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Matthew Harding, “Indivisible”, Marine Grade Stainless Steel, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Australia, 2017
Matthew Harding is a diverse and innovative Australian artist and designer engaged in a practice spanning sculpture, public art and design.
Divine Knights, “Storm”
Divine Knights are a progressive synth-pop and coulture duo from Sydney, Australia.
Paintings by Joel Rea
Joel Rea was born in 1983 and graduated from the Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2003. He has exhibited his paintings through out Australia for the last 13 years featuring also in notable overseas exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia. Rea has been acclaimed for his oil paintings in many prestigious art awards held across Australia including most recently the Fleurieu Landscape Prize, The Mosman Art Award, The Sulman Prize and the 2016 Moran Prize for Portraiture.
Robert Buratti, “Fire in the Head”, Edges of Twilight Series, Lithograph, Open Edition
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of their album, “The Edges of Twilight”, Canadian band ‘The Tea Party’ commissioned the Perth-based artist, Robert Buratti to complete 12 original artworks and 12 short films (one for each song) which would form part of the live show.
Ceramic Sculpture by Amanda Shelsher
Amanda Shelsher (born 1971,Western Australia) works as a full time sculptural ceramic artist from her home in, in Perth Western Australia. She grew up surrounded by bush in the small suburb of Gooseberry Hill and was introduced to clay at the age of 10 when her mother began her own career as a professional potter. Surrounded by both an artistic mother and father, Amanda was drawn into the world of ceramics and was firing and glazing works from this early age.
Amanda began exhibiting at age 18 and went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts – Ceramics at Western Australia’s Curtin University of Technology. She then completed her Graduate Diploma of Education (Art – Secondary) the following year in 1992.
Joel Rea, “Forces”
Joel Rea was born in 1983 and graduated from Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2003. He has exhibited his work in Australia and the United States and has been acclaimed for his oil paintings in many prestigious art awards through out Australia. In 2013 he was selected for the Archibald Salon Des Refuses exhibition in Sydney, the Black Swan Award for Portraiture in Perth, the Fleurieu Landscape Prize in Adelaide and is the winner of the 2013 ANL Maritime Art Award in Melbourne.
Photographer Unknown, The Utility of Suspenders
Chris Duczynsky, Drone Surf Photography, Australia
Chris Duczynski and the crew at Malibumedia shoot and edit TVC’s, promos and broadcast footage. They also shoot aerial video and stills for any product or promotion that needs something a little different.
Jonathan Edward Guthmann, “Apocalypse”, Poster for Exhibition
Sculptures by Heidi Woodman
Australian-born Heidi Woodman is a talented sculptor based in Eumundi, in Queensland’s Noosa Hinterlands. Her work is heavily influenced by the designs of the pre-columbian Meso-Americans, and her sculptures can be found in homes all around Australia.
Troy Morrison, “Earth Whale”, Steampunk Sculpture
Steampunk is an inspired movement of creativity and imagination. With a backdrop of either Victorian England or America’s Wild West at hand, modern technologies are re-imagined and realized as elaborate works of art, fashion, and mechanics. If Jules Verne or H.G. Wells were writing their science fiction today, it would be considered steampunk.
Troy Morrison is an Australian sculpture who works in the steampunk mode. The whale sculpture took three years to complete. The body of the whale is made from an old Ford Gearbox while the rest of the whale comprises of copper and vintage parts from trains, WW2 planes, cars and boats.
Fine Art Photography | Portraits by Troy Schooneman
Schooneman’s highly intense and often melancholy portraits of young male athletes from ethnically diverse backgrounds – frequently mistaken for paintings or drawings rather than contemporary photographs – are redolent in many respects of the works of Italian and other artists of the Renaissance. Schooneman’s work is exquisitely sensual, luminous with rich, saturated colors and infused with an almost surreal painterly quality.
His exquisite male portraits, which possess a dream-like atemporal quality, take us on a journey beyond mere masculine beauty and allow us a glimpse of the profound elegance created by juxtaposing the strength and physical presence of his virile male subjects with the themes of vulnerability, uncertainty, and sadness – emotions that society often demands men hide from public view. Schooneman has captured this elegance with great subtlety and we are often left transfixed by the seemingly endless contradictions created by his beautiful portraits.
Lisa Gerrard, “Sanvean: I Am Your Shadow”, 1995
“Sanvean: I Am Your Shadow” is a song co-written in September 1993 by Lisa Gerrard and composer/multi-instrumentalist Andrew Claxton during rehearsals in Ireland for the 1993 Dead Can Dance international tour. Lisa Gerrard stated she wrote this song as she was missed her family which had remained in Australia.
The song’s first public performance was in Sligo, Ireland. It first recorded on Dead Can Dance’s 1994 live album “Toward the Within”. “Sanvean: I Am Your Shadow” later was included on Gerrard’s 1995 solo album “The Mirror Pool” and the 2007 “The Best of Lisa Gerrard”. Like most of her work, the song is sung in a euphonic and emotional pseudo-language which she developed in her early years.
“I sing in the language of the Heart. Its an invented language that I’ve had for a very long time. I believe I started singing in it when I was about 12. Roughly that time. And I believed that I was speaking to God when I sang in that language.” –Lisa Gerrard
Neil Sanders, “Blobba, Blob Blob!!”, LoopdeLoop’s, July 2011 Edition
Neil Sanders is a Melbourne, Australia based Illustrator and Animator. He teaches illustration at Melbourne Polytechnic and is a co-founder of and contributor to LoopdeLoop, a blog and monthly screening dedicated to animated loops. He loves to make up characters and then bring them to life through animation, and he has a lot of fun working with other creative people on their ideas too.
Eight Paintings by Ron Francis
As Ron Francis, an Australian born painter, developed his unique, artistic perspective he discovered a distinct mathematical relationship between his viewpoint and the subject matter depicted in his work. So complex was Francis’ “system” of perspective and its relation to geometrics that he actually developed a piece of CAD (computer-aided design) software to help him manage linear perspective.
After being diagnosed with throat cancer in 2005 (a battle Francis won), the now 61-year-old artist is still at work painting and creating images (which according to Francis are mostly inspired by “dreams or visions”) that invoke a distinct sense of contemplation with a strong tinge of anxiety.