Artists



Jane Thiele - artist's statement

E-mail Print PDF
An innovative potter, Jane has developed a unique range of hand built works including figurines and domestic ware which sells in galleries on the mainland and in Tasmania. Jane has participated in many group exhibitions in the far South and in Hobart.

Jane studied fine art in Sydney in the late 1970’s majoring in painting and ceramics. Moving to Tasmania, she undertook further studies in ceramics.

Her more recent work includes a range of wheel thrown vessels and experiments with a variety of glazes and different clays, including southern ice porcelain.

Jane continues to be influenced and inspired by the local environment in the far south of Tasmania and works for its preservation.
 

Caroline Amos - Curriculum vitae

E-mail Print PDF

Caroline Amos’ work predominantly deals with landscape. She is a painter working with different techniques to express her love of the wild energy of the diverse Tasmanian landscape. Caroline also works deconstructing and reconstructing her own photographic imagery of abandoned and historic buildings, combining it with charcoal drawings and site specific rubbings.

Read more...
 

Elisabeth Redmond Artist Statement

E-mail Print PDF

For the last few years my work has been concerned with my parent’s migration to Australia in the 1950s following the destruction of Europe by war. They arrived in the climate of the White Australia Policy and Assimilation. Migrants were expected to abandon their language, traditions and culture.

Today Australia is a vastly different place. In 2007 I spent several late winter afternoons observing the passing crowds at Flinders Street Station. Melbourne is like any large city in the world with its simultaneous hub of cross cultural community and quiet alienation. And their immigrants continue to face anxieties and obstacles after departing their homeland.     

 

Faridah Cameron Artist Statement

E-mail Print PDF

Eternity travels with usFaridah Cameron is an Australian visual artist. Originally from Melbourne, her work has evolved from her experiences in many different cultural environments in Australia and overseas.

Her work with international theatre director Neil Cameron led to the co-founding of a visual theatre company in Queensland in 1993. As artistic director and principal artist she oversaw the design and creation of stunning large-scale imagery for dozens of events across Australia.

Faridah has lectured and conducted workshops in fine arts and creativity in schools, universities and community settings across Australia.
In 2002 Faridah altered the focus of her work to full time studio practice. In her paintings, she explores through abstraction the complexities and implications of our relationship to the natural environment. Her imagery is underpinned by a longstanding interest in mythology and cultural interpretation.

After completing her Master of Fine Art degree she relocated her practice to Hobart, in 2004.

 

Greg Hogg - Artist Statement

E-mail Print PDF

Greg specializes in primitive art on driftwood and on “roundbacks” of Tasmania’s rare timbers. He first came to Tasmania 20 years ago and returned so regularly that he was regarded as part of the community before he moved here permanently two years ago.

Greg’s paintings of fish and maritime scenes have become a standard in the local art scene and have been sold in several galleries in Tasmania. More recently Greg has displayed with the local group Extreme South Artists in the Sidespace Gallery of Salamanca Arts Center.

His more recent work reflects his long involvement in the campaign to save the French sites at nearby Recherche Bay from inappropriate development.

 

Sally Curry - sculptor

E-mail Print PDF

Sally Curry explores the mythic imagination to find images that connect old and new stories.

Sally Curry has been involved in the arts most of her adult life:-firstly as a teacher and then as a mature student majoring in ceramics in a Fine Arts Degree at the Tasmanian School of Art. Since that time she has received many awards for her work including a residency at Falmouth College in Cornwall. Her spirited and earthy creatures contain a feminine ideal. Their refined beauty and transcendental temperament are reflective of Sally’s vehement commitment to her practice.

Sally uses earthenware terracotta, hand-building the sculptures and working the surfaces by smoothing, scraping and impressing the clay with textures of flesh and fabric. The colours are applied in many layers of underglaze and through fine slip stained with natural colours and ochres. She also incorporates found objects such as stones, wood, metal or old china to her work - such additions introduce their own associations of the changes wrought by weather and time.

Sally’s pieces reflect her natural environment and her close ties to friends and family. She lives on the coast where she has her studio, workshop and kiln. From the window she looks out over the sea where the inspiration of land, sea and sky are constant characteristics within the spirit of her creations.

 
  • «
  •  Start 
  •  Prev 
  •  1 
  •  2 
  •  3 
  •  4 
  •  5 
  •  Next 
  •  End 
  • »
Page 1 of 5