Artists

Addinsall completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Monash University and in 2007 graduated from the University of South Australia, South Australian School of Art after completing her Bachelor of Visual Arts Honours majoring in glassblowing.

Tanmaya’s artworks investigate the mechanics of human dynamics and the neurological processes that create patterns in our daily lives, Her focus being the psychological, sociological and genealogical patterns that occur within the context of herself and her immediate circles.

John Bodin was formally trained in 1982 at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology). He holds a Bachelor of Arts-Photography and has been recognised by the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) as an honorary life member.

Exploring mystery and magic realism Bolis draws on cinematic, design and architectural languages.

Susan Buret is a visual artist living and working in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia.

Nicola Chatham is a visual artist living and working in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland of Queensland, Australia. Chatham gained a Bachelor of Fine Art from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in 2005. She now works full time as an artist, freelance writer and co-director of the contemporary art project Moreton Street Spare Room [MSSR].

Art represents my journey through life, it is a feminine vision embedded in everyday experiences connected to the primal power of the natural world, its constructive nature of perception expressing sensual energy, while searching for pathways to the spiritual world.

Philosophically, I believe that my role as a documentary photographer is to allow the voice of the people being photographed to be heard: to show their lives and the events that impact upon them not just at a given and possibly catastrophic moment, but rather as their lives unfold.

Hendrik Forster graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1973 and established his studio in Melbourne the following year. He is a designer/maker of sculptural and functional objects.

Kerryn Forster 1987 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Gold and Silversmithing), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria; 1987-Current (2010) business and studio as designer/maker, various locations in Victoria, currently (2010) Calulu, Victoria.

Stefan Gevers is a Dutch born award winning artist who is based in Melbourne, Australia. His background includes a Bachelor of Visual Arts and has exhibited widely as a solo artist and as part of collaborative exhibitions since 1990.

Holly Grace is an Australian glass artist whose current practice is based at the Canberra Glassworks. In 2004 Grace received a Masters of Fine Art from Monash University and as part of her training has participated in three International Mentorship’s, with glass artists Tobias Mohl, Neil Wilkin, and Viki Noorman Koefoed.

Lyndal Hargrave is a Queensland artist working in sculpture, installation and painting. Hargrave’s core practice exploits found objects as a sculptural material, reconfigured into complex, open-weave forms.

Kate Hendry’s wire sculptures are all part of an overarching series of works embodying concerns regarding engagement with our physical environment and the artist’s own person experiences.

My work, informed by writings on the sublime is a reaction to the beauty and power of nature.

Adam Laerkesen is a Sydney based sculptor. Adam has been practicing and exhibiting extensively since graduating from the National Art School and completing his Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts in 1987.

Simon Lloyd has featured globally in major design surveys and exhibitions in Germany, Japan, Italy and the UK. Lloyd states “This is very different work for me and yet so much of it is familiar, the developing of ideas through the working of materials, clarity and precision”

Li-Feng Lo’s organic forms reference the rare, untainted landscape of Taitung, a quiet country town in her homeland, Taiwan. Childhood memories of a magnificent natural environment, the cyclical nature of the seasons and the forms and colors that ebb and flow within them inspire Li-Feng to demonstrate through her work the concept of living a simpler life.

My works respond to the Australian landscape; not by depicting the 'view', rather by observing the layers of life that make it up. I live within the Gold Coast City; it is Australia's most biodiverse city. During a time of rapid growth; my work explores the role that humans play in shaping habitat. How do we balance competition between development and conservation, to maintain natural heritage values?


The intrinsic and identifiable characteristic of Annabel Nowlan’s art practice stems from a long connection to land; the land of her family farm and of the Wiradjuri people, at Bimbi in south western NSW.

Anne Pincus graduated with a Diploma of Visual Art from GIAE (now Monash University), Gippsland and a Diploma in History of Religions from Latrobe University, Melbourne. She was a long term resident artist and active committee member of ROAR 2 Studios in the early 90s. In 1996 Anne was recipient of an Australian Arts Council Overseas Development Grant for the Besozzo studio in Italy.

Tracey Potts graduated from the University of South Australia with a Fine Arts degree majoring in printmaking. Now based in Melbourne, her mixed media work is represented in private collections both in Australia and Europe.

Pamela Rataj is a visual artist living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice encompasses sculpture, installation, painting and graphics. She has collaborated with composers and performance artists, creating a series of ephemeral installations for public spaces, variously performed for the Adelaide Festival of Arts, in Melbourne, Paris and Stuttgart.

Ewen Ross lives and works in the Wimmera. He grew up in this country and aims to manifest the changing nature of this landscape in his work.

Italian born Michelangelo Russo arrived in Melbourne in 1993 after studying and exhibiting in Europe for many years. In Italy he trained as an assistant in the studio of a well-known local artist, Franco Iannelli, where he learnt to experiment with many different techniques.

With a combination of urban design and fine art experience to draw from, Tim Skinner explores the different ways of viewing landscapes by endeavouring to combine the micro and macro scale abstract qualities of the landscape in field paintings.

Winsome Spiller is an artist living and working in Melbourne, Australia. She holds a BA Fine Arts (Honours) from RMIT University. Her paintings and installations explore perceptions and memories of built and natural forms, structures, spaces and places.

Seduced since 1972 by Greek culture, specifically the Cycladic Civilisation, Barry Thompson constructs his works using ‘essential’ materials such as paper, plaster and glue.

For Finnish photographer Onerva Utriainen’s life has most recently seen her bestraddling the cities of Melbourne and Helsinki.

Ingrid Wimbury completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Stellenbosch University in South Africa in 1982. She emigrated to Australia in 2001 and is based in Horsham, Western Victoria where she works predominantly in textiles.