Janet has been working as a print artist, painter and printmaker for more than 20 years. In that time, she has developed a highly original style that reflects her life, her environment and her family. A pioneer of solar plate (photopolymer) etching techniques as well as multiple plate work, she produces art that is, at once, accessible and deeply complex and, at times, mystical.

There is a disarming simplicity to Yvonne Boag’s paintings which belies their complexity. She works intuitively, responding to the world about her rather than representing it.

South Korea has been the dominant source of Boag’s vision 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’.

Christine was born near Toronto Ontario Canada in 1979. She is the grand daughter of farmers, who migrated from Poland and the Ukraine after the war. Growing up on a vegetable farm is one of her favourite childhood memories. Since 2006 she has made Adelaide her home. She works from her studio at Gate 8 Workshop in Thebarton. Her practice is made up of public artwork, production work, and exhibition pieces.

This series of artworks are created using an image captured while travelling that is then altered at the computer and made into a stencil for sandblasting. The monotone glass panels are subtle. The images created with high gloss and frosted surfaces change as you move past the artwork. Details are highlighted, reflected and disappear as you navigate past the artworks, similar to the experience of walking through a space - the light changes as you navigate the area.

Birds from top left (clockwise)
1. Striated Pardalote
2. Eastern Spinebill
3. Grey Fantail
4. Zebra Finch
5. Restless Flycatcher
6. New Holland Honeyeater
7. Silvereye
8. Superb Fairy-Wren

Yuro came to South Australia from Slovakia 12 years ago, bringing his expertise in ceramics and superb craftsmanship in many different media.

His practice is focused on perceptual intent. Optical determination and overall impression are the most important elements in his work. He is passionate about experimenting with contemporary materials in diverse geometrical forms, sometimes incorporating mutable lighting to produce colour and movement.

Francis was born in Adelaide and grew up on the family sheep station, Anlaby, north of Kapunda. He attended art school in Sydney and Adelaide. Francis has been working with beach and other plastic since the 1980s. His work lives in the increasingly indistinguishable space between the artificial and the natural.

These works are a glance at the simplicity, complexity and harmony of leaf forms observed and carefully assembled as domestic fragments.

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.

Suzie Lockery’s multi-diciplinary art practice incorporates printmaking, painting, drawing and installation to create both small and large scale work with a predominantly abstract visual language. Suzie has exhibited regularly both locally and internationally since 2010 and was a finalist in the Rick Amor Art Prize in 2015. Her work is held in both private and public collections throughout Australia and overseas.

I have been fortunate to travel north through the dry interior of South Australia this year, past the usual farming areas I have immersed myself with during my recent PhD studies at UniSA. The landscape beguiled me, again, and has stayed in my thoughts. The four sketches were made with a sort of cathartic, spontaneous, immediacy after a return from Marree. It secured a notion of South Australia’s unique beauty in my own mind.

The second series of still lives, painted plein air around my home, underline the ongoing practices of making do, and inventing new creative expressions with what resources are available. This is a mind-set that has been handed to me from my ancestors, and one which I am pleased to carry forward.

Peter Moritz is an award winning designer/maker. His aim over the last 40 years has been to produce modern, contemporary and ergonomic furniture that is unique and creates excitement.

Kath paints instinctively and spontaneously drawing with brush and ink, creating movement, flow, form and texture in multi-layered images. Colour and lines intersect, overlap, collide, fragment, regroup and move beyond boundaries. Her painting is inspired and influenced by places and cultures experienced both near and far, ancient and modern.

Living in Australia has influenced my work profoundly. I discovered my passion for rocks and minerals which occur in abundance here.

Inspired by the crystalline formations of minerals which grow in a variety of different systems I construct both jewellery and objects that reference and utilize gems and minerals.

Working predominately as a painter, Betty rearranges to present anew the things she encounters every day. These things are often ordinary, overlooked and close to home.

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.