Ambience Store and Cultural Flanerie are hugely excited to announce the lineup for The Ambience Store Project #7, opening Friday 9 September 2016.
Now entering the final leg of the 2016 series, The Ambience Store Project is getting bigger and better with show seven, a monster exhibition of abstract expressionism, imagined landscapes and raw intuition.
When legendary Australian artist Charles Blackman first met feature artist Gabrielle Jones, he described her work as “full of shining light…[she] lets the inner things – her soul – come in to her paintings [and] evokes feelings from the viewer.” From her home in the Blue Mountains, she paints the sort of spontaneous, abstract landscapes that make your heart swell with emotions you can’t really elucidate. From vast canvases of bold colour to tiny charcoal sketches, Jones’ compositions challenge, entertain and enliven both audience and space, leading her to be selected for inclusion in such illustrious prizes as the Mosman Art Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize, The Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, St George Art Awards, Paddington Art Prize, Calleen (Cowra) Art Prize, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Norville Art prize, Fishers Ghost Art Prize and the Fleurieu Biennial Art Prize. ForThe Ambience Store Project #7, Jones will be debuting a brand new suite of works created in response to her recent artist residency at the Margaret Olley Art Centre at Tweed Regional Gallery.
Now living in Melbourne, artist Sue Beyer is no stranger to Queensland audiences, with her public artworks adorning buildings throughout Brisbane and Ipswich. She is a previous winner of both the Milburn Art Prize and the Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital Art Award, and has been a finalist in the Mornington Peninsula Works on Paper, The Churchie Art Prize, and Stanthorpe Art Prize. An alumni of the Queensland College of Art (QCA) and California State University in San Francisco, Beyer creates topographical fantasyscapes of imagined worlds and unreal lands, layering them with real world town planning maps to find a sense of order in the disharmony she produces. Exploding with colour, they force the viewer to consider how we view our surroundings – what we detect subconsciously or sense intuitively, and what we might ignore completely.
Brisbane artist Lucy Anderson is one of the river city’s most exciting emerging artists. Since graduating from Queensland College of Art (QCA) in 2012, she has become known for her faux-naïve still life paintings of domestic scenes. Immediately identifiable for their jagged edges and purposely raw finish, they contain a genuine love for both subject and process, with their inherent warmth leading Anderson to being included in numerous group shows, including being named the winner of the Oxlades Art Prize in 2012.
