Diverse-city
Artwork in various media by
Luna Bird, Ivana DiStasio, Julie Frahm, Sheryl Glassmith, Joy Harvey, David Innocente, Rosie Singer, Fiona Trueman & Liz Wauchope
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Julie Frahm makes glass beads and incorporates them into her jewellery designs. Her main influence is colour! She loves putting different colours together to see how they look. Her palette continually expands as she tries the new glass that comes out. Julie primarily use Italian glass to make her beads, however she has recently started exploring recycled glass from various sources such as beer bottles, wine bottles, windows, and all sorts of other objects. “It has been fascinating to see the transformation of this glass into beads and jewellery” she says.
Rosie Singer is an abstract painter exploring a woman’s perspective and relationship with isolated environments. She continually seeks a sense of place within harsh landscapes, using a wide variety of mixed media elements on her canvas. The resulting works linking women with landscape are hoped to be emotive, thought provoking and life affirming.
Joy Harvey is a textile artist who specializes in the intricate technique of Contemporary Reverse Appliqué. This involves the process of sandwiching a number of fabrics together using a machine sewn design. Layers are then cut away to reveal the desired fabric choice for each section of the design. Joy has been particularly inspired by the older buildings of Adelaide, using design elements from the architecture to create something that looks exotic!
David Innocente hand crafts and designs unique ‘retro’ style boxes. ‘My long time interest in motoring, particularly the beauty of body shape design has been a partial inspiration for some of the boxes” David says. But simpler shapes of all types have led many of the boxes as well. His background in mechanics, the building industry and the Arts has given him the skills to design and craft these Innocente Boxes.
Luna Bird’s love for fabric lead her to explore textile design and embellishment, combining her skills as an artist with her sewing knowledge and experience to produce beautiful and unusual soft furnishings, napery and artwork that are comfortable, functional and collectable.
“I'm enthralled with the physical, tactile side of visual arts and textiles” Luna says. “I love quirky things; I can’t help being drawn to them”. Luna gets a lot of inspiration from her home and garden. One of her favourite things to do is sit in the shade watching and listening to all the beautiful little birds and creatures that visit her garden."
Fiona Trueman is a textile artist who creates fabric lengths, scarves and garments in an array of brilliant colours. Richness of colour, texture and dramatic forms are a feature of her work, created using a combination of techniques, including hand printing, stencilling or hand painting onto natural fibres. Fiona loves the Australian landscape and its flora and fauna, the diverse culture and art of the original inhabitants. She says “I bring the bush and the outback onto my fabrics and into my garments with vivid images of landforms, seascapes, floras and fauna”
Ivana DiStasio creates glass jewellery which is unique, contemporary and original. Her jewellery features etched dichroic glass and fine silver. She enjoys pushing boundaries, and has experimented with different glass forms (glass powders, frits, stringers, shards, sheet glass) to create unusual and interesting textures. ‘Diverse-city’ showcases some of the latest textures and colours currently available in ‘art glass’.
Liz Wauchope has been painting and printing on silk, making exquisite garments and accessories since the early 1980’s. Born and raised in Alice Springs, her inspiration often comes from the shapes and colours of the Central Australian desert. “I take personal recollections of my journeys, and transform them into images and objects that have a universal appeal” she says. Her range of prints and ceramics are also inspired by both the urban and coastal landscape.
Sheryl Glassmith has been working in the glass and arts industry for 30 years. She produces a range of kiln formed glassware, including splashbacks, one-off exhibition pieces, and architectural work. Sheryl incorporates a number of different techniques in her work, but works mostly with applying high fire enamels to glass. “The designs on my glass are as changeable as my moods and have as many influences as they do” she says. “The biggest influence is natural and urban environments; I try to capture the essence of it so that I can bring the outside world indoors”.
Diverse-city sales catalogue
MEET THE ARTIST
Liz Wauchope will be in Gallery M for an informal 'meet the artist' session
from 2pm, Sunday 18 July
Free entry, all welcome
fly away peter
animation, installation and paintings inspired by birds
Kathryn Hill & Michael Hill
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Kathryn and Michael Hill use the motif of the bird to reflect on the theme of loss. Birds have always featured in our dreams, desires and nightmares. Their ability to soar as we remain earthbound inspires and confounds us.
This exhibition considers man’s connection to other species and the environment, and the vital role we play in protecting habitat. Kathryn and Michael reflect on things which are now passing, songbirds falling silent, bright flashes of colour disappearing from our world. Using animation, installation, artist books and 2D works, the artists have developed an exhibition which is poetic, gentle and understated.
Kathryn Hill works with diverse materials to create her books, 2D works and installations – paper and wax, fabric and stitching, oils and canvas. Michael’s study of birds in flight, which is projected directly onto the wall of the gallery, is the result of his recent experimentations with light, shadow and animation.
Kathryn completed her Bachelor in Visual Arts in 2002. She is an active member of the Red House Group, T’arts Collective and Concertina (a group of women artists exhibiting collaboratively since 2000).
Michael Hill is an award-winning animator currently living in Melbourne. His latest film was nominated for an AIF award and was screened at the Sydney and Perth International Film Festivals. Earlier this year his film featured at the Stuttgard Animation Festival, and won China’s most prestigious short animation award for the Best Foreign Short Animated Film. Michael graduated from RMIT with his Masters of Creative Media in 2007.
This is their first collaboration.
fly away peter sales catalogue
MEET THE ARTIST
Kathryn will be in Gallery M for an informal 'meet the artist' session
from 2pm, Sunday 18 July
Free entry, all welcome
