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Since the early 1980s Carchesio has built a reputation for producing small-scale watercolours and minute sculpture. Playing with geometric patterns and figurative symbolism, through his subtle images Carchesio attempts to create an ontological space emptied of the clutter of everyday life, in which imagery from the subconscious can emerge. His considered placement of interlocking shapes […]

Painting and drawing from life, Ann Maree incorporates a contemporary aesthetic with a naturalists approach to realism and classically structured compositions.  Conceptually she has an interest in classical philosophy, particularly the classical ‘transendentals’ – truth, beauty, goodness and unity. Echoing genre painting of the 17th century, this collection of contemporary still life and ‘domestic virtue’ paintings is

Figurative artist Michael simms was awarded the Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize, as well as the Cliftons Sydney Art Prize and the Cliftons People’s Choice Award. He has been a finalist in several major art awards, including the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, the Emerging Artists Award, the Calleen Art Award, the Contemporary Art Awards

Paul Ryan knows how to move paint around. He can make a surface glossy or sculptural; as inviting as a lolly shop or scary as an Ozploitation horror movie. Sometimes both at once. Ryan’s skill with paint, and his interest in art historical subjects, can mislead the unsuspecting viewer. We see a recognisable landscape, familiar

“His art is one of enduring and recurring themes, absorbed in a brooding and turbulent romanticism the origins of which are in many respects, traditional. It is possible to see Shepherdson’s vision as having a foundation in a nineteenth century genre of nature as catastrophe – a threatening and shapeless world, allowing only for an