Salon des Refusés

Artist Name: HEATHER MURCHIE

Artwork Title: DANCING BOABS

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 91 x 120cm

Price: $1850

Artist Name: NYULLA SAFI

Artwork Title: BREATHE

Medium: Acrylic on paper

Size: 45 x 332cm

Price: $724

Artist Name: PAM FLETCHER

Artwork Title: AMSTERDAM GRACHTENLANDSCHAP

Medium: Computer crafted digital artwork

Size: 42 x 30cm

Price: $550

Artist Name: GAY EMMERSON

Artwork Title: PAPERBARK

Medium: oil pastel on wood

Size: 60 x 45cm

Price: $899

Artist Name: DAMIAN BISOGNI

Artwork Title: A STORY ABOUT TIME

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Board

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $2500

Artist Statement:

A story about time…. The concept of time fascinates me. Everyone has a different perspective of it. Looking at the world through the past, present or future tense? Who invented it? Is it an abstract concept? How do we measure it? Numerous artists have depicted the concept of time over the history of art, and many have used the clock to represent it; Dali, Gonzalez-Torres, Chagall, Cezanne, Monet, Munch and of course Guston. Pictured here are a few recent works following a similar theme.

Artist Name: JOHN GAMBARDELLA

Artwork Title: OUTWARD BOUND

Medium: Oil pastels

Size: 30 x 42cm

Price: $1900

Artist Name: JOHN GAMBARDELLA

Artwork Title: FIGHTING FOR POSITION

Medium: Oil pastels

Size: 30 x 42cm

Price: $1900

Artist Name: KATHY SULLIVAN

Artwork Title: JUST FOCUS

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 35 x 25cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

This painting captures the fleeting moment when a beautiful young woman checks her make-up before going out. She is eagerly anticipating her evening and what is to come. She is in sharp focus to emphasise this, whereas the foreground and background are blurred.

Artist Name: KATE YURK

Artwork Title: DEAR STEWART

Medium: Mixed Media Collage

Size: 21 x 30cm

Price: $165

Artist Statement:

The longing distance creates and the seas that separate us will never change. The postcard came into my possession rather damaged and the holes I punched in it have forever altered it, but it's sentiment was not lost. The reverse of the card reads: "Dear Stewart - no doubt you are surprised to hear from me. I am leaving this ship when we arrive in Sydney. I really am trying to get "home" to get my apprenticeship - in sail if possible. So we'll be able to go to sea again! Call me early on Saturday week morning will you? Haha (that's a laugh if you don't know) Goodbye for the time. Regards, Geoff (- give my regards to your mother and lads)".

Artist Name: FRILLY

Artwork Title: JUST A REGULAR DAY

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 63 x 53cm

Artist Name: JOHN BANNERMAN

Artwork Title: RAINBOW POWER

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 36 x 46cm

Price: $1600

Artist Statement:

Rainbow Power highlights how colour can shape our moods and impact our emotions and psychology. This painting represents Bundy harnessing the power.

Artist Name: JOHN BANNERMAN

Artwork Title: RAINBOW KARMA

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 36 x 46cm

Price: $1600

Artist Statement:

Rainbow Karma represents Bundy's interpretation of the colours of Karma. This painting represents Bundy welcoming "good" karma.

Artist Name: LIUBOV CHEKHUNOVA

Artwork Title: UP CLOSE

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 50cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

My name is Liubov Chekhunova. I am an emerging conceptual visual artist.
I successfully graduated from Queensland Institute of Business and Technology in 2015 with a Diploma in Graphic Design, awarded with Academic Excellence Award, DUX Award and Award for Typography.I then, completed my Bachelor of Fine Art at Griffith University Queensland College of Art in 2019. Majoring in Painting and with a minor in Interdisciplinary Drawing.

Artist Name: SAMANTHA BLACKMORE-SMITH

Artwork Title: RELEASING

Medium: Acrylic paints

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $350

Artist Statement:

Every thing that causes stress or anxiety, release it. .

Artist Name: ALEJANDRA SIEDER

Artwork Title: BYRON BAY

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 22 x 61cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

One day whilst waiting in a coffee shop in Byron Bay, I received an email that our Australian citizenship had been approved. Shouting with joy, I ran to my husband and shared the news with him and my children. All the people around us asked what was happening and they smiled at the news even though they were strangers. And that is Australia to me, beautiful land with kind people who rejoice in your own happiness. Each piece has a different meaning: Three of them symbolize my three nationalities: Venezuelan, Spanish and Australian. And the other three are the pillars and at the same time the most cherished people in my life: my husband, my daughter and my son.

Artist Name: LEIGH SCHOENHEIMER

Artwork Title: THE MEANING OF (STILL) LIFE: THE WOODEN PINEAPPLE

Medium: Oil on Ply

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $2900

Artist Statement:

A literal depiction sits alongside a set of clip-art equivalences found through Google image searches. More than a description of the things seen, by presenting these alternative responses to the subject matter side by side, the work becomes a conversation about the nature of visual perception and representation.

Artist Name: MARIANNE GRIGORE

Artwork Title: SCATTERINGS

Medium: Spray paint on Canvas

Size: 40 x 50cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

My mother had a beautiful Royal Doulton Dinner Set that she was very proud off. After many years the cups were chipped and many plates were broken. The plates that survived become creased and worn but the rich blue and white designs remained. This painting is my memory of one of these beautiful plates.

Artist Name: MARIANNE GRIGORE

Artwork Title: FLUIDITY

Medium: Spray Paint on Glass

Size: 35 x 35cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

This is my experiment with spray paint on glass. I achieved the three dimensional illusion of the circles by layering each circle over themselves with various coloured backgrounds. The end result required six different spraying sessions.

Artist Name: BARBARA CAPUANI

Artwork Title: FLAG FROM THE PAST

Medium: Gouache on paper

Size: 15 x 21cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

Countries’ flags fascinate me. Their colors and patterns tell the history of the world. Painting a scrunchie on a multicolor table, focusing on its center, I see the flag of the lost kingdom of Galicia that partly sat where Ukraine is today. Let’s not forget the latter and its flag.

Artist Name: SYMONE MALE

Artwork Title: FRAGILE

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 61 x 51cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

Fragile is not only a still life of beautiful glassware but also a group portrait of people I love. Each vessel is symbolic of someone precious in my life. Featured are my mum, my partner, my closest friends and family members who have passed away.

Artist Name: JAYDE CHANDLER

Artwork Title: WHEN IT’S GOOD IT’S GOOD AND WHEN IT’S BAD IT’S BLOODY AWFUL

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

Drawing inspiration from what can be seen out her back door this piece reflects the multi layered elements of outback Queensland in all their beauty, parched earth, multi coloured skies and thickened scrub partially viewed from birds eye of view and sometimes creating dimensional confusion for one who does not know it well.

Artist Name: CHARLOTTE WENSLEY

Artwork Title: DREAM MACHINE

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $2200

Artist Statement:

Roaming in the subconscious, as sleep comes, it trundles purposefully through the landscape of my mind. Grasping at fragments of memory and imagination, processing abandoned experience and sentiment, disgorging ephemera, electrifying slumbering neurons; it scatters me across strange lands. On waking, I wonder at these places of which I dream.

Artist Name: JASMINE HARRIS

Artwork Title: INFLATED SENSE

Medium: Drawing

Size: 30 x 42cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

Another Beach closed
A warning in place
Beware of the natives!

Who are the natives?

Some will obey, others will throw caution to the wind... she'll be right

Artist Name: MR. WAYNE N MCDONNELL

Artwork Title: THE COLOURS OF ULURU

Medium: Digital Photography

Size: 22 x 50cm

Price: $260

Artist Statement:

Uluru changes colour depending on weather conditions. The colours in this image reflected the beauty of the setting sun over the rock. The suttle pastel shades of yellows, pinks and blues backgrounding the red of Uluru is just beautiful

Artist Name: MR. WAYNE N MCDONNELL

Artwork Title: KINGS CANYON

Medium: Digital Photography

Size: 33 x 50cm

Price: $260

Artist Statement:

King's Canyon is a magic spiritual place. The climb is difficult but very much worth it once you are at the top. The rock formations are magnificent and the scenery fantastic.

Artist Name: DEBORAH HUNTER MILLS

Artwork Title: MERLIN'S LOOKOUT

Medium: oil on board

Size: 28 x 35cm

Price: $350

Artist Statement:

I painted this 'en plein air' and was drawn to the graphic quality of the trunks of the trees and the delicate, but earthy colours of the landscape

Artist Name: BARBARA WULFF

Artwork Title: SEXTING WEST LEEDERVILLE

Medium: telecommunications copper/bronze/silver

Size: 3 x 393500000cm

Price: $2850

Artist Statement:

From: “Ear Bud Dreaming" sleeping Muse variations
My teacher, Brian O’Dwyer, challenged us to make a work taking up as much space as possible using no more than a cubic decimeter of material.

This piece arrived during a year telephonically devoted to a special friend morally and sexually damaged at Christian camp aged 11.

Artist Name: PAUL CONNOR

Artwork Title: MURRAMARANG CALM DAY

Medium: Ink and Acrylic on cavas

Size: 36 x 46cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

The work was painted 'en plein air' at Murramarang and is part of a series of 'protest paintings', referencing the etymology of the word 'protest 'from the Latin protestari, pro- ‘publicly’ + testari ‘assert’.
They are a public assertion to the importance of the natural environment immediately around us, and the need to engage with it and therefore spare it further degradation, and are testament to my faith in landscape painting as a profound and enduring ‘influencer’

Artist Name: LAURE RACHON

Artwork Title: URBAN NUDE

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 45 x 45cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

Urban Nude
Oil painting on Linen my background is dark with touch of blue it gives a cold effect in contrast with a natural female body.
The violent and cold nature of how society treats a woman who doesn't confirm to the new ideals of beauty in the modelling world.

Artist Name: LAURE RACHON

Artwork Title: URBAN COCKATOO

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 45 x 45cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

Urban Cockatoo
Oil painting on linen
The street art background displays a strong contrast to the feathers of the cockatoo as the transparency of them show the fragility of an endangered species adapting to urban environments as they are losing their natural habitats.

Artist Name: KIMBERLY SMITH

Artwork Title: SELF INFLICTED

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 15 x 15cm

Price: $150

Artist Statement:

During December/January, I began to get violently ill. I was informed that I could not take any form of pain medication despite the 24/7 pain I was experiencing. The only relief I could find was clutching a hot water bottle to my aching body. Because of the constant exposure to heat, I inflicted burns on my stomach. While they symbolise my current health struggles, they are also beautiful in their own way.

Artist Name: VANESSA LAMB

Artwork Title: KATHY HIRSCHFELD

Medium: Watercolour on paper

Size: 30 x 21cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

"Kathy Hirschfeld AM HonFIEAust FTSE has been recognised for her trailblazing as a woman in engineering and is now a respected board member and chair, focussed on helping Australia’s transition to renewable energy"

Artist Name: KAI HAGBERG

Artwork Title: CELESTE

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $480

Artist Statement:

"Celeste "
Human face is a reoccurring subject matter in my painting and sculpture . I seek to create the minute characteristics and facial expressions that appear and disappear in a blink of an eye and can reveal the true self. My paintings are created from my imagination without models or photographs.

Artist Name: NYREE COX

Artwork Title: SHE

Medium: Digital Image

Size: 5 x 5cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

She walks alongside the dusty roadway.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2016

A time when women were not permitted to drive.

A time when women were rarely seen outside.

It seemed a defiant act that hot windy afternoon.

I wonder if she has a drivers licence now?

Artist Name: NYREE COX

Artwork Title: LITTLE LIFE

Medium: Digital Image

Size: 5 x 5cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

It's Friday: it's the weekend in the Middle East
For many it's the only day off in the week
Laundry day
Towers of affordable housing
Sulamaniyah District, Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Home to expat workers
Utilise all available space
Cramped but such a strong sense of community
I envy their connection

Artist Name: NYREE COX

Artwork Title: RIYADH ENTREPRENEURS

Medium: Digital Image

Size: 10 x 10cm

Price: $3000

Artist Statement:

An entrepreneur is a person who sets up a business, taking on financial risk in the hope of profit.

Om Eid and Reem Rashid.

Om is a mother of 10 children and Reem has 2 sons.

They have been setting up alongside the highway north of Riyadh in all weather conditions for the past 6 years selling tea and homemade sweets.

They make 50USD each day.

Artist Name: TARA LEWIS

Artwork Title: EMERALD FOLIAGE

Medium: Acrylic Mixed Media Wood Panel

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $210

Artist Statement:

It is great to recharge in the garden on cooler days. I found myself exploring the broader shapes and lines within my plants especially the negative space within the foliage to create this composition.

Artist Name: TARA LEWIS

Artwork Title: SUNSET VIBES

Medium: Acrylic Mixed Media Wood Panel

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $210

Artist Statement:

I am enjoying working with collage which peeks though the multiple layers now and then. Working from old photos of Emerald Dam at Sunset.

Artist Name: SARAH MCDONALD

Artwork Title: MY SUNDAY BEST

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 55 x 45cm

Artist Statement:

I have documented a family of Gums and the way they respond to the seasons, shedding their skin and changing in colour. Tree bark is similar to human skin, as it’s critical for survival. Their "outer garment" can be as striking as a gown encrusted with jewels.
When really observing bark for the first time, one may notice subtle differences in shades of a grey and brown palette but upon closer examination of each tree, an astounding gift of diverse bark pattern, texture and colour awaits; all integral to the tree bark’s beauty. I have a deep connection to this family of trees and my aim is to capture the intricate beauty of their ‘skin’, drawing the viewer right up close to focus on their “hidden jewels”. I aspire for tree bark to be noticed and celebrated through my work sparking inspiration for one to seek it out in real life too.

Artist Name: GEORGE ARNOLD

Artwork Title: VAN DIEMEN GUMS

Medium: Acrylic on board

Size: 55 x 45cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

This petite painting depicts a scene of the beautiful snow gums from Mount Field National Park in Tasmania. The real beauty of this gum, in particular, appears during certain seasons and weather, most commonly being rainy or misty conditions, wherein parts of the bark reveal bright yellow to red colours.

Artist Name: CARLY LE CERF

Artwork Title: OUTER FRINGE

Medium: Encaustic and OilOn Board

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $1350

Artist Statement:

This work seeks to mirror the awesome spectacle of a vast and sun scorched land. Through employment of spontaneous texture, carving and encaustic wax techniques, I hoped to capture the vast mineral deposits, burnt red earth and dusty pink skies of the Pilbara landscape.
 

Artist Name: PATRICK HROMAS

Artwork Title: ALYSSA SUTHERLAND

Medium: Pastel with pencil on Arches watercolour paper.

Size: 30 x 42cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

I was inspired to draw Alyssa Sutherland, the actress and model, who was raised in Brisbane, Queensland. I was enchanted with a scene from the television series: Vikings. “I ask that you arrive, neither naked nor clothed, neither hungry nor have your hunger satisfied, and not with company nor alone.”

Artist Name: PATRICK HROMAS

Artwork Title: NOéMIE MERLANT

Medium: Pastel and pencil on Arches watercolour paper.

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $429

Artist Statement:

I decided to draw Noémie Merlant after watching the expertly shot French film: A Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a dramatic film about an artist, Marianne, who is commissioned to paint a wedding portrait of a young noblewoman: Héloise. I have an ongoing preoccupation with the seemingly infinite beauty of the golden mean and it’s sister, the golden spiral.

Artist Name: JANA VODESIL-BARUFFI

Artwork Title: LAST STAND

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 45 x 61cm

Price: $3900

Artist Statement:

Crucified for the sins of humanity, he emerges transformed in the blinding light. Redemption for mankind is granted and rewarded in tortured beauty never again to relish in the delight of earthly pleasures. Awaiting his fate, what will he do with his newfound outer-worldly power once set free into the world?

Artist Name: ANTHONY GUERRERA

Artwork Title: SECRET COVE

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 40 x 50cm

Price: $950

Artist Statement:

Meditative morning walks across a sunbathed coastline spark the idea to convey a sense of place as I seek to capture a fleeting radiant landscape.

Artist Name: JULES BULLEID

Artwork Title: EYE ON THE HORIZON

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 45 x 45cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

This piece was created intuitively and, to me, it evokes the vastness of the West Australian outback. It is also a reminder that there are many and varied pathways through our life experiences and, at times, the destination may appear lost. However, keep an eye on the horizon and trust the journey. Whether it be a metaphoric physical one, or a creative journey.

Artist Name: EMILY CRAWFORD

Artwork Title: GEODE STUDY II

Medium: Watercolours, beadwork and embroidery on muslin

Size: 10 x 10cm

Price: $250

Artist Statement:

One of four textile-based works inspired by the layered qualities of geodes, which are formed over long periods of time. Their exterior can appears as a plain, mundane rock until it is cracked open. This work is adjacent to the artist's exploration into things that appear mundane, or go unnoticed for their perceived unimportance or lack of face value.

Artist Name: EMILY CRAWFORD

Artwork Title: GEODE STUDY III

Medium: Watercolours, beadwork and embroidery on muslin

Size: 10 x 10cm

Price: $250

Artist Statement:

One of four textile-based works inspired by the layered qualities of geodes, which are formed over long periods of time. Their exterior can appears as a plain, mundane rock until it is cracked open. This work is adjacent to the artist's exploration into things that appear mundane, or go unnoticed for their perceived unimportance or lack of face value.

Artist Name: EMILY CRAWFORD

Artwork Title: GEODE STUDY IV

Medium: Watercolours, beadwork and embroidery on muslin

Size: 10 x 10cm

Price: $250

Artist Statement:

One of four textile-based works inspired by the layered qualities of geodes, which are formed over long periods of time. Their exterior can appears as a plain, mundane rock until it is cracked open. This work is adjacent to the artist's exploration into things that appear mundane, or go unnoticed for their perceived unimportance or lack of face value.

Artist Name: GAI SAUNDERS

Artwork Title: SCINTILLA I

Medium: Acrylic and collage on canvas

Size: 25 x 20cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

The current climate of crisis after crisis is a time to shed our social amour.
Scintilla l (Latin word for a trace of touch or presence); a painting that, like a moth drawn to light, suggests that the single act of reaching out can be a catalyst for connection.

Artist Name: GAI SAUNDERS

Artwork Title: SCINTILLA II

Medium: Acrylic and collage on canvas

Size: 25 x 20cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

The current climate of crisis after crisis is a time to shed our social amour.
Scintilla l (Latin word for a trace of touch or presence); a painting that, like a moth drawn to light, suggests that the single act of reaching out can be a catalyst for connection.

Artist Name: JACQUELINE ROSEWARNE

Artwork Title: EVE

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 60 x 45cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

The women featured are contemplative and languid, in line with the soft modulation of colour and restrained palette. As a bi-racial artist of both Filipino and New Zealand descent, my work reflects the inevitable conflict in respect to privilege and societal oppression. Two internalized cultures working through the politics and practice of representation.

Artist Name: REINA MULLER

Artwork Title: A GIRL BY THE STREAM

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 50 x 40cm

Price: $420

Artist Statement:

It's just a scene of the garden in Gympie.

A lot of people were visiting the garden on that day.

There was classical music live in the garden and even there was morning tea cafe in the garden too.

I love painting garden because It meditate me and makes me feel happy to complete the scene of painting.

A girl in the painting is my daughter. I wanted to take without anyone in my painting but she was making a pose when I try to take a photo shot.

Normally I do not paint much people in my works.

But I decided to paint her in this art work at this time.

Artist Name: REINA MULLER

Artwork Title: TULIP FESTIVAL IN NSW

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 42 x 30cm

Price: $370

Artist Statement:

I am always loving to paint flowers and gardens.
I enjoyed painting this work. but white flowers are always tricky to express realistically.

At the moment I am experimenting how I can express like watercolour using acrylic paints.
It is not successful yet at the moment but I am still trying, challenging and practicing.

Artist Name: LARA MCKENZIE

Artwork Title: SHAKTI

Medium: Watercolour on 300gsm Arches Rough paper

Size: 29 x 42cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

Shakti in Hindu philosophy is the divine feminine cosmic energy that represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the universe. It represents the creative energy of life and the power of the feminine energy within us all.

Artist Name: RICK MATEAR

Artwork Title: ABBOTSFORD HOUSE

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 41 x 55cm

Price: $2900

Artist Statement:

work is inspired by Austrian/New Zealand artist/architect/environmentalist Hundertwasser

and a group of paintings I’d been doing called “The Other Side”.

The title “Straight Lines are Godless” comes from a quote of Hundertwassers.

The first paintings were of buildings and plants. The original intention was to curve the buildings and straighten the plants, but in some paintings they worked better when the plants were left curved or simplified.

Artist Name: DEREK STEELE

Artwork Title: A PLEA FOR PEACE

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 47 x 40cm

Price: $2000

Artist Name: JULIE HOLLIS

Artwork Title: FRUIT FROM THE OLD PEAR TREE

Medium: acrylics on stretched canvas

Size: 40 x 50cm

Price: $660

Artist Statement:

You can see from the branch that the pear tree must be old and narly. The fruit looks amazing but I wonder how they taste?
The black background and the gorgeous blue velvet certainly highlights the amazing colour of the pears.
With thanks to Ed Ellington for his wonderful photo.

Artist Name: CRISTIAN CROSS

Artwork Title: GET OFF MY CAR!

Medium: pencil on paper

Size: 29 x 21cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

Its often women are misinterpreted in the world of men, in particular the automotive scene. Here she sits on her car with pride and accomplishment. When at the same time men would believe it cannot be hers, must be her husbands. due to her sex. Passions for anything , can be shared among all, regardless of their sex.

Artist Name: PLEASANCE INGLE

Artwork Title: A DOG LIFE

Medium: Gouache on paper

Size: 40 x 31cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

This is one of many studies of dogs at dog shows. Show dogs, groomed and sleek, shining, muscular, pimped and oblivious. Their innocence prevails, free of guile or cunning as they are drawn into human machinations and ambition
The viewpoint of all the images is at dog-eye-level, people are present but mainly as legs and bottoms and restraints. A view of humanity from a dog’s perspective.

Artist Name: BETRA

Artwork Title: A SEA OF WILDFLOWERS, 2021. OIL ON LINEN, 30 X 26CM.

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 30 x 26cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

Through her paintings Betra Fraval graphically and poetically interprets the landscapes she encounters. With A Sea of Wildflowers (Ben Lomond), there is a breathtaking awareness of the vastness of time. Its mountainous rock formations date to the Jurassic period and what we experience of them is a mere blink in their history. It hints at the slow, but inevitable passing of time which eventually overtakes all things. To witness these vast wild places instils a sense of wonder and it is this experience that the artist attempts to translate and capture.

Artist Name: CHRISTOPHER MCLEOD

Artwork Title: MACASSAN DIVERS

Medium: OIL

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $3300

Artist Statement:

Macassan Divers have been visiting the Northern shores of Australia for centuries. The experts believe that during this time the Macassans have mixed with the local Aborigines, taken Aboriginal wives and traded with communities all along the Northern coastline. The divers collected Trepang (a type of sea slug) slit their bodies open, boiled them before drying them out in the sun ready for transportation back to their home countries.

Artist Name: PHILIP JAMES MYLECHARANE

Artwork Title: FIGURE IRRADIATION

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 35 x 28cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

This painting is from a body of work developed over the last year, comprising portraits mostly of myself or close friends.

Alongside a definition and spatial articulation of form, there is an attempt to build a tableau of the face to indicate and embody the movement of emotive states, one moment to the next. The face becomes a network for contrasting mark making and stabilised form, yet simultaneously revealing a temporal movement of mind.

Rather than attempting to portray a portrait as a fixed point in time and space, the transformation and flux of our own thoughts, emotions and viewpoints is perhaps a more real and compelling object to ponder.

Figurative painting has a long tradition, however its relevance is arguably more profound in a time of digital, social and economic transformation of shared notions of identity and place.

Artist Name: ROGER A CALLEN

Artwork Title: LAKE BINDAGOLLY - ATALAYA HEMIGLAUCA

Medium: Acrylics, dirt, leaf litter and geological map collage on Arches paper and

Size: 41 x 29cm

Price: $650

Artist Statement:

Even the red desert earth is fecund, a magma of minerals, insects, microbes and fallen leaves. Lake Bindagolly is an ephemeral lake in far west Queensland. Atalaya species are usually herbs, but this one grows rapidly to tree size. Its leaves are twins and its trunk pulpy. I brought back the earth and a branch and painted this. It was on my return from South Australia during the pandemic, driving alone in my small car via Innamincka, a sudden storm forced me to take shelter in scrub near the lake, which is a National Park. The colour of the soil is like the colour of the geological map I made long ago of the north Flinders Ranges in SA, so I collaged a cross-section from it. The Strzelecki Track I followed skirts those ranges.

Artist Name: PAUL MCCARTHY

Artwork Title: FLORAL TEA

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $4900

Artist Statement:

FLORAL TEA
Oil on Linen
The little red teapot is so happy to be plonked amongst the abstraction of fruit and floral shapes. I love the mess of a kitchen table when the whirlwind of the day arrives and lands on the table. Translating the clutter in paint is even more fun.

Artist Name: ROGER A CALLEN

Artwork Title: THE ART OF LIFE (AGING MEMORIES)

Medium: GRAPHITE AND COLOURED PENCIL, CHALK PASTEL

Size: 29 x 41cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

Decay is also a circle of renewal. History: Toy hippo from Kureelpa Falls debris, bolt from Yandina wooden rail bridge, Large White butterfly from my garden, limestone ventifact from Sultanate of Oman, piece of Yacca stem from Mt Barker SA, shackle from Kings Bluff Goldfield SA, small bolt from Yandina Rail Bridge. Centre- decaying lemon and beetle from my garden, cicada carapace and wing from Mt Coonowrin, all on plastic plate from home. Various aspects of decay are here: melting, chemical disintegration, mould, abrasion, rust, dehydration...

Artist Name: ROGER A CALLEN

Artwork Title: HAROLD'S BALLROOM

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 14 x 27cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

This is an internal landscape of someone's unique home and also of the human mind that created these objects. Harold, among other things, is a collector and trader of ethnic objects. Every room of his house is crammed with them, especially ceremonial masks from New Guinea, Australia and Africa. I painted this whilst assisting with photography. They display the richness of human imagination and the limitless variety of the ways we construct our worlds.

Artist Name: KAREN GEMMING

Artwork Title: FIRE IN THE WEST

Medium: Watercolour and 18K Gold Leaf

Size: 40 x 40cm

Price: $540

Artist Statement:

Memories of watching footage of the Peregian beach firestorm inspired this painting. With embers flying and smoke spiralling in the 50km winds friends homes were evacuated.
Using the effects of splattering and granulation I have tried to convey the hazy light and smoke particles in the atmosphere.

Artist Name: KAREN GEMMING

Artwork Title: SETTING SUN

Medium: Watercolour and 18K gold leaf pen

Size: 40 x 40cm

Price: $540

Artist Statement:

In my painting “Setting Sun” are my impressions of the suns last glow as it suffuses through a blanket of cloud. The light and cloud then falling and seeping deeply into the earth.

Artist Name: DINA GILLESPIE

Artwork Title: LITTLE BOXES ON THE HILLSIDE

Medium: Oil on Birch Panel

Size: 23 x 17cm

Price: $350

Artist Statement:

I’ve lived, worked, played in Bondi for many years. The view from the south to the North coast has always looked like a town out of a kids storybook to me. All the wonderful pastel buildings scattered along the coast. Reminds me of a song I once learnt at school.

Artist Name: DIAMANTA CONTOLEON

Artwork Title: EUCALYPTUS TWIST

Medium: Acrylic on board

Size: 41 x 31cm

Artist Statement:

Eucalyptus Twist draws inspiration from the bark and trunk of Eucalyptus trees endemic to Brisbane’s forests. Layered colours and textures built up on the wooden board interact with distorted organic shapes to evoke nature's calming chaos, and the enjoyment we get from immersing ourselves in it.

Artist Name: DIANE MCDONALD

Artwork Title: THE GEORGIAN

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

Standing regally aloft the landscape from the nation’s earliest European settlements in times of lore, is the majestic old stone building from the reign of King Georges one to four. From a time of rich landlords and convicts seeking pardons, the Georgians are in high demand, and their pretty gardens.

Artist Name: DIANE MCDONALD

Artwork Title: THE HOMESTEAD

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $1499

Artist Statement:

Sweeping panoramas do the sprawling verandahs yield, and the gateway down a sloping lawn to a makeshift cricket field. Across the nation’s ever-changing lands where many legends were bred, we still see reflections of the great Australian homestead.

Artist Name: NICOLA HIGGINS

Artwork Title: CYBER TULIP

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 45cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

I aim to combine the ultra bright light achieved in digital colors, with the physical materiality of paint. The tulip is presented as surreal and fantastical, its colors more brilliant than real life, thus contemplating the paradox of the real/unreal in the curated images of the online world.

Artist Name: JENNIFER PULLMAN

Artwork Title: BUSH GARDEN AFTER RAIN

Medium: Oil

Size: 31 x 41cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

The 2022 Queensland floods devastated many regional towns causing death and devastation. The home garden with declining water emerges resiliently, and is the lasting legacy of memories, stories, homelife, and places where children played. Surface scratches, firm linework and soft brushwork create the mood and atmosphere generated by a flooded landscape.

Artist Name: MARIANNE URTH

Artwork Title: MISSES BOSS

Medium: Mixed

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $446

Artist Statement:

I paint a colourful abstract interpretation of the sea with its powerful movements of waves, shifting shapes and shades of blue and green. The presence of a colourful sail and a heeling mast suggest the state of the seas and the rapidly changing conditions or the excitement of an animated race.

Artist Name: MARIANNE URTH

Artwork Title: PURPLE SPINNAKER

Medium: Mixed

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

I paint a colourful abstract interpretation of the sea with its powerful movements of waves, shifting shapes and shades of blue and green. The presence of a colourful sail and a heeling mast suggest the state of the seas and the rapidly changing conditions or the excitement of an animated race.

Artist Name: NOELINE LEE

Artwork Title: SILVER TRAY

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 45 x 45cm

Price: $875

Artist Statement:

A simple fruit as the pear becomes so much more displayed on a silver tray.

Artist Name: LINDA

Artwork Title: FIGURE STUDY #1

Medium: MIXED

Size: 55 x 49cm

Price: $608

Artist Statement:

Figure study # 1 is created in an abstracted figurative style that visually depicts a range of colours, shapes, tones, and textures. The closeness of the figures adds a calming effect. The artwork was created using mixed mediums that includes watercolour, gouache and pencil.

Artist Name: HELEN GRAMOTNEV

Artwork Title: SHALL WE FIND EACH OTHER AGAIN?

Medium: acrylic/canvas

Size: 35 x 35cm

Price: $295

Artist Statement:

As conflicts of war pull families apart, their lives become dissolved. The shapes of their former selves are erased by the uncertainty of their future. Blue here represents hope of finding each other again; yet it is also cold and tentative. Shall we find each other again?..

Artist Name: ALEX BRIDGE

Artwork Title: SUDDENLY IT'S AUTUMN

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas

Size: 31 x 41cm

Price: $700

Artist Statement:

There’s a crispness to the air. All at once bright light filters through fading green. Leaves turning and falling, papery orange against the grey pavement.

Artist Name: CLAIRE LAI

Artwork Title: BUCK EYES

Medium: Oil on Wooden Board

Size: 50 x 41cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

The colour and shape of these buck eye tomatoes capture the joy of big family gatherings with lots of characters, laughter and food. They evoke the happiness you get to share with people you love, each of whom is unique in a quirky tomato kind-of way.

Artist Name: CLAIRE LAI

Artwork Title: SUNBATHING

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 50 x 61cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

To me it seems this rose is rising to meet the morning and catch a little sun upon its face. The vibrancy of the pinks in the shadows is heightened by their contrast to the light-brushed petals and adds a sense of joy.

Artist Name: DONNA MALONE

Artwork Title: THE GIRL WITH THE CURLY HAIR

Medium: watercolour

Size: 305 x 21cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

This work is about the innocense of children. I feel there is pressure on children to conform to outdated sexual stereotypes and adult ideas more than ever before because of the explosion of social media. I was compelled to draw this child from a vintage photo I stumbled upon on the internet. Children are our legacy and it is up to adults to protect them from harm and allow them to just be kids.

Artist Name: DANIELLA KRISTINE L. LERIO

Artwork Title: LUPE

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Size: 25 x 20cm

Artist Statement:

Look above;
blow a wish
in whispering echoes
and enchanting bliss.

Under bronzed feathers in disguise,
I waited and saw the kiss of sunrise.

Playing hues of yellows,
with golden dust in sunny willows.

Ever less dreamed
of flying without hope –
I whistle a tale
when the sunset unfolds.

Artist Name: IONA MCAULEY

Artwork Title: GIRL LOST

Medium: Ink & Gouache

Size: 55 x 40cm

Price: $290

Artist Name: GAYE CHAPMAN

Artwork Title: DARKLING: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BREATHING

Medium: Mixed media + polymers + gold leaf

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $2500

Artist Statement:

THE CORE OF MY PRACTICE is nature’s survival and transience. This work marks a moment in time - the death of Romantic nature-poet John Keats. It is indisputable that we must step beyond a romantic view of nature - and re-learn our ancient interconnections with Earth’s dynamic systems.

Artist Name: FELICIA ARONEY

Artwork Title: SUNDOWN

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 52 x 52cm

Price: $1450

Artist Statement:

The last of the suns rays tend to disappear swiftly behind mountain ranges, leaving the land pulsating between warmth and the cool of the night. Using a palette knife I strive to achieve a visual representation and even more importantly, the feeling associated with the shift of energy from day to night.

Artist Name: FELICIA ARONEY

Artwork Title: PURPLE STREAM

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 52 x 52cm

Price: $1450

Artist Statement:

Using a palette knife I recreate a memory of standing by a fast flowing stream. The energy of the water lashing over reeds and rocks and tall trees swaying in rhythm on the bank. With water riding the light like a surfer catching a large wave, I spot the colour purple. I don't question where it came from, I just want to capture it.

Artist Name: FELICIA ARONEY

Artwork Title: AUSTRALIAN ALPS

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 52 x 52cm

Price: $1450

Artist Statement:

Using a palette knife to create a lustrous artwork, my mind takes me back to the Australian Alps. Snow fills up the sky and cascades down onto the mountains and its surrounds. Ice falls off cliff faces like that of a child's melted ice cream. Small traces of green will soon be covered in dusty white powder. I breathe in the chill.

Artist Name: FELICIA ARONEY

Artwork Title: RAPIDS

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 52 x 52cm

Price: $1450

Artist Statement:

Using a palette knife to mimic the tumultuous clapping of the rapids, smashing over an unpredictable under water terrain and spraying over its banks, energy dispersing in all directions. The quiet of the mountains listens on. As the sun sets the water will too and all will be calm again.

Artist Name: FELICIA ARONEY

Artwork Title: PINK SKY

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 52 x 52cm

Price: $1450

Artist Statement:

Using a palette knife I capture a marshmallow pink sky. Although there is an energy to this work, it was a very calm moment for me. This landscape felt peaceful and safe, much like a home warming. Two lone trees sway slowly in rhythm and their soft pink surrounds hug them like a warm blanket.

Artist Name: KATHRYN BLUMKE

Artwork Title: BRISBANE RIVER QUILT, JUNONIA VILLIDA.

Medium: waterclour and graphite pencil on Arches paper

Size: 21 x 29cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

I paint a feminist landscape through the exploration of Deleuzain affect. I am interested in the affective, sensory nature of materials to healing as a feminist ploy. This work was painted after encounters with butterflies as I walked along the Brisbane River after the sudden passing of my sister-in-law.

Artist Name: MARGARET FROST

Artwork Title: SOUTH TREES

Medium: Acrylic & ink

Size: 50 x 61cm

Price: $670

Artist Statement:

The ever changing linear movement of colours on the sandbanks of Gladstone Harbour at low tide fascinated me. The orange sunset backlighting the industrial buildings and loaders accentuating the red cover of bauxite dust. Sediment from years of shipping litters the tide line.

Artist Name: BARBARA BURGER

Artwork Title: SAD LISA

Medium: Acrylic on board

Size: 60 x 45cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

World events have left many people feeling overwhelmed and fragmented, as represented by the mosaic patterns in this painting. Being able to transform perceptions and fly above the chaos can protect our mental health in trying times, bringing us a sense of peace, symbolically represented by the butterflies and bird.

Artist Name: BARBARA BURGER

Artwork Title: SEE SYD SHINE

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 60 x 50cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

Musically gifted Syd Barret founded iconic band “Pink Floyd” in 1965, writing many songs for their first records. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, after erratic behaviour exacerbated by overuse of LSD, Syd became a recluse until he died at age 60. In this piece, two aspects of Syd’s personality float in psychedelia.

Artist Name: SABINE VON GRAZ

Artwork Title: ‘THREE LANGUAGES’

Medium: acrylic, oil and ink on canvas

Size: 60 x 30cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

‘The Three Languages’ is an artwork exploring the mysteries of the tale by the Grimm brothers that shares its title, introducing a contrasting and deeply Australian influence, challenged to find a new muse to the original meaning.

Artist Name: SANGEETA MAHAJAN

Artwork Title: LESSER GOD

Medium: Photography- Limited Edition of 5- Archival Print

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $2995

Artist Statement:

There is an inherent inequality, imperfection and inhumanity in the world that we seem to glibly live within. This artwork reflects on the fate of children born into a lesser life, by a lesser God; sentenced to a perpetually lesser fate condoned by us, lesser humans.

Artist Name: SANGEETA MAHAJAN

Artwork Title: ARCHIVE

Medium: Photography- Limited Edition of 5- Archival Print

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $2995

Artist Statement:

She discovered her ancient soul, leafing through the archives of her ancestors. She was neither pure white, nor black. In the incandescent light of dawn, she realised who she really was.

Artist Name: INDIVI SUTTON

Artwork Title: THE MEMORY OF LOVE MERGING

Medium: Pigment powder on raw linen

Size: 47 x 41cm

Price: $700

Artist Statement:

Self-luminosity has been Indivi’s mediation for creating this evolving body of works, where the quality of letting light pass through, or being transparent portrays unexplained sensations in her being. The sharing of the truth of what we are, transcends human, and is, in essence the connection to our wild molecular selves, igniting a light within that touches our inner being.
Something that is beyond words, eternity everywhere.

Artist Name: AMANDA CUTLACK

Artwork Title: REGENERATION

Medium: Oil on plywood

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $680

Artist Statement:

Bush regeneration in Dharawal National Park after the devastating 2020 bushfires.

Artist Name: FLEUR BRETT

Artwork Title: THE BLACKBIRD GIRL, KOOKY TREE & BUG BUSH

Medium: Woven sculpture

Size: 50 x 61cm

Price: $2850

Artist Statement:

Like a children's flip-flop book each woven form is inter-changable referencing diversity and inter connectedness.

Blackbird Girl inhabits the artist's backyard along with Kooky Tree a wattle tree and Bug Bush a native grass. The Blackbird was introduced into Australia to make immigrants like Fleur's ancestors feel more at home.

Artist Name: JANA VODESIL-BARUFFI

Artwork Title: LAST STAND

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 46 x 60cm

Price: $3100

Artist Statement:

Like the mythical creatures that once inhabited our planet, but were hunted down to extinction, the descendants of the hunters now stand cornered. They have morphed into the hunted, turning into their own victims, bearing the scars of past rise and falls and facing judgment from a higher power.
Would the last stand be about understanding, acceptance and humility or would be the last defiance against the powers of justice?
The answer hangs in the balance…

Artist Name: ROSS HALFACREE

Artwork Title: FLOATING

Medium: Acrylic, pen and aerosol on stretched canvas

Size: 46 x 61cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

A playful work – childhood memories of a simpler life, where stars shone dreams and blocks were my favorite toys.

Artist Name: BRENDAN LANGFIELD

Artwork Title: THE NEW PLAINS

Medium: Acrylic on paper

Size: 21 x 21cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

This was a dry, arid landscape - capturing the rural plains not far from where I grew up. During the 2022 floods, I painted over it to depict the new reality. You can still see glimpses of the ground beneath the temporary surface. A moment of sunshine and solace amongst the record high waters.

Artist Name: ZANE NEAL

Artwork Title: HI-SPEED CHRYSALISM

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 46 x 46cm

Price: $380

Artist Statement:

Chrysalism is feeling tranquil indoors during rain. I have turbo ADHD & autism. So my experience of Chrysalism is more akin to excitement and stimulation. All the falling brush strokes and vivid colours are evocative of this experience.

Artist Name: JESSICA DAVIDSON

Artwork Title: ONE MISTY MORNING

Medium: Oil

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $590

Artist Statement:

Drawing inspiration from colours of nature and misty mornings in the countryside, this painting was done in impressionistic style with a limited colour palette.

My art is focused on the connection of places to all of us. I wanted to create a serene landscape that brings back memories and stirs emotions.

Artist Name: ZAIDE

Artwork Title: SISTER CINNAMON, SELF-PORTRAIT

Medium: Oil

Size: 41 x 31cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

Sister Cinnamon is the alter ego of the artist. Adorned in her favourite red sweater and sunglasses, beware to those who cross her path.

Artist Name: LAURIE MCLEOD

Artwork Title: UTOPIA

Medium: Pastel

Size: 60 x 45cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

UTOPIA - A PRISTINE WILDERNESS AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. A LITTLE PIECE OF PARADISE IN A BUBBLE. DOES THIS PIECE OF PARADISE BELONG IN A MUSEUM NOW? THE DRAWING STYLE HARKS BACK TO EARLIER BOTANICAL AND LANDSCAPE MUSEUM PRINTS.

Artist Name: MARIJKE LAMBREGTSE

Artwork Title: UNTAMED (ONE OF THREE)

Medium: Mixed media on canvas board on wooden panel

Size: 50 x 40cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

These latest works are consumed by the thought of how much ‘wild’ there is left in this world. What does wild mean these days? Wild, living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated or cultivated, 
uninhabited. How much of this wild thing is left in and around us?

Artist Name: MARIJKE LAMBREGTSE

Artwork Title: UNTAMED (TWO OF THREE)

Medium: Mixed medium on canvas board on wooden panel

Size: 60 x 50cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

These latest works are consumed by the thought of how much ‘wild’ there is left in this world. What does wild mean these days? Wild, living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated or cultivated, 
uninhabited. How much of this wild thing is left in and around us?

Artist Name: MARIJKE LAMBREGTSE

Artwork Title: UNTAMED (THREE OF THREE)

Medium: Mixed media on canvas board on wooden panel

Size: 60 x 50cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

These latest works are consumed by the thought of how much ‘wild’ there is left in this world. What does wild mean these days? Wild, living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated or cultivated, 
uninhabited. How much of this wild thing is left in and around us?

Artist Name: MARIJKE LAMBREGTSE

Artwork Title: WILD FOR NOW

Medium: Mixed medium on canvas

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $650

Artist Statement:

These latest works are consumed by the thought of how much ‘wild’ there is left in this world. What does wild mean these days? Wild, living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated or cultivated, 
uninhabited. How much of this wild thing is left in and around us?

Artist Name: NAT WARD

Artwork Title: CHOCOLATE LILY BUDS IN BUSHLAND

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $2200

Artist Statement:

This piece is a continuation of my exploration of the depiction of my local native environment. My aim is to utilise the paint in a way that the viewer has a feeling of immersion in the light and patterns of the bushland, rather than a realistic rendition. Although I use photos as a starting point ,my concern is to then let the painting evolve within itself, concentrating on nuances and contrasts of colour and line.

Artist Name: RUTH BOSVELD

Artwork Title: PENSIVE

Medium: Pastel and charcoal

Size: 33 x 25cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

I asked Danni to model for me and she kindly agreed. She wandered along Taroona Beach, thinking her own thoughts during the photographic session. I felt that the tonal range in the reference was very striking and so decided to depict that, without colour, in charcoal and pastel.

Artist Name: NATALIE PENNA

Artwork Title: ONLY THE BOLD

Medium: Oil

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

This piece explores the relationship between what we think we know and what is actually there. We all know the colours of a sunflower, however, when stripped of all colour and submerged in water, it still captures our attention as a bold and beautiful flower. This piece was painted in black and white over an underpainting of honey oat.

Artist Name: LUKE 'BUSHY' WILLIAMS

Artwork Title: SALTRY FIGURE

Medium: Pencil on canvas

Size: 40 x 59cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

The rough and raw texture of pencil best expresses the raw natural beauty of this iconic Australian fish, the mighty Barramundi.

Artist Name: LESLEY BRIGHT

Artwork Title: GEOSPATIAL DREAMS OF THE RIVER CITY

Medium: mixed media on paper

Size: 25 x 20cm

Price: $350

Artist Statement:

This drawing evokes the feeling you get as you come to land over somewhere you love, you recognise landmarks but it is a little blurry. The colours dazzle slightly like a sari stretched out across the earth. The wisps of clouds that you get on a misty morning when you come in to land .
I have given measurements excluding frame.

Artist Name: ERICA DUNKLEY

Artwork Title: SENSE, DUSK

Medium: Three-layer copper plate etching inked à la poupée, with double-drop, hard ground, aquatint and spit bite

Size: 19 x 19cm

Price: $690

Artist Statement:

‘Sense, Dusk’ expresses intuitively felt and emotionally charged reactions that manifest in response to nature, with emotive sensations emerging from observations of diverse flora, and conveyed in an exploration of colours, shapes and marks. Highly meditative traditional intaglio processes form the basis of this multi-layered copper plate etching.

Artist Name: CHRISTINA WALKER

Artwork Title: RAINBIRD

Medium: Mixed Media on Paper

Size: 42 x 30cm

Price: $375

Artist Statement:

We humans have always had a deep connection to animals. Early cave paintings and other relicts depicting animals are proof of that. Animals were not only a revered food source, but messengers of the gods and a link between the sacred and the mundane. Rainbird has the power to bring or withhold the rain.

Artist Name: GEORGINA SAMBELL

Artwork Title: SWIFT AS A RIVER

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 45 x 95cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

My painting ‘Swift as a river’ is a playful dance between colour and energy. Using intuition this work attempts to capture something of the mystical.

Artist Name: KATE

Artwork Title: WHOLE

Medium: acrylic on canvas paper

Size: 30 x 27cm

Artist Statement:

This artwork is not of any face I know, but is more of a feeling. I have loved sketching eyes and so wanted to capture their feeling through paint.

Artist Name: JENNIFER LONG

Artwork Title: I DREAMED I WAS A BIRD

Medium: Etched, solvent release images, ink on rice paper, wax, etched aluminium, painted wood

Size: 36 x 60cm

Price: $2600

Artist Statement:

A Memento Mori of 7 printed vessels. Rice paper and wax on etched aluminium. Light, dark, open, closed - life and death within and on the surface. The natural world, uncaged birds, dreams of flying, rhythms of the earth - a reflective/reflected life, ephemeral made permanent - homage to my late sister.

Artist Name: KARA WELCH

Artwork Title: STILL LIFE WITH CANDLE

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 61 x 31cm

Price: $400

Artist Name: MERYL O'BRIEN

Artwork Title: AFTER THE RAIN

Medium: Arcylic

Size: 40 x 40cm

Price: $480

Artist Statement:

Inspired by the ever changing colours and skies of the beautiful Australian countryside.

Artist Name: KATRINA LIEVENSE

Artwork Title: SUNNY SPOT 4

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 40 x 50cm

Price: $2200

Artist Statement:

My immediate home environment provides inspiration for this work. My interest lies in compositional devices, in this instance tonal values which create a mood within the piece. I'm fortunate to have a willing model to assist my endeavour.

Artist Name: KAREN CRICHTON

Artwork Title: FIRE THEN ICE

Medium: Copper etching

Size: 15 x 28cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

My son had spent a skiing holiday in the Snowy Mountains not long after a bush-fire had ravaged the countryside. An etching of the contrast of the blackened gum trees and the newly fallen snow seemed like a wonderful way to express the beauty of this scene.

Artist Name: DOREEN CHUA

Artwork Title: OT1 – THE SQUIRRELS WERE SILENT

Medium: Mixed

Size: 51 x 41cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

Drawing inspirations from everyday encounters, allowing our senses to connect with the world beyond words and languages. Often then not, a passing enlightenment drift by when we are all but ready to engage in our own intimate quietness.

Artist Name: GRANT MOYLE

Artwork Title: THE BIRDMAN, SPEED OF SOUND

Medium: Air drying clay

Size: 40 x 55cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

My artistic dynasty went through a transition. This was my come back and this is what gave me hope. It represents good things to me.

Artist Name: SUSAN ZELA BISSETT

Artwork Title: BUNYA REQUIEM

Medium: mixed media mainly handmade paper

Size: 30 x 50cm

Price: $1250

Artist Statement:

Bunya Requiem recalls the lost bunya forests/orchards of South East Queensland. It is made from paper produced from bunya cones and marks are made with bunya ink and charcoal. It evokes lost tales of former times.

Artist Name: ILONA KOVACS

Artwork Title: UNDER THE GUM TREE

Medium: Professional grade Acrylic on thick edged stretched canvas

Size: 50 x 40cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

This piece is an exploration of the colours of the outback with a little whimsy thrown in. I love the guinea fowl and like to include them in unexpected locations. It was fun pulling this work together, it’s a little bit pretty and the colours bounce nicely off each other.

Artist Name: ILONA KOVACS

Artwork Title: BIG BOAB

Medium: Professional grade Acrylic on thick edged stretched canvas

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $380

Artist Statement:

This work is part of a series on boab trees I have been exploring. I love the shapes and earthy tones in this piece. It has a quiet beauty and rhythm which inivites the eye to wander along the paths, patterns and the curves of the trees.

Artist Name: BARBARA GRAHAM

Artwork Title: EXPOSURE

Medium: PHOTOGRAPH

Size: 29 x 20cm

Price: $200

Artist Statement:

A COMMENT ON COVID

Artist Name: NEIL MOORHEAD

Artwork Title: ALPHONSUS

Medium: Oil paint

Size: 54 x 44cm

Price: $395

Artist Statement:

Alphonsus is a vibrant visualisation of an imagined person recalling expressionist painting through thick palette knife application of oil paint.

Alphonsus provokes the complexity of humanity within a portrait. The smirk and unflinching gaze create confusion leaving the viewer wondering if they’re being considered or are they considering alone?

Artist Name: KALINDA WITCHEY

Artwork Title: HER GAZE

Medium: oil on ampersand gesso bord

Size: 61 x 46cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

During the final weeks of my dear friends life and passing, I found comfort in painting this still life.

My thought processes and emotions have influenced my composition, leading to an evolution of colour in celebration of life.

Artist Name: GAY EMMERSON

Artwork Title: DRIVING RAIN

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 60 x 45cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

taking photos of the landscape in the rain, over the past couple of years, I have been reminded of how vision is distorted through water and other mediums. So I started on a series of cars driving in the rain. This is my favourite.

Artist Name: LYNE MARSHALL

Artwork Title: BAY OF FIRES

Medium: acrylic

Size: 41 x 51cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

I use a variety of materials and processes but I am predominantly a painter. Travelling helps me find examples of the unexpected in all corners of Australia. I am wanting the viewer to walk with me to find unexplored territories. In ‘Bay of Fires’ I am mapping the rocky terrain.

Artist Name: JUDITH BOYES

Artwork Title: ON THE SIDEBOARD

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 25 x 25cm

Price: $460

Artist Statement:

I painted these pears using a limited colour palette to give the feeling of an old master but using a slightly blurred effect for a contemporary twist. Soft and luscious.

Artist Name: SAMANTHA GROENESTYN

Artwork Title: MACADAMIAS

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 31 x 44cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

The warm, golden glow of thinly painted wood and tray set a coarse backdrop for gleaming crystal, waxy leaves and nuts, and the indistinct fuzz of wattle. Each object has its own life, a texture distinguishing it from its surroundings; the force of the circles pull competing parts together.

Artist Name: ANDREA MOSER

Artwork Title: QUEENSLAND TREASURES

Medium: Mixed Media: encaustic medium, ink, shellac, metal leaf

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

‘Queensland Pride‘tells the story of Queensland the Sunshine State. Each image is of particular significance for Queensland. It references much-adored flora and fauna emblems and important industries which made this state so prosperous. Queenslanders are passionate about their rugby and you can hear them singing their unofficial anthem fuelled by their favourite beverage.

Artist Name: CLEMENT MAC AN T'SAOIR

Artwork Title: IDIOM

Medium: Mixed medium

Size: 57 x 54cm

Price: $1700

Artist Statement:

Attacus Atlas moth mounted on deep black velvet background. Gold paint has been applied to create a "corona" around a black moon. The corona is textured to provide contrast and luster. The piece is framed using an antique style deep frame. The bevelled edges of the matboards are painted gold.

Artist Name: ANN RAYMENT

Artwork Title: OUR LAND

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

A raw rendition of the natural state of the eucalypts with the Budawang Ranges in sunset as a backdrop.
Quick fresh acrylic brushstrokes with sgraffito representing the scars of the land.

Artist Name: SUE ROSALIND VESELY

Artwork Title: NEWBORN

Medium: Clay and mirror steel

Size: 20 x 5cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

At this moment the human condition becomes complete, the fight is on.
Inspired by Epstein's head of a newborn, this tiny sculpture encapsulates the febrile delicacy of the fetus' body combined with the miraculous physical force and strength that is needed to achieve birth and new life.

Artist Name: SUE ROSALIND VESELY

Artwork Title: ZEPHYR, THE WEST WIND AND MESSENGER OF SPRING

Medium: Clay and mirror steel

Size: 17 x 14cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

Zephyr is the Greek god of the west wind and the messenger of spring. In this tiny sculpture the clay flows through the hand like the natural movement of the air in the environment, a gentle breeze. Zephyr is androgynous and neutrally beautiful, as is the name.

Artist Name: SUE ROSALIND VESELY

Artwork Title: NIKE, VICTORY

Medium: Clay and corten steel

Size: 26 x 6cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

Nike is the Greek god of victory. Although usually portrayed as feminine, this male torso expresses the joy and elevation of triumph. His colour is symbolic of power and integrity. With triumph comes responsibility.

Artist Name: SARAH PARK

Artwork Title: SUN KISSED SIESTA

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 50 x 40cm

Artist Statement:

'Sun Kissed Siesta' is part of a series of paintings involving the collaboration of figurative and a handheld fan. While evoking curiosity behind my subjects, my work draws on the themes of beauty, through the use of a carefully composed scene that captures the intricate light and shadow play.

Artist Name: KAY WATANABE

Artwork Title: MEMENTO MORI (BANANA 2022)

Medium: Watercolour and colour pencils

Size: 33 x 38cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

“Memento Mori” means “Remember Death.” It is a Latin reminder to live well. After two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kay Watanabe saw a decaying banana as a symbol of mortality. With 17th century European still life in mind, Watanabe painted it in watercolour and with colour pencils.

Artist Name: MARGARITA IAKOVLEVA

Artwork Title: BOYD'S FOREST DRAGON (ENDEMIC TO QUEENSLAND RAIN FOREST)

Medium: Etching, aquatint, four colour plates

Size: 40 x 20cm

Price: $370

Artist Statement:

My etchings are dedicated to animals of Queensland rain forest. They are made in very complicated technique of four colour plates. There each colour printed from a separate plate. The most difficulty here is to match all four plates together; so all colours will be on the right place to create the image.

Artist Name: MAGALI FEUGA

Artwork Title: EX NIHILO

Medium: Acrylic, ink, charcoal on board

Size: 42 x 30cm

Price: $340

Artist Name: MAGALI FEUGA

Artwork Title: UNTANGLE

Medium: Acrylic, ink, charcoal on board

Size: 42 x 30cm

Price: $340

Artist Name: JACQUELINE O’GRADY

Artwork Title: BANKSIA

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

Artist Statement:

This beautiful banksia on the edge of the Tweed river, a steamy summers day, the perfect place to rest and enjoy.

Artist Name: DESSI BALINOVA

Artwork Title: OUT ON HOLIDAY

Medium: Oil on Raised Wood Panel

Size: 30 x 45cm

Price: $350

Artist Statement:

A reminder to ourselves that life is short and we need to enjoy it, no matter what other emergencies are swirling around.

Artist Name: DESSI BALINOVA

Artwork Title: WASTE NOT

Medium: Oil on Deep Raised Wood Panel

Size: 30 x 45cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

Growing up with my Great Grandmother, I learned not to waste food, so when we near the end of any jar it gets flipped sideways and we use up every drop.

Artist Name: RACHEL PERRIN

Artwork Title: STARE CAUGHT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE

Medium: Oil on American Oak

Size: 18 x 20cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

Stare caught right in the middle is a piece which was developed as part of Rachel Perrin’s Sanctuary series 2021. Provoked by covid lockdowns, Sanctuary explores the need for a place of peace within, and the importance of focusing on the things which bring you joy.

Artist Name: DENNIS JOHN MCCART

Artwork Title: REFRACTION

Medium: oil and enamel on canvas

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $2400

Artist Statement:

Refraction uses a generative machine network to challenge my art practice from pre-conceived bias to the opening up of chance and surprise. Refraction mimics stained-glass panels with geometric abstraction and explorations of light and colour. Refraction was inspired by a disrupted bushland bordering the lower reaches of the Brisbane river.

Artist Name: JESS KING

Artwork Title: BUTTERFLY KISSES

Medium: Mixed media

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $1400

Artist Statement:

My work is about the realisation that we all belong together. We are all connected and one can not do with out the other, a world in bright harmonious balance.

Artist Name: JESS KING

Artwork Title: MOTHER NATURE

Medium: mixed media

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $1300

Artist Statement:

We are all connected and one can not do with out the other, a world in bright harmonious balance. My art is an attempt to reclaim the natural balance that once was.

Artist Name: SIGRID PATTERSON

Artwork Title: REFLECTIONS

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 33 x 33cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

This piece shows a beautiful vessel by Bundjalung artist, Kylie Caldwell with a banksia pod. The painting extends out over the frame encouraging the viewer to reflect beyond the square to the privilege we have to learn from the Traditional owners how to care for the lands, seas and sky.

Artist Name: DEIDRE FITZPATRICK

Artwork Title: I REMEMBER HOW IT WAS

Medium: Oil on wood, oak framed

Size: 20 x 30cm

Price: $650

Artist Statement:

This piece explores feelings of longing, loss, and nostalgia. It depicts the lovely Dawn Fraser Baths, Australia’s oldest harbour pool. Here, the structure sits empty and waiting. It was closed for several years to raise its foundations to mitigate the effects of sea level rise, and afterwards due to pandemic restrictions.

Artist Name: MAY SHEPPARD

Artwork Title: NATURE ABSTRACT

Medium: Acrylics

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $980

Artist Statement:

Brown Lake on Stradbroke Island is a lake of contrasts with pale cream sand, blue sky's reflections and the tannin waters at it's edge. Tannin is made from the decaying leaves and timbers that settle in the combination of salty and fresh waters.

Artist Name: NERRIDA PARFITT

Artwork Title: ABANDONED SHED—SMALL

Medium: oil on stretched canvas

Size: 33 x 43cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

This painting is part of the 'abandoned’ series which explores the landscape through an Australian-gothic lens.

Artist Name: SUE TREGEAGLE

Artwork Title: MAGNOLIAS

Medium: oil

Size: 55 x 45cm

Price: $4998

Artist Statement:

At Tamborine Mountain the magnolias bloom each year to remind us of winter’s beauty. How many and varied are the shapes, colours and sizes of our blossoms. May we not destroy our planet.

Artist Name: SUE TREGEAGLE

Artwork Title: ISABELLA

Medium: oil

Size: 59 x 50cm

Price: $3800

Artist Statement:

Isabella was hijacked in Sicily, thrown into a bag and carried against her will to Brisbane. In Sicily families work out the back of shops to create these wonderful ceramic pieces. I have given her a crown of glorious lilies to try to make her happy.

Artist Name: SUE TREGEAGLE

Artwork Title: OLD AND NEW

Medium: oil

Size: 50 x 40cm

Price: $4500

Artist Statement:

Beaumontia blossoms in a ceramic bowl from curvaceous art nouveau Prague set against the harsher lines of modernity.
Delacroix is believed to have said that every painting should have a touch of red so thank you little beetle for your carapace.

Artist Name: SUE TREGEAGLE

Artwork Title: HEART FLOWERS

Medium: oil

Size: 45 x 45cm

Price: $4500

Artist Statement:

Friends have told me that pink and green are the colours of the heart! I think it must be true as these flowers certainly filled my heart with cheer. May they fill yours.

Artist Name: SUE TREGEAGLE

Artwork Title: MEMORIES OF THE TIBER

Medium: oil

Size: 55 x 45cm

Price: $4500

Artist Statement:

This tells the story of a walk along the Tiber in winter with family, one of whom is no longer with us. The dancing girl was a gift from a sculptor friend and reminds me of all the joie de vie we shared.

Artist Name: ANNE O'SULLIVAN

Artwork Title: INTERDIMENSIONAL

Medium: waterbased oil on canvas

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $790

Artist Statement:

This painting consists of several of my artworks which have been layered and manipulated using Photoshop. The resulting image was printed on canvas and then painted into. My aim was to emulate the other dimensions that lie in close contact with our physical reality.

Artist Name: SEIMI LEE

Artwork Title: THE WIND BROUGHT US HERE

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 18 x 23cm

Price: $850

Artist Name: LISA BANKS

Artwork Title: GRIFFITH PARK

Medium: Oil on wood panel

Size: 20 x 16cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

Painted 'en plein air' I endeavour in this work to pare back the landscape to its most essential elements. I am not so interested in figurative representation as in capturing the essence of place and the feelings it evokes. My palette is similarly limited and restrained for the same reason.

Artist Name: THOMAS THORBY-LISTER

Artwork Title: PILLOW 03 (MORNING)

Medium: Acrylic on Linen

Size: 38 x 49cm

Price: $1480

Artist Statement:

An abstracted still-life depicting the pillow left behind from a restless night. The folds and fabric are rendered in detail onto the linen and the form floats in a calm sea of white. This work forms part of a series of still-life paintings examining wrapped and covered forms.

Artist Name: VERA ZAMMIT

Artwork Title: ROCKPOOL REFLECTIONS

Medium: Oil

Size: 31 x 41cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

The power of water sculpts the granite boulders to form rockpools in the Girraween National Park. The beauty of nature is reflected by these rockpools - sky with clouds and vegetation surrounds us.

Artist Name: SUDHA PALANI

Artwork Title: A WOMAN OF SUBASTANCE

Medium: Pencil on bristol pad, framed.

Size: 55 x 43cm

Price: $650

Artist Statement:

A woman of substance...

How to be grateful during this hard time???

This beauty name is Vellammal, 90 years old from Tamil nadu, south part of India. She doesn't have proper place to live, proper clothes and food. Recently, she has received her Covid relief fund, a bag of full of essential needs for food and 2000Rs($35.50AUD).  She was so excited and happy. She was posing with her hand full of stuffs and four 500rupees to the photographer with lot of happiness. She is grateful for what she had at that moment. Her smile is my inspiration. Just trying to learn from her. If we are satisfied, happy and grateful for what we have, then we don't complain about our life and live peacefully. Covid has taught so many lessons to everyone. Yes, for me too.When compare to Vellammal paatti and so many other people struggling around the world, I feel that we are safe and well. I have so much to appreciate in my life. Thanks to @Jackson_herby for freezing this beautiful moment and reference image.

Artist Name: JULIA LUCY KENNEDY-BELL

Artwork Title: RENEW 7

Medium: acrylic

Size: 26 x 32cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

Renew is a series that explores off cuts as stencils and combines then with Julia's own personal language of shapes and forms and attempts to navigate the idea of personal and universal.

Artist Name: SALLY WEST

Artwork Title: MIRO

Medium: oil on canvas.

Size: 45 x 45cm

Price: $1350

Artist Statement:

I was asked to paint Miro and I did 2 paintings as he was such a joy. This is the one I kept for myself.

Artist Name: RACHEL RAE

Artwork Title: BUMBORA POINT BOTANY BAY

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 46 x 46cm

Price: $790

Artist Statement:

Yarra is the aboriginal word meaning flowing. This landscape looking towards Yarra Bay from Bumbora Point, includes the concrete breakwall. I wanted to highlight how humans continue to disrupt the flow of nature. However regardless nature still flows and our interventions become part of the landscape.

Artist Name: REI SATO

Artwork Title: AFTERDARK

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 38 x 35cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

This still life represents some of the feelings that arose during the covid lockdown. The objects in “Afterdark” may symbolize fear of death, people’s interpretation of reality, fluctuation in hopes and beliefs, the gamble you take living everyday, maintaining a brave face, and entering the unknown.

Artist Name: JULIE HOBBS

Artwork Title: WIRE BIRD

Medium: oil

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $950

Artist Statement:

The wire bird will not fly, it has no wings. Its own body is a cage-like construct. And yet, we can enjoy the elegance of a long shadow cast by a small sculpture. Function is not everything and flight alone does not make one free.

Artist Name: JANE BOOTY

Artwork Title: BOWL OF CAT

Medium: Oil and Acrylic on canvas

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

When the world around you feels heavy and difficult, a love for animals is uplifting. What a treat to come across a purring cat, curled up in an unexpected place. My painting, "Bowl of Cat", gives expression to the comfort and joy animals give us.

Artist Name: JANET BERRYMAN

Artwork Title: IN WITH A CHANCE

Medium: Acrylic Mixed Medium

Size: 36 x 29cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

An acrylic and mixed media piece, inspired by the comical birds who dance on the stony beaches of the Galapagos Islands, showing off their bright blue feet to win their mate.

Artist Name: JOHN N MASON

Artwork Title: GUM LEAVES

Medium: Arcylic

Size: 297 x 42cm

Price: $280

Artist Statement:

Gum Leaves. I just love the shape and curves of gum leaves. Even bits that insects have chewed out of them. My studio is surrounded by hundreds of gum trees, so just as well I love them.
Original Artwork. Atelier Interactive Acrylic painted on 300gsm acid-free paper. Unframed. A3 42cm x 29.7cm (16"x11")

Artist Name: ASTRID BRUNING

Artwork Title: LEOPOLD

Medium: oil

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $4500

Artist Statement:

Please note the frame is trompe l'oeil ( an illusion)

I have focused on painting cats for the last eight years.

This painting conveys how precious cats are to me which is why I chose to paint this elaborate, ornate frame.

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece” Leonardo Da Vinci

Artist Name: SARA BELL

Artwork Title: PEACE IN CHAOS

Medium: Graphite

Size: 35 x 52cm

Price: $2500

Artist Statement:

While visiting a temple in Vietnam I watched this monk peacefully going about his business amongst the chaos of visitors milling about toting backpacks and trailing noisy children.

Artist Name: SARAH JENNIFER DUTE

Artwork Title: BLUE AURA GIRL

Medium: Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

Size: 46 x 46cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

Blue Aura Girl speaks of the connection between depression and spirituality. It sings of our ability to be able to connect the part of ourselves which we once loved that now feels dead into a spiritual void of our minds where it can be cleansed and re-purposed. Blue is the colour of cleansing and purity. Our femininity awakens again to re-energise ourselves within the darkness of how we once saw world.

Artist Name: HEJA JUNG

Artwork Title: JOURNEY HOME L

Medium: Acrylic, Oil on Canvas

Size: 41 x 51cm

Price: $3400

Artist Statement:

This painting is a result of my winter artist residencies in Finland.
That mythical landscape invites a sensibility of what lies below those frozen white surfaces. In the invisible landscapes of the heart, one senses the presence of beings, going about their lives in other realms of silence and space.

Artist Name: HEJA JUNG

Artwork Title: JOURNEY HOME LL

Medium: Acrylic, Oil on Board

Size: 41 x 51cm

Price: $3400

Artist Statement:

This painting is one of the result of my winter artist residencies in Finland.
In this frozen north, mapping the inner landscapes of the heart onto
the visible landscapes of the external world. This image, one of the
Finland project, is infused with a sense of the invisible, of silence
and of space, people are going about in the frozen world.

Artist Name: ERI YAMAGUCHI

Artwork Title: LIFE WITHIN THE STEPS

Medium: Graphite Pencil

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $3650

Artist Statement:

There’s always a first step for everything... Featuring Koala feet and each step bringing life into our nature world. I focused on Australian seeds and seed pods which represent the foundation of evolution.

Artist Name: MARIANNE GRIGORE

Artwork Title: LIGHT AS A FEATHER

Medium: Acrylic and pen

Size: 45 x 45cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

“Light as a Feather” is a painting depicting the joy of flight. The blue hues suggest the vast sky. The feathers float slowly down as the tiny insect effortlessly flits around them.

Artist Name: FEMI IKOTUN

Artwork Title: RAPIST

Medium: Pencil and charcoal

Size: 57 x 55cm

Price: $5000

Artist Statement:

My drawing captures the struggle we face daily as human, The drawing in particular captures the struggle of rape that most women face in the society.

Artist Name: PAUL HARRIS

Artwork Title: ALBO / NO ALBO

Medium: oil

Size: 20 x 25cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

My portrait of Anthony Albanese who's idea of Multiculturalism providing Australia with a unique opportunity to be a microcosm of the world—to show that cultural diversity and respect can lead to a more peaceful, equitable and fulfilling life for all. The painting portrays the continuation of the process of reconciliation with indigenous Australians and a hope for a new future for the Aboriginal people. . Defending and extending multiculturalism and reconciliation with indigenous Australians is what the work will tell the viewer.

Artist Name: DYLAN BOLGER

Artwork Title: SIXTEEN

Medium: Ink on Blending Card

Size: 30 x 42cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

The Macaranga is of ‘old world’ genesis and is considered a pioneer plant; after devastation it will be one of the first plants to grow back and breathe new life.
In this work it’s representing my people and our story being of ‘old world’ genesis, as we grow back through colonialism.

Artist Name: TOM CHRISTOPHERSEN

Artwork Title: JACK

Medium: Mixed media on watercolour paper

Size: 425 x 30cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

‘JACK’ takes the story of the ‘Jack Horner’ and subverts it within a Queer, kink-friendly lens. Using male protagonists from both Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes, ‘JACK’ is part of a body of work which challenges popular notions of binary and often straight, white representation within beloved children’s literature.

Artist Name: TENIELLE STANLEY

Artwork Title: HAND IN HAND

Medium: Blue pen (biro) on paper

Size: 28 x 21cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

When I was 22 I moved from Brisbane to Lockhart River, an Aboriginal community on Cape York. On weekends we’d visit waterfalls with local kids. I drew this on the eve of ‘Australia Day’ 2022 from a photo I took at the waterfall in 2010. It’s about reconciliation.

Artist Name: TRACEY-ANN MORRIS

Artwork Title: DREAM INTO THE NIGHT

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 52 x 395cm

Price: $1100

Artist Statement:

Sometimes I intuitively create dreamscapes as I paint (like automatic writing) using animals (bear and boar) and beasts like totems, symbolising different aspects of our human behaviour. They provide insight into our situations and the journey we are on, challenging us to be brave and soar over our obstacles.

Artist Name: TARA DICKINSON

Artwork Title: FRESH HORIZONS (BROADBEACH)

Medium: oil paint on paper

Size: 11 x 11cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

Painted to capture a moment of coastal visit to Broadbeach, this work reflects the optimism and sparkle of my new home, Queensland.

Artist Name: BEN BLICK-HODGE

Artwork Title: PETRICHOR VARIATION 1

Medium: Laser etched aluminium

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

Cymatics, synaesthesia and the blood of rocks.

Artist Name: DOMINIKA KELLER

Artwork Title: GIN & MELON WITH FRIDA

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

Celebrating both the ordinary and everyday, marking each moment as important through the use of 'the special' glasses this piece is a little glimpse into my life. Here I have also extended my colour palette in a vivid combination and explored the reflective properties of the vintage crystal glass.

Artist Name: DOMINIKA KELLER

Artwork Title: POPPY, VODKA & GRIMMS

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

A snapshot of a late Spring evening. Enjoying a post dinner drink whilst admiring the fresh blood oranges from my orchard and the delicate petals of an opium poppy from my garden as I make my way through the Grimm's first edition, acknowledging how valid those original fairy tales were!

Artist Name: PAUL LEDINGTON

Artwork Title: LIVING COLOUR

Medium: deform-scan pastel on foil

Size: 54 x 54cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Images live in the intersices of viewing. I found this image looking at colour through a scanner. It makes me re-encounter life, the pleasures and the pains whilst looking toward future adventures in living.

Artist Name: ONA FILLOY

Artwork Title: TAME ITI

Medium: Digital

Size: 60 x 42cm

Price: $700

Artist Statement:

A portrait of Tame Iti, a Tūhoe Māori activist wearing a full tā moko. Inspired by the early portraits of tattooed Māori by New Zealand artist C.F. Goldie,
I wanted to show the division between two conflicting cultures with Tame’s full face moko and the Pākeha formal dress code.

Artist Name: CATHERINE KETTON

Artwork Title: SUSPENSION

Medium: Oil

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

This playful small work bridges a divide between trompe-l’oeil and abstract.

Artist Name: ALPANA RAI

Artwork Title: DAYTIME WALK

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

My works are often drawn from the landscape, Although I am not attempting to capture something about a particular place or time. It is more about a notion or idea of a landscape. I let the paintings, let the marks lead the way and She just followed where they took her. My Paintings are not some realistic replication, it is their representation that also requires something from the viewer: interpretation, feeling, contemplation.

Artist Name: STEPHANIE FLETT

Artwork Title: AUTUMN WALK

Medium: Acrylic on linen

Size: 60 x 45cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

Inspiration for Autumn Walk came from a hike to Uetliberg, a mountain in Zurich.

Artist Name: BRUCE OWENS

Artwork Title: TIDAL POOLS

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 40 x 50cm

Price: $380

Artist Statement:

Early morning Sunshine Coast beauty .
The sunlight splintering off the gentle glassy waves as they begin to rehydrate the myriad of rock pools .

Artist Name: VALERIE SCHöNJAHN

Artwork Title: NOBIS GENTILIS

Medium: porcelain and stoneware

Size: 15 x 30cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

porcelain and stoneware vessels

Inspired by radiolarian, ‘nobis gentilis’ are a series of vessels, a family that inhabit the global ocean. Formed with a set of rules, that morph and change, they play with symmetry scale and proportion. Inspired by the lithographic prints of unicellular organisms by the German zoologist Ernst Heckel.

Artist Name: JUDE HOTCHKISS

Artwork Title: SIDE BY SIDE

Medium: Acrylic and aerosol on canvas

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $1199

Artist Statement:

Based on a digital sketch it captures a sense of complexity around cognative thoughts and feelings. Life drawing classes led to repetition of images, while linework and unnatural colours are influenced by tablet technology where playing with colour, layers and forms makes it easy to quickly redraw many times over.

Artist Name: ALEXANDRA PLIM

Artwork Title: GREEN VIEW

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas

Size: 44 x 44cm

Price: $880

Artist Statement:

This work was developed late last year. The composition is improvised, allowing the stabbing of the brush and dripping of the liquid paint to dictate the scene, creating massed scenes of forest, both burnt and rejuvenated. I love how raw and real these painting are, they feel new, immediate and exciting.

Artist Name: PIP SPIRO

Artwork Title: CALLA/ BEAUTIFUL

Medium: Watercolour on paper

Size: 35 x 61cm

Price: $4400

Artist Statement:

The Calla lily’s name is derived from the old Greek word for beautiful. In making this picture, I wanted to depict the lilies with the same reverence originally bestowed upon them by the Ancient Greeks, whilst giving space for an intuitively human state: the unbridled appreciation of nature.

Artist Name: AMANDA OGILBY

Artwork Title: MAGNOLIA WITH ONE GREEN APPLE

Medium: Oil on canvas, framed in Raw Oak

Size: 43 x 43cm

Price: $720

Artist Statement:

Magnolia with One Green Apple began its journey in the garden. Blending botanical and inanimate objects merge to achieve visual harmony. This combination of everyday elements on a table enables opportunities for familiarity and joy for the viewer.

Artist Name: NADIA KATT

Artwork Title: CICADA

Medium: Gouache on paper

Size: 21 x 30cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

Have you ever fallen asleep for like 17 years and woken up into a Cicada?

Artist Name: NADIA KATT

Artwork Title: UNBALANCED

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $1400

Artist Statement:

Reflecting on days of solitude and introspection, I see how despite having a fairly comfortable life, one ca overlook the reality and become unbalanced by thoughts wandering in the mind.

Artist Name: HEB PETERS

Artwork Title: PIXELATED PAINTER

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

In our turbulent world with checkered crises, this passionate pixelated painter is nourished by her drive to create art.

Artist Name: DAVID USHER

Artwork Title: THE LITTLE FOREST

Medium: porcelain

Size: 23 x 45cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

These little porcelain works are part of a larger group of 6 works exploring landscape themes and referencing the Maranoa Region of Western Queensland. This is a region I have visited numerous times over the past 30 years to visit family and to paint a very familiar landscape.

Artist Name: GRACE BUTTERFIELD

Artwork Title: SHUCKED

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 30 x 30cm

Artist Statement:

Tassie oysters and life’s simple pleasures.

Artist Name: GRACE BUTTERFIELD

Artwork Title: FARM LIFE

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 30 x 40cm

Artist Statement:

Inspired by the trips to the farm we used to take as kids.

Artist Name: CHRIS BADENOCH

Artwork Title: SENSITIVE DEPENDENCE I

Medium: Graphite

Size: 61 x 47cm

Price: $1900

Artist Statement:

The Sensitive Dependence series is an exploration of the interconnectivity of all things. Small changes in seemingly non-related events can drastically alter the future states of other systems. As current events are making all too obvious, we must be aware of our actions. Nature is fragile and we need to take care of her.

Artist Name: KAREN COLLINS

Artwork Title: WARPED WORLD AND WILDLIFE IN 2050

Medium: Oil on Board

Size: 40 x 40cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Net zero “dead”!? Endangered koalas, world warming and way too many plastic flamingoes.

Artist Name: DEANN CUMNER

Artwork Title: MOTHERS OF UKRAINE

Medium: Acrylic Ink and oil on board

Size: 51 x 41cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

The gut wrenching war in Ukraine resulted in this stylised work as I needed to portray the incredible courage and stoicism of the people….most particularly the bravery and defiance of the mothers, despite the surrounding chaos. The bond between mother and child will never be truly broken.

Artist Name: DEANN CUMNER

Artwork Title: KABUKI

Medium: Acrylic oil collage on canvas

Size: 46 x 36cm

Price: $950

Artist Statement:

Kabuki is a Japanese traditional show where actors dancers and singers paint their faces and use highly dramatised movements to portray a particularly exciting story. This painting is of an imagined pair of characters enjoying their role in one of those performances

Artist Name: LENI KAE

Artwork Title: FREEDOM CALLING

Medium: Mixed Media on Paper (Acrylic, Pencil, Ink)

Size: 42 x 59cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

“Freedom Calling” is a tribute to the paradox of isolation; isolation-led introspection can be transformative on an emotional and spiritual level, resulting in inner freedom. In isolation, we cannot hide from ourselves. Deep introspection strips us back to our core, and this release is freeing; there is realisation, transformation.

Artist Name: ALICE TSOU

Artwork Title: WABI SABI

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 50 x 60cm

Price: $3600

Artist Statement:

Appreciating the beauty of impermanence and imperfection in natural and enjoying the zen time & the beautiful “chabana” tea flowers during Tea Ceremony. Using thin silver paint to demonstrate the unique wall paper and studies of shadow of Australian native flowers in a cross cultural Japanese setting.

Artist Name: ALICE TSOU

Artwork Title: HERITAGE

Medium: Oil

Size: 60 x 50cm

Price: $2800

Artist Statement:

The special sweet globe grapes originally seeds from Japan is now growing locally in Australia. Plating it in the antique Chinese bowl it represents the multicultural background and environment we live in Australia and the beautiful meaning of heritage. This painting studies the depth of shadow and lighting in the fabrics and grapes.

Artist Name: VICKI BOSWORTH

Artwork Title: SHALL WE MEET?

Medium: Collage

Size: 60 x 48cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

Who are the figures communicating with? This work is a comment on social media and communication. It is also an observation on how the viewer reads an image.

Artist Name: ANIELA MICHELE

Artwork Title: SINGAPORE FLING

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $3800

Artist Statement:

Exotic. Exuberant. Singapore Fling is a small snapshot of Mother Nature at her flamboyant, joyous best.

Artist Name: SABRINA SANTANA

Artwork Title: AMBER LIGHT, DEAD OF NIGHT #3

Medium: oil on canvas board

Size: 22 x 30cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

This painting was created in response to the mystical folklore of witching hour, a time of night where it’s claimed that ghosts, witches, and demons are at their most powerful and black magic is at its strongest because the veil between worlds at this time is at its thinnest.

Artist Name: MELANIE BARDOLIA

Artwork Title: THREE IS A CROWD

Medium: Oil

Size: 40 x 40cm

Price: $950

Artist Statement:

This still life is symbolic of Melbourne during the long 2020 lockdown, specifically the time when restrictions only enabled two people to meet at any one time. Working from direct observation using a limited palette and textural marks, this painting developed intuitively into a depiction of isolation and social distancing.

Artist Name: JACOB SARRA

Artwork Title: FAMILY GATHERING

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

A family gathering at dusk on a summer afternoon.

Artist Name: KARREN MACCLURE

Artwork Title: PILBARA RELIC

Medium: Ceramic

Size: 32 x 26cm

Price: $660

Artist Statement:

Pilbara Relic is the artists interpretation of the horse, merging personal memories of the horses form, strength, beauty and individuality with the gritty texture of raku clay infused with copper oxide to create a unique way for the viewer to experience the horse.

Artist Name: KAREN NORTHEY

Artwork Title: OUT IN THE PADDOCK

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

An artwork inspired by a stay near Dalby in southern Queensland. A figurative reflection of a girl on horseback with the focus on capturing the feel of the open landscape and the sun beating down on a hot summer day.

Artist Name: GREG HUGHES

Artwork Title: ALONG THE POND

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 29 x 42cm

Price: $790

Artist Name: SAMUEL BEATTIE

Artwork Title: BOWERY DRONE

Medium: Paper on board

Size: 21 x 40cm

Price: $1300

Artist Statement:

Lefty had been warned by his mother not to come to town. It got into his blood and he just had to ride his donkey down. The streetlights beckoned, the streets they shook, the music played a fragrant hook.

Artist Name: JANICE EDWARDS

Artwork Title: CORNUCOPIA CORAL

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

The painting Cornucopia Coral depicts coral in its natural environment, foregrounding details often hidden from view below the surface of the water. This contradicts its value in the ecosphere. Its synergy and interactions with other organisms maintain a balance now threatened by anthropogenic human intervention causing bleaching by global warming.

Artist Name: JANICE EDWARDS

Artwork Title: STEPPING STONES

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

The oil painting Stepping Stones is a tribute to the coral reef by foregrounding energy, interconnecting patterns and close connections of organisms in the reef ecosystem. My aim is to create artwork privileging an often-unseen environment, acknowledging its value in the ecosphere which humans negatively influence in the Anthropocene.

Artist Name: KERRIN SAMUEL

Artwork Title: EPHEMERAL PERMANENCE

Medium: Porcelain

Size: 10 x 33cm

Price: $2500

Artist Statement:

Exploring and traversing the materiality and beauty of porcelain by investigating its properties, I am struck by the metaphor for life that clay embodies; not only for its malleability but also its capacity to emulate our existence through the rough and smooth embodying the paradoxical fragility and strength of life.

Artist Name: ELOISE MAREE

Artwork Title: ANAMNESES

Medium: Camera-original tintype

Size: 20 x 25cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

Anamneses is a camera-original 8x10 tintype. Anamneses asks us to consider photography’s beautiful but historically fractured and at times fraught relationship to Country. Anamneses was shot within the Megalong Valley and is framed with salvaged wood from the Valley.

Artist Name: OCHRE LAWSON

Artwork Title: ABOVE THE TREELINE

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 41 x 41cm

Price: $1300

Artist Statement:

This painting is inspired by hiking through the Kosciuzsko National park in the area above the treeline where only massive granite rocks sit amongst the wildflowers and the headwaters for many of our major rivers run smashing through the crevices. I attempt to paint the essence of this place through gestural line, colour and form.

Artist Name: OCHRE LAWSON

Artwork Title: STORM TREES

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 41 x 41cm

Price: $1300

Artist Statement:

This painting is inspired by hiking through the Kosciuzsko National park in the area where Alpine snow gums grow. There had been a massive storm and the trees were broken apart with their orange inside showing. I attempt to paint the essence of this landscape through gestural line, colour and form.

Artist Name: ROWAN ROBERTSON

Artwork Title: THE OLYMPIC HIGHWAY

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 40 x 60cm

Price: $2500

Artist Statement:

Growing-up in the Riverina,
these were the roads I knew;
bitumen paths through gums.
Immovable. Deadly.
Connections to friends and family, arteries
to society.
Often worn and threadbare surfaces,
slippery when wet.

Artist Name: JUDE ROSE

Artwork Title: CHEMIN CACHE

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

I am fascinated by topiary and constructed gardens and the light that falls on trees and shrubs in the late afternoon. Being isolated in the mountains has resulted in a body of work of my immediate surroundings. I love to depict the soft rounded shapes of nature in contrast to the geometrical structures of houses.

Artist Name: JUDE ROSE

Artwork Title: ODE TO AUTUMN

Medium: Pencil and oil on birchwood

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

Reflections in water always captivate me and here I add an element of whimsy, making a mirror image of the landscape. Autumn is such a special time in the blue mountains, everywhere I look I see amazing colour and texture. Here I have used birchwood and pencil in a silk embroidery style to add a linear quality.

Artist Name: GAVIN MILLER

Artwork Title: NASH STREET JETSAM

Medium: Acrylic on recycled Fibre board

Size: 58 x 42cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Scene from recent flooding in Rosalie 2022. People returning to shops to begin clean-up wade on seemingly oblivious to water contaminated by dross of the modern world hinted at by jetsam in foreground.

Artist Name: JARAD DANBY

Artwork Title: DIAMOND ISLAND

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 385 x 435cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

This is a plein air painting done at Diamond Island on Tasmania’s east coast.

Jarad walked to Diamond on the low tide to begin the painting, and had to wade back in waist deep water upon its completion as he lost track of time.