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T H A N K S T O S U P P O R T E R S A N D F R I E N D S O F V E R Y S P E C I A L K I D S

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Troy Emery is an artist based in Melbourne and has an art practice encompassing sculpture, painting, drawing, and embroidery. Troy spent his youth in the regional city of Toowoomba in South East Queensland but relocated to Hobart, Tasmania to attend art school. He graduated from a Bachelor of Fine Art (hons) at the Hobart School of Art, University of Tasmania in 2005. Troy then completed a Masters of Fine Art at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in 2010.

Troy Emery’s sculptural work explores animals as decorative objects as well as the aesthetics of trophy animals and plush toys. He uses materials such as pompoms, tassels, tinsel, and yarn in pieces that intentionally confuse traditional sculpture with handicrafts. Emery’s paintings also explore the decorative qualities of animals but also depict the traditional subject matter of animals, landscapes and Australiana. He uses thick impasto paint and sometimes lurid colours with the intent of fusing drawing and sculpture. These uses of materials are beautiful, colourful and

alluring, and can be overwhelming when used in excess.

The role of surface and colour in the production his work is often exaggerated. The luscious textile pelt is a camp interpretation of the way skins and furs are cherished and fetishised. As natural specimens or species, Troy’s animal sculptures are impossible combinations of form, colour, and materials. They exist as hypothetical or mythological animals. These fluffy colourful forms are dream-like monsters that fuse an obsession with childhood stuffed toys and fascination in anthropological and natural history object collections.

Troy’s work is held in various private and public collections, including The National Gallery of Victoria, Art Bank Australia Collection, City of Townsville Art Collection, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Collection, and Deacon Art Museum. Troy is represented by Martin Browne Contemporary gallery in Sydney, NSW.

Troy is represented by Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia.

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Jonny Niesche is a post-minimalist artist who explores the expanded field of painting and abstraction by reformulating our understanding of the effects of light and colour on the human senses.

Sharing similar concerns with Light and Space artists of postwar Europe who incorporated movement and light into the expanded possibilities of painting (like sensory phenomena, translucence, and ambience), Niesche experiments with the effects of interactivity, involving the viewer spatially and physically in the act of looking. Niesche has traced his interest in the phenomena of perception to his childhood experience of visiting department-store cosmetic counters with his mother, where boredom mingled with fascination as he gazed at the colour range of eyeshadow palettes and the infinite reflections of the store’s mirrored architecture.

Favouring the openness, clarity and seduction of post painterly abstraction, Niesche’s works combine the traditions of sculpture, digital printing and installation to recast our understanding of the effects of surface, color and architectural space. Through the use of translucent custom-dyed fabrics and mirror he examines the surfaces we call skin, fabric, canvas, wall and screen. But painting for Niesche is a challenge to our appreciation of these surface encounters and an open invitation to define new spaces for the viewer to be enveloped. An embodied spatial and physical dynamic is established between seer and seen, object and spectator, that is part of an ongoing reappraisal of the possibilities of painting, and of our perceptual relation to it.

Niesche’s work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria,  MCA, Sydney, MONA, Artbank, and private collections in USA, Europe, Asia and Australia.

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Kate Shaw is an award-winning Australian artist who spends her time working and living between Melbourne and the US, having exhibited in Australia for 23 years and internationally for over 10 years.

Her work reinterprets notions of what constitutes landscape painting, both within an art history context and a contemporary social context, reflecting upon the contradiction

between our inherent connection to the natural world and continual distancing from it. Prominent themes in Kate’s work include alchemy and environmental change.

Kate is represented by Olsen Gallery (Sydney/New York), Cube Gallery (London) and Mirus Gallery (San Francisco).

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Anthony Lister was born in Brisbane and has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Queensland College of the Arts. He helped pioneer the stencil and street art movement in Brisbane and is best known for his scrawling, figurative style employs charcoal, acrylic, spray paint, and oil. Taking influence from the dirtier and rough techniques of “Bad” Painting and merging it with the spirit and practices of graffiti art Lister has embraced an explosive, scratchy, scrawling form of figurative aesthetic using a variety of mediums from painting, drawing and installation to film, music and VR technology.

His exhibitions include those held at the Urban Spree Gallery in Berlin, Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami, Allouche Gallery in New York, Olsen Gallery in Sydney and Black Art Projects in Melbourne. Lister currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Noted as one of the top 50 most collectable Australian artists, Lister’s work is also included in the collections of National Gallery of Australia, David Roberts Collection, TVS Partnership, Brand & Slater Architects, Brisbane Grammar School, BHP Collection and Art Bank Australia.

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Born in Melbourne, Peter Daverington began his artistic life as one of Australia’s most respected graffiti artists. After travelling for 12 years around the world he completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2007. Before relocating to New York City in 2010.

Working mainly in series, Daverington produces paintings, drawings, murals, installations and music, that explore themes developed by his travels and his interest in language, history, culture and the landscape.

Recent large scale mural commissions include The South Melbourne Vertical Primary School sponsored by the City

of Port Phillip, Minhang’s new Arts District in Shanghai sponsored by the Shanghai Ministry of Culture and The Audubon Bird Mural Project on the East River in Queens NYC Sponsored by the Durst Corporation.

Peter has been represented in numerous solo and group exhibitions In Australia, Germany, China and the USA. Peter’s work is widely collected, with notable inclusions in the collections of Art Bank, KPMG, Macquarie Bank, Gippsland Art Gallery and The Geelong Gallery. His work has been featured on the front page of the New York Times and most recently the season finale of the HBO series The Divorce.

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Born in Chertsey, United Kingdom, Tim Maguire was raised in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. Maguire studied painting at the National Art School, Sydney, before receiving a scholarship to attend the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1985.

Tim Maguire is a contemporary Australian artist best known for his large-scale floral paintings. Cropped like film stills and referencing 17th-century Flemish still-life painting, his work melds digital imagery with commercial printing techniques. Maguire also uses digital photographs as source material for his oil paintings.

He applies colour separation techniques – not unlike those used in commercial printing – which blur the distinction between the digital and the handcrafted.

His work can be found in the National Gallery of Australia and all state gallery collections, and numerous regional, corporate and private collections internationally. Maguire currently lives and works between south-west France and Sydney, Australia.

Tim is represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne and Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney.

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Lisa Roet is an Australian artist who lives and works in Melbourne. She went onto study a Bachelor of Fine Arts from RMIT University and graduated in 1987.

Roet is interested in the relationship between humans and primates and explores this relationship through her bronze sculptures, charcoal drawings, film and photography. She has travelled to remote areas in Borneo for field observations of apes in forests in addition to involving herself in a range of residencies with research centres and major international zoos.

Amongst the collections in which she is represented are The British Museum, Bruges City, Fremantle Gallery, Deakin University Art Collection, Maitland Regional Gallery, The Australian Print Workshop, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, The Hudson Collection, Tasmania, City of Port Philip Collection, Gold Coast City Gallery, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park and the National Gallery of Australia. She is also represented in numerous private collections nationally and internationally.

Roet is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, Australia.

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Julian Meagher is a 39 year old Sydney-based artist. He is represented by Olsen Gallery, Sydney and Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane and Yavuz Gallery, Singapore.

Meagher’s oil paintings have a unique watercolour effect. His interest in the concept of both personal and inherited history, including links to our national identity, is evident in much of Meagher’s subject matter.

He is a multiple Archibald Prize finalist with portraits of actor John Waters and musician Daniel Johns and was also

a finalist in the Wynne Prize in 2015. He has been finalist multiple times in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Salon des Refuses, Metro Art Prize, Blake Prize for Religious Art, RBS Emerging Artist Prize and a finalist in the Gold Award at Rockhampton Art Gallery.

He has exhibited at the Melbourne International Art Fair in 2010, 2012 and 2014, Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair in 2010, Scope Miami in 2011 and 2012 and Sydney Contemporary Art Fair in 2013, 2015 and 2017

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Jasper Knight completed a Master of Arts at the University of New South Wales. His broadly coloured, painterly works viscerally depict icons of the urban landscape. In these works, Knight belies ‘bold and cold’ associations of the industrial. Enamel, gloss acrylic and gesso create textural depth and warmth upon aluminium surfaces. These material transformations naturally lend themselves to perceptions of the industrial subject itself. Knight’s paintings challenge austere readings of the industrial landscape and replace them with something deeper - it is a living infrastructure, the bones upon which contemporary life is fleshed.

He was awarded the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship in 2003, the Brett Whiteley travelling scholarship in 2005 and the Mosman Art Prize in 2008. Jasper Knight is also a frequent finalist in the Archibald, Sulman and Moran prizes multiple times, most recently his portrait of artist Jason Phu was a finalist in the 2019 Archibald Prize.

He has completed residencies in Sydney, Germany and China. His work is held by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Artbank, Sydney and several regional galleries. Knight has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Alice Springs and internationally in London.

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Brook Andrew is a Wiradjuri/Celtic artist who has been exhibiting internationally since 1996. His interdisciplinary practice critically examines dominant narratives related to global histories of colonialism and modernity. Through museum and archival interventions, he aims to offer alternate versions of forgotten histories; illustrating different means for interpreting history in the world today.

Most recently Brook presented In Vision of Nuance: Systems of Exposure at the 2019 Wuzhen International

Contemporary Art Exhibition and in April 2020 he will present a new commission for PHOTO2020 in Melbourne. He is the current Artistic Director of NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Associate Professor Fine Art at Monash University, and Enterprise Professor at the University of Melbourne.

Brook is represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels.

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Joanna Lamb was born in Perth. She graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Edith Cowan University and a Bachelor of Arts (Design) from Curtin University in 1997.

Joanna’s hard-edged and highly refined compositions depict spaces of (sub)urbanity as an ongoing exploration of place. Stylistically, the works waver between realism and abstraction. Joanna’s work draws on her family connection with printing and a preoccupation with the processes involved in the reproduction of imagery. Her work has a mechanical feel which often negates its handmade processes.

Joanna’s work was included in Mix Tape at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2005 and in Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, TarraWarra

Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art in 2006. In 2007 Lamb was highly commended at the ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award and was voted one of ‘Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists’ by Australian Art Collector. In 2014 her work was shortlisted for National Works on Paper at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and for the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize.

Joanna Lamb’s works are included in prominent collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Parliament House, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Macquarie University, La Trobe University, Edith Cowan University, The University of Western Australia and Murdoch University.

Joanna is represented by Sullivan & Strumpf in Sydney.

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Matthew Johnson is an artist who is renowned for his use of colour and painterly abstraction. His works are well represented by collections both nationally and internationally. As an artist he has travelled extensively throughout the world both living and working in many countries and undertaking artist residencies programs throughout his career.

His language of colour and abstract form has lead Johnson to interdisciplinary collaborations with award winning architects and designers.

Johnson’s philosophy towards his architectural projects is to bring a sense of originality and clarity to the built environment whether it is in the public or private sector.

His translation of colour into the built form engages and enlivens the viewer to an informed environment that reflects the human condition.

Johnson views his artistic approach to built structures as sculptural entities that remain embedded within the fabric of the building plane.

His most recent undertaking is to create and design a colour palette for the external facade for the icon building at 2 St Kilda Rd. It is his intention and rationale that the colour be reflective of the natural environment of St Kilda and that the artwork facade will become a visual metaphor to the celebration of this unique location.

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Graduating from the College of Fine Arts in Sydney in 1994, Nicholson has exhibited widely in Melbourne and Sydney. He has held studio residencies at the Bundanon Trust Artist Centre and at OMI International Art Centre in New York.

Nicholson’s work is undoubtedly light, the energy that makes everything visible, and our evolving human relationship to it. While many of the works are frameless and capitalise on that redundancy, recent works feature an integrated frame as part of the work’s objecthood. This is not simply an art historical reference but rather, for Nicholson, a reference to the contemporary electronic screen and its ubiquitous presence in daily life. Once predominantly experienced from a single, analogue source –

whether the natural sun or the artificial incandescent bulb – light is now more likely experienced digitally, from the glowing programmable sources of televisions, LED displays, mobile phones, tablets and hand-held devices. The screen is a vortex and portal of another infinite dimension. Nicholson’s artworks replicate as his ideas bounce across this exponentially expanding field.

His works are held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas, including in the collections of Artbank, Deutsche Bank, the University of Queensland Art Museum, Mirvac Corporation, Bond University and Penrith Regional Gallery, as well as in the collections of Goyang City in Seoul and OMI Arts Centre in New York.

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Michelle holds a bArch (Hons), from RMIT University.

Michelle Hamer’s darkly humorous artwork explores the language around us and how it reflects our fears, beliefs and aspirations. Based on her own digital photographs (taken in an instant - while on the go) and collected language the works oscillate between fast and slow; past and present; analogue and digital. Her works negotiate a space between 2D and 3D and are both personal and political. Hamer’s hand-stitching and drawn works become markers of rarely captured but familiar and revealing moments of ‘everyday’ life.

Hamer has had twenty-one solo shows, including numerous institutional shows with four upcoming solo shows in 2020. Having been awarded numerous grants and awards her works are in local and international, private and institutional collections (including the NGV, Artbank & City of Melbourne). Recent publications include MoCA London director Michael Petry’s ‘The Word is Art’ (2018) alongside other internationally acclaimed text based artists.

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Born in Santiago Chile in 1953, Eduardo Guelfenbein is a Chilean artist based in Paris. Guelfenbein graduated from the Accademia delle Belle Arti, Brera, Milan, Italy.

Eduardo Guelfenbein’s aesthetic is inspired by his nomadic lifestyle and sensibilities. After travelling through Italy and Lake Varese, the artist settled in Paris where he paints his thick, expressive and colourful pieces enriched with the energy of South American. Loyal to the abstract genre, Eduardo Guelfenbein displays an overflowing zeal with his fluid lines and swirls filled with intense, yet controlled, energy. Through his soulful expression of liquid abstractions, the thick acrylic textured canvases of Guelfenbein reveal a process of discovery of infinite patterns and never-ending forms that much resemble a cosmic creation. Guelfenbein aims to create interesting acrylic texture, where light refracts

strongly, with contrasting carved gestural strokes, and mostly, a full colour palette. Potentially, the liquid transformations and twisting patterns are infinite. The hills and valleys morphed by the thickness of the paint, much like a cosmic creation, generate different feelings and never-ending forms. Dominated by a commanding presence of bold strokes and riveting colour tones, Guelfenbein’s work is an energetic blend of both pictorial and sculptural properties. In fiery tones of red, orange and blue, Guelfenbein’s works evoke a sense of power and trepidation shrouded in the vitality of thickly applied colour strokes.

Guelfenbein has held numerous successful exhibitions around the world from Europe, America, Asia and Australia with a personal show in 1997 at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago, Chile.

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