What defines the notion of home? This is what Danish-born, Brisbane-based artist Helle Cook investigates in her painting practice. A recent graduate of Queensland College of Art (QCA), Cook’s works linger on the verge between abstraction and figuration, both recognisable and … Continue reading Helle Cook – Notion of Home
The Ambience Store Project was a year long program of exhibitions featuring emerging and unrepresented Australian artists held at Queensland design institution Ambience Store. After a national call out, 27 artists were selected across nine exhibitions that comprised painting, sculpture, … Continue reading The Ambience Store Project
Melbourne-based artist Sue Beyer is no stranger to Queensland audiences, with her public artworks adorning buildings in Brisbane and Ipswich. An alumni of the Queensland College of Art (QCA) and California State University in San Francisco, Beyer’s work focuses on … Continue reading Sue Beyer, guiding force
Brisbane artist Lucy Anderson is one of the river city’s most exciting emerging artists. Since graduating from Queensland College of Art (QCA) in 2012, she has become known for her faux-naïve still life paintings of domestic scenes, an inward-looking emulation … Continue reading Lucy Anderson, deskilled domestic
“full of shining light…[she] lets the inner things – her soul – come in to her paintings [and] evokes feelings from the viewer.” Charles Blackman, discussing the work of Gabrielle Jones. From her home in the Blue Mountains, artist Gabrielle … Continue reading Gabrielle Jones’ Wicked Games
Born in East Germany prior to the Berlin Wall’s collapse, Denise Reichenbach brings a particular artistic sensibility to her work. A hybrid form of painting, drawing, collage and sculpture, her work swings between abstract and figurative composition, dealing with the … Continue reading Denise Reichenbach’s Raw Emotions
Born in Liverpool during the post-Beatlemania counterculture of the 60s, Ray Coffey realised he might have a talent for drawing when, aged eight, a schoolmate accused him of getting his dad to do his artwork for him. Entirely self-taught, he became … Continue reading Ray Coffey’s Surreal Talent
Brisbane artist Elysha Rei is the personification of the expression “worldly.” Born in Saudi Arabia, she lived with her family in Australia, Thailand, New Zealand and Japan, and travelled with them to Europe, China, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia and Singapore. This … Continue reading Elysha Rei: Rare Bird
Had the writer Lewis Carroll chosen clay over pen & paper, he may well have created something like the work of Clairy Laurence. A ceramicist with over 30 years of experience, Laurence uses a combination of hand building and wheel … Continue reading Clairy Laurence: Clairy in Wonderland
I first chanced upon the work of Andy Harwood in a café in Brisbane’s Paddington. Waiting for a business meeting with someone who never showed, I was distracted by the brutal lines and intense colour scheme of the art on … Continue reading Andy Harwood: the art of Geometric Abstraction
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