WINNER
FREEDOM FIGHTER
Medium: Photography
Size: 100 x 75cm
Extraordinary image of Peter Greste.
WINNER
Artwork Title: FREEDOM FIGHTER
Medium: Photography
Size: 100 x 75cm
Glenn Hunt is a multi-disciplinary photographer with a career spanning 30 years. He has won many awards, including the Humanity Awards, Photographer of the Year, Australian Photography Awards and the Brisbane Portrait Prize (digital). He has also been a finalist in the Clayton Utz Art Award, Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, Moran Prize, and Hasselblad Masters. He lives in a converted church on Brisbane’s Northside where he makes many of his portraits.
Imprisoned in Egypt for 400 days, journalist Peter Greste paid a heavy price for doing his job. After a public campaign, Greste was returned to Australia in 2015. An award-winning foreign correspondent for 25 years, he now holds the UNESCO Chair in Journalism and Communications at UQ, and advocates for press freedom.
The slightly unbalanced pose, off-centre and leaning forward, shows both fragility in the pose and the weight of the surrounding space.
And although Greste says his prison days were “a struggle over press freedom, and not about anything personal,” the lighting in this portrait hints at the many difficulties experienced on a personal level.
Extraordinary image of Peter Greste.
PEOPLE CHOICE
PURE JOY
Price: $10000
Medium: Pencil, Watercolour, Ink on Paper
Size: 86 x 86cm
PEOPLE CHOICE
Artwork Title: PURE JOY
Medium: Pencil, Watercolour, Ink on Paper
Size: 86 x 86cm
Price: $10000
By playing with textures and depths using mixed media, I enjoy bringing fine detail to my artworks whilst using broader strokes to invoke a 'painted' impression. I view all things in life as potential art, believing the beauty of things becomes art when we make it so.
I wanted to reflect pure, unapologetic joy and to give this feeling to the audience that views it. Using a monochromatic palette, the minute details have been blurred away from perfection to focus on emotion. To live in the moment is an animal instinct, something every human can learn from.
Amy Bridge is an Australian contemporary artist. Based in Brisbane, Queensland, Amy specialises in artworks using pencil, pastel, watercolour and ink. Amy has been a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize (Salon) and Lethbridge Small Scale Art Awards. Her work has attracted clients internationally, with works commissioned from France, Scotland and Canada.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
ALWAYS PASSING US BY
Graphic designer from Wales
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 100 x 100cm
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Artwork Title: ALWAYS PASSING US BY
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 100 x 100cm
My paintings are based on pencil and oil sketches created in situ, from photographs, and my recollection of the location. My work represents actual places but is often constructed from memory and my impression of the environment. I am interested in exploring the shape of the landscape, the movement of clouds, the perception of distance, and the shifting of the light. Experimentation with mark-making is important to my work – I use brushes and palette knife strokes to represent direction, movement and focus to influence how the audience views the work. Contrasts in paint texture and thickness add visual interest and allow me to move between figurative and abstract representation.
This work represents my continued exploration of reflected landscapes' energy, movement and drama. The work is intended to have a slightly menacing feeling and alludes to the fact that the world often rushes past us, largely unnoticed. The marks are instinctive, almost hurried. Large paint strokes, often crossing over each other feel disjointed close-up but somehow work together when viewed from further away.
Graphic designer from Wales
HIGHLY COMMENDED
BELL WITH KATH THE CHOOK
Price: $2000
As an extension of my curating, writing and research practices, my art practice investigates how forms of authority, such as museums and documentaries, construct values and narratives.
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 23 x 15cm
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Artwork Title: BELL WITH KATH THE CHOOK
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 23 x 15cm
Price: $2000
Miranda Hine is an early career artist, curator and writer from Meanjin/Brisbane. Her works are forms of personal documentation that reference cataloguing and collection techniques used in museums. Through her paintings she investigates our instinct to create stories and connections when objects, text and images are placed together.
The thought of my little sister, Bell, having something to hold during Canberra’s extended lockdowns was comforting. She’d moved there, away from her family in Meanjin/Brisbane, just before the pandemic and occupied her time at home growing vegies and tending to her chooks, Kath and Kim.
As an extension of my curating, writing and research practices, my art practice investigates how forms of authority, such as museums and documentaries, construct values and narratives.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
PROXIMAL NOISE
Price: $3000
Medium: etching
Size: 98 x 100cm
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Artwork Title: PROXIMAL NOISE
Medium: etching
Size: 98 x 100cm
Price: $3000
Carolyn Craig is an interdisciplinary artist from Queensland examining relational economies of power, in particular how they enact privilege. Her current research harvests the residue or trace of bodily acts to explore transitory zones between social classes. She is currently a Director at Frontyard Projects, Sydney and teaches at the National Art School, Sydney in the Printmaking Department. She holds a PHD from the Queensland College of Art.Her work has been a finalist in prizes such as the Burnie, Freemantle, Silkcut, Clayton Utz, Churchie, Ravenswood Women’s, Bangkok Drawing and Print Triennial and she has been awarded the Marie Ellis, Swan Hill and M16 prizes.
This work considers how the breathe /voice are sites of privilege through the idea of social anoxia (a slow suffocation from social constriction). I use the idea of ERV or the amount of excess air that we are unable to inhale or exhale, as an social accounting equation. Victims of violence , poverty/pollution, and fear live in bodies that struggle to breathe fully. They are bounded within a social value/valve that restricts their oxygen allowance – via economic , environmental and violent methodolgies. Subjects with higher asset value tend to breathe cleaner air, study yoga on the weekends and take hold of air values as a right. Breathe takes us to the edges of everything. I want to breathe.
Artwork Title: ACQUAINTED WITH TWILIGHT
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 65 x 95cm
Price: $6000
Having moved to a ‘Renovator’s Delight’ in Red Hill 39yrs ago, the area and its architecture greatly inspired Alexandra. Her paintings narrate an intimacy with urban landscape as it transitions and transforms with light, natural and artificial. Alexandra’s work is highly detailed as she strives to depict architectural features accurately and capture the essence of the iconic area, where the present and past collide. Painted in a hybrid of illustrative and realism, the detail is achieved through revisiting a view multiple times on neighbourhood walks.
Fragmented and shaped by electricity, incongruously, nightfall can expose things lost or rendered inconspicuous in daylight. As streetlights flickered into life and competed with dusk, familiar views were animated, and somehow more personal. A background clink of cutlery and the murmur of televisions as people are reunited at day’s end.
Queensland College of Art, Seven Hills, Brisbane, QLD. 3yr Illustration and Design
Artwork Title: THE REDLAND
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 122 x 152cm
Anthony Quidong is a Filipino- Australian painter based in Brisbane. He studied art in the Philippines and workshoped with Marcel Desbiens.
He's been a finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 and Landscape Prizes plus the Brisbane Portrait (2020,2021) and Clayton Utz Art Award (2017).
The stunning sunset light of Wellington Point, Redland Bay accentuates the natural fertile reds of the soil.
I used a palette of Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red and Orange contrasted with the cool shades of Prussian and Spectrum Blues.
Anthony Quidong is a Filipino- Australian painter based in Brisbane. He studied art in the Philippines and workshoped with Marcel Desbiens
Artwork Title: THE WAITING GAME
Medium: Oil
Size: 150 x 100cm
Price: $12000
North Queensland Artist
I have been painting for over 40 years
I have traveled around Australia Plein Air painting for the past 12 years
This I believe has helped my studio work immensely
I have exhibited in numerous Galleys around Australia as well as my own in Mackay
My work has been purchased by councils and private collectors
The combination of the early morning light and the drained king tide gave rise to the dry dock.
The dramatic light created striking abstract rhythms around the suspended yacht - suggesting movement around the vessel that ironically isn't going anywhere in a hurry.
Bradley Short has been strongly influenced by DJ Hardy, Ray Crook, Tom McAulay, and other seascape and landscape painters from North Queensland. Bradley Short was the winner of Art on Show in 2018 and has exhibtied in Milton House Gallery and other prominent art galleries across Australia for the past 20 years. Bradley Short owns and manages Milton House Gallery.
Artwork Title: SILENCE
Medium: Digital Photography
Size: 45 x 90cm
I have always considered myself an observer, comfortable to sit in the background. Not concealed in the shadows, but concealed in the open watching interactions of the world around me. Human and nature; human and man made. I capture my observations via digital photography. Genre non-descript / universal.
Captured on a still foggy morning at a dam. I noticed the shag moving itself to the light to dry out its wings. The branch above mimics the bird.
Again, well shot nice composition, great light....and....dime a dozen I need more.
Artwork Title: MODERN MIDDEN
Medium: Post-consumer waste, plastic bread bags, aluminium cray-pot base
Size: 75 x 75cm
Price: $1800
As an artist Denise embraces the challenge to create works of art that surprise, engage and spark discussion. Guided and equally restricted by available materials. The methodical process of finding, collecting, cleaning, sorting and saving consumes numerous hours, days and months but it is during this time that the creative inspiration and design ideas begin to hatch.
First Nation languages have no word for rubbish. Historically, over many generations, the shells and bones that remained after a meal were discarded onto middens. A closed organic loop.
In stark contrast, Modern Midden is a collection of manufactured plastic waste that chokes and distorts the natural environment.
The only similarity is they both represent what remains once the food is removed.
Denise is an Artisan in textiles and fibres employing the creative techniques of sewing, weaving, book binding, quilling, felting, threading, crochet and knitting,
Artwork Title: EMANATION
Medium: oil and resin on canvas on hardboard
Size: 106 x 106cm
Price: $5000
McCart’s artworks are informed by liminal landscapes where the urban gives way to rural, the post-industrial belt on the outskirts of every city. This space provides the abandoned and atrophied nexus of an evocative landscape. McCart works across a range of mediums including painting, drawing, animation and currently machine learning.
Using a machine generative adversarial network to generate images freed of my own creative biases. I imputed images of Lamington Woonoongoora national park into the GAN generator, from these iterations, I then re-interpret the images through painting adding another level of interpretation and visual poetry to the artwork.
Great work and interesting concept
McCart studied at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, and has exhibited throughout Australia
Artwork Title: LOVERS' TICKLE
Medium: oil on linen
Size: 61 x 122cm
Price: $4000
Dita Angeles is a portraitiste who creates uncanny depictions of real, imagined, & archetypal subjects. Since relocating from Asia to Australia in 2019, she's been a finalist in several prominent competitions, including Brisbane Portrait Prize 2020, Clayton Utz 2021, & Highly Commended at Lethbridge 20000 in both 2021 & 2022.
Esteemed academic gentlemen and loving couple, Professor Paul Reynalds & partner Dwain Liebert Tomavoko, are formally portrayed in the throes of tomfoolery (adorned with gratuitous doodle), emblazing the innate, naughty-schoolboy joie de vivre of high achieving "old boys".
BFA, Painting major, 2004, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland, New Zealand.
Artwork Title: REFLECTION POOL
Medium: Oil on Gallery Canvas
Size: 150 x 180cm
Price: $12000
Award winning Artist, Donna has private and corporate collectors purchased at auction or commission Donna every year to add to their collection of her work. Her artwork is hung at Queensland’s Parliament House, Government House, The Australian Turf Club, Coca Cola Amatil, Jayco and many other companies & identities homes.
Inspired by Nature’s eternal wonders. Reflections offer an opportunity to see an aesthetic quality of what’s in front of us from a unique perspective. These hot springs, discovered on a trip to Cradle Mountain conjure other reflections of years past and those before us who have gazed into these springs.
Donna Gibb is Australia’s Live and award-winning Artist and paints at exclusive events. Donna regularly has celebrities, sporting stars and identities add to her canvas. The painting is created live on stage in just a few hours and is then auctioned for charity. To date, Donna’s paintings have raised close to a million dollars at charity auctions. Donna’s individual art creations have been sold at auction for up to $30,000.00 a piece.
Artwork Title: ESCARPMENT WITH 3 COCKATOOS
Medium: acrylic
Size: 100 x 100cm
Price: $2700
Local Brisbane artist, Fiona Chivers, attended the Qld College of Art majoring in printmaking. My work is currently focused on contemporary landscape painting. My work reflects a theme that encompasses both the shared human experiences of the landscape, with our associated memories of place and the natural cycles of erosion and fragility of the environment.
Painted from Studies of Carnarvon Gorge, this work is paying homage to the towering white sandstone cliffs that form the spectacular steep-sided gorge. My aim in this work is to allow the viewer to have a sense of natures dramatic landscape through the exaggeration of form and colour.
Local Brisbane artist, Fiona Chivers, attended the Qld College of Art majoring in printmaking and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1987.
Artwork Title: LADIES IN WAITING #1 COLOUR
Medium: Photography
Size: 80 x 120cm
Price: $2800
Francesca Owen is a Photographic and Performance Artist. Her intrigue for the water began at the tender age of eight, when she was introduced to Synchronised Swimming. Eventuating in 2012, when she was selected to represent Australia in the London Olympic Games. After Hanging up her competitive bathers, she picked up the underwater housing for her camera, and hasn’t left the waters edge since.
Having studied Photojournalism at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia she was able to merge her passions. She lures her audience down by capturing the magic that unfolds through the elegance and movement of suspended dance.
Francesca's aim to showcase the surreal and peaceful feeling one perceives when completely submerged. Her work focus is bringing an escapism to your home with her Photographic Prints, and wants her viewers to be transported to a world where anything is possible and you feel free.
'Ladies in Waiting' is part of a Limited Edition collection of 12 featuring the official 2020 Australian Olympic Artistic Swimming Team. ‘Ladies in Waiting’ is an intimate collection by ex-Olympic Artistic Swimmer and Fine Art Photographer, Francesca Owen.
This is not your typical Synchronised/Artistic Swimming shoot. This collection explores the antithesis of the sport, offering the audience a different perspective of the Olympic swimmers themselves; their individual expression and their unscripted movements and relationships with one another.
It’s not about perfect scores, its about the beauty of imperfection and the spaces in between.
The games may be the final stage, though performers dreams can rise and fall before the curtain opens; thats what I wanted to give a lens to. At times, like life in 2020/21, life is unsynchronised. In some way, we are all Ladies in Waiting.
All pieces are printed on Giclee fine art paper, 300gsm textured cotton rag using archival pigments and finished with a hand crafted deckled edge. There will be an extra 10cm border for signing (this is in addition to your print size)
Francesca Owen is a Photographic and Performance Artist studied Photojournalism at Griffith University in Brisbane
Artwork Title: OUTBACK
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Size: 120 x 120cm
Price: $7900
Gary Myers is a full-time artist based in Maleny, Queensland.
He has achieved a respected position in the Australian art community based on a career spanning the last 50 years.
“I paint a range of subjects, usually influenced by my surroundings and always styled by my interpretation.”
My depiction of the Australian landscape is presented with the intention that the viewer interprets their own feelings toward it and not for me to place any limitations in their way.
Gary Myers is a full-time artist, residing in Maleny in Queensland's beautiful Sunshine Coast hinterland, where his family dates back four generations. It is here that he has been inspired to use a colourful and dramatic approach to his varied subjects.
Artwork Title: SWORDS
Medium: archival pigment print
Size: 135 x 95cm
Price: $4500
Born in Ipswich, Queensland, Gerwyn Davies is a queer photographic artist and costume maker. Gerwyn recently completed a PhD at the University of New South Wales (Art and Design) exploring the aesthetics of camp, photographic self-representation and the political potentials of queer in/visibility. Gerwyn completed a Bachelor of Photography (1st Class Hons) at the Queensland College of Art and has worked as member of academic staff lecturing across photomedia at both Griffith University Brisbane and UNSW Sydney.
Swords continues my ongoing interest in the magical potentials of a queer representational in/visibility.
Where the camera is conventionally claimed to possess a unique capacity for revealing a subject to its viewer, in Swords, I perform an act of photographic dis/appearance, my vividly costumed figure passing before the camera un/seen.
Really interesting. Photography is a medium which can be difficult impliment. This work for me is succeeding on so many levels ...nice.
Represented by Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane and Michael Reid Gallery Sydney/ Berlin Born: Ipswich, Australia | 1985 Academic staff. University of New South Wales. Art & Design. Sydney. 2017 - 2021 Academic staff. Queensland College of Art. Griffith University. Brisbane. 2012- 2016. Flying Arts Queensland. Artist on Tour regional/ rural workshop facilitation. 2011 - 2015. Independent arts facilitator. Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Gold Coast, Townsville, 2012 -
Artwork Title: EVENING SPLENDOUR
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 33 x 55cm
Price: $2400
Helen has lived most of her life in Queensland. Trained in oils and acrylics, with a love of landscape from a very early age, she currently works in watercolour. Almost all Helen's works start in the field where she seeks to immerse herself in how a place feels; it's shifting light, weather, mood and human connection as important to her as form.
Arriving Brisbane during lockdowns, my 'en plein air' became 'en plein lounge'. I happily spent days sketching high above the city. My first full work from that time, this conveys one exquisite evening I had to get down; those wonderful colours, lengthening shadows and deepening hues as light starts to peep from suburbs and city buildings, then pin-prick traces paths of human activity down streets and across bridges.
Artwork Title: HOTEL CHECK-IN
Medium: Oil and acrylic on canvas
Size: 66 x 76cm
Price: $1850
Hilton Owen is an Australian artist based on Dja Dja Wurrung country in Castlemaine, Victoria. He has held fourteen solo exhibitions of his paintings and won several art prizes as well as being selected as a finalist in numerous others. Hilton began painting at a young age, staging two sold-out solo exhibitions aged 18 and 19 while completing his Fine Arts degree at the University of Tasmania.
Hotel Check-In displays potential cross overs in figurative painting, abstraction and portraiture. I am fascinated and intrigued by the malleability of contemporary life and society and I strive to find novel ways to interpret and represent visually the ever-changing diversity and social complexities that I see around me.
first solo exhibition at Handmark in 2008 and graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania in 2011. I am currently undertaking an Honours year at the Victorian College of the Arts
Artwork Title: REFLECTIONS OF HOME
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 76 x 152cm
Price: $4200
J Valenzuela Didi uses urban spaces and metropolitan landscapes to explore the transience of life. His works portray the detached sense of unease, impermanence and isolation that inhabits modern life.
J Valenzuela Didi has been a prize winner or finalist in several renowned art prizes and is represented in galleries in Brisbane, Sydney and Palm Springs.
I’ve always been an outsider. When I create images, I want to capture my memories of moments when I have felt like an explorer in this distant world, submerged in alien landscapes.
“Reflections of home” is a painting about joy and the search for a spiritual connection. Life can be daunting, especially in the current global climate. This work celebrates the moments we can escape these realities.
J Valenzuela Didi has been the prize-winner or finalist in several renowned art prizes including the Archibald Prize Salon des Refusés, Gold Coast Art Prize, Mosman Art Prize, Black Swan Prize, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Moreton Bay Art Award, Rotary Art Spectacular, Redland Art Award, Clayton Utz Art Award, Lethbridge 10000 and the Publishers Cup Prize. J Valenzuela Didi is represented by Lethbridge Gallery in Brisbane, Australia, Traffic Jam Galleries in Sydney, Australia, and Coda Gallery in Palm Springs, USA.
Artwork Title: NO TITLE
Medium: Charcoal and pastel on Arches
Size: 89 x 144cm
Price: $15000
I have worked in the Architecture/ Construction industry as an architectural illustrator for 25 years. During that time I have managed an office that provided
Artwork Title: ANEMONE FANTASTICA
Medium: pencil on watercolour paper
Size: 56 x 76cm
Price: $2200
Jess Hall is a multi-disciplinary artist working with painting, drawing and textiles. Training as a painter, printmaker and as a textile designer, Jess completed first class Honours at Queensland College of Art in 2005. Jess’ work has been purchased for private and public collections and has featured in numerous art prizes, group and solo exhibitions.
‘Anemone Fantastica’ posits about the environment and climate change by exploring hybridity; creating fantastical specimens that suggest an unknown, future environment. This work explores liminal spaces between art and craft, depicting a surreal take on the floral pattern tradition in textile design.
Jess completed first class Honours at Queensland College of Art (2005), a Master of Fine Art at VCAM (2010) and the Bachelor of Textiles (Design) (2021) at RMIT. The work is influenced by aspects of printmaking, painting and textiles and reflects the artists’ training in these areas. She was awarded an Australia Council Art Start Grant in 2010 and worked out of an artist studio at the historic Abbotsford Convent for two years. In 2019 Jess was highly commended for the NG Art Creative Residency Prize in France and was offered a supported place in the residency program for two weeks.
Artwork Title: HEADING TO THE COAST (TRIPTYCH)
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 91 x 180cm
Price: $9250
Joanne Kerr graduated from the Queensland College of Art, majoring in printmaking and painting. She has exhibited widely both as a visiting artist and as a finalist in Art Awards. Joanne works intuitively, with drawing and colour as the basis for her work with a particular emphasis on the landscape.
’Heading to the Coast’, uses colour and line to explore freedoms that were lost while the world locked down with fear and uncertainty. Colour reflects a positive emotion and during 2020/2021, living with pandemic and threat of border closures, thoughts of a trip to the coast brought joy and pleasure. The 'heading to a positive place' metaphor works particularly well as Australians around the world were desperate to return to our sunny shores when the reality of pandemic hit home.
Graduating from Queensland College of Art and Kelvin Grove Teachers College. Worked for some years as a Secondary Art teacher and then continued as a relief teacher before investing creative energies into children home life and art.
Artwork Title: CONE FLOWERS
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 138 x 98cm
Price: $1800
My practice focuses on painting gardenscapes set in the sub-tropics with its seduction of palms, scented flowers and foliage. I seek to capture the mystery, beauty and aesthetics of being in a garden. I use an impressionist style of tonal painting to render colour and light as the essence of a garden.
As covid spread around the world in autumn of 2020, I stayed at home and took solace in the garden. These cone flowers were the tail end of the summer planting and were a spot of pleasure in a worrysome world outlook.
Artwork Title: MEMORY COHERENCE
Medium: Archival pigment print on canvas, framed
Size: 121 x 79cm
Price: $9500
Kailum Graves is an artist and binary archivist critically obsessed with the artifactual digital object. Through artworks, writing, and curatorial projects he investigates the hidden and invisible structures of power. He does this by contemplating themes as diverse as economic inequality, the algorithmic nature of digital photography, the bombardment of media imagery, the politics of fear and the threat of otherness, the shifting boundaries between bodies and technologies, photographic manipulation and its representation of reality, and celebrity culture. While this interest stems from very personal experience and is a way for him to begin to understand, accept, and deal with his own post-traumatic stress disorder, angst, anxiety, and depression, his work addresses ideas, metaphors, images, themes, (dark) humour, feelings, and symbols which are universally shared (the nuances of human existence).
Memory coherence is a continuation of an ongoing investigation into ways of emphasising the algorithmic nature of digital photography, while at the same time paying homage to Eleanor who has always believed in me, even during my deepest moments of self-doubt. To metaphorically represent Ellie’s perpetual support during the highs and lows of my art practice and career, I repeatedly uploaded and downloaded an image of Ellie to the Internet. I did this to the point where the work became more performative than photographic. Nonetheless, the slow and gentle degradation of the image as it is compressed and eroded away played with the ubiquitous dichotomies between physical and digital, and between the so-called ‘original’ and the copy.
Kailum majored in art history and philosophy at the University of Queensland, graduating in 2011 with an Honours dissertation focused on American Internet-based activist group The Yes Men, Russian collective Voina, and international hacktivist group Anonymous Career highlights include being exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; international exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Greece, Mexico, Switzerland, China, Brazil, Denmark, Iceland, Russia, Portugal, Poland, Malaysia, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, and the United States; being a finalist in numerous international and national art awards; winning the 2016 Clayton Utz Art Award; and being acquired by the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery’s permanent collection.
Artwork Title: WE'RE HITCHED, SO WHAT'S YOURS IS MINE?
Medium: oil
Size: 76 x 103cm
Price: $8500
Kathy Ellem is an artist living in rural north east Victoria. She started painting and teaching art across Queensland whilst living on a property near Surat 20 years ago. Winning awards across Australia and internationally, her work is being collected by enthusiasts around the world.
Draught horses hold a special fascination, technically I love the textures of the leather, metal and hair. But symbolically I love the feeling of quiet confidence and strength, a desire to work hard, and a whisper of nostalgia that reminds me to slow down.
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Kathy Ellem - lawyers choice 2020
Artwork Title: ACCESSORISE
Medium: Pastel on paper
Size: 86 x 66cm
Price: $2350
Portraitist Kathy Sullivan creates alluring work which captivates the viewer and encourages contemplation.
As director of Gap Artworks, Kathy works across a wide range of mediums. She has chosen pastel for this work as it best emphasises the subtleties of skin tones.
For centuries people have adorned themselves to symbolise social superiority and power.
Today fashion conscious individuals accessorise to stand out from the crowd or to identify with a particular group.
In this painting the subject is wearing what could be considered the ultimate accessory.
Gap Creative member Kathy Sullivan is an award winning artist and owner/teacher of Gap Artworks, a boutique art school that specialises in teaching new techniques and skills
Artwork Title: THE WOODLANDERS
Medium: Oil on linen
Size: 67 x 67cm
Price: $3000
My practice is based on building fantastical dreamscape collages, investigating subconscious and subterranean imaginings as a reflection on waking life, merging literal and subliminal in an intuitive translation of experience. Themes explored including mortality, the passage of time-life processes, and inheritances, physical, emotional and psychic, that shape future life courses.
This resurrection painting reflects on mortality, and paradoxical life/death cycles, finite, but endlessly ongoing. The baby, framed by hibiscus flowers, ascends in a cloud of cherubic pink, borne up by butterflies. Belying this celestial image are predatory animals, flies and graves, indicators of corporeal processes of digestion, decay, and decomposition.
Artwork Title: THE MEANING OF (STILL) LIFE: THE WOODEN PINEAPPLE
Medium: Oil on Ply
Size: 61 x 61cm
Price: $2900
Brisbane artist Leigh Schoenheimer conducts a contemporary art practice, working as a painter and sculptor. Her work is held in public and private collections throughout Australia, and is the subject of an extensive case study in the current Senior Visual Art textbook for QLD – ‘Creative Inquiry’ - Cambridge University Press, 2019.
This ‘expanded’ still life painting describes an eclectic arrangement of boxed objects in two ways – realistically and symbolically. Through the juxtaposition of two different image making approaches, the work sets up a conversation between the processes of perception and interpretation.
Artwork Title: PENFOLDS GRANGE
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 91 x 122cm
Price: $9500
My drawing and painting have been a continuum, committing to realism & working to master my own self taught techniques with my chosen mediums.
My ultimate goal with each creation is to capture and transfer emotion. My subjects vary but rarely stray too far from respecting small town culture, remote spaces and the living things within them.
Penfolds Grange is another painting in my ongoing series entitled 'Name Your Poison' which pays respect to the ritual of imbibing. Penfolds Grange needs no introduction to Australian wine lovers captured here in my freehand hyperrealist style in rich and warm tones welcoming the viewer to the table to partake in some conversation over cheese, smoke and the finest of reds.
Lew Brennan is an Australian Realism Artist who specialises mainly in rural themes using charcoal and oils
Artwork Title: FROM THE BRIDGE
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 76 x 102cm
Price: $3300
Lindy Sale's work is concerned with the effects and marks of human settlement on an increasingly contested environment and more specifically the shrinking habitat available to endangered species, both plants and animals. She has been exhibiting for twenty-five years. Recently her artwork has concentrated on responding to forested landscape.
Nature is ‘...a presence that seems intimate yet other, within and everywhere, immediate and endless. You feel it.’ (Janine Burke 2021 My Forests p.114)
There is a creek which meanders through the trees at the bottom of the hill. The rich, leafy forest beyond is dense, complex, varied and lush.
Winner of the Lethbridge, multiple finalist, runner up 2016
Artwork Title: GIORGIO VISITS MY STUDIO TO GIVE ME A HELPING HAND
Medium: Digital Creation, First Print 1/1, Unique State
Size: 92 x 122cm
Price: $1800
born in Hamburg, Germany. Since 1983 I have lived in Australia, partly in Maroochydore in Queensland and partly in Hobart in Tasmania. I have worked as a digital artist since the turn of the millennium
Artwork Title: OUR TOWN - BRISBANE
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 101 x 152cm
Price: $3500
Award winning artist Meredith Howse, Brisbane local 20 years.
An Established Seller on Bluethumb, 2021 Channel 9’s The Block artist. A finalist in the Art Lovers Australia Art Prize and Lethbridge 10,000, The Doyles and 100+ group exhibitions, Meredith continues to encourage an inspire others with a love of art.
Our Town, a large urban landscape of Brisbane City from Paddington.
Distinctly Brisbane, Queenslander homes sit right beside skyscrapers, hilly, with lush treelined landscape. Notice the presence of two Graya homes in the foreground, a Brisbane founded construction group of young men whose love of reviving distinguished, old Queenslanders is to be applauded.
In 2016, Meredith exhibited 30 paintings of the Brisbane River at Petrie Terrace Gallery. In 2018, Meredith exhibited 80+ paintings at the Lockyer Valley Regional Gallery. Named in Bluethumb’s top 30 best selling artists in 2020. 2021 Finalist in Art Lovers Australia Art Awards. Artwork as seen on The Block 2021.
Artwork Title: K'GARI
Medium: Oil
Size: 101 x 101cm
A self-confessed 'watcher', Michelle enjoys capturing even the most basic of form, behaviour and mannerisms with a sense of drama - through her simplistic use of bold colours, shapes and often a generous application of negative space.
In recognition of the recent formal renaming of Fraser Island, this painting celebrates a year long repatriation campaign seeing the adoption of the traditional Butchulla name 'K'Gari'.
The painting draws inspiration from one of the Artists' favourite destinations and depicts K'Gari's long, barren shores and abundance of wildlife.
Currently living and working in rural Victoria, self-taught painter Michelle Selway Lampard approaches her subject from a simplistic yet slightly abstracted perspective.
Artwork Title: LOOKING BACK
Medium: Japanese indigenous Elm, Hemlock, Maple, Park, Red Pine, Walnut, White Oak, transparency photo sheets, natural Japanese pigments.
Size: 32 x 101cm
Price: $6000
Born in Fukushima in Japan, Mika is a graduate of the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and holds a Doctor of Visual Arts degree (DVA). Her work has been exhibited in Australia, Italy, Iran and Japan and is held in private collections in several countries.
Looking Back draws on personal memories of growing up in Japan. Across the four panels of the work, the seasons change and the present slips inevitably into the past, revealing the wabi-sabi ideals of impermanence and imperfection - nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.
2017 Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA) Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. 2012 Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours (First Class) QCA, Griffith University.
Artwork Title: STRUCTURES FOUND IN PARIS -TROIS (LOUVRE)
Medium: Charcoal on distressed synthetic paper mounted on linen
Size: 185 x 65cm
Price: $7500
Pursuing beauty in unassuming places, Innes is lured to urban locations, sharing her experience of place, with specific focus on encounter and escapism while utilizing an inclusive approach. Her choice of natural medium reflects upon her childhood spent in Ireland’s boglands. She has exhibited widely across Australia and Internationally.
A rise of ecological, man-made and natural disasters, forced travel beyond attainment for many. I recollected the many images of my journey to Paris, offering opportunity to escape the present, recalling adventures and the architecture prominently embossed in my memory.
It offered me an escape route of distraction from attending a fluctuating reality.
Miriam Innes (b.1979) is an Irish artist. She is best known for her charcoal drawings and her large scale charcoal installations of hyper-realistic sprawling streetscapes. Preoccupied by the metropolis yet her choice of natural materials reflects upon her childhood spent in Ireland’s boglands. Oscillating between two worlds - the natural and built environment - she likens the organic qualities of her medium, charcoal, to the 'bog oak' found close to her home
Artwork Title: ALMOST THERE
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 80 x 64cm
I am interested in conversations of how art can help healing at both an individual and a community level. In a pandemic world these questions are now developing with urgency. I investigate the philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari in ideas of affect, healing and materiality.
My art is centred around painting as a practice - mostly alla prima from life and my photographs. This piece is typical of my studio routine, painting plein air through the summer and capturing photos for studios days when I transport myself back to the light I painted when I was on location.
I like to give my paintings energy by keeping my brushwork loose and focus on capturing the atmosphere of the moment through colour.
My painting investigates restorative affect through readings of the philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari. In exploring non-human becomings, I become the flow and vitality of the brook and the joy of the sensations of the materials I use
“Almost There” captures the typical Australian East Coast beach cut in through the dunes to the beach.
The painting captures that moment when you are carrying towels, bags, umbrellas and sometimes children from the carpark, through the pandanas trees and hot sand and you catch a glimpse of ocean and a red flag letting you know you’ve almost made it.
Brisbane Australia based artist who creates colorful and painterly oil paintings. My passion for oil painting started when I lived in Colorado and immersed myself in the Denver art community learning to paint oils in the "Alla Prima" (direct painting) style. I love the buttery texture of oils and enjoy the process of mixing colours in this tactile medium. Painting wet on wet is how I produce fresh, loose and visible brush strokes that give my paintings a playful energy.
Artwork Title: BILLOWING
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 91 x 137cm
Pat paints large scale watercolours celebrating the light and colours of the Australian bush and gardens.
Eucalyptus leaves, billowing in the breeze. Absorbing and reflecting our pervasive Queensland sunlight, they perfectly illustrate our country's unique and varied land.
Artwork Title: SUNNY SUNDAE SMILE
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 120 x 90cm
I am an emerging artist based in Brisbane. I have been a finalist in several significant art prizes others. My contemporary practice is influenced by retro poster art and the old masters.
Queensland summer Sundays a day of whimsy, relaxation, the beach and ice cream.
He is a professional cartoonist, illustrator and trained graphic career artist who has always painted, mainly in portraiture
Artwork Title: A LIVING SHROUD (OF REMEMBRANCE AND PROTECTION)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 153 x 122cm
Price: $7800
Sarah Hickey is a Brisbane-based visual artist and designer.
A Griffith University QCA Graduate, her work has been a finalist in The Lester Prize, The Brisbane Portrait Prize, The Percival Portrait Award, The Kennedy Art Prize, Redland Art Awards, Clayton Utz Art Award, Marie Ellis OAM Drawing Prize and The Mandorla Art Award.
My figurative paintings are inspired by images of women from the past. Through the painting process, I stitch my life with their imagined ones. A collaged attempt at connection. A merging of unspoken narratives and mythologies.
The stranger in the photo becomes kindred. The act of recontextualization is like a pneuma, bringing new life into the old. The process reminds me of the impermanence and transient nature of life. Their forms - once walking among us - are transformed into ancient emblems and deities. Universal, cross-cultural and connected to a variety of histories and worlds.
Sarah has completed residencies at the Tweed River Regional Gallery in NSW and The Graniti Murales residency program in Sicily, Italy. As a muralist, she participated in the Brisbane Street Art Festival in 2019 and created a large scale mural in Armidale to honour the first all female fire brigade in Australia, ‘The Amazons’, who operated between 1901 – 1905. A Griffith University Queensland College of Art graduate, Sarah holds bachelor degrees in fine arts and education, and has been employed with Education Queensland since 2002. She has had ten solo exhibitions and participated in over thirty group shows. Her work has been a recent semi-finalist in The Lester Art Prize and finalist The Percival Portrait Prize, The Brisbane Portrait Prize, The Kennedy Art Prize, Redland Art Awards, Xstrata Percival Portrait Award, Clayton Utz Art Award, Marie Ellis OAM Drawing Prize, The Mandorla Art Award, Kenilworth Painting Prize, Lethbridge 10000 Art Award and SBS Portrait Prize.
Artwork Title: ROMANS 6:23
Medium: Oil
Size: 80 x 1022cm
Price: $45000
Sid Tapia is a medley of hyperrealism, realism, typography, graffiti, abstract form, surrealism & photography.
Able to utilise each one of these forms of art individually or mash them to composition, he simply loves the creative process of large & smaller scale murals, paintings and illustration.
Sids work has been exhibited globally on the streets and in gallery settings.
This painting tells the story of a young, once homeless & orphaned child who after coming to know God’s grace, desires to extremely impact the world for truth and freedom from evil.
Still living on the streets, this child, young in faith, does whatever it takes to get this message of freedom that burns in her heart to all people of the world. Inspired by the famous words of Saul of Tarsus / Paul the Apostle, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Sid was born Tuesday September 25th 1973 on Crown St in the city of Sydney, Australia to Ecuadorian immigrants Tito and Graciela Tapia. At the age of 3 he began to use a pen and his mother began teaching him how to take control of it by setting him down on a regular basis for cursive writing lessons which were taken out of her old spanish writing books. In 1976 Sidney discovered the enjoyment of skateboarding by watching his older brother and long time mentor, Walker, surfer skate the footpaths opposite their home on Bourke St Surry Hills. Between 1977 - 1982 he was also performing choreographed dance routines for local latin and multicultural festivals and events. Currently, Sid is working as a full time artist who is supported by international brands RVCA, Adidas, Sony, G-Shock, Copic Markers, MTN Colors, Little Legs Foundation and Uppercut Deluxe.
Artwork Title: PROMISED LAND, MOUNT GREVILLE, MOOGERAH
Medium: Oil
Size: 120 x 157cm
Price: $6995
Producing works in a picturesque style of local areas, simplistic and honest. Capturing the feeling of light and the contrast of emerging shadows to narrate what I am wanting to express.
Sacred to Uragapul people, I see Mount Greville, the promised land, a subject for contemplation; a refuge for the divine Peregrine Falcon and threatened species habitats lies still exposed to frequent unsuspecting visitors, trekking the rugged, unguided, terrain. This national park needs our protection!
Born in Brisbane in 1963, Todd Whisson is an Australian landscape and coastal painter. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Griffith University Queensland in 2015, after working consistently for 27 years exhibiting a significant body of work as an Australian Impressionist.
Clayton Utz Art Award is a private exhibition.
Viewings available by appointment only. Contact Lethbridge Gallery for more information.
Clayton Utz is proud to support the Arts through the Clayton Utz Art Award. The Award offers a $20,000 winner's prize and exhibition space for the finalists and is awarded to an outstanding artwork by a Queensland-based artist, or an artist with a strong connection to Queensland.
We are looking forward to seeing the rich diversity and quality of this year's entrants, and to see them encouraged in their careers through this prize.