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ARTIST'S PROFILES |
Patti Preziuso General location: Hobart, Tasmania Contact point: www.pattipreziuso@yahoo.com.au Current medium: A variety of mediums: Clay, soft pastels and charcoal. Artist profile: Born in Sydney, I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at NAS. I then moved to Hobart, Tasmania and completed Honours at the Tasmanian School of Art (Sculpture). Creating sculptures and drawings of people is not only challenging but an honour. I find it exhilarating to connect to the sitter and bring out the persons’ uniqueness. I have recently completed a Bachelor of Teaching to inspire children to express their own individuality and find their own voice through making art. I find being with children enormously satisfying and it most certainly feeds my own art making. I wish….to continue sculpting portrait busts and figures. I wish to make the viewer feel they are part of the world and not alone. I would like to see my other sculptures that are lyrical and that capture movement in the public domain, standing 1-20 metres tall to access as many people as possible, to evoke a wonder and freedom, and show the viewer another place or moment in time. |
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Jenny Green General location: Manly area Contact point: email jg.art@bigpond.net.au, m: 0414 994 971, w: www.sculptorssociety.com (under Jenny Green) Current Medium: and/or medium you would be best noted for Welded steel and cast work (bronze, resin) Artist profile: After a career in IT consulting, Jenny started sculpting in the late 1990s and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the National Art School, majoring in sculpture in 2005. Jenny was short listed in 2006 for the Willoughby Art prize and exhibits with the Sculptors Society. Jenny's work is typically figurative, exploring form in both a realistic and abstract manner. She uses a variety of materials including bronze, resin and, more recently, welded steel. A visit to the David Smith’s retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2006 was truly inspiring. Jenny has a studio space in Brookvale I wish…to make my welding neater! I plan to continue working in both welded steel and resin/bronze Upcoming events: Exhibiting with Sculptors Society: 5 - 31 March Mosman Shopping Centre 23 April - 19 May Governors Phillip and Macquarie Towers 18 Jun - 14 July Chifley Tower, Sydney 6 Aug - 15 Sept Darling Park, 201 Sussex St, Sydney 22 Oct - 17 Nov Australia Square 264 George St, Sydney |
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Bronwen Bassett Location: Sydney NSW Contact: mabroba@hotmail.com Website: http://bronwenbassett.com Current medium: painting Artist Profile: I’ve had 12 solo exhibitions since 1994 and paint a great deal of the time. Painting is an agonisingly slow process for me and drives me nuts. Most of the time I don’t have a clue what I’m doing. This is pretty obvious when you look at the work. In fact the work is about not having a clue, or rather, it’s about fabricating certainty in the face of limited evidence. Its about trying to construct a truth of sorts in the world. Favourite artists this week: Cornelia Parker and Vermeer. I like their clarity. I like lots of artists’ work. I wish… I could nail the paintings sometimes.
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George Comninos Location: Randwick, Sydney Email: gcomninos@hotmail.com Mediums: Printmaking, drawing, painting and clay. Artist Profile: Graduated 2004 with BFA from NAS and Dip. Ed. from UTS 2005. Presently I’m valiantly trying to get teaching work as a Visual Art teacher (Kick a garbage tin and 1000 starving art teachers run out….with 1000 PE teachers). In the meantime, I work as a casual teacher (with occasional slave labor at art schools!). When I have time, I make work, some of which can be seen at Newport Artworks. Gemma and Gary the lovely owners have been very encouraging towards emerging artists and they run a vibrant and wonderful gallery. I wish: If you tell people your wishes they don’t come true!!
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Jenny Kyng Location: Marrickville Email: jennykyng@optusnet.com.au Website: www.jennykyng.com Current medium: Oil paint, watercolour, pastel, charcoal, printmaking Artist Profile: I live in the Inner West and work about 20 hrs/week on painting and drawing. I work close to full-time as a registered nurse in an eating disorders ward. I’ve lived overseas for longish periods, including London, San Francisco and New York. I’ve been drawing since I was 2. I’m now 46 and still feel overwhelmed by how much there is to learn. Yet somehow I can’t stop working away. Long ago I tried living as a full-time artist, but eventually got sick of living in squalor and being hungry and decided the myth of the starving artist was just that! It’s a lot easier to concentrate when your roof isn’t leaking and your stomach’s not rumbling, so I’m happy to be working in a “day” job. I spent 2 years at NAS’s forerunner, East Sydney Technical College School of Art in the early 80s, after walking out of another art “institution” that taught conceptual art with no training in art-making. I live with my very supportive partner Doug and work from my home-based studio. I have taken part in a few group exhibitions and, in May 2005, had a successful solo exhibition. I’d love to hear from artists doing similar work or encountering similar challenges. I am an admirer of great colourists like Gentile Bellini, Bruegel, Raphael, Derain, Kandinsky, Vlaminck and Rothko; the watercolours of Winslow Homer and Charles Rennie Mackintosh; the draftsmanship of Hans Holbein, Rembrandt, Lautrec, and Egon Schiele and many works by Velasquez, Vermeer, Degas, Van Gogh and Gauguin. I also admire Islamic and Japanese art. I wish: To have more time. If I did, I would take classes in all the mediums that interest me--because there’s nothing like an inspiring teacher and the support of other artists; paint “plein aire” in a variety of locations and take the time to get to know some of the people I come across every day and persuade them to sit for me. I think ordinary people make much more interesting subjects than the “distinguished” sitters so esteemed by prizes. I wish that art wasn’t trivialised as entertainment or commodified. I would travel to the world’s galleries to see my favourite artists’ works. I would be as happy as a clam if I could keep on studying/practising art without feeling time breathing down my neck. |
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Edna Jane McKenzie (retired) Location: Lismore NSW Contact: wilson34@tpg.com.au Website: www.hugen.no/alden/dagbokblad0913.htm Current medium: Various Artist Profile: Born Lismore 1st December 1912. Corporal in the Women’s Royal Australian Air Force. Studied briefly at Brisbane Technical College during the War, later studied with returned servicemen under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme at the East Sydney Technical College. Designed Aboriginal motif banners for the 1954 Royal Visit. Resided Potts Point 1950-1972. After retiring from the Navy (Garden Island) and returning to Lismore took up painting again and won over 140 awards at local exhibitions. Paintings and drawings include abstract, surreal and real rural and urban scenes and portraits. Admire the works of Matisse and Miller, some affinity with contemporaries William Dobell and Margaret Olley. Wide knowledge of art history and lively memory of the post-war art scene in Sydney. Sadly macular deterioration has meant I am unable to continue my passion for painting. Interests include nature and my pet Blue Crane “Isadore” who calls regularly. Very proud of my nephew Bill McKenzie, watercolourist who exhibits regularly and my ‘niece’ Louise who loves drawing. My works are published in “A Personal Retrospective: Paintings, Drawings and Sketches 1924-1997”, 178 pages, Edna Jane McKenzie, privately published in 1997. Contact my agent Ross Wilson, 34 Wilde Street, Wynnum, QLD 4178 for details. I wish... to assist NAS artists and historians interested in post-war movements, teachers, students and models. I would like to see a permanent gallery of Australian art associated with the NAS. Former teachers and students would be happy to donate works for such a gallery.
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Hiromi Ozaki Location: Woollahra Email: hiromioz2004@yahoo.com.au Phone: 0425 251123 Website: www.artmajeur.com/hiromi Current medium: acrylic on canvas Artist Profile: I have just finished BFA (Hons) painting at NAS. I wish... I would like my paintings to evoke stillness, joy, tranquility, peacefulness, all these emotions and feelings of delicate side of life. It will be great to know that if my work can be an oasis in a fleeting moment out of hectic modern life. Upcoming events: Exhibition at Xavier Art Space St Vincent’s Hospital Date: 1 September - 13 October 2006.
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Linda Bowden Location: Erskineville, Sydney Email: lindabowden700@hotmail.com Web: www.lindabowdensculpture.com Current medium: Wood Construction Artist Profile: Graduated NAS 1999. Numerous group shows. Career highlight to date receiving the Waverley Council Prize at Sculpture By the Sea 2002 and a commission to make Private Patrons’Series for Sculpture By the Sea 2003. UNESCO/Four Winds Atelier funded scholarship to Provence, France where I had my first solo show. I am highly influenced by artists of the modern era, notably the period end of 1800s into mid 1900s. Also inspired by the works of Louise Bourgeois and Hossein Valamenesh. I work using wood shapes I form using a bandsaw, drop saw and/or jigsaw, occasionally found wood shapes. I am currently working from a rented studio in the Randwick area but usually work in my garden and shed both of which are a good size, unusual for the inner city. I am planning to apply for a few upcoming exhibitions in 2006 and working towards my first solo show. Apart from temporary jobs I have regular teaching commitments with both adults and children. I would welcome contact from other artists working in any medium - making art is a solitary occupation.
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Nicole Esplin Location: Avoca Beach, NSW Email: nicole@esplin.com.au Website: www.nicoleesplin.com.au Current medium: Digital Media Artist, Painter. Artist Profile: I am not one of these artists who tortures them self by constantly being at the easel. I live life, I observe, I look for those moments, I listen. I live in my head in a temporal zone, I take notes. I seek to know who I am by not presuming to know. I am constantly finding inspiration in everything I do. I am living the experience I love tactile things. Creating with my mind, heart and hands. Making artwork is like thinking aloud. I question everything. I make art for its own sake. I wish... Some really cool journo would write a article about me and my art. Upcoming events: I am currently building our family home with my husband collaborative project. Project duration 6-9 months. Can’t think beyond that. Favourite Things food- Sushi\ pet- baby brush turkey\ Star Sign-Libra \ design- Mies Van De Roe. Wabi. Least favourite thing Spelling correctly.
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Julia Lesiuk Location: Neutral Bay, Sydney Email/Website: julialesiuk@gmail.comwww.paulgosney.com/julia/ Current medium: Mixture of kiln formed glass, wood, metal. Artist Profile: I have exhibited in a number of group exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand, since 1997, my most recent was at Sculpture by the Sea 2005. I get my inspiration from micro life, looking at the shapes and formes of algae such as diatoms, I create forms in glass, wood and metal, that have a reference to the organisms I see in images and I extend there true forms into a hybrid of algae that have mutated to adapt to the environment that they are presented in. The one artist that I have most admired is a dear friend of mine Anne Dybka, not just because of her artistic talents but also because of her experiences in life as an artist, she has had her fare share of ups and downs and in my opinion has lived a very full and successful life. I am very lucky to have a studio this year which is a garage space, were I have my kiln set up and work bench, it is temporary set up and I will be looking for something more permanent next year, contact with other artist is a rarity especially whilst I’m working on my first solo show that I hope to have ready by the end of this year, I’m also applying for Sculptures by the Sea this year, and I’ve started life drawing classes at the tap gallery every Monday night and Toast Masters every second Wednesday night. Upcoming Events I wish.... that I would go to more exhibitions and because I’m planning to rent out a space for my first solo show (I’m not represented by a gallery yet) I wish that another artist that has experienced this before would contact me with there thoughts and suggestions.
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Kristina Tito Location: Sydney Email: kdtito@yahoo.com.au Current medium: Ceramics, Drawing and Performance art. Artist Profile: Kristina is currently a coordinator/facilitator of the Marrickville Sketch Club held at their Addison Road Gallery. During 2003-2004 she was a resident ceramicist and Creative Development tutor at the UNSW Union Pottery Studio. “Hmmm! Favourite food. Let me think! Ah! I believe it would be Korean pickled cabbage or better known as Kimchi, particularly home made. Yum! I don’t eat it all the time, but when I do I really, really enjoy it! But over all I enjoy eating almost anything except kidneys, liver and tripe. Artists I admire. Jeez! That’s a big one. There are so many! Caravaggio jumps to mind for so many reasons. Peter Rushforth, Janine Antoni, Jude Rae, Artaud and Matta-Clark are among the too many and all for very different reasons. I am currently hand building with porcelain and am in the process of installing a top loading gas kiln. I am also drawing a lot from life models at the Marrickville Sketch Club and anticipate a new process of painting the nude. I do all this in my studio at home with my wonderful partner, children, mice and pretty gold fish in tow.”
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Amanda Bentley Location: Woollahra, Sydney Email: amandabentleyinc@yahoo.com.au Current medium: Watercolour Artist Profile: I have a contract to illustrate two children’s books which will publish next year. I am currently finalising a Master of Art Administration degree at UNSW and concurrently studying a Master of Commerce degree at Kensington campus. Upcoming Events I wish.... to complete my studies next year, be a great administrator and fine artist. |
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Lila Afiouni
Email: lila@froggy.com.au Current medium: Ceramics, drawing,
painting, printmaking Artist profile...
“My favourite artists vary long and wide,
too many to name but some include
Joseph Bueys, Eva Hesse, Louise
Bourgeois, Tom Waits, Cy Twombly and
lots of outsider art.
I find not being attached to a gallery
gives me the freedom to experiment and
try new things, however, that doesn’t
mean I wouldn’t like to have a gallery. I
believe the more you get involved with
other people in the arts, eg writers,
musicians, the more you can layer
meaning into your art and try different
approaches to your medium”. I wish... to find more time to investigate and work on my art therefore I am in the process of applying for grants. I would also like to find a cheap studio (is there such a thing?) in Sydney, if anyone has any ideas, please feel free to email me. I would also like to find a gallery or shows that might want to show my ceramics, so please feel free to let me know. |
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Morag Miller
I wish... It was sunny 5 days a week and that I had either more energy, or more time to paint, draw etc. As it stands, when it is sunny I'm often very tired (working at night - cafe) and when I'm ready to work and have the energy its raining --- but I'm addicted to painting/drawing light - shadows, streaming light through the trees and bush foliage, on paths, etc. Sorry Mum I wouldn't be too good in Scotland!! |
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Margaret Mayhew
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