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April Event: Saturday 13th April 3-5pm
Sarah Seminutin
is a multidisciplinary practitioner, based in Meanjin, working across the fields of social work, art, making and design. Her work with recycled materials explores the ability to transform the ‘discarded' or ‘wasted’ into industrial domestic objects that regain value and significant lifespan. Her approach to design is driven by improved practices of play and experimentation - innovating, repurposing and revaluing materials. Sarah’s passion for tactility, brings sensory qualities to the forefront of the everyday experience. This project will showcase both furniture, objects and photographic works from her ‘Wonder’ series.
Laura Pascoe (Brush & Wheel)
The form, colours & textures in my work are inspired by nature and the decoration on the pieces is often spontaneous and organic. I gather great satisfaction from creating the work. My hope is that each piece provides fulfilment and delight to whoever receives them.
This series of work were all wood-fired at Sturt Gallery & Studios in August 2023. Wood firing process is an extraordinary and intense process whereby ceramic works are carefully placed in a brick kiln, a fire is made at the front of the kiln and is kept alive and hot for many days (in this case 5). The ash from the wood adheres with the body of the clay forming a unique, never to be repeated object. touch the work, pick it up and look closely - there is so much to see.
Emily Devers
is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based multidisciplinary artist, designer and gallery owner. Her practice sees the convergence of realism and abstraction, as she employs contemporary collage techniques to oscillate between abstraction and figuration for primarily painted outcomes. Through her multimedia practice, she carefully examines and expresses the tensions that occur when activating analogue practices within a digital age, and when attempting to apply public art tools, visual language and concepts to a contemporary gallery setting.
Chloë Waddell
is a maker of jewellery, objects and art. Primarily process driven, it is the materials she is drawn to work with which usually determine the final form. It is in a busy studio surrounded by materials and in the midst of working on an involved project that Chloë feels happiest and most at home. The pure love of making drives her studio practice and she is hopeful that just a little bit of that love will transfer into the objects she creates.
Julie Smeros
Sam Eyles
Sam Eyles is a Meanjin, Brisbane Australian based artist who works predominantly in the mediums of painting and drawing. His abstract expressionist style, involves the layering of text and free flowing line work over an informed surface. In gestural strokes, layer upon layer of charcoal, pastel and paint build. The artist's original thoughts, reflections and questions begin to submerge beneath the reinvented surface.
Eyles employs an ever evolving process based methodology to assist in the unpacking of past experiences. The nature of employing and wrestling with pre imposed process formulas, applied constraints, broken rules, and time spent questioning results in forms appearing organically on his surfaces. The artists' private conversation attempts to reconcile his past, become present and allow physical and conceptual space and time. There, ones mind can be free to stretch beyond the edges to a yet unseen, undiscovered future, and new narratives can take shape.
His ultimate aim is to disrupt, deconstruct and remove self from his work in an attempt to create an inclusive and accessible space that is open to possibility. A space betwixt and between. A Liminal space , a lingering state of becomingness. A space where consciousness gives way to the subconscious and the universal themes of suffering , perseverance, character, faith , hope and Love are simultaneously forgotten, remembered and reconfigured into a newly enriched world view.
Tony White