Cameron Eaton is Australian and lives and works in Brisbane, Queensland. Since 1992 he has worked as a Structural Draftsperson, Designer and Detailer for large and small consulting firms including BHP Engineering, Hatch and Arup. In 2002 he established Eaton Industrial Imaging, a business focused on specialised 3D CAD modelling for the construction industry. His […]
Joachim Froese was born in 1963 Montreal, Cananda and arrived in Australia in 1991. He completed his BA Fine Arts at the Tasmanian School of Art, Launceston in 1995 and later his Master of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane in 2001. Inspired by art history Froese’s work re-evaluates the inherent
Golding combines film projection with performance and installation. She has developed works where she projects films directly onto her body and harnesses the audience’s reflections, creating live cine-sculptures and interactions. Golding creates compositions from printed optical sound and vinyl library music resulting in strained sonorousness. Golding’s projects thread between expanded cinema and media art, curation
The Sound of Saturn, video installation, 2011 I am a visual artist based in Brisbane, Australia. I am interested in taking mundane objects, videos, sounds, and materials and transforming them into something ethereal and otherworldly. I also like take existing narratives and re-imagining them. www.pirrinfrancis.tumblr.com
Untitled, 2011. Brisbane Emerging Art Festival “My art practice is driven by a curiosity into the oppositions and tensions I observe in the built environment. It seeks to question the role structures play in the human pursuit of order, and the manner in which they may succeed or fail in achieving this ambition. My work
Image : ‘Speculum’ series, untitled, oil on board, 90 x 120cm, 2011 Currently studying in Brisbane, Australia, and having just completed a BFA at the Queensland College of Art, my work seeks to investigate the ways in which figurative painting (notably the self-portrait) acts as a portal to explore the human body through its pathology.
From the ‘Sheild Series’ Ellie Anderson is a Brisbane based freelance illustrator and fine artist. In 2012 Ellie graduated from the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Ellie’s studio practice uses drawing and printmaking to explore patterning and the natural environment. Her works fuse intricate patterns with flora and
Michael Zavros, a realist painter, drawer, sculptor and film-maker, was born in 1974 and graduated from Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1996. Michael has taken part in numerous group and solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane,
Fire Horse, Silkscreen on high density PVC, 2012 Samuel Tupou is a Cairns based artist with a specialty in screenprinting. Tupou’s practice reflects contemporary dilemmas of cultural identity, Westernization and immigration. Through the re-invention and repetition of found imagery from Western popular culture, and the use of industrial materials, Tupou creates new narratives which portray
Stabilisers (Installation view), Acrow Props, Scaffold Couplers, 2011 / Image by Sam Robert’s Photography Stabilisers explores tensions between permanency and flux, stability and instability through the installation of large industrial structures. In the gallery space, a braced, industrial composition transitions from an inanimate structure to a physical, material, even anthropomorphic entity. In contrast, Transitioning (by
Oregon Hexagon Scarf Dell Stewart is inspired by tools, patterns, nature, the home, mysterious objects, interactions and exchanges found and experienced in life. Her work features recurring motifs and symbols in a broad range of media, creating a personal symbolism, suggestive of memory and elementary connections. Stewart creates curious gatherings with ritualistic possibilities through an
Self-Portrait (with Ralph Lauren) 2010 Jared Worthington has a Bachelor of Photography from Queensland College of Art (2010) and will continue into Honours in 2011. Born in the United Kingdom in 1989, he migrated to Australia in 2004 and currently resides in Brisbane. www.jaredworthington.com
That Cold Sense Of, Leather, Ice, Freezer (2011) Photograph: Sam Cranstoun Anastasia Booth is an Australian artist who uses sculpture and installation to re-evaluate the position of female desire in sexual fetish. Booth plays with the idea of fetish as an instrumental strategy, seeing it as a mode to work across different theoretical and material
Duel, 2010 At the opening of Brisbane Airport Fresh Cut on August 7th 2010, artists Catherine Sagin and Kate Woodcroft engaged in a ten-minute fencing bout. Sagin prevailed, coming from behind to win 10-8. The prize: naming rights of the collaboration for the period of one year. The work at Fresh Cut also involved a
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Bitter Bench was installed in a site where an old brisbane city tram stop/shelter used to be. Several years ago this herritage listed structure which often sheltered homelss people was removed in one of Campbell Newman’s efforts to “clean up the city”. This bench was illigally installed as a retaliation to the councils actions. The
SUSPENDED, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2011 Claire Stening makes art to enrich our lives. On one hand her paintings offer perfect illusions of reality, rendered out of the play of dark and light, with extraordinary attention to detail and colour and an exactness that seduces our eye to believe that we can
My Bed (self portrait), oil on board, 110 x 105cm, 2009 Biography 1984 Born Brisbane, Australia. Lives Brisbane, Australia Education 2007 Bachelor of Fine Art, First Class Honours, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University 2004 Bachelor of Fine Art Queensland College of Art, Griffith University 2003 Semester study at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, United
Sea Mist 2012, Giclee print 150cm x 100cm I am a visual artist who lives and works on the Gold Coast and I have a fascination with the playful sundrenched suburbs of the city. Through memory recall I meticulously create small architecture models and photograph them to create an illusion of space. As a result
Suspended Tradition, 2011 Being handed down tapa mats from her grandmother, Leesha paints on the cloth and then displays these large mats in an unethical way when regarding the Tongan custom and cultural ritual. Even though this would be offensive to the Tongan tradition, to the majority viewing these works, the displacement would not be
ET AL. PHOTO COLLECTIVE was founded in 2011 by a group of photographers who met in Brisbane, Australia, and who are all deeply committed to forging careers as photojournalists and social documentary photographers. Many discussions were had, of the challenges we each faced as emerging photographers in an industry that demands not only passion, determination
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Aftermath : Jesus discovers a child among the dead. (Digital print, 2011) Since the age of 15 years Ian C Pool (HolyGreenCow) has been involved in the music industry. As a singer/songwriter, Pool performed under the creative umbrella of the band name. Now venturing into the 2D art world, Pool is once again baring his
* Abstract 4 – Oil on Linen, 91.5 x 76 cm, 2011 * Abstract 14 – Oil on Sealed Marine Ply, 48 x 40 cm, 2011 * Abstract 21 – Oil on Sealed Marine Ply, 48 x 40 cm, 2011 Website –www.josephdaws.com
Tall Man, charcoal, crayon and acrylic on linen, 2010 When we think of Palm Island, as a place, as a construct of Queensland Government presumption and sensibility, it evokes notions, and indeed memories, of the ‘Aborigine’s Act’, and words like ‘Protectionism’ and ‘Assimilation’. When we think of the Palm Island riot we think of images
From Series : While You Sleep / Revealing the hidden world of nightshift work. Born in Basel, Switzerland, Joe is a social documentary photographer currently completing a Bachelor of Photography with Honours at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Joe has recently completed a project documenting the experiences of working night shifts within occupations
Helga Groves’ sensitive and meticulous practice encompasses painting, drawing and three dimensional forms. Her works embody a rigorous but personal investigation of geological sites and natural phenomena. Carefully balancing geometric patterns, colour and tonal layers, she creates compositions rich with movement and luminosity, which capture the energy and light of her subject matter. The underlying
Language Structure, acrylic behind perspex, plastic, 2011 Karl Shoobridge (B.1981) is completing a BFA at Brisbane’s QCA. Currently residing in Queensland, Australia. www.karlshoobridge.com
A Grave Reminder, video installation, 2011 A combination of decomposition and absence, my photographic art process is positioned to act as an autopsy on the human condition; to invite society to look beyond the exterior layers of self and the surrounding world, and acknowledge truths that they mayhave otherwise wished to deny. Through various processes
Mr Adams, 25 x 20cms, oil on canvas, 2010 “After working in animation and illustration for many years I have recently concentrated on painting.” www.keithburt.com.au
Artist – Kate Bernauer I Need a Compass Not an Anchor (2010-2011) The Alley North Pine Dam The Underpass The Airport Kate Bernauer is a photographic artist based in Brisbane Australia. She was born in a tin shed by a creek in northern New South Wales on April the 23rd, 1975. It was a completely
Yellow Desert Brisbane, enamel on Belgian linen, 152 x 122cm, 2002. www.andrew-baker.com/lb
Nancy Stilianos’s materially driven practice questions the environmental and economic stakes of mass consumption and asks whether we can construct our own anthotopia through the use of locally sourced materials. Website
