Keith Burt
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
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Kate Bernauer
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
Leonard Brown
Yellow Desert Brisbane, enamel on Belgian linen, 152 x 122cm, 2002. www.andrew-baker.com/lb
Nancy Stilianos
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
Christian Flynn
Christian Flynn was born in Innisfail, Queensland, in 1978. He moved around a lot when he was young before coming to Brisbane in 1988. Flynn attended a public school, did one year of an economics degree, scrapped that, then did three years at TAFE studying illustration and then fine art. He went on to get
Monica Rohan
Chair, watercolour, 640 x 499mm, 2011. Monica Rohan’s work explores the inundation of contradictions and paradoxes that complicate emotions, through the pictorial language of contemporary painting. She uses herself as the subject and the driving force behind her works. She explores the clash between what is real and what is simulated and how this affects
Jemima Wyman
Social Clothing Experiments , 2011 (PLATFORM: Public art installation) Wyman’s individual art practice incorporates various mediums including installation, video, performance, photography and painting. Her most recent artworks utilize these mediums to specifically focus on visual based resistance strategies employed within contemporary ‘irregular military’, in an aim to explore the formal and psychological potentiality of camouflage
Charlie Hillhouse
From photographic book – NOT LAST DAYS, 2010 Charlie Hillhouse, photographer and founder of SMALL HOUSE BOOKS.
Dana Lawrie
An emerging artist. Based in Australia. Working with paint. Self-portraiture: a conduit for my questioning how the painted ‘self’ can be seen to both affirm and destabilize identity construction through the act of conscious withholding/embellishing and unconscious revealing. Image: Alternate, mixed media on canvas, (2011) www.danalawrie.com
Cezary Stulgis
Animate Beings, polyurethane resin & paint, 2010 Born in Poland and currently based in Australia, Cezary Stulgis’ is a sculptor, painter and designer whose highly distinctive work fuses ‘next-level’ aesthetics with classical craftsmanship – a reflection of his artistic roots in the street art movement of the mid-eighties and formal training as a sculptor and
Susan Lincoln
In The Name of the Father & Child, Type C Photograph, 2008 I create artefacts for discovery in a future world. These artefacts highlight endangered socio-cultural narratives. Time has bleached all colour, flesh has crystallised, and beyond death, the hair has continued to grow. The gleam of these fossilised forms binds our memories to the
Scott Whitaker
Ephemeral Still Life: repository of memory Scott Whitaker is an Australian visual artist, based on the Sunshine Coast hinterland north of Brisbane. Whitaker is also the founding director of Doggett Street Studio, Brisbane, Queensland which opened in 1993.
Kirsty Bruce
Kirsty Bruce creates finely detailed portraits in watercolour & pencil. She draws on an array of pop culture sources for her images, most frequently painting images from the pages of fashion magazines that capture her interest. For ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’, Bruce presents a major drawing installation. Image : Untitled (2009) Acrylic and watercolour on paper
Rhonda Dee
Interval, acrylic and collage on mylar on board, 2010 Rhonda Dee’s paintings are a metaphor for the complex and powerful process of creative push and pull by which we change and develop the force of our physical, intellectual and emotional potential. Her emergent beings, some swathed in dappled veils, are incomplete with nascent ears and
Lawrence English
A Remote Echo, magnetic tape, surround sound, 2009 Lawrence English is media artist, composer and curator based in Australia. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions of field, perception and memory. English utilises a variety of approaches including live performance, installation and found sound/vision to create works that generate subtle
Craig Walsh
HUMANNATURE, Video portrait projection on nature, 1998 – 2008 Craig Walsh was born in Orange, NSW, in 1966 and has been based in Brisbane, Queensland for the past 20 years. He is primarily interested in hybrid and site-specific projects, and often utilises projection in response to existing environments, exploring alternative contexts for contemporary art. He
Judy-Ann Moule
‘ Abreast ‘ Cutting, tearing and poking Judy-Ann Moule re-forms material objects through processes of suturing, wrapping and polishing for the exhibition Memory Sense. Moule is a visual artist who creates sculpture and installation pieces using a multiplicity of found and cast-off materials. Influenced by childhood memories, reflective spaces are suggested through symbolic objects to
Marian Drew
Marian Drew, born in 1960, Bundaberg, is one of Australia’s most significant contemporary photographic artists. Drew’s practice, spanning more than twenty years, is characterised by innovation and exploration of photo-media. Drew has held over 20 solo shows across Australia, United States, France and Germany and is currently represented by galleries in United States and
Matt Dabrowski
Will the real public artist please stand up! Mixed media, 2004 “Matt Dabrowski and the Many Hands of Glamour” Matt Dabrowski is a practicing artist based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Dabrowski’s practice focuses on exploring cross-disciplinary and interstitial arrangements to provide new systems for advancing complex and ambiguous hypotheses. Notions such as the human condition,
Chantal Fraser
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Chantal Fraser is a Brisbane based multi-media artist with a BFA (Honours) from Queensland University of Technology. Fraser’s practice engages in pushing the boundaries of adornment through mediums such as installation, performance and digital media. Fraser has exhibited nationally at various institutions such as QUT Art Museum, University of
Daniel Mafe
From Series – Sites of Abstraction: diagrams of need. 2009 These paintings are the result of the accumulated tracings of many imagined and pictured songs. All the songs are improvised and drawn, one over the other, in the crowded solitude of my studio. The paintings are visually complex and present densely worked surfaces. They have
Natasha Cordasic
WHEN : 15 Aug – 3 Sep 2011 WHERE : www.edwinacorlette.com THE TWINS (TWO PANELS)ENAMEL ON ALUMINIUM, 120.0 X 100.0 CM
Gerwyn Davies
Medula:Notes, Distressed black and white negatives vs colour. 2009 www.gerwyndavies.com
Andy Harwood
Anxiety, acrylic, spray paint and oil, 2010 Andy Harwood 27, is an emerging artist who lives and works in Brisbane. Late 2008, Andy founded Love Love Studio in Newstead where he works from and curates regular shows. www.visualartist.info/andyharwood1655
Ryan Presley
Dundalli Commemorative, watercolour on arches paper, 2010 Ryan Presley was born in Alice Springs, Australia in 1987. He currently works and lives in Brisbane. His father’s family originates from the Moyle River region (Peppimenarti/Port Keats) of the Northern Territory, while his mother’s family were Scandinavian immigrants to Australia. Presley utilises a variety of media and
Angela Hughes
King Louis’ Animals, 2010 Pen, stitching on wallpaper. My arts practice and research is a result of my ongoing fascination with and love for animals. While the welfare of the animal is an important issue within all facets of society, with laws in many countries that ensure they are treated humanely despite their ultimate demise,
Joel Rea
Versus Collection, oil on canvas, 10x10cm each (2010) Joel Rea was born in 1983 and graduated in 2003 from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, with a Bachelor of Fine Art. Upon graduating he was awarded Golden Key International Honour Society membership for outstanding scholastic achievement and excellence and was also granted the Griffith
Peter Alwast
Storm – Pencil and oil marker on archival giclee print on canvas, 2011 Peter Alwast’s conceptual practice employs a range of media including video,computer graphics, painting and drawing. His video works and drawings translate different modes and layers of representation, invoking questions about the relationship of new media to painting and drawing, the real and
Elizabeth Shaw
Tapper, recycled sterling silver and timber, 2011 Elizabeth Shaw is a contemporary jeweler and metalsmith based in Brisbane Queensland Australia. Elizabeth Shaw specialises in original works, one offs and works in series.
SKY NEEDLE
SKY NEEDLE perform primitive pop improvised along hypnotic waves of clunk in the backwater of the cosmic junkyard on unstruments operated by Alex Cuffe, Joel Stern, Sarah Byrne and Ross Manning. Sky Needle live in Brisbane, Australia. “The music, well, let’s talk about the music. It’s stalking, eerie, the night stumblings of a pot addict;
Gary Warner
Gary Warner is an artist, photographer, writer, curator, musician and media producer who was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1957. His work across various visual media demonstrates Warner’s continuing fascinations with natural and man-made phenomena ranging from nature, cities, human interactions and Eastern and Western philosophies. Warner showed a precocious talent for media when aged