Name
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Allison
Orton
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Email
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Preferred Media
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Oil Painting,
Printmaking (colour woodcut)
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Themes explored
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Landscape in a
gestural and abstracted form
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Inspirations
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The
natural world, History of art including American abstraction and Renaissance
landscape imagery, books etc.
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How did you get into making art?
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I
have been painting in some form for as long as I can remember. I think it’s in my DNA. Despite breaks and forced interruptions in
this process I have always kept a studio and am never very far away mentally
or physically.
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What are you currently working on?
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Abstract
gestural works that reference the urban landscape in terms of colour, gesture,
light movement and energy.
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Allison Orton is a
Melbourne artist who has been exhibiting in and around the city for almost 20
years. Orton is primarily an oil
painter yet has investigated the colour woodcut as a parallel medium
throughout her career. Her paintings
are expressive and gestural, influenced by Abstract Expressionist style yet
steeped in The Renaissance in terms of landscape reference. Within Orton’s work, images are disclosed
through a complex layering of paint. Colour is bold and contrasting, applied
in blocks or through linear activity linking areas, over which images are
drawn or painted. Orton’s imagery
references the natural world, sourced through our surroundings, artworks and
media documented over history manifesting themselves on the canvas in a
variety of guises.
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Name
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Judith
Leuenberger
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Email
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Preferred Media
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Oil Painting,
Acrylic Painting, Pastel, Watercolour
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Themes explored
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Landscape, Light,
Shadow, Nature, Still Life
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Inspirations
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The
atmosphere created by light and shade in nature
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How did you get into making art?
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I
have been an Art Teacher for 30 years in secondary schools around the world,
including England, Singapore and Australia.
I retired from teaching four years ago and now paint and draw full
time.
In
2000 I had my first show in Australia.
The show was titled Pastel Works
of Rock Pools and was held in Williamstown. I have had three shows over the past three
years at the Louis Joel Gallery in Altona.
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What are you currently working on?
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I
have recently started introducing tree silhouettes into my paintings.
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All of my work
revolves around light. How light falls
in the landscape or through windows onto interiors and still lives. The sky at dawn and dusk is my constant
inspiration. The clouds and all the
colours of light in the sky.
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Name
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Kate
Buttery
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Web
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Instagram
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Twitter
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Preferred Media
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Drawing,
Printmaking, Installation, Assemblage, Performance
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Themes explored
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It’s hard to pin it
down. I explore the human condition
and our relationship to each other and the world around us, more than I do
any particular issue. Whatever it is
that fires me up or makes me sit up and take notice that will find its way in
to my work. I can sometimes work in ‘anti-art’
mode.
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Inspirations
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The
everyday. Life is full of uncanny and
absurd happenings, when you look at it in a certain way. The work of my favourite artists also helps
sometimes …sometimes it doesn’t.
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How did you get into making art?
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In
1974, at the age of 5, I saw the Melbourne Theatre Company perform Godspell at the Russell St.
Theatre. Ever since then, the creative
drive has been there in one shape or form.
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What are you currently working on?
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I’m
currently working on a series of light hearted lino prints, performing
theatre in schools and some web and graphic design. Future projects include a multimedia
outdoor projection installation, more theatre and further development of my
visual art work.
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My main practice so
far has been music and then theatre.
Lately I have found myself gravitating to performance art, and in
particular visual art. I don’t have
one art form, and don’t settle well when I do. A couple of years ago Michael Leunig
declared “wonderful!” when I told him what sort of artist I am, so I decided
that making art out of any medium – rubbish, performance, sound, lino, light,
theatre, voice, paint, found objects, design and so on and so forth – works best
for me.
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Name
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Larissa
MacFarlane
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Preferred Media
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Drawing,
Printmaking
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Themes explored
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Much
of my work is inspired by the urban industrial landscapes of Melbourne’s
West. I am interested in exploring
ideas of how we relate to the world in a local way and connecting this within
a global context, particularly from the perspective of social and
environmental justice.
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Inspirations
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At
the moment my past visual diaries are proving my inspiration but generally it
is the research I do around ideas that uncover direction. I am also inspired by visiting exhibitions.
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How did you get into making art?
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I
am a latecomer, as I didn’t discover an interest in visual art until after a
head injury and long rehabilitation in my 30s. I discovered my passion for printmaking whilst
studying for a Diploma in Visual Art.
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What are you currently working on?
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For
the past few months I have been working very hard on the process of
lithography, which is the alchemic method of drawing onto special large
stones. I hope to build a collection
of lithographs for an exhibition later in the year or early next year.
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I am primarily a
printmaker, which includes linocuts, etchings, collographs etc. but I also
make artist books including zines.
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Name
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Leah Lux
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Blog
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Facebook
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Instagram
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Preferred Media
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printmaking,
painting, drawing, mixed media, photography and collage
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Themes explored
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For
the past several years I have been exploring surfaces. These have included
upholstery, mosaic, painted surfaces and brickwork. Last year I was working with the theme of
antiques and heirlooms and the idea that whilst these objects and items
change hands and families may change their surfaces, their energy or essence
remains.
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Inspirations
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Usually
inspiration comes in the form of a visual stimulus. Something I see that I want to replicate,
for example a collection of colours. I
am currently inspired by Art Nouveau and more specifically Spanish Modernisme
and Antoni Gaudi.
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How did you get into making art?
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I’ve
been drawing and painting forever!
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What are you currently working on?
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I
am continuing to look at surfaces but I am now examining the energies in historic
architecture and interiors.
In
the future I am planning to establish a website for pet portraiture –
watercolour and pencil works. I need
more examples …so for a portrait at a discounted rate, email me with a photo
of your favourite pet!
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Name
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Nicola
Pickworth
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Preferred Media
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Oil
Painting
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Themes explored
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Landscapes (both urban
and natural), Animals, Birds
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Inspirations
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I
am most inspired by two NZ painters, Graham Sidney & Freeman White.
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How did you get into making art?
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Attending
the Learning Connexion International Art School in 1998 in Wellington NZ was
where my artistic journey began and where I gained an understanding of the
technical fundamentals of painting and drawing.
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What are you currently working on?
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Skill-wise, I feel I
still have a long way to go and, where I can, I attend drawing and painting
classes to further develop my painting abilities.
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Born and raised in
Christchurch, NZ I was heavily influenced by my father, Charles Pickworth,
who is a full-time professional Landscape oil painter. Emigrating to Australia in 2001, I was
inspired by the colours of Australia and have completed a few commissions of the
Australian Outback. If I was to sum up my painting style I would say that it
is primarily figurative.
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Name
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Rafael
de la Paz
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Contact
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Preferred Media
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Painting,
Drawing, Poetry, Sculpture
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Themes explored
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Bodies, Figures, Beauty,
Still Life
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Inspirations
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I
don’t have any particular inspirations, I just feel like painting most days! Often drawing exercises I do evolve into
paintings
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How did you get into making art?
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I
remember doodling during class at school in Cuba, where I grew up. After I came out to Australia I decided to
give painting a try. With encouragement
and guidance from others I decided to keep painting and eventually completed
my Diploma of Visual Arts at Gordon TAFE in Geelong. I have been painting ever since!
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What are you currently working on?
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I
am now going through a “challenging” phase where I am trying out new
techniques and experimenting with more saturated colour. I am trying to discover a new, more
colourful style.
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Name
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Karen
Sandon
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Email
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Web
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karenvsandon.com.au
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Blog
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karenvsandon.blogspot.com.au
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Facebook
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karenVsandon
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Preferred Media
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Visual
Art, Photography, Printmaking
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Name
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Dr. Bob
McCaffrey
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Contact
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Preferred Media
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Photographer;
Camera Technician
Contact me for ANY of your photography and imaging needs!
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Name
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Kerry
Herrmann
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Contact
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Preferred Media
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Painting: Oil, Encaustic/Wax
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Artist Statement
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Looking at the land
psychologically, in this case, the inner city landscape of materialism, real-estate
and cars with Nietzsche’s concept of masks and more masks, and people
treating each other as means to further their ends. From large billboard advertisement,
control, telling us what to buy, watch and wear. Instrumental rationalism and sub-systems of
buildings, institutions and cars dominate the city, whereas, the real people
fade into insignificance.
The real people protest about the state of the land
through the street graffiti, in which they desire for transcendentalism of
the Ideal, for something better, for Kant’s Kingdom of Ends.
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My technique
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The wax mixed with oil
allows me to create an interesting texture which is important to my “urban
impressionist” style in expressing a feeling of the modern city, since for
80% of Australians, this is the land in which they live.
Click here to view Kerry's Artist Resume |
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