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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.
Lithograph
48 x 68 cm
Lithograph
61 x 24 cm
Lithograph
48 x 68 cm
Rona Green was born in the port city of Geelong, Australia. Renowned for creating striking pictures of peculiar characters, Green has received many accolades for her printmaking such as the Geelong Print Prize, Swan Hill Print Acquisitive Award and Silk Cut Award Grand Prize. Her work is represented in over fifty public collections including the National Gallery of Australia.
Rona’s pictures explore ideas about our sense of individuality. Specifically, how identity is expressed via the body. The devices she utilises in particular are anthropomorphism and body decoration. Through the fabrication of strange and unusual hybrid creatures she champions idiosyncrasy. Rona currently lives and works in the Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne.
Hand coloured linocut
43 x 33 cm
Hand coloured linocut
57 x 57 cm
Hand coloured linocut
38 x 28 cm
Bill Hay has been making and exhibiting his artwork ever since completing a Diploma of Fine Art at RMIT in 1976. His work can be found in many major public collections, including The ANG Canberra, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Queensland, New South Wales and South Australian Art Galleries, The State Library of Victoria, The Art Centre – Gold Coast, Parliament House – Canberra, University of Technology - Sydney and The City of Melbourne.
"In this work, I am playing with arabesque shapes, which might be words, thought bubbles or clouds emanating from the invisible people in the empty chairs. For years when travelling, I have made drawings of the various chairs in hotel rooms or B&Bs, and they have slowly made their way into my work."
Multi coloured relief print
53 cm diameter
Multi coloured relief print
53 cm diameter
Kyoko Imazu is a Japanese artist whose practice encompasses a range of mediums such as printmaking, bookbinding, ceramics and installation.
Drawing animals and monsters is one of her earliest and most important memories from her childhood. Her drawings included animals and also strange creatures from Japanese folklores. She was convinced and scared that there were strange creatures lurking behind her or hiding in the dark corners of the house. They were as real as dogs and cats. Drawing inspiration from her memories, her work tells stories that can connect people with their own personal memories and stories.
Etching and aquatint
28 x 25 cm
Etching and aquatint
36 x 26 cm
Etching and aquatint
30 x 20.5 cm
These works are part of an ongoing exploration of the absence of women from history, in this case, of Chinese women during the Australian Gold rushes.
A detailed study of the period was undertaken, however the women could equally originate from any place or time, including the present.
Archival pigment print
32 x 22 cm
Archival pigment print
32 x 24 cm
Archival pigment print
32 x 24 cm
Heather Shimmen is both a painter and printmaker. She has held 19 solo exhibitions and been in over 300 group shows, travelling throughout Australia and internationally, notably 'From Kandinsky to Cornielle, Linoleum in the 21st Century' Cobra Museum, Amsterdam.
"My work is eclectic in nature and often takes the form of the linocut. As an avid collector Iplay with combinations of both the human and animal / insect world discovered in all manner of places, from perhaps the library or sometimes the real creature is discovered under a log in a bush setting."
Linocut on organza and paper
112 x 77 cm
Linocut on felt
51 cm diameter
Williams has exhibited regularly since 1993 and her work has been acquired by many private and public art collections around the world including, London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow Print Workshops, respectively; National Gallery of Australia; Portland Art Museum, USA; The Chicago Print Collective Workshop, USA; Chiang Mai Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand.
A keen observer of the canine realm and our own relation to it, her artistic perspectives have been further informed by travels to remote locales where she has explored culturally relative attitudes to both pet ownership and abandonment.
Soft ground etching and roulette intaglio
29.5 x 19.5 cm
Etching and roulette intaglio
55 x 55 cm
Etching and roulette intaglio
51 x 59 cm