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Wendy Beatty specialises in black and white photography and the figurative form. Her works are in many respects confronting and express a strong powerful representation of the female form and the female pysche. Beatty completed a Bachelor of Arts at Deakin University in Warrnambool. In 1998 she studied at the National Photo Training College in Melbourne and in 1999, she returned to Warrnambool to complete a (First Class) honours degree followed in 2004 by the completion of her Master of Arts in Photography at Deakin University. In 2010 she plans to begin her PhD based on the relationship between art, gender and the landscape. Whilst her subject matter focuses on the female form, the images rely heavily on light and dark and marks and scratches to highlight the tactility and vulnerability of both the female body and the photographic process. Beatty's work is dealing with the notion of the visual ideal and through the represeneation of the marks and scratches she challenges this ideal with something else. Beatty writes, "as a woman working in the photographic meduim, I am consistently drawn back to the recognized female form as a subject to work with. In doing so, I found I was not challenged with more popular forms of representation, but confronted with idealism. In my work, I seek to appropriate the female figure, using visual means to draw the eye both to and away from possible ideals. By combining the impromptu and instinctive movement of the sitters with the manipulated surface of the images, my aim is to expand or re-visualize ways of seeing the body." Both framed and unframed works are available in the gallery stockroom. Please refer to the gallery website for full list of available images.Please note, all photographic works by Wendy Beatty are either a one off work or an edition of only two. Select works at the gallery are framed under glass and there are other works available unframed. We can assist clients in having works framed if required. Wendy Beatty's upcoming exhibition will open on 15th September, 2010.
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Andrew Gordon has recently joined as a represented artist of GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY. His upcoming exhibition of paintings titled 'White Line Fever' will open on 3 November, 2010.
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Ahmarnya Price is a visual artist and theatre maker who currently lives and works in Melbourne.She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting / Illustration) at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, in 2004. Ahmarnya's art practice explores the relationship between image and narrative while playfully interpreting the complexities of the human experience. Each of her paintings are like a lyrical vignette attempting to make sense and non-sense out of the constant flow of information that surrounds us - translating that experience into both meaningful and absurd pictorial moments. Since 1997 Ahmarnya has exhibited regularly in artist run spaces and participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout Melbourne, Queensland, New Zealand, Edinburgh, Japan, Russia and the Czech Republic. In 2002 she was awarded 'The Noma Concours (Unesco) Prize for Picture Book Illustration'. Ahmarnya has enjoyed stints as Artist In Residence with Continuo Theatre Company (Czech Republic, 2001); at the Tasmanian Circus Festival (2005); and Strut & Fret Production House (Melbourne, 2008). Her recent solo exhibition 'Just Me and Yoko Ono' won the Melbourne Fringe Festival 'Touring Award' for Best Exhibition 2008, which will be resurrected at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in February 2009.
Currently Ahmarnya is teaching Theatre and Visual Arts while creating a new body of work to be exhibited at Gilligan Grant Gallery - open to the public from 9 June until 26 June. Exhibition remains open by appointment until 16 July.
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Recently featured in BELLE magazine Baiguerra's new paintings continue to investigate the concept of intimate space within the urban environment. Amber Baiguerra was born in the Victorian Western District in 1974. Baiguerra completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Ballarat in 1995 with a major in drawing. Baiguerra works with the concept of space and relationships within a space. She examines the constrast between our need for physical space and the confines within a built environment. Baiguerra is concerned with communication within a space and this is seen through her mingling and overlapping of moving figures. Baiguerra although dismayed by the emotional distance she has witnessed within the city environment she is also intrigued with the meeting, passing and movement of people within these close urban environments. Baiguerra spends most of her drawing time seated near Flinders Street Station at peak hour and the surrounding areas recording passers by, viewing the conversations and the movement of people. Baiguerra records through a series of quick chalk drawings. The fluid nature of the final compositions represent the rush of bodies, the sense of isolation and yet the exhilarating nature of an urban space.
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Alice Lang has exhibited extensively throughout Australia since her graduation with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Queensland University of Technology in 2004. She has won a number of awards and most recently was awarded the Queensland Art Gallery Melville Haysom Scholarship. Lang was artist in residence at Metro Arts, Brisbane and artist in residence at the Klondike Institute for Art and Culture in Dawson City Canada in 2006. Lang calls herself a soft sculpture artist and is based in Brisbane, Australia. " My practice explores the possibilities for sewn sculpture to explore, complicate, the relationships between concepts of the decorative and the grotesque, particularly their associations with depictions of femininity. I typically employ materials such as satin and wet look vinyl, for their direct associations with both the feminine and fetish, and to further explore notions of informe and the abject. I am particuarly interested in how these things create a tension between the familiar and the unknown, and the feminine and the grotesque. To do this I utilise the organic form of a traditional sewing technique known as Suffolk Puff to reference both foreign and familiar bodily elements and create new objects/organisms that are a hybrid of craft and art".
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Karolina Noemi Novak was born in 1984 and lives in New South Wales. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Art Honours(First Class) at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. In 2009 she will complete her Masters of Fine Art graduating again from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. Novak studied printmaking but also investigates the medium of drawing and mixed media within her art practice. Novak is interested in memory and our perceptions of moments in time. Her work is often based upon her interpretations of childhood thoughts and her own past. Her first major series of works, The Miniature Odyssey of Modern Life, is the largest body of work in scale and quantity that this young artist has produced to date. The etching prints included in this exhibition depict various constructions from the Lego Star War series that include Lego vehicles, characters and settings inspired by the first three Star Wars films." I played with Lego as a child, but the idea to use it in my work germinated back in 2001 when my younger brother discovered the original Star Wars trilogy and became slightly obsessed with the Lego. He began collecting the pieces and I began pinching them from him to use as images im my work because I thought they were so cool visually, but also have so much interesting symbolic potential on so many different levels".
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Beth Kennedy is currently featured in the April/May 2010 BELLE MAGAZINE. She has developed a specific process and technique, which she has been refining since graduating in 2002 from the Institute of the Arts, at the Australian National University in Canberra. The first stage of this process is photography - based: "I'm interested in depicting people in their own settings. I place the model, paying attention to lighting and the objects within the space, and then frame that image." Kennedy's aim is to involve the viewer in a new narrative of their own making as they engage with her work. By hinting at a moment from a story, she invites the viewer to see their own memories or emotions reflecting back at them. But Kennedy wants to suggest a direction for these stories too: "Sometimes there is sadness or darkness in my work."I enjoy the processes of my art practice, each step abstracting the image further and leaving me with a framework image to paint onto the canvas. New forms and motifs emerge, as they are abstracted and the washes of colour and the opaque areas of paint within the canvas are just as important as the figure itself." Beth Kennedy currently has a solo exhibition at GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY - open to the public until 29 May. Exhibition remains open by appointment until Friday June 4.
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Cherie Winter was born in Nowra in New South Wales and studied at the College of Fine Arts at the New South Wales University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art. Later she completed a Graduate Diploma in Art Education and a Diploma of Multimedia. Winter has held 7 solo exhibitions and recently completed a series of works for an exhibition called Take Root in September, 2008. Take Root is an aerial mapping of people and place inspired by the root system of trees. "These images outline locations I have lived in and sites I have become attached to. Linking my current reflections of an area with its origins, I acknowledge my history and where my roots stem from. The images are broadly based on maps from Google Earth that are moulded by memory, representing pieces of the community’s history in relation to their approach to the environment. By incorporating trees into society I highlight our natural assets and reflect on the real potential of the natural world."
"Take Root consists of colour lithographs, utilising crayon, rubbing ink and enamel paint; I find the lithographic stone has a sense of age and tradition that creates a ‘natural’ affinity with the drawing process and has a connection to the land.
Fascinated by artists interpretations of the landscape, influenced by
Rick Amor, Dale Cox and the Tasmanian Eco Warriors and how they
echo the altering ground. I am moved by Indigenous art and culture
and its relationship to the land.
Australian author Kate Grenville and her book The Secret River
(2005), has had an important impact on my interpretation of place.
Grenville says, ‘Writing the Secret River was the opening of a new set of
eyes in my head, a new set of ears. Now I could see what was
underneath, what was always underneath and always will be: the
shape of the land, the place itself, and the spirit of the people who
were here”. Winter has also participated in several group exhibitions throughout Australia namely at, the Geelong Gallery, the Australian Print Workshop, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery and Warrnambool Art Gallery. In 2004 Winter was awarded the Collie Print Trust Victorian Printmakers Scholarship from the Australian Print Workshop. Winter is an accomplished print maker and her work has been collected by the National Gallery of Australia, Charles Sturt University, Maitland City Art Gallery and private collections throughout Australia and internationally. In 2010 Cherie Winter will feature a selection of recent prints that reflect her new direction in an upcoming group exhibition of Australian printmakers to be held in London. Works from current and past exhibitions can be viewed by clicking the image on the left.
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Celeste Kininmonth is the latest artist to join GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY. Celste is a young artist who has enjoyed success with both her solo exhibitions and her private commission installation projects. Celeste uses animals as her primary subject matter to explore aesthetic qualities that tantalise or repulse us. She writes, "I look closely at colours and colour connotations that are associated with the masculine and the feminine and I attempt to challenge the fabrication of the aesthetic of femininity and masculinity. My paintings of hunted or victimised animals vs the hunters themselves (both animal and man)aims to explore and focus on the notion of dominance and submission in relation to the ideas of feminine and masculine". Celeste has recently graduated from RMIT Uinversity with a Bachelor of Fine Art painting. In 2002 and 2003 she also completed a Diploma of Visual Art at La Trobe Street College and a Diploma of Visual Art at Box Hill Institute. Celeste lives and works in Melbourne and has been part of several group shows throughout Victoria. She was recently awarded for the second time a Linden Postcard Prize held at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts in St Kilda. Celeste is currently working on her next solo exhibition at GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY to open in 2011.
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Bronwen Garner was born and studied in Melbourne, Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts. Whilst studying at VCA, Garner was awarded the Senior Lecturer's Award and the Harry Curtis Art Award. Garner has had four solo exhibitions since 2000 and has participated in a number of group exhibitions namely at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces,Craft Victoria and the VCA Gallery in Melbourne. She has been a resident artist at the University of Melbourne and also within the Ceramics Department at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Originally a ceramicist, Garner has developed her practice into paper collage where she investigates paper as sculptural relief. Papers are torn and fashioned into 'marks' which are placed and fastened on either paper or timber board. Most recently, she has shifted her practice to include painting on paper and canvas. Garner's work plays not only with space and colour but also with texture and movement. Her past exhibition 'Play' featured 13 works on paper and board. These images developed from the process of play that occurred during the art making process. Each tear of paper recorded a movement of the hand which is a main character in the process, and expresess the role of both considered and accidental action in the works' invention. As Garner herself says, " the torn paper edges of each shape reveal dermal-like layers, expressing a sense of delicacy and vulnerability. Wavering lines created by the practice of tearing allude to drawn lines that embody the sensitivity of marks by hand. These aspects communicate the organic, unstructured process from which the work has grown." In her series of works titled Figment,Garner has focussed on painting sheets of colour which are then cut into pieces, then arranged and attached to a background. In some of these new works Garner has also added paint directly onto the canvas background over and around the arranged shapes. Please click image on the left to view further works. A series of unframed works is permanently stored in the gallery stockroom, alongwith a small selection of framed works.
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Rebecca Mayo graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art from the South Australian School of Art. Later she completed her final semester in upstate New York (SUNY at Buffalo) and then travelled to Scotland where she worked as a studio technician at the Edinburgh Printmakers' Workshop between 1993 and 1994. Through her experience in Edinburgh Rebecca Mayo refined her skills and developed a lasting passion for the technique of screenprinting. In 2000, she received a First Class Honours (Printmaking) from the Department of Fine Art at RMIT. Rebecca Mayo's art practice extends beyond screenprinting to objects, books and other printmaking processes. Her work is informed by history, stories, women, and nature, in no particular order. Her work is part of numerous collections including Artbank and the National Gallery of Australia. To view artworks by Rebecca Mayo visit our stockroom at Gilligan Grant Gallery or click on featured image.
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Kate McCarthy lives on a pristine, remote stretch of sand dunes on Tasmania's East Coast. She considers she has been an artist since childhood creating plasticine bunnies and sewing all things using Chux Wipes. More recently Kate has returned to the playful and more random aspects of her childhood creations through the use of paint. Her subject matter has developed from a curious attraction to innocence and the simple shapes, formations and colours found in childrens programs. " I've watched so many childrens shows lately that I'm seeing elements of them everywhere - I'm reminded of my childhood through my own children and I'm attempting to capture that in my current work.
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Catherine Badcock aka Cat Rabbit lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania and has been creating under the name Cat Rabbit for 4 years in the field of soft sculpture/plush design. Cat Rabbit has a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honours from the University of Tasmania, she also is a graduate in Master of Contemporary Art from the University of Tasmania. She exhibits reguarly in group exhibions throughout Australia and internationally, more recently at The Design Centre in Launceston, Inflight in Hobart and in 'Medical Experiments Toy Show' in North Carolina U.S.A. Her plush works incoporate traditional domestic crafting techniques such as embroidery, knitting and various needlecrafts to create 3 dimensional soft scupture figures from her illustrated characters. Her characters, based on various animals, are often ironic and engage with the darker side of animal behaviour. Cat Rabbit prefers to utilise craft concepts and techniques associated with female domesticity. Her end products juxtapose the connotations associated with these techniques, allowing accessibility to new audiences and generations. Cat Rabbit has exhibited in various custom plush shows around the world and her works are stored in stores internationally. Cat Rabbit is an active member of the Crafternoon initiative, a group that meets to discuss, develop and organise events and exhibitions that intend to promote the relevance and validity of domestic craft and DIY culture. Her soft sculpture works have been featured in various art publications including Indie Craft News.
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Therese Gilligan was born in Melbourne and has a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Master of Visual Arts both from the University of Melbourne. Over the past six years she has held five solo exhibitions and participated in a number of group exhibitions. Therese has been a finalist in several competitions such as the McArthur Cook Art Award and the Tattersalls contemporary Art Prize. Several of her paintings are part of the Contemporary BHP Billiton Collection and the VICRoads Art collection. Over the past ten years of her practice Gilligan has explored the position of the girl and the young woman in contemporary culture. An observation of female portrayal in contemporary and historical literature and mass media has generated a strong theoretical base for her work. Her subjects are people she meets in her day to day life, through the media or through observations of myspace profiles. Gilligan's paintings explore the sacredness of youth, youthful expectation. The use of text in the paintings is both funny, hopeful but sometimes grim. More recently many of Gilligan's subjects sit as if on a theatre stage or on a throne encased in a holo of colour.
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