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Djon Mundine O.A.M. Bandjalang People
Djon Mundine is a member of the Bandjalung people of northern New South Wales. Djon has an extended career as a curator, activist, writer, and occasional artist and is reknown as the concept curator for the Aboriginal Memorial installation permanently exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia. Djon was awarded an OAM in 1993 and was Research Professor at Minpaku Museum of Ethnology in Osaka over 2005-2006. He is currently Indigenous Curator-Contemporary Art at the Campbelltown Art Centre.
*Reg Mombassa
http://www.regmombassa.com
http://www.mentals.com.au
http://www.mambo.com.au
http://www.dogtrumpet.com.au
http://www.wattersgallery.com
*Ken Done
Ken Done's first solo exhibition was held in Sydney in 1980. Since then, he has held over 50 one-man shows, including major exhibitions in Australia, Europe, Japan and the USA. His work has been described as the most original style to come out of Australia, and his paintings are in collections throughout the world. Over the past few years, Ken has devoted most of his time to painting. His works have been shown in the Archibald, Sulman, Wynne, Blake, and Dobell Prizes. http://www.kendone.com
with thanks to the support of Grafton Regional Gallery.
*Euan Macleod
Euan Macleod produces dark, expressive painting. His heavily textured surfaces are literally scraped, the gritty oil paint smeared across the canvas. These are tough masculine paintings. Out of muted colours, Macleod shapes people and landscapes. A looming figure with long limbs often divides the picture. A vertiginous cliff is sometimes delineated by a rough, raw brushstroke.
Macleod's work can be seen as part of an international return to figurative expressionism. His work exhibits an interest in memory and subjective experience. The gestural marks on the canvas speak of emotion and physical labour. There is a brutal honesty to the work which at times can be quite confronting.
Macleod was the winner of the prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture in 1999.
*Sally Harrison
The Year of Saying Sorry One indigenous artist Sally Harrison tells a very personal story of how art helped her reconcile the past and move on. She also tells us about her own response as an artist and as one of the stolen generation to our national apology.
I have worked as a public servant in the Defence and Health Departments for most of my working career. In 1992, I travelled to Carnarvon in Western Australia, where I decided to explore my Aboriginal heritage. I attended an Aboriginal skills course at Skillshare where I learnt emu egg carving and dot painting. Skillshare forwarded my paintings to The Creative Native Gallery in Perth, where they were sold. I then began to use dot painting as a healing process and as a means of reconnecting to my Aboriginality and to come to terms with my life as one of the “stolen” generation.
Urban Art Projects (UAP)
Daniel and Matthew Tobin design and fabricate site-specific artwork and custom street furniture for architectural and landscape environments
They ensure artwork outcomes support and enhance design aesthetics by managing the design process through concept, documentation and construction. UAP source artists for project teams and realise existing concept designs.
If you've ever wished you could clone yourself in order to get the job done, then you're sure to be more than a tad envious of Daniel Tobin. Daniel is one half of an identical twin team who run Urban Art Projects (UAP), a Brisbane-based company which designs and fabricates urban artworks.
http://www.uap.com.au/
*Alison Page
"Every tree, rock and river in Australia has a story of its creation and these new built environments must be seen as an extension of these concepts."
Alison Page is an interior designer. She works on a range of projects including designing interiors for public buildings and exhibition spaces for museums. She has also worked on designing large-scale events, public art and landscape design. Since 2000 Alison has lived in the north coast of NSW and runs her own design practice. She teaches furniture design and fine arts at the North Coast Institute of TAFE.
Alison has worked on many projects including designing interiors for the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Centre in La Perouse, Sydney, designing the Opening Ceremony for the Adelaide Festival of the Arts and the Bayagul Indigenous gallery at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
Alison believes that each community has a unique cultural identity and that this identity and spirituality must be reflected in the built environment. She and her colleagues, work closely with local people to create buildings that are truly meaningful to the people who use them. By talking, observing, conducting workshops and community meetings, providing employment and training opportunities, these designers are able to make buildings that are treasured by their communities.
* Frances Belle Parker
is a a proud descendant of the Yaegl people from Maclean on the north coast of NSW.
According to Frances, "Being an artist allows me to create. My story becomes embedded within my creations. It is through my art that I know my voice is being heard. For as long as I can remember art has been my passion"
In 2000, prior to formally studying art, Frances won the prestigious Blake Prize for Religious Art. Not only was she the youngest winner of this prize, Frances was the only indigenous winner in the prize's 57 year history until this year.
Frances one the inaugural 2007 Artnest prize with her installation 'Mapping Ulgundahi' the piece represents her as an artist, individual and Yaegl descendant.
"This one work characterises my body of work because of what it evokes from within my own community. A strong sense of ownership and pride is what I receive from my people when I share my work with them," she said.
'Mapping Ulgundahi' is an installation that is comprised of 10,000 wooden pegs. "I love using material on mass and the pegs were one of the only things I could afford. On each side of all the pegs I have ritualistically hand written 'Ulgundahi Island'. I got it down to a really fine art where I could write on about 400 pegs in 45 minutes... it took about 6 months all up," she said. Frances explains, "The pegs have been dipped in white plaster which represent when the first white people came to the Yaegl area."
with thanks to Arts Northern Rivers
*Peter O’Doherty
is the former bass player from Mental As Anything, who has a long running side project (also featuring his big brother Chris O’Doherty who goes by the name Reg Mombassa for rock n roll purposes): Dog Trumpet.
Dog Trumpet’s fourth album Antisocial Tendencies has just been released.
Unlike the other 5 members of the Mentals, Peter didn’t go to art school, but he has gone on to have a parallel career as a painter of unpeopled suburban landscapes with strong geometric forms.
http://www.gadflygallery.com/pub/art.cgi?artid=OP
Peter's sessions are presented with the support of Michael Malloy
* Jane Davenport
loves the little things - so much so that she has developed her own art form around them 'Artomology' .
Jane has created her large-scale, outdoor Artomological installations as artist-in-residence for galleries, botanic and zoological gardens around the world. She is also the author of 5 best-selling books and has a gallery on Johnson St, Byron Bay featuring her work.
we welcome you to visit http://www.janedavenport.com
Jane's session is presented with the support of Waywood Gallery
*Alison Williams
has been a practicing artist for the past 19 years and a teacher of fine arts and Indigenous culture for approximately eight years. A descendant of the Gumbaingirr Nation, Alison draws from a rich ancient culture and her own life experience to produce an amazing variety of work that can reflect cultural/political issues, evoke strong emotion, and express contemporary Indigenous Identity.
Alison’s work has hung in many galleries throughout NSW and has been purchased nationally and internationally, with her solo exhibitions receiving rave reviews. Her work was selected for the NSW Parliament Indigenous Art Prize, Sydney, September 2005.
Alison’s sculptures, paintings and drawings possess a certain integrity that makes her artwork a sought after investment. If you’re ever in South Grafton in Northern NSW you can experience first hand this talented artist through the sculpted faces cropping out of a Street Oasis as part of a public art installation.
*Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox
is a full time artist who has painted since she was a child. She has exhibited regularly overseas: London (2002), New York and Abu Dhabi (2004), Dubai (2004 & 2005) and Seoul (2007).
Kathryn has sold her large works in Korea. “The tree of life motif was the primary attraction to my work in Korea. I suppose anyone with any kind of spiritual background picks up on it,” she said.
“I get really excited when my paintings are catalysts for different types of conversation and stimulating dialogue between people from all over the world. I have experienced this in the Middle East with people from all over the region, Africa and Eastern Europe. I know that peace on Earth is possible and believe art has a part to play.”
Kathryn investigated the connection between peace and art at a PeaceMAPP workshop at the University of Queensland's Australian Centre For Peace and Conflict Studies. The title of her presentation was Art, Artists + Conversations = Peace Talks?
“There’s an interest in ‘how do artists think?’ and how can this be harnessed to develop different ways of negotiation and discussion and ways of connecting with people. War is continuing, so obviously the discussions that are happening aren’t working and there’s nothing to lose by looking at a different way of dealing with it.”
http://www.kathrynbrimblecombe-fox.com
presented by http://www.theartofhealing.com.au magazine
*LuLu Serious
In her latest collection of work, Lulu creates a parallel dimension where pop culture fuses with religious imagery and female icons.
After attending the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Lulu worked as an actress in theatre, television and film (notably "Mad Max"), throughout the early 80's. She studied corporeal expression with Margaret Barr, and mime with Jacques Lecoq at his school in Paris. She attended Melbourne University, where she studied Drama and Classical studies. In 1983/4 Lulu was artistic Director for Spanish Performance Artist Alberto Vidal.
From 1985-07 she worked as creative collaborater and co-Produced feature films such as “Young Einstein”.
She is happy to be focusing now on her visual art, which for the last 20 years has occupied a place in the wings throughout her film and performance collaborations . http://www.arthousegallery.com.au
*Helen Cole and Stephanie Lindquist
Helen is the Australian Library of Art Librarian at the State Library of Queensland. She has worked for 16 years with this rich collection of books which include the History and Art of the Book Collection, the James Hardie Library of Australian Fine Art and the Artists’ Books Collection. Helen has been involved in building this collection to become one of the largest and best known in Australia, and is curating an exhibition of artists’ books at the Library in June 2008.
Stephanie is a project manager, curator and arts writer. She has worked in the visual arts for over 15 years and undertaken international research on children’s galleries and museums. She coordinated the planning and launch of the State Library of Queensland’s new exhibition galleries as part of its redevelopment in 2006.
Helen and Stephanie will present at FEHVA in partnership with The State Library of Queensland http://www.slq.qld.gov.au
image : artist books, Jan Davis.
Tamara Winikoff, Executive Director, National Association for the Visual Arts
Well known in Australia as an arts advocate, cultural commentator and senior arts manager, Tamara has been involved in arts management for over twenty years, including positions at the Australia Council, the Power Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Sydney, and the Australian Centre for Photography. Originally an architect, Tamara spent some time as a dig architect on archaeological excavations around the Middle East. She has worked as an academic at Sydney and Macquarie Universities and the Oxford Polytechnic in the UK. She was chief investigator in three major research projects funded by the Australian Research Council and the Australia Council. Early in her career Tamara worked as a graphic and theatre designer, printmaker, photographer and film-maker. She also has served on many boards and committees and in 2004 was awarded the Australia Council's Visual Arts/Craft Emeritus Medal for "outstanding achievement and contribution to the visual arts and craft in Australia".
*Jan Davis
is Associate Professor in Visual Art at Southern Cross University, Lismore where she teaches in the printmaking studio. Jan has been making artists books since 1995, the year that her artist's book SOLOMON won the Fremantle Print Prize. Jan is represented by Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane and her artists' books are included in the collections of the National Library, Canberra, the State Library of Victoria, the State Library of Queensland, the the NSW State Library and numerous municipal collections. Jan has presented papers on her artists books and prints at International conferences in the UK, Canada, NZ and Estonia.
Robert Iolini
During his presentation at FEHVA on Sat May 31 Robert will screen and then focus his diiscussion on 'Black Sheep' a video artwork which uses materials gleaned from an arts project he undertook involving young people in and around the notorious Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre situated in Darwin, Australia. The project was run by Big hArt Inc a non-profit arts organisation that collaborates with communities, groups and individuals to produce art with people experiencing the effects of marginalisation in rural, regional and remote areas of Australia. Through the extraordinary testimonies of aboriginal teenagers we become witnesses to a world in which the interviewees are continually told that they are surplus to requirements.
Installation at 24HRArt Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art 22 October -20 November 2004
'Videomedeja' 9th International Video Festival 2005. Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro.
dEadly diGital scReen aRt tOur 2005 Alice Springs + 8 local communities, Australia.
*Camilla Connolly
is a painter living and working in Murwillumbah, northern NSW.
She did not go to art school. Connolly returned to painting 5 years ago and in that time has held solo shows at Tweed regional art gallery and also in Sydney. She has been selected for the Portia Geach Memorial Award at S.H Ervin Gallery, as well as numerous other competitions and prizes including The Paddington Art Prize, the Country Energy Prize for Landscape Painting, (06 and 07) The Outback art Prize. Her Portia Geach entry of journalist Mungo MacCallum was ABC radio critic Henry Mullholland’s pick for the 2007 exhibition. Still developing, Connolly often shifts between portraiture and landscape and is interested in representation as the starting point in the development of her ideas and practice. She is also working on a series of large abstracted landscapes which draw upon the landscape of northern New South Wales and also the solo drumming work of Berlin based friend and musician Tony Buck (the Necks, Peril etc.)
Connolly was recently invited to discuss some of her ideas regarding portraiture for ABC television’s series Face Painting Australia with Bill Leak, to be screened later in 2008.
Connolly is also a past Buttery resident and is an ambassador for the “HELP BUILD A BETTER BUTTERY” program, of which the FEHVA weekend is an integral part. She is currently represented by Schubert Contemporary on the Gold Coast and Galleries Direct in Sydney.
*Sally Swain
Artist and author , Sally's motto is Believing in Yourself In Spite of Everything ...Sally articulates her passions around "art, heart, imagination, learning and unlearning". Her unique picture books include Great Housewives of Art, Great Housewives of Art Revisited , Oh My Goddess and Once Upon A Picture.
'I don't want to set myself up as any kind of expert on art education, whereas I am continually coaching clients to 'unlearn' a lot of internalised rules about 'getting it right'. I seem to be on a big unlearning journey too. Sally will talk about her own journey as an artist, the rollercoaster of big success of Great Housewives of Art .... living and working outside the square/beyond categories.....struggles with identity, making a living, being in the public eye, later rejections of proposals.... Once Upon a Picture - ten years from conception to birth. As a paneliist in the FEHVA finale 'The Struggle to Create' Sally will talk about nurturing the creative spirit through good times and bad. Through discovering her own solutions Sally now nurtures other people's creativity through her Art and Soul workshops.
