil on linen and Xanthorrhoea Australis

Size: 147 x 34cm

About the Artist:

Madeleine Palmer is a Melbourne based painter, who gained her Bachelor of Fine Art Honours in 2022 at RMIT. Her practice explores the vitality of the growing world and how it can be described through the language of paint.

Artist Statement:

This work explores the vitality of natural ecologies, examining the tenuous state of mankind’s disturbance of the natural order in the anthropocene; It sits in a place between benign and malign, dissolving the borders between fantasy and reality. This is strengthened through the Xanthorrhoea Australis flower in both physical and painted form.

Artist Name: BEN CONNELL

Artwork Title: CONSTELATION

Medium: DIDITAL PHOTO

Size: 80 x 120cm

About the Artist:

I HAVE TRAVELLED HOWEVER I DO LIKE THE WAY OUR EMOTIVE AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPES TELL STORIES OF DISCOVERY AND IDENTITY. THE GREAT THING ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY IS YOU CAN TAKE THE SAME PHOTO DIFFERENT WAYS AND TELL DIFFERENT STORIES, EXPRESS DIFFERENT IDEAS AND EXPLORE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES.

Artist Statement:

ON A TRIP AS A CHILD, I REMEMBER THE IMPRESSION OF THE INSIDE OF NATURAL ARCH AFTER DARK WAS LIKE A NIGHT SKY. I REVISITED SOME SCORE OF YEARS AND BUS LOADS OF TOURISTS LATER AND MANY/MOST OF THOSE STARS HAVE BEEN SNUFFED OUT LIKE IN SOME SORT OF PERVERSE INVERSE ICARUS SCENARIO.

Artist Name: SIMONE PICCIONI

Artwork Title: DEPTH OF NATURE

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 82 x 92cm

About the Artist:

Any man is a free man using brushes and paints on a white canvas, so he can be and become.
The painter can lie by painting the invisible or he can be sincere by colouring everything not as it is but as he would like it to be.
He can show himself naked by telling his dreams or he can hide from others by deleting a mistake. He may copy and be called a genius or create the most beautiful work and not be understood.
My Italian masters taught all this without describing, only with technique, study and discipline, then to discover that a technique does not exist, that study is life itself and that discipline is just a brushstroke in the right place.
A man painting, can also be an artist, and often does not know it…

Artist Statement:

I have composed a poem for my work:

With the excuse of freedom, the little bird flies where he pleases, he spreads his wings in the wind and goes, he only sings if there is love. If he's out of tune, it doesn't matter, with his charm he woos any bird he desires, and even if it pours heavily, he doesn't bother to take shelter, because he'll just shake himself off in the sun.

I envy him a little, If only I could fly around the world without falling, Imagining all the colors alone, Living it, just living it, without any thoughts, Like the little bird that the wind carries away, and he doesn't care if he ever returns.

Artist Name: WENDY POUND

Artwork Title: WILDERNESS DOG AND CROW

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 61 x 91cm

About the Artist:

WENDY POUND
A Brisbane artist working predominantly as a painter and sculptor. Subject matter is usually figurative, colourful, decorative and narrative. Often featured are birds, animals (lots of dogs), plants and flowers, in an imagined scape. I am currently exploring portraiture and landscapes. My style is painterly, often scraped across the canvas, exploring form through slashes of colour. Painting with attitude to capture emotion.

Artist Statement:

“Wilderness Dog and Crow.” is an acrylic on canvas semi-abstract painting. It depicts a collection of creatures that are going about their business in the wilderness. The landscape is inspired by life experiences growing up in, and recent visits to, out back Australia.
I’ve used a combination of washes and spattering to depict the tangled wildness of the countryside. The dog is portrayed through slashes of paint strokes to enhance its bristling stance against the crow.

Artist Name: GABI MIKA-MCNAUGHTON

Artwork Title: 5AM AT SCARBOROUGH

Medium: Acrylic on Cotton

Size: 110 x 152cm

About the Artist:

Mika-McNaughton is a Queensland based landscape artist. She is obsessed in capturing pockets of our local environment and in doing so hopes to entice her audience to explore these places more closely.

Artist Statement:

Standing under the red cliffs at low tide in Scarborough I'm presented with a smorgasbord of colours. Many complementary and they dance with the slight rippling of the breeze. I work fast when producing this work so I can capture the sense of organized chaos. And to allow the hues to jump.

Artist Name: SUSAN SCHMIDT

Artwork Title: STORM BREWS OVER A RUSTY TIN SHACK

Medium: Photography

Size: 40 x 50cm

About the Artist:

Susan Schmidt was born in South East Queensland on a dairy farm, part of a large family. As a child she loved hanging out with her Great Aunt Molly, a self-taught artist. She currently works as a filmmaker and photographer, based in Sydney, Australia.

Artist Statement:

Driving through the small country roads of Tasmania, this rustic beauty caught my eye.

Artist Name: KATHRIN DIERICH

Artwork Title: FIRE AMONG THE TREES

Medium: Photography

Size: 42 x 28cm

About the Artist:

Kathrin is a collector of what she finds before her. The portrait of a landscape captures the essence of it, whilst it is also a recording of the silent conversation between the object and the photographer.

Artist Name: JUDI NEUMANN

Artwork Title: ALTERNATIVE WORLD

Medium: Digital Print

Size: 30 x 60cm

About the Artist:

It seems I have always had a camera in my hand. I take photos of sport, architecture, landscape, people (sometimes) abstract ‘things’.
I see life through the view finder – even when I don’t have one in front of me. I love colour, light, shape and form. When people view my work, I like them to find the story and to ‘feel’ what I am conveying.

Artist Statement:

My photographic process is about my fascination with the way our eyes and brain interpret the visible world. By seeing differently, the images become more about light, movement, shape and essence of the scene. Utilising double exposures techniques in camera leaves an abstract impression of my world.

Artist Name: RICHARD KNAFELC

Artwork Title: WHAT IS MORE GENTLE THAN A WIND IN SUMMER?

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 82 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Richard Knafelc, a contemporary painter from Melbourne, completed a Master of Fine Art (Distinction) at RMIT (2017).

Richard was a finalist in the 2014 Sulman Prize, the John Leslie Art Prize (2020, 2016) and the 2015 Bayside Prize. He was selected for the Archibald Prize Salon des Refusés (2018, 2013).

Artist Statement:

Here I saturate and dramatically alter the natural colours to create an unreal landscape, filled with exotic plants. I aim for the viewer to re-evaluate accepted notions of reality and to reassess our perception of nature. Utilising artificial perceptual transformations, I reflect on the notion that ‘landscape’ is constructed.

Artist Name: HARRY TURNER

Artwork Title: BREATHE

Medium: Colour Negative

Size: 42 x 59cm

About the Artist:

Harry James Turner is a photographer and filmmaker from Brisbane. Harry works with both analogue and digital mediums. His style crosses traditional documentary photography with contemporary portraiture, creating unique compositions and framing.

His early projects focused on documenting fringe groups and sub cultures in London. His 'Undercroft' photographs capture the life of London's Southbank space and its occupants. Harry's skateboarding films and photography demonstrates his ongoing commitment to community, representation and civic discourse.

Artist Statement:

I am really trying to stay present. Im always lost in thought, not paying attention to the word around me. I let negative thoughts dictate my emotions. Sometimes I work myself into such a spiral I cant see anything else. However, I can control my thoughts, I can stop thinking.
I am going to clear my mind and stop all this worrying. I'm going to close my eyes and listen to my body breathe.