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Arite Kannavos has a Fine Arts (painting) Graduate Degree (HONOURS) from RMIT University in Melbourne. Kannavos has worked in both the visual arts and within the textile and design industry since graduation in 2005. Her 'colourist' genre and loose application of paint mark her signature style. These paintings rely not only on Kannavos's delicate choice of colour but are enhanced by her controlled placement of shapes and her thickness or transparent use of colour. The sophisticated manner in which Kannavos combines both opaque dense areas of colour with light transparent veils of dripping paint make this work a fresh and uncluttered pallette of energy. There is an innocence and purity in these paintings. Kannavos writes, " I create a playing field with colour, where random thoughts and feelings influence the paintings direction and begin to unfold on the canvas much like a sequence in a dream. There is constant movement between the conscious and the unconscious in which random and calculated artist made marks merge together on the canvas to create a sense of visual harmony.
The application of bold, flourescent colours amongst faint washes of colour and metallic highlights, bring to the surface an energy which commands visibility and ultimately reveals the invisible truth of human emotion". Arite Kannavos currently has a new exhibition of paintings and drawings at GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY until 16 June, 2012.
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Anastasia Wiltshire has a Bachelor of Fine Art(Distinction)from RMIT University, Melbourne. She is currently completing a Fine Art Masters degree. Since graduation she has held 3 solo exhibitions and been part of many group exhibitions throughout Australia and internationally. Anastasia has a remarkable 'awards history'. Upon graduation she was awarded the Siemens Scholarship, The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, a finalist in the Flanagan Art Prize and the winner of the University of Ballarat Emerging Artist Prize alongwith numerous other finalist awards.Her work is a captivating fusion of classical elements within a contemporary framework. The subject matter in her work evokes a sense of stillness and contemplation. Her figures stand alone or in small groups seemingly within a sacred space. Wiltshire says," I often fuse my figures with the open interior space within a composition. I achieve this sense of figure and space through layers and light veils of paint - usually transparent. My work is a visual form of meditation and I attempt to recreate the act of gentle contemplation". Anastasia Wiltshire's new exhibition of paintings called the INCOGNITO series opens at GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY on 12 JULY, 2012.
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After a 3 year break Hannah Murray has returned to life in Melbourne. She has travelled extensively and is now back in her Melbourne studio working on a new series of paintings on vintage wallpaper. Her new works are a unique combination of paint, pen and pencil. Hannah has a Bachelor of Visual Arts from James Cook University in Queensland. Since her graduation she has held 8 solo exhibitions and been a represented artist with our gallery for the past 8 years. Over the past 9 years Hannah has participated in numerous group exhibitions most recently at Brush and Press Studio Space in Townsville. Her work is a delicate statement on the vulnerability of life and the spiritual side of human nature.
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Wendy Beatty specialises in black and white photography. Her works often express a powerful representation of the female form and more recently a shift towards capturing the duality of power and fragility within nature itself - more specifically represented through her images of the Tasmanian landscape. 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 started her Post Doctorate (PhD) based on the relationship between art, gender and the landscape. Whilst her subject matter is often focused 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 medium, 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 available for viewing. Wendy Beautty is currently developing a new body of work connected to her PHD studies. These new works will form a solo exhibition at GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY in 2013.
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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. Her 2008 solo exhibition 'Take Root' explores 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 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's work was featured in a group exhibition of Australian printmakers held in London. Current artworks available for purchase can be viewed by clicking the image on the left.
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Minna Gilligan is a young Melbourne based artist, currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts. Her paintings, drawings and collages are playgrounds of psychedelic colour and erratic mark making. Minna plays with the slipperiness of time by propping cut-outs from old books in these childlike, dream spaces - trapping them in an infinite and disjointed nostaligic narrative. Minna also illustrates for Tavi Gevinson's online magazine for Teen Girls 'ROOKIE' (www.rookiemag.com) and blogs regularly at www.minna-gilligan.blogspot.com
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Wendy Beatty specialises in black and white photography. Her works express a powerful representation of the female form and the female pysche. More recently her images explore the fragility and yet constant resilience of the natural environment - most specifically the Tasmanian landscape. 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 emabarked on her Post Doctorate Degree (PhD)with a study based on the relationship between art, gender and the landscape. Beatty's images rely heavily on light and dark and marks and scratches to highlight the tactility and vulnerability of both the female body, the landscape and the photographic process itself. 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. currently, Wendy Beatty is working on a new body of work as part of her PhD study. This work will form a new solo exhibition for her at GILLIGAN GRANT GALLERY scheduled to open in 2013.
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"The essence of Kennedy's pictures is a dynamics of patterning. It would not be too fanciful to imagine them functioning as a sort of musical score. This metaphor might lead us to see Kennedy as a painter not of appearances but of presence. In a Symbolist mode, Kennedy wants you to experience the atmosphere of her painted fictions, not the nitty-gritty of daily life: to feel the fragmentation of personality in some quiet calamity, to feel yourself staring unthinkingly at the wallpaper as thunderous mental events rob you of your resources, to accept loss". Penny Webb, March 2010.
Each of Beth Kennedy's paintings is the result of a sustained process of transcription: from staged photograph, to watercolour, to paint on canvas. This specific process and technique has been refined since Kennedy graduated from the Institute of Arts, at the National University in Canberra. Kennedy has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, has been shortlisted in competitions (including The Churchie and The Sunshine Coast Art Prize) and her work has appeared in Belle Magazine and The Age Melbourne Magazine. Kennedy is currently working towards her second solo exhibition at Gilligan Grant Gallery due to open early in 2013.
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Recently featured in BELLE magazine and several design blogs Baiguerra's 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. She works with the concept of space and relationships within a moving space. She examines the constrast between our need for physical space and the confines within the built environment. Baiguerra is concerned with communication within a space and this is seen through her mingling and overlapping of moving figures. 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 time drawing near Flinders Street Station at peak hour attempting to record the actions, gestures and movements of passers by. Baiguerra records her observations 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. Amber Baiguerra is currently working towards a solo exhibition of recent works to open on 9th AUGUST, 2012
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Elena Papanikolakis was born in Cootamundra, NSW in 1984 and is now based in Canberra. She has completed a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) Honours in Painting at the Australian National University in 2007 (First Class), and was a recipient of the Emerging Artists Support Scheme.
Since graduating, Elena has had 4 solo exhibitions and had work included in numerous group exhibitions in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne. Elena has twice been a finalist in the Brett Whiteley Traveling Art Scholarship.
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Therese Gilligan lives and works in Melbourne and has a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Master of Visual Arts both from the University of Melbourne. She she has held 5 solo exhibitions and participated in a number of group exhibitions. She has been a finalist in several competitions such as the McArthur Cook Art Award and the Tattersalls Contemporary Art Award. Several of her paintings are part of the Contemporary BHP Billiton Collection and the VICRoads Art Collection. The first 15 years of her practice explored the position of the girl and the young woman in contemporary culture. Her observation and fascination of the female portrayal in contemporary and historical literature and mass media generated the theoretical base for her work. Her subjects were people she met in her day to day life or images she found through media material.
More recently, Gilligan's work focuses on the use of text and colour rather than the figure. She continues to explore ideas such as the sacredness of innocence and goodwill. Her use of text in her artworks creates an emotional 'mix' of whats playful,funny, hopeful and grim in life realities. Her recent work combines her use of colourful felt with evocative text. It examines the vulnerability of those 'in love'. Her subjects are no longer young girl's but objects such as Teacups and Tea towels - these objects now represent the innocent and vulnerable 'soul'.
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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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Sue Beyer's representation of the Australian urban landscape is a fusion of environmental beauty and the ordered patterns of residential streets and highrise buildings. The aesthetic qualities within her work fuse a delicate combination of line, pattern and vibrant colour. these decorative elements create a 'sense of welcome' and her work brings out the 'homely' senses we may experience when we view an image of our childhood home or the place where we lived out particular fond 'moments'. Sue Beyer has a Bachelor of Fine Art with Class 1 Honours from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions.Beyer writes, "Heterotopia is a concept in human geography elaborated byphilosopher Michael Foucault to describe places and spaces that function in non - hehmonic conditions. These spaces of otherness, which are neither here nor there, that are simultaneously physical and mental, like an idyllic home - an escape - situated in a landscape that may not physically exist and is nostalgically remembered from past experience, a dream or a yearned for place in a lifestyle magazine.I utilise town planning maps to represent order, restrictions and boundaries imposed on the natural topography and how these artificially created limits reflect on the economic value of the land and the type of people, housing and insdustry that can be found in these places. In contrast to the drawn planning lines, abstracted housing and landscapes represent peoples dreams, realities and aspirations that may exist in these physical or mental heterotopias". Beyer is currently a finalist in the Clayton Utz Art Prize.
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Hilary Herrmann has been exhibiting throughout Australia reguarly since 2006 and has won a number of art awards throughout regional Australia. She has been a finalist in the Blake Prize and the Portia Geach Prize. Herrmann has particpated in numerous group exhibitions in both public and commercial galleries.She has also held 3 solo exhibitions since 2008. The fusing of landscape, the figure and diverse forms of narrative influence her compositions. Her application of oil on canvas is layered thickly on the surface but achives a light and airy appearance. Herrmann describes her work as, "an atmosphere of anticipation". She admits her creatures are intentionally "whimsical" and capture moments in a larger story. Click on the image to view other works available at the gallery by Hilary Herrmann.
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We have a collection of original artworks priced under $350. These 'novel' works have been created by various young Australian artists and are all one-off works. Each artist works on the same surface of a traditional linen tea towel to create work using either paint, print, collage, ink, pen or forms of textiles and soft sculpture. All artworks are 70 cm x 50 cm and unframed. Prices start at $90 to $350. A great opportunity to collect a one-off work at an affordable price. Please click image on the left to see just some of the artworks available in our gallery stockroom.
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