WINNER

Artist Name: SUMMER ALDIS

Artwork Title: COMPANION

Medium: Graphite on 300gsm Paper

Size: 40 x 40cm

Artist Statement:

‘Companion’ explores themes of friendship and connection. The sentiment that fate is a fabric of threads connecting us to pivotal relationships throughout our lives informs the binding of the two figures. Lying in comfortable, yet vulnerable stillness, the figures evoke the feeling of peace and companionship experienced in only our truest bonds.

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Artist Name: MARLIES OAKLEY

Artwork Title: THINKING INSIDE THE BOX (A STORY OF 2020) (PART 2)

Medium: The Inside of Matchboxes and Old Magazines

Size: 59 x 41cm

Artist Statement:

The narrative changed as the world was flipped on its head, the challenges of 2020 saw us re-evaluate, re-think and reinvent the way we live our lives, here are 100 stories.
It taught many of us to Think Inside the Box

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Artist Name: JENNIFER ALLNUTT

Artwork Title: OBSOLESCENCE

Medium: Oils on ACM

Size: 25 x 20cm

Artist Statement:

This artwork is a meditation on things we can hold onto in our lives; our past, our mistakes yet also the chance for change and new growth within ourselves.

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Artist Name: MATT JAMES

Artwork Title: BLUSTER

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 50 x 50cm

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Artist Name: DITA ANGELES

Artwork Title: PERPETUAL HONEY

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $2400

Artist Statement:

In a carefully cross-balanced composition, the subject with thousand yard stare, sustains herself in a misguided act of self-preservation, with an impossible Ouroboros mode of nourishment.
Believing she can keep her honey forever, if what she consumes isn't eaten, but strictly tasted & allowed to dribble back into the jar.

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Artist Name: SANGEETA MAHAJAN

Artwork Title: SHIPWRECK

Medium: Photography

Size: 60 x 42cm

Price: $2275

Artist Statement:

Shipwreck
"My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains my senses"- The angst of a broken heart

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Artist Name: ISABELLE DEVOS

Artwork Title: SHELTERED

Medium: acrylic on board

Size: 41 x 51cm

Artist Statement:

Sheltered: protected from difficult weather or unpleasant realities. The fresh, clean whiteness of the building; innocence found or lost. Organised religion as both protector and protected.

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Artist Name: JARED N. FOUNTAIN

Artwork Title: SELF PORTRAIT AT AGE 33

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 61 x 51cm

Price: $1100

Artist Statement:

The painting was created to capture a special year in my own life and a precious albeit fleeting moment in time, taking inspiration from the many self portraits made by Rembrandt throughout his lifetime and in particular one he made at the age of 34.

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Artist Name: DEBORAH MARKS

Artwork Title: THE DIVIDED SELF 1

Medium: Ink and acrylic on wood

Size: 35 x 45cm

Price: $3500

Artist Statement:

The subject of my painting relates to the idea of the self in the world...the tension between personas...our authentic, private identity, and the other, the self we present to the world.
The painting concerns abstraction and representation…spontaneous mark making and gesture entwined with creating the illusion of forms in space.

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Artist Name: GEORGE FETTING

Artwork Title: LEE LIN CHIN - GEISHA VARIATIONS #7 (CIRCLE)

Medium: 6mm acrylic back mounted float frame

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $4500

Artist Statement:

Lee Lin Chin is by definition truly unique in the Australian fashion milieu. Her cult like following extends across her fashion style, news presentation days and satirical alter-ego’s. Our first portrait collaboration ‘Geisha’ is now part of the NPG’s permanent collection. This portrait is a variation from the original sitting.
Lee Lin rarely if ever consents to be photographed.

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Artist Name: BRITTANY JONES

Artwork Title: GUMNUT AND WATTLE IN HENDRICK'S BOTTLE

Medium: Oil on panel

Size: 20 x 25cm

Price: $3750

Artist Statement:

As for many during the extended Victorian lockdowns of 2020, daily walks became a much-needed respite. I often returned home with bits of found treasure, especially after the arrival of spring. Of all the flowers I picked over spring, these lasted the longest and brought many, many weeks of joy.

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Artist Name: PETA HARVEY

Artwork Title: QUIETUDE

Medium: colour pencil

Size: 39 x 52cm

Artist Statement:

“Quietude” is an exploration of contrasts. Firstly, the strong monochromatic colour is at odds with what is expected of a figurative study, in which strong geometric lines are softened by curves of the female form. The muse appears at rest in child’s pose but tension remains visible in her form.

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Artist Name: PETER BERNER

Artwork Title: SOMETHING IS TROUBLING YOU

Medium: acrylic

Size: 40 x 40cm

Price: $1350

Artist Statement:

It's about a moment. An expression that passes across out face when we are in caught in thought.

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Artist Name: DARREN HUGHES

Artwork Title: CARGO

Medium: Pencil on 100% cotton hot-pressed watercolour paper

Size: 52 x 37cm

Price: $1900

Artist Statement:

This piece represents the balance and fragility of our relationship with the natural world. Pangolins are fascinating, industrious and enigmatic creatures, yet are sadly the most trafficked mammal on earth, having been poached to the verge of extinction. The red cloth is symbolic of their IUCN "red list" categorisation.

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Artist Name: LESLEY SHELLEY

Artwork Title: QUIET COVE-AGNES WATERS

Medium: oil on board

Size: 35 x 40cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

This painting was inspired and created from sketches and memories of
visits to the township of 1770. I used the traditional 'Impressionist'
technique that enables looser brushwork to explore the basic elements of a
Seascape.

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Artist Name: DONNA MALONE

Artwork Title: ARI WITH GREEN TANK TOP

Medium: oil paint

Size: 38 x 27cm

Artist Statement:

Ari is my partners grandson and I have drawn him many times since his birth in South Korea. He is currently in lockdown in Japan and my partner is missing him terribly. I drew this and put it on a site for products. His father bought several products with this image on it. We have 9 grandchildren between us and of course they all wanted their portrait done! This is my favourite though...and pulls on my heart strings every time i view it. It is made of oil paint on matt board.

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Artist Name: CARLEY CORNELISSEN

Artwork Title: PRODUCTIVE RELAXATION

Medium: Watercolour, acrylic, ink and coloured pencil on paper

Size: 42 x 30cm

Price: $580

Artist Statement:

“How to rest while being as productive as possible” is exploring the balance between the business of life and how hard it can be to indulge in rest periods.

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Artist Name: MARRILYN STAHMER

Artwork Title: NIGHT LIFE

Medium: Oil in canvas

Size: 50 x 60cm

Artist Statement:

We look at things all of our waking hour but think of the beautiful things we don’t have the chance to see. This is one of those beautiful things the Dragon fruit flower opens at night dies at morning it was my pleasure to paint her night life

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Artist Name: FIONA COTTON

Artwork Title: LOCK DOWN 2

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 23 x 30cm

Price: $1900

Artist Statement:

During 2020, lockdown became the default position for many. My intention in this painting is to bring humour and irony to a challenging time. The softness of the down reflects our vulnerability and while the padlock symbolises the imposition of lockdown, the key to our survival is within our reach.