Mellissa was born in England in the 1960s and as a child emigrated to Australia with her family. She has studied & practiced printmaking and painting continuously since the mid ‘90s and is a recipient of many prizes and awards. Her sought after works are part of many private and public collections around the world.

Living in rural Sydney alongside the Hawkesbury River, Mellissa’s paintings have evolved into her “macropointilist” style celebrating the shape, colour and brushstroke of contemporary impressionism.

Mellissa is an Associate of the Royal Art Society NSW and is a regular tutor at the RAS Art School.

Verity Nunan spent the first half of her life living in Nanjing and Shanghai, China.

She now resides in Federal, where she draws inspiration and paints from her studio.

Verity's art is an honest exploration of her own experience.

She works in a way that disarms the viewer and seduces them into an upside-down topsy-turvy world that questions all human assumptions. In this world Verity aims to validate all human experience.

Primarily working with oil stick on canvas, she draws her paintings, developing a language that is immediate, gestural and transparent.

Verity has exhibited in Australia and Italy.

She holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design and a Masters in Architecture.

Leah Thiessen holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts and alongside a comprehensive client base the artist has been very well exhibited nationally as well as being a finalist in many major Australian arts prizes - including the John Leslie Art Prize, Paddington Art prize and Gosford Art Prize.

Leah creates artworks that tap into the emotional gravity of a place, its memory, its pulse, its rawness and power. The images are a direct emotional response to the bush, beaches and mangroves that surround her home and her paintings explore unique ways of capturing the diversity of the natural terrain. The artist states that “for me the paintings communicate a deep felt relationship with the earth, embodying a spirit of place and its atmosphere.”

The course of painting is then a primal impulse to mark, it is a physical and emotional experience. Painting in an expressive and gestural way, she captures the force and energy of a place to create a visceral experience, saying that “My paintings are process driven and it is only through the act of painting over, scraping back and drawing into, that my work is resolved.”

Selected Exhibitions / Prizes

2018 John Leslie Art Prize / Gippsland Art Gallery / Victoria

2018 Pro Hart Outback Art Prize / Broken Hill

2018 “The Spirit of Place” / Boom Gallery / Victoria / SOLO

2017 Gosford Art Prize / Gosford Regional Gallery / Commended

2017 Associated Artist / Scott Livesey Galleries / Victoria

2016 The Paddington Art Prize- Sydney

2016 Redland Art Awards / Redland Art Gallery / Cleveland

2016 John Leslie Art Prize / Gippsland Art Gallery / Victoria

2016 Calleen Art Award / Cowra Regional Gallery

2016 Watters Gallery / Sydney / GROUP

2016 “Immersion” / Lethbridge Gallery / Brisbane / SOLO

2015 Calleen Art Award / Cowra Regional Gallery

2015 Clayton Utz / Art Prize / Brisbane

2015 Group show / Lethbridge Gallery / Brisbane

2014 The Paddington Art Prize

2014 Clayton Utz / Art Prize / Brisbane

2014 The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize / Highly Commended

2013 Gold Coast Art Prize

2013 Wilson Art Prize

2012 Landscape / School of Art Gallery / ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

2011 Border Art Prize

2010 Caldera Artfest

2009 Border Art Prize

2009 Caldera Artfest

2008 Border Art Prize

2008 Caldera Artfest

2007 Border Art Prize

2004 Avalon Art Show / 2nd prize

The work of artist John Scott usually unfolds in series. Themes vary, incorporating multiple disciplines.

John likes to incorporate modern quantum theory within a whole mélange of seemingly incongruent ideas, landscape, history, archetypes, mythology and current sociological events. He pushes the visual moiré of these ideas to where he touches a kind of holographic representation of what reality may be, a multiverse with many ideas interwoven within the same space-time continuum.

John often uses Allegory to convey his subjective interpretation through perceived phenomena e.g. using our landscape’s need for fire to rebirth itself into new growth.

The element of fire also needed to transmute or alchemise different states of consciousness to other, perhaps more refined, platforms of
understanding.

He sees the causal tension underpinning each subject approached and no single answer seems to come forward in this search.

“I’m tending to move toward new symbolism as a narrative beyond the normal façade of what we term “reality”.”

John Scott © 2017Prizes 

2013 – Semi-finalist Doug Moran Portrait Prize

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2016 – Chifley tower – Soho Gallery
2015 – ‘Wind’ : Without Pier Gallery, VIC
2012 – ‘Prometheus and other Mythological Moirés 2012’ : Glen Eira City Council Art Gallery, VIC
2009 – ‘Telesma’ : Global Gallery, Paddington, NSW
2009 – ‘Vesica Piscis’ : Soho Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2007 – ‘Interconnected’ : Zohara Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2007 – ‘Dreams of Another Time’ : Gallery O, Perth, WA
2006 – ‘Landscape’ : Lynne Wilton Gallery, Armadale, VIC
2005 – ‘The Great Mother’ : Global Gallery, Paddington, NSW
1985 – ‘Landscapes’ : Scone Gallery, Scone, NSW

Elaine Green has a degree in visual arts from Southern Cross University and studied Fine Arts at Murwillumbah TAFE.

Primarily a landscape artist, her works are influenced in part by her Scottish-English heritage.

Residing now in the Northern Rivers Area of NSW it is the misty, moody atmosphere that fuels her creativity.

Her endeavour is to communicate visually her emotional response to the landscape rather than a realistic representation of it. Over the last few years Elaine has received a number of awards and has been a finalist in many art prizes including the Tattersalls Art Prize, Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, SHE Art Prize, Eutick Memorial Still Life Awards, and Len Fox Art.

"It is the essence and the energy I am attempting to portray, my interest is in what lies beyond the mist. By blurring and blending I allow the paint to create the atmosphere, losing the detail to reveal the story."  

Barbara Carmichael lives in Byron Bay, NSW.

She has exhibited throughout Australia for the last 20 years, featuring in both group and solo shows during this time.

Her work has been commissioned in many private and corporate collections including Austral Shipping in Perth, I.T.G Stockbrokers Sydney, as well as collections in NZ, UK and USA (A purchase of her work was made by Heath Ledger for his private US collection)

She has been invited to exhibit for the Australian Artists exhibition held at Agora Gallery in New York., as well as an invitation by one of the world's largest construction companies, Emaar, to fly to Dubai to do commissioned work for the Burj, now the tallest building in the world.

 Living in Singapore, and her trips to India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam have influenced her works, which evoke feelings of calm and tranquility amidst the hustle and bustle of busy, crowded cities.

She continues to work on commissions both here and overseas.

Born in London in 1970, Charly Wrencher always had a natural artistic ability, drawing and painting for as long as he can remember. His family moved to Australia when he was 11 years old. Moving from "grey london" to "technicolour Australia" had a profound impact on Charly, who was brought up in a creative family of photographers and animators.

He trained at Sydney's National Art School at a time when conceptual art was avant garde. "But I was anti-conceptual. My work is more about feeling and human expression rather than ideas. Art school was about making the art, not the intellectual side of it."

"Each piece is a story within a story, and the pieces reflect my moods, my reaction to life. The emotions within my paintings are joy, anger, bliss.. every emotion. Leaving areas unfinished allows the viewer to ponder on the negative spaces, and allow the other areas to fulfil the richness of his work.

A keen surfer, Charly, his wife Jane, and their four children live in a Queenslander set on their picturesque 68-acre Friday Hut Road property. In the midst of this pastoral paradise is "The Hut" (Charly's studio) which fronts onto the familiar green rolling hills of the Byron hinterland.

Charly's work expresses an honesty, as does he. He likes to think that art should sell itself.  "You either like it or you don't." 

Noel Hart lives and works in Mullumbimby in the Byron Shire, NSW Australia.

Solo exhibitions

2017    "The Rewilding", Tansey Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, USA

2014    "Noel Hart"- Australische Glaskunst", Galerie Sikabonyi, Vienna.

             Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay, Australia.

            "Avian & Other Stories"- Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA

            "Ornithology Abstracted", Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, USA

            "The Call Of The Wild"- Habitat Gallery,West Palm Beach, USA

            "Parrotesque"- Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA

            "Parrotism"- Kirra Galleries, Melbourne

            "Parrotesque"- Harrison Galeries, Sydney

            "Parrotesque"- COSA Gallery, London, UK

Antoinette Ferwerda is an Australian artist based in Melbourne, whose work joyfully explores nature and the patterns and relationships that she finds within it. 

Using a variety of media, Antoinette’s work is abstract & metaphysical, looking deeply into the interconnectivity of the world around her. Her background in the pharmaceutical industry & interest in sociology, psychology, architecture & fashion has played a large part in informing her fine artwork. Using a sun-soaked palette, Antoinette’s work is often described as optimistic & multi-dimensional. Her abstract Australian landscapes & modern artworks are held in collections both nationally & internationally.

Born in Sydney in 1972, Joseph Rolella completed a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) in 1994 and was awarded the William Fletcher Trust scholarship from the Art Gallery of NSW.

In 2011 he won the Publishers Cup Cricket Art Prize,and has been selected for many major art prizes including the Mosman Art Prize, the Moran Portrait prize , Paul Guest Drawing Prize, and the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize.
For Rolella, painting is an adventurous and intuitive endeavour. Whether it is the figure in the landscape or the waters edge- the work is very much about movement and light. By using various tools and methods to apply paint, the works compete in a jostling of texture, colour and motifs to expose a delicate equilibrium. A process of layering and redefining- where objects continue to reveal a hidden beauty.

Isaac Petersen was born in New Zealand.

His memories of the ocean and rugged landscape of New Zealand has inspired him to paint predominantly landscapes and ocean scenes.

Travel being a big part of his adult life, his paintings expanded to capture the essence and feeling of his journeys overseas.

The recent addition of his wife Erika to his paintings adds a figurative dimension to his beautifully painted environments.

"I hope to leave the viewer with a good feeling. Whether they can relate to my painting with a past experience or a fantasy of a place they would like to be, I hope my painting can take them there."

Terri Butterworth seeks to achieve expressive images based on elements of inspiration which consider feelings, sense of place, mood, and atmosphere.

The focus of here work is the landscape, love of colour, and in particular the influences of her immediate environment. She loves nature and all of it's wonderful arrangements.

The notion of transience, interconnection, the perception of defined boundaries and how much intensity of emotion can be conveyed with so little, continues to intrigue her and inspire her to continue doing what she loves the most, painting.

Colin Passmore resides in Noosa Australia, where he creates works inspired from Australian landscape, flora and fauna.

He began exhibiting his work in 1983, winning much critical acclaim and acceptance from some of Australia's top galleries and critics. He is now represented by galleries throughout Australia and Japan.

A favourite of Australian Interior designers, he has work placed throughout prestigious private homes, as well as corporate and university collections.

His eclectic style is alive with the passion and flair he translates from the Australian environment, marking his own style in his colour combinations and his distinctive brush work.

Having resided in Byron Bay for the last five years, the self-taught Art director, photographer, painter, fashion designer and multi- disciplinary visual artist left his native New York City for Tokyo in 2003 on an invite from VOGUE Japan to host a retrospective of his works from 1999-2002 at the Rocket Gallery, Omotesando.

The next 9 years were spent in Tokyo (Shibuya) immersed in the unique and ancient Japanese culture which not only influenced his art but permeated it's way through his entire being.

Produced during his stay, the photographic series "Tokyo undressed' garnered him the title 2009-2010 "Photographer of the Year" at the UK's Erotic Awards.

The collection became a global success after it featured as a blog narrative and was published in a 280 page photo novel by the premier Japanese art book publisher Powershovel books.

The combination of Rikki's observations of his surroundings and his almost photographic watercolour style produce stunning and almost voyeuristic images in which with a lot of his works, the viewer can identify themselves as the subject.

In paintings by Hollie McKenzie historical and contemporary imagery collide. Simultaneously historical, surreal and contemporary, her paintings speak to the way in which virtual reality mediates our world. By using her young daughter as a sitter, the artists intends to highlight uncertainty in the face of potential futures.

The artist indicates that the application of paint is heavily influenced by the Rococo, in terms of light and a feeling of both delicacy and flamboyancy. While only in the early stages her career, Hollie exhibits an established understanding of oil paint and an aesthetic that could easily be situated alongside that of well known LA based Pop Surrealist artist such as Mark Ryden Marion Peck and Alex Gross.

Based in Whian Whina NSW, Hollie McKenzie has been placed as a finalist in national art prizes and is currently showing with Thom Gallery.

Russell Kereama was born in Fielding, New Zealand and resides in Byron Bay, Australia.

His tribal roots reflect greatly throughout his bold works, embracing a rhythmic flow with vibrant colours and abstract style.  

In this translation, three elements are in focus- earth, sky and water.   

After a decade as an art agent, he started to create works of his own and was encouraged by his peers to continue on this path. His work has won the respect and acknowledgement of artists, interior designers and and collectors world-wide.

His highly-collectible work is found throughout the world with collectors in Carmel, California, The Marriott Hotel, Canada, China, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and Australia.

Roslyn Oakes lives and works from Murwillimbah, NSW.

She creates beautiful realistic works from her surroundings in the Northern Rivers and draws inspiration from the ethereal beauty that this landscape has to offer. After meeting Landscape Artist Andy Reimanis at the Caldera Art Gallery, and being offered the opportunity to be part of the "Green Cauldron Panorama", an 18 metre long painting depicting the 360 degree view from the summit of Wollumbin, Mt Warning, taking 12 months to create, her trajectory was set to produce more pieces of this calibre.

Roslyn uses pastels, acrylics and oils, sometimes all in one piece, to produce images of native Australian Flora and Fauna, and strikingly realistic natural wildlife.

Her work with Graeme Stevenson from "Colour In Your Life" in both teaching and fund-raising capacities has opened her work up to a greater Australian and International audience with television promotion of her work as an Australian artist to watch.

Shannon Alexander Murphy is an Australian artist residing in Berlin.

His large scale works are inspired by the Japanese tradition of Suminagashi, an ancient technique of marbling that originated in the 12th century.

Murphy’s underwater paintings apply the chance effect of “floating ink” in a swimming pool of water to create marbled patterns on large-scale canvases.

The unique and highly visceral process of this method raises important questions regarding artistic authorship and the agency of matter, and how a non-anthropocentric relationship to the natural elements can be embraced through artistic practice.

After a year marked by a record-breaking number of floods and natural disasters, this project forms a timely manifestation of an environmental sensibility that proves both politically urgent and artistically compelling. In his strong sensibility toward nature and natural phenomena, Murphy’s work represents and expands on a strong tradition within Australia’s artistic legacy, by which it has attained an important global voice in the defence of environmental sustainability and innovation.

Education

2010 Master of Fine Art (Media Installation), The Bauhaus School, Weimar, Germany.

2009 Master of Art (Painting), College of Fine Art, Sydney.

2003 Bachelor of Arts (Contemporary Media), Deakin University, Melbourne.

1999 Bachelor of Arts (Sociology), La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Select recent exhibitions

2017 Shannon Alexander Murphy. The Natural History Museum, Chemnitz, Germany.

2016 Landscape Is A State Of Mind. The Australian Embassy, Berlin, Germany.

2011 The Dinner Party Tokyo. Featuring Maggie Beer & Joni Waka, Japan.

2010 The Arms Race, World Futures 2020, Boston, USA.

2010 The Dinner Party, Kudos Gallery, Sydney, Australia. With Felicity Fenner.

2009 The Boat Exploration, The Natural History Museum, Jena, Germany.

2006 Landscape Interventions (live), inner city Barcelona, Spain.

2005 Humans in Conflict, Open Mind Gallery, Milan, Italy.

Upcoming Solo Exhibitions

Jan 2018  Thomgallery, NSW Australia

April 2018  Deutsche Bank, Saxony, Germany

May 2018 Weserhalle, Berlin.

Galerie Luc Berthier, Paris, France

Awards

2017 Global Foundries Germany, New York Sponsorship for Museum, Germany.

2010 Arts NSW- quick Grant, Sydney.

2010 COFA-ADG grant, Sydney.

2010 Selected into the Top 40 Emerging Artists- Artmouth & A.b.a.F, Sydney.

2009 Artwork selected to represent 90th Birthday of The Bauhaus School, Germany.

New Work Grant, COFA, Sydney.

2009 The Bauhaus School- Cultural Exchange, Germany.

Collections

2002-2017 Various Private Collections in Italy, Japan, Spain, Australia and Germany.

Commissions

2017 Shannon Alexander Murphy. The Natural History Museum, Chemnitz, Germany.

2015 Landscape Is A State Of Mind, The Australian Embassy- Berlin, Germany.

2010 The Mind’s Eye. Australian Photographic Publication. A collection of 50 images.

The Arms Race@ The Red Centre, Sydney, for the ConnectEd Exhibition and Conference.

2009 Artwork selected to represent the 90th Anniversary of artists from the Bauhaus School.

Featured in International Publications

Time Magazine USA

The Financial Times New York

The New York Observer

Celebrity Networth

Artforum Magazine

Australian Art Review

SBS Television

Architectural Digest International

Yap is a London based artist.

His work flows from a deep psyche that is as much about abstract mathematics as it is about colour and shape. His love of geometry leads him to paint what he considers to be the shapes that work themselves into the continuous lines of movement. What he deems, the shapelessness of shape.

His drawings are mainly one continuous line. Once the pen touches paper it doesn’t come off until what he is trying to capture is there on the page in ink. Sometimes he closes his eyes when he draws and simply trusts to the shapes already within. He prefers watercolours because of the soft impressions they leave.

As a philosopher, he lectures on the work of Immanuel Kant, (so as to further advance our understanding of the human mind), and records his own music.

Yap was signed with Virgin records in 1995 and toured the world for ten years as the front man for British rock band “One Minute Silence” who went on to find success. Yap chose his philosophical and artistic pursuits over the music industry and has thrived in these fields ever since.

Yap was diagnosed with Aspergers (High Functioning Autism) eight years ago, which in turn recognised a mind that was downloading complex abstract mathematics of its own accord. ‘Forget the autistic kids who memorize phonebooks,’ he says with an open heart, ‘I’m about the mathematical foundation for the next stage in human evolution.’

He has had two successful solo exhibitions to date and was shortlisted for the National Art Competition in 2012. Out to shape the world in any way he can, Yap is an artist truly in a field of his own. 

Wendy was born in Hong Kong.

Art has always been at the heart of all her career decisions. Trained in Art and Design at The Wimbledon School of Art, UK, with a Graphic Design and Illustration background in advertising and publishing.

Wendy's new body of work explores elegance through the female form, pattern and shapes drawn from nature. Her subtle colour harmonies combined with overlapping patterns and silhouettes create contrasts; balanced between the abstract and the illusion.

Wendy's work presents itself in an enclosed space of aesthetic form and complex structure. It can be described as dismantled and transformed evanescent beauty, sensual and organic.

Concerned with colour, composition and atmospheric mood, Jewels Stevens creates works that are in constant flux between the quiet and the chaotic. In essence, Stevens is interested in creating a pictorial landscape where the paintings possess their own logic.

While there is most often an immediate impact in her bold and expressive paintings, as one delves further into the layered brushwork, more detail and nuance is revealed.

The artist holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Southern Cross University and is represented in private collections in Australia, Singapore, Iceland and the United States. Alongside a number of solo/group exhibitions, the artist has participated in Art Fairs and Artist Residencies both nationally and internationally.

Selected Exhibitions/Art Fairs/Residencies

2017    From the outer realms - Jacob Hoerner Galleries Fitzroy, Melbourne (Solo)

2017  10 Year Anniversary show - Art piece gallery, Mullumbimby, Northern NSW (Group)

2016    Retrospect - Jacob Hoerner Galleries, Richmond, Melbourne (Solo)

2016    602 - Little Bourke St Melbourne, Australia (Art Fair)

2016  Look around you - Art piece gallery, Mullumbimby, Northern NSW (Group

2015    Finissage - Kick Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne (Group)

2015    Art Stage Singapore - Marina Bay Sands, Singapore (Art Fair)

2015    An Ocean Inside - Kick Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne (Solo)

2014    Selected Artists - Kick Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne (Group)

2014    Songs of the Plants - Kick Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne (Solo)

2013    Diffraction and Scatter - Kick Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne (Solo)

2012    Between Two Worlds - Kick Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne (Solo)

2012    Kick Artists - Kick Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne (Group)

2011    Chrysalis - Kick Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne (Solo)

2011    Winterpark - Album Launch/ Exhibition. Dear Patti Smith Gallery, Collingwood (Group)

2011    The Vermont Studio Centre 1-Month Residency, Vermont, USA (Residency)

2010    SIM Association of Icelandic Artists, 3-Month Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland (Residency)

2010    SIM Residency Group Show - SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

2010    Jewels of the North - Kick Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne (Solo)

2009    Secrets of Vehement Dreams - Kick Gallery, Northcote, Melbourne (Solo)

2009    The Writings on the Wall - Northern Exposure Visual Arts Festival, Northcote

2009    Eastment St Studios, 2 months, Northcote, Melbourne (Residency)

2007    Shedding the Velvet - Gasworks Artist Park, Albert Park VIC (Solo)

Michael Scott, born in Bethlehem Hospital, Malvern in 1964.

Michael has worked in Education, Theatre, as a stand up comedian, as a Commedia Del Arte practitioner, and an Improvisator representing his country at the Calgary Winter Olympic Art Festival in 2015.

He has also worked as a puppet-maker and performer, plying his thespianism on stage, television and film.

As a software developer he worked on interactive games, also on framework development for financial administration systems.

Inspirations include Philosophers Deleuse, Wittgenstein, and tail recursive algorithms.

Michael's academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Education majoring in Drama, Literature and Language acquisition from Victoria College Rusden, and a Bachelor of Information Technology from Monash University.

Michael is a firm believer in the fundamental interconnectedness of nearly all things but would like to single out some particular geniuses in regards to artistic debt and influence (in no particular order)

Brett Whitely, Modigliani, Klee, Odd Nerdrum, Lloyd Rees, Hundertwasser, Soutine, Duchamp.

Solo shows: Chaotic Gallery (Prahran), Project 54, St Leonards (Sydney), Milettos (Prahran), Chaotic Gallery (Wonthaggi)

Despite being increasingly informed that Art is not a proper job he considers it an essential service.

Australian Visual Artist Debra Hutton creates vibrant abstract works, exploring a synthesis of light and colour. Debra’s paintings speak volumes of her involvement with the artworlds of both Sydney and Noosa, Australia. Sought after by Australian Interior designers, her painterly style is alive with passion and life.

Dianne is an eclectic artist from the far North Coast of NSW. She studied representational art for many years at Lismore Tafe College, before following her instinct to explore new boundaries in abstract and contemporary art. Artist Roland Weight awakened the abstract artist in Dianne, and gave her the compositional grounding that is still present in her work today. Dianne travelled to America to study with Maxine Masterfield and returned to Tafe to study under Michael John Taylor. Dianne has been selected as a finalist in many major art prizes and is developing a following nationally.

Selected Exhibitions/Prizes

2017 Finalist Muswellbrook Art Prize                                             

2016  Finalist Stanthorpe Art Prize                                                         

2015  Finalist Kilgour Portrait Prize, Newcastle                                          

2015  Winner - Best in Show, Coraki Art Show                                                  

2014  Winner (Painting) Coraki Art Prize                                             

2013 Finalist Gold Coast City Art Award

2013  The Border Art Prize NSW, (shared 1st)

My work involves creating contemporary artifacts in glass as objects for contemplation.

For the Vitroliths, the threads of inspiration are many and varied. Primarily they are about the earth, nature, and human cultures that did and still do honor the natural environment, and the connections between these factors.

This is expressed in a language of symbols and abstraction which hopefully come together cohesively.

​- Colin Heaney

Past Exhibitions

2018

Kevin Muente: Forgotten Land

April 13th – June 9, 2018

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Jorge Rodríguez Diez (R10): The Banana Issue

March 23rd – May 12th, 2018

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Heather Jones & Jeffery Cortland Jones: Between Earth and Sky

February 10th – April 7th, 2018

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Interwoven: Contemporary Textiles and Techniques

January 13th – March 10th, 2018

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Jarrett Hawkins: Edgewise

November 17th, 2017 – January 6th, 2018

2017

Kim Krause: The Nature of Things

October 6 - December 2, 2017

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Julia Oldham & Casey Riordan Millard: Anima & Animus

August 16 - November 11, 2017

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Claudio Malacarne & Gianluca Vidal: Riflessioni di Colore 

August 11 - September 30, 2017

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Tony DeVarco & Mayako Nakamura: ReGenerations

June 9 - August 5, 2017

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Eric Standley: Strata 

April 7 - June 3, 2017

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Kevin Veara: Birds of Paradise 

February 3 - March 25, 2017

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Stephen Rolfe Powell: Echoes

December 2 - January 28. 2017

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2016

Life in the Woods: Evocative Landscapes by Kevin Muente 

October 7 - November 26, 2016 

Schopenhauer's Dream: Recent works by Riad Miah & Clint Woods 
May 20 - July 2, 2016 

Adrift in the Wonder World: Women Make Meaning of Moby-Dick 
April 23, 2016 - June 11, 2016 

The Liminal Landscape: Frank Herrmann 
March 18, 2016 - May 14, 2016 

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2015

From East to West: Tim Harding & Hiroshi Yamano 
September 12, 2015 - November 8, 2015

 
Harbinger: Shane Fero & Kevin Veara 
April 17, - June 13, 2015 

Laws of Nature/Dreams of Man 
February 26, 2015 - March 28, 2015 

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2014

A Closer Look 
November 20, 2014 - December 27, 2014 

Continuum: Brian Russell 
May 31, 2014 - July 26, 2014 

Unspoken: recent ceramic sculpture by Lyndsey Fryman 
March 28, 2014 - May 24, 2014 

CUT: Windows to Eternity: Eric Standley 
January 18, 2014 - March 1, 2014 

2013

Eleusinian Mysteries: Kim Krause 
November 1, 2013 - December 28, 2013

 
This is Contemporary Art 
September 20, 2013 - October 26, 2013 

Betwixt & Between: Grangeon & Berry 
March 29, 2013 - May 26, 2013 

Brian Russell: New Sculpture 
February 9, 2013 - March 23, 2013 

Josh Mackenzie studied Fine Art at East Sydney Technical College in the 1990’s, majoring in painting before completing his studies in philosophy at Macquarie University in 2000. Josh has been painting professionally since 2013 and alongside exhibiting nationally, has been shortlisted for many major Australian prizes.

Josh is best known for his psychedelic paintings (often of nudes) inspired by 60s and 70s pop culture. The artist embraces a technique reminiscent of Gerhard Richter, where wet oil paint is dragged across the surface of the canvas using a plasterer’s trowel. This gives his works a worn, hallucinogenic, filmic quality and evokes the Sublime.

Selected Exhibitions/Prizes

2017 ‘Electricity’ Bellingen NSW (Solo)

2015 ‘Oil on Acid’ First Avenue Sawtell Gallery, NSW (Solo)

2014 Studio Exhibition, Bellingen NSW

2017 Finalist National Still Life Award Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery 

2014 Bishop Druitt College 20th Anniversery Exhibition Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery

 2014 The Lodge Gallery Café, Bellingen NSW (Group)

2013 ‘Sprout’ Pop-up Exhibition, Bellingen NSW (Group)

 2012 ‘Wrong Way, Go Forward’ Renewable Energy Fair, Bellingen NSW (Group)

1996 William Fletcher Trust recipient

1995 Commended, Waverly Art Prize

Collections

Private collections in Bellingen, Coffs Harbour, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and New Zealand.