Ted May began his exhibiting career with Gallery A in Sydney 1964 after graduating from East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School). Since then, he has had over 30 solo exhibitions. On numerous occasions, he has been a finalist in major Australian awards, including the Wynne, Dobell & Sulman prizes.
Nerina Lascelles invites viewers to reach beyond wave forms and cloud forms and ranges of mist obscured mountains, beyond rocky summits, precipitous slopes and shadowy ravines, toward depths of field within which a spacious luminescence holds sway.
Russell’s fascination lies in transforming hard metals to art forms, capturing movement, beauty and life, consistently producing works reflecting his relationship with the land and the pursuit of his place and serenity within it.
Halpern is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores the mediums of sculpture, painting, pottery, glass blowing and printmaking. Her work can be exuberant and whimsical but is also imbued with a deep artistry.
I have always been drawn to trying to depict landscape, accompanied by a fascination with the Ordnance Survey maps of Britain and the mysteries they contain.
The flattish land with views to the declining end of the Great Diving Range is an ideal landscape subject, a stage for the theatre of the harvest, and the spectacular light shows nature provides.
Steve Sedgwick's abstract landscapes are inspired by the smells, sounds and sights he experiences outdoors.
“I don’t like predictable. It’s got to be an exciting process,” he said.
Whitson has refined a technique reminiscent of pointillism stemming from the Impressionists of the 19thCentury, where layered paint and therefore different colours are applied using dots to create abstract landscape imagery with figurative and narrative dimensions. The choice of palette and pointillist gestures extend on the typically calming pointillism landscapes of the Impressionists and invite the viewer to imagine and see what lies below the surface of dominant Australian mythic landscapes.
Wayne Eager's work is absorbed with form, colour and texture.
“My work is an intuitive response to nature and the built environment. I live outside the city, in the Wurundjeri/Yarra Valley area. I attempt to activate the feeling of being in the landscape, deconstructing and anthropomorphising the landscape and challenging the human-centred viewpoint of nature. Through layering and linework, my aim is to create a form of ‘spatial’ harmony: a place of refuge, as nature does. My work responds to the brilliant glare of the Australian light. I use the irregularities and patterns of a world where nature is the major stakeholder.”
“I am interested in the moment where structure begins to dissolve and painting becomes an experience of perception rather than description.”
