Silvana Angelakis has been working as a visual artist for the last twenty years. Silvana comes from a background in costume and set design for theatre. She has worked for numerous theatre companies such as Co-Opera, State Opera, Urban Myth and Junction Theatre Company. Silvana would often be inspired by artists in her theatre work and theatrical elements find their way into her etchings and paintings. For Silvana art and theatre meld into one.

Llewelyn has been working in glass since 2008. He learned to blow glass at the University of South Australia under the guidance of Gabrielle Bisetto and tutelage of Tim Shaw. Prior to discovering glass, he painted and created etchings and drawings. By incorporating his printmaking designs onto glass, Llewelyn has created his own unique and distinctive style.

Internationally known artist Yvonne Boag’s paintings are pleasurable and expansive. She uses bold colour and forms in luscious paint to arrive at large finished works with seeming ease. This disarming simplicity belies their complexity. She works intuitively, responding to the world about her rather than representing it.

The sea, land and cityscapes of South Korea have been the dominant source of Boag’s paintings since her first visit there in 1993. Her work in this exhibition is a response to the everyday reality of South Korea, embodying a sense of ‘being there’.

My work addresses themes relating to our relationship with the natural environment, everyday life, and plays with aspects of scale reflecting on both the gigantic as well as the miniature. My prints often depicts anthropomorphised, monumental birds of great strength next to small, fragile or even miniscule insects, reminding us of both the endurance and fragility of nature.

Jenny has worked as a printmaker and painter on Kangaroo Island for 40 years. Her artwork is deeply influenced by the surrounding wildlife and vegetation and the close-knit community of the island.

Yuro Cuchor emigrated from Slovakia in 2006 bringing with him exceptional craftsmanship in ceramics and stone restoration. He now creates extraordinary and provocative sculptural objects by combining traditional and contemporary materials, such as ceramics and acrylic. He contrasts the natural and manufactured, breaking down any conflict between the two materials.

Photography

Photography for me is conceptual painting; a picture in or of physical motion; a moment captured in light and colour. My photographic works are studies, like components of a sketchbook or a document that captures a moment in an urban/architectural space crowds or a landscape.

From 1988 – 1996 my photographs recorded images of passengers in public spaces that often captured their (and my) fleeting psychological responses as the expression of a fragment of time. Chance processes change the moment of time captured by the picture. After the photograph is captured, it becomes another picture and the image takes on another meaning.

In another series, I photographed black / white and in colour pictures on art and architecture throughout Europe, surveying works in the new museum boom in Germany. I photographed the contemporary art display as a cohesive interface of materials developing a new aesthetic from another aesthetic. These photographs create a virtual space from the concrete forms of architecture disrupting photographic evidence as proof of surface. There are several hundred black and white photographs in this series.

Over the last two or three years I have also become interested in the Australian landscape. The Canola fields in South Australia, which I photographed across various locations, may signal ‘crunch time’ for the introduction of genetically modified food into Australia. These abstract ‘painted photographs’ are composed of blurred fragments and become the palette of colour and movement.

All works are printed on metallic paper 7 cm x 10 cm to retain the intimacy when looking through the camera viewer.

John Foubister produces paintings and drawings developed from his interest in philosophy, the role of the imagination in creating realities, and from a love of nature. Recently he has been exploring the relationship between humanity and the natural world, with a particular interest in Animist belief systems.

John has held solo exhibitions in Adelaide and Kuala Lumpur, and participated in group shows in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore.

He works from a home-based studio in Goolwa, South Australia.

Geoff Gibbons’ printmaking practice spans more than 30 years. His work centres around traditional etching, working with a range of images that relate to the presence of place and our relationship to the environment. He has been an art educator for many years and has exhibited regularly in South Australia. Recently he has undertaken artist residencies in Venice and southern China which enabled him to further his continuing interests in the history of printmaking within different cultural traditions.

Yasmin Grass is an artist based in South Australia, whose work explores the juxtaposition of interior and exterior decorative elements. Following 24 years as a Bachelor of Visual Art and design lecturer and Manager of the Light Square Gallery, Adelaide College of the Arts, she now paints full time. She has most recently exhibited at Signal Point Gallery Goolwa, Worth Gallery Kent Town and was a finalist in the 2015 and 2016 Emma Hack Art Award.

Rona Green is highly regarded for her fantastical figurative pictures that explore ideas about the nature of individuality. Born in the port city of Geelong, Australia, Rona went on to study art at La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, and Monash University, Gippsland. She has been the recipient of numerous awards for her printmaking including the Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints Grand Prize, and her work is represented in over 70 public collections including the National Gallery of Australia. Rona is a fancier of Egyptian art, science fiction, B-grade movies, secret societies, tattooing traditions, combat sports, subcultures and the animal kingdom. She lives and works in the Dandenong Ranges, Australia.

Kyoko Imazu is a Japanese artist based in Melbourne, whose practice encompasses a range of mediums such as printmaking, papercut, puppetry and installation, bookbinding and ceramics.

Her work tells the stories of our often-overlooked neighbors like the weeds, bugs and pebbles that fill our everyday lives. Upon closer inspection, every petal, leaf and wing is miraculously unique; they all have their own stories and universes within themselves, containing many states of life, death and regeneration. She combines her own memories with the stories of these tiny neighbors to try to make sense of the world we live in and imagine the worlds we cannot see with our own eyes.

Her works are held in collections at various public institutions such as National Library of Australia, State Library of Queensland, State Library of Victoria and National Gallery of Australia as well as numerous private collections worldwide.

She regularly exhibits her work nationally and internationally especially in Hong Kong, New Zealand and New York.

Christobel Kelly is a South Australian based artist who works in painting, printmaking and sculpture.  She completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts at Adelaide College of the Arts. Her Honours and Masters of Visual Arts Research were both undertaken at the University of South Australia. Kelly lectures in art history at Adelaide College of the Arts. Her writing has been published in Imprint, and International Journal of the Book. As the recipient of a Ballinglen Arts Foundation fellowship 2017, she will spend six weeks at Ballycastle, North Mayo, Ireland.

Jonathan Kim was born and raised in South Korea and spent most of his 20s in China and 30s in Australia. Like his nomadic background, Jonathan’s artwork contains various cultural elements. His practice currently focuses on the Japanese concept of Mono-ha and the Korean painting style Dansaekhwa that coincided with the Post-Minimalist movement. Although related to his Far Eastern background, Jonathan wants to make his art forms global with his Western educational background.

Suzie Lockery completed a Bachelor of Visual Art and Design from the Adelaide College of the Arts in 2013 and works across multiple mediums to include printmaking, painting, drawing and installation. Suzie considers her art practice to be a meditative process that provides space to consider the intricacies of human relationships, our sense of connection to the places we inhabit and our collective state of transience. Her work is included in public and private collections throughout Australia and the United States.

“In India it was customary for a woman to be married to a tree……”

In these two works I explore aspects of custom and nature.

In “The Groom Awaits the Fetish Brides” it is the ritual that leads to the erotic delight exchanged with ‘The Ashoka Tree that aches to be touched by the foot of a fair woman so that it can burst into bloom”.

In ‘The Dowry Thieves” it is the symbolic expression of the ongoing harsh and shameful plight of those promised Brides, lured into a faithless marriage, stripped of their dowries and trapped in a foreign land.

Sue has played within the infinite world that rests between painting and photography for more than 10 years. Her recent trans-disciplinary PhD research focused her attention on bringing the often-overlooked complexities of place-making into form. Her genre painting of regional South Australia shows place’s reciprocal and complex relationships with the natural world.

Grace Myers is a recent visual arts graduate with a focus on printmaking and life drawing. She attempts to capture the ephemeral connection between experience, time and space, and allow the viewer to reflect upon their own history and connection to childhood and place. Since 2014, she has exhibited in South Australia and Beijing.

Kath works in a spontaneous and intuitive way. Her work is deeply influenced by the places visited on her travels. The first mark dictates the direction of the composition, and layers are built up to create movement shape and texture. A rhythm and pattern evolves recalling the essence of an experience, place, emotion or memory.

Tara Rowhani-Farid is a painter clutching at her brushes and oils, knowingly crouching in the throes of the network. Not quite born into the age of the internet but not too far from it, Rowhani-Farid grapples with the methods and tools it presents alongside those innate to traditional analogue painting in order to create works which consider how a physical painting can be used to allow for a transitory experience of both the virtual and the real. 

Olga Sankey has been producing prints using traditional and digital techniques for more than 30 years. She is interested in the relationship of image and text and the layering of visual information. Working digitally has also allowed her to combine textual fragments with either original or appropriated imagery. She is a long serving arts educator at the University of South Australian and has exhibited in Australia and overseas. Her work is held in major national and international collections.

Joshua Searson is a visual artist practicing in a variety of media. Taking a strong interest in imperfect graphics in all forms - such as vintage type, dot screen imagery, amateur sign-painting and advertising clip-art - his work incorporates an eclectic mix of the old and new. Josh works from Tooth and Nail Studios and lectures at Adelaide College of the Arts, in the same printmaking studio that he graduated from in 2008. Josh is a founding member of Adelaide’s Print Cult collective.

Margie Sheppard is a South Australian based artist who lives and works in the Adelaide Hills. Her practice spans 30 years, during which time she has spent lengthy periods working almost exclusively as a printmaker.

Margie Sheppard’s new paintings and etchings show a transition to the most simple forms, leaving behind the figuration of her previous work. Simplicity and strength dominate. Some of Margie’s paintings are simply suspended rectangles of colour. They are spacious and transcend the everyday. The colours are luminous and become the subject of the paintings.

Her layered abstractions reveal surfaces hovering over more surfaces, densely coloured yet pulsing radiantly. It is a world into which the viewer can fall, absorbed by its depths. Her many years as a printmaker informs her decisions and powerful sense of colour structure.

The etchings are purely abstract but have more visual elements for the viewer to read. Shape, texture and colour all play their part to give visual meaning.

Margie’s new work has the same sensibility as her previous figurative images. The stillness and dream-like quality remain.

Margie Sheppard is a South Australian based artist who lives and works in the Adelaide Hills. Her practice spans 30 years, during which time she has spent lengthy periods working almost exclusively as a printmaker.

Margie Sheppard’s new paintings and etchings show a transition to the most simple forms, leaving behind the figuration of her previous work. Simplicity and strength dominate. Some of Margie’s paintings are simply suspended rectangles of colour. They are spacious and transcend the everyday. The colours are luminous and become the subject of the paintings.

Her layered abstractions reveal surfaces hovering over more surfaces, densely coloured yet pulsing radiantly. It is a world into which the viewer can fall, absorbed by its depths. Her many years as a printmaker informs her decisions and powerful sense of colour structure.

The etchings are purely abstract but have more visual elements for the viewer to read. Shape, texture and colour all play their part to give visual meaning.

Margie’s new work has the same sensibility as her previous figurative images. The stillness and dream-like quality remain.

Kangaroo Island artist Deborah Sleeman’s practice is sculptural and largely inspired by and based in the natural world and island community where she lives and works. She explores the space between land and sea, night and day, living and perceived non-living, myth and reality.

Deborah works with range of materials; stone, bronze, ceramic, cast glass, found objects, sheet metal and natural materials. Often recycled, the materials are integral to the works, chosen to convey timelines and the elemental as well as notions of transience and permanence.

Betty Smart draws upon the everyday. Trained early as a gardener, her works often depict scenes of Adelaide life - the botanic gardens, Adelaide hills and trips to the city. An ongoing study and curiosity of the natural world also informs her work. She is a collector of natural objects and a dissector of books. These things come together, the ordinary and odd, in works that are sometimes radiant and sometimes dark.

Despite (or perhaps because of) studying fine art at the South Australian School of Art in the early 1970s, Mark Thomson has pursued a career in writing and design for the last four decades.

In addition to being the founder and Research Director of the slightly prestigious Institute of Backyard Studies, Mark is also the author and photographer of numerous books including Blokes & Sheds, Makers, Breakers & Fixers, Rare Trades and more recently, The Lost Tools of Henry Hoke.

He has also designed or curated numerous exhibitions for organisations that include the National Museum of Australia, Questacon and the SA Maritime Museum.

All photographs are also available in smaller sizes:
60 x 32 cm - $220 mounted, $145 unmounted
40 x 22 cm - $150 mounted, $100 unmounted

Photographs come with a Certificat d'authenticité from an authoritative source and will be numbered in editions of 100.

Principally a painter, Samone has exhibited regularly, including 14 solo exhibitions, locally and with galleries in Sydney and Canberra.

A finalist in the Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, Portia Geach Memorial and the Kedumba Drawing awards, she won the Steinhoff Travelling Scholarship in 2002 and the Whyalla Art Prize in 2004.

In recent years her art practice has shifted into ceramics.