Kerryn Sylvia




Tiara

An artists book using repetition of an image and a circular concertina format to reflect the cycles of birthdays, social occasions, growth and maturing through the rights of passage taken into woman hood. The image itself is a recreation of a memory of my own sixteenth birthday replacing myself with my own daughter wearing one of my mothers old dresses. The Tiara belonged to my grandmother and links us all in that continual lineage of matriarchal experience. 




Love and other Collisions
Photographs, Laminate 
January 2011 installation 

This work references the yellow GT falcon my parents brought off the showroom floor in 1974. The significance of a family’s first new car can last a lifetime and continues to unite and divide in the quest for understanding about love and the strong ties of blood, however fractured.  

The car in its original state in the driveway of our family home January 1974.

Ray Lowe

December cube installation



Ray Lowe is an artist who works prolifically with paint, mosaic, and oil pastels, he is always happy to try new mediums. Much of Ray’s artwork uses geometric shapes, patterns and lines that he sees every day, such as structures and objects. His work is bold, colourful and intuitive, and likes to “get right into it” when he is in the studio and thinks it is important to work on his art all the time.

Ray is always looking for opportunities to show his work which is often on display at ArtRageUs galley in Magnolia Avenue Mildura.

ArtRageUs

 
Artrageus Studio was established in 2007 and is a division of Christie Centre Inc. We provide Visual and Dramatic Arts programs as well as the opportunity for adults with disabilities to participate in dance, choir, music, exhibitions, performances and community events. We currently run art programs 2 days a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and a drama program on Fridays. We have approximately 30 visual artists, 7 choir members and 16 performance artists.

Our doors are open to artists of all abilities and everyone is welcome to visit us at the studio during opening hours to view our artists work, meet the artists, purchase work or even volunteer their time. Opening hours are 9am. – 3 pm. Weekdays.

Please visit the Christie Centre Inc. website at www.christiecentre.com.au and follow the links to ArtRageUs or call us on 50210475 for further info.

Brett Davidson & Grace Miles




Innocence Sabotaged



This Installation is a collaboration from two students at St Joseph's College for the September Installation as part of Palimpsest #8  at Stefano's Cafe Bakery
27 Deakin Avenue

Donnie Byrne

A fine specimen of the rare Grey-tail
A fox skull, feathers and glass taxidermy eyes

September Installation

Clove Organics

What to eat?
September Installation

There was a time when the land could sustain us without intervention. We ate native foods from a diverse ecology which survived the variabilities of the conditions.
We understood nutritional and medicinal values of the plants around us and followed the natural rhythms of the seasons.

Then we learned how to manipulate the earth and the plants, using mechanical and chemical engineering to grow food in a more predictable and controlled manner. We embraced convenience and developed expectations around the presentation of what we chose to consume, exchanging biodiversity for availability and our own comfort.

Waste and pollutants are now woven into the landscape that we continue to exploit, taking all we can eke from the earth.
Dust storms of precious topsoil blow through us as nature takes the little that is left of this healthy soil. What is left? What can it produce? We are left to eat the bitter fruit of our doing.

Upon the layers of abuse and destruction we build a future that sustains us and the land. We can take from past knowledge and learn to understand our surrounds, consciously growing with the land. The nature of farming is being challenged and to survive we must find new ways from old. Nurturing the soil and adopting the balance nature finds in diversity.

We are a not-for-profit group with an over-whelming volunteer focus. Our aim is to enhance healthy living and well-being in our community. Through our shop we sell and promote organic & bio-dynamic produce, bulk wholefoods and other environmentally friendly products. We encourage community diversity and promote social justice issues.

see the Clove Organics website

Sally Hederics




May Cube Installation
Transition



Artist Statement - Transition
 
This piece is about a personal situation, which has come about through a shoulder condition that developed about 6 months ago. The rare condition, brachial neuritis, has left me unable to lift my right arm and as a dancer, has had an enormous effect on not only my everyday existence, but also my ability to dance without a fully functioning body. As a dancer, you get accustomed to injury and pain and while I believe that I can rehabilitate my shoulder and eventually regain what I had, this moment in time where I can’t conquer all physical challenges, has left me wondering what life for me, was, is and could be like, because of this. There are positives and negatives within every challenge we are thrown and this one has certainly got me thinking about how I feel about being looked at as a performer, a teacher and a person and how I can learn, through this moment, to see.

Transition- the process of change from one
form, state, style or place to another


I am being patient...

In silent mutation

A sleeping possibility

One in one hundred thousand

Identity meets injury

Anticipating the moment when the information will reveal itself

The reasons why and what for and the ending

Expectation meets alteration

Observed becomes the onlooker

Into the shadows and away from the light

Information requires interpretation

Realization, comprehension and other big words are pending

Nullified, quashed, invalidated, annulled, reversed, abolished

I fold and unfold inside flight

Extinction

A flutter, a hope, a chance, a memory

An endless flow of air and dust

I am still and breathing in and out

I begin again





Biography

Sally Hederics grew up in Mildura, Victoria, combining schooling with classical and contemporary dance training in Mildura before relocating to Adelaide to continue her dance studies at a more professional level.

From 1998 to 2000 she attended the Centre for the Performing Arts in Adelaide, obtaining a Bachelor Degree in Dance Performance. During these years she had the opportunity to work with many of Australia’s top choreographers gaining valuable insight into a range of choreographic processes and fueling a desire to continue developing her own style of choreography.

 As a multi-skilled performer, Sally has had a range of experiences that range from working as a dance teacher at Edithburg Primary School in South Australia, with the Artists in Schools Program, being a guest choreographer with the Australian Girls Choir, assistant choreographer to Anna Smith for the Murray Dance Project, 'On Salty Ground' and dancing in 'Andrea Chenier' for the State Opera of South Australia.

In 2004 Sally completed her Honours in Dance at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Victoria and soon after graduation, auditioned and began work with the Melbourne based international touring company Strange Fruit. Since this time, Sally has enjoyed performing throughout Australia, and has toured extensively with the company to Africa, South America, North America, Europe and India with the company whilst maintaining her connection to her hometown, performing and working within the community of Mildura.

Sally has now returned to live near her regional home and works as a contemporary, choreography and jazz teacher for the Mildura Ballet and Dance Guild. She has upheld her connection to Melbourne through ongoing commitments with Strange Fruit and Next Wave and continues to choreograph group and solo work, developing a body of work that incorporates her dance training with the visual arts, film, photography, children and local community.

Joseph Sadler



Piero Garreffa



You can't polish a turd

Katy Mutton


Artist Bio and Statement

Katy is an independent visual artist with a BA in Fine Art from the ANU School of Art. In a former life she was an Interior Architect, specializing in Sustainable Design (BA Applied Science in Environmental Design, UC). Her training in this discipline has influenced much of her art making process. She also works freelance for various arts publications, writing and proofing. Katy is currently undertaking a Masters degree in Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design through COFA (College of Fine Art, UNSW). Her primary focus through this degree is on the intersection of science and art and the increasing opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration in this field.

Katy’s artistic practice is primarily interested in neurological issues, particularly to do with memory disruption and impairment. Some of these ideas are explored in her work through narratives, relating to loss and fracture of family and identity. Her most recent body of work explores these themes through research she undertook through the National Archives, exploring the files of some of her ancestors. Most of these works consist of drawings and prints will be on show at Canberra Contemporary Art Space throughout October 2012.

Katy enjoys working across mediums, exploring her ideas through different materials. In the last few years she has spent a lot of time working with fragile porcelain paper products, with the support of the ANU School of Art Ceramics department in Canberra. Initial experiments in print and small-scale object construction evolved into installation works exploiting shadow. Other installations incorporated LED lighting systems, highlighting the translucency of the material.

A selection of images of Katy’s work can be found at http://www.kbam.com.au/



Filomena Coppola




Fish out of Water   2012
River Pebbles and Gouache
whitecubemildura March 2012


 Artist Statement - Fish out of Water
This piece continues Filomena’s exploration into the migration of her parents from Italy to Australian in the 1950’s. Three sardines are drawn on river pebbles and as the title suggests they are out of context. Sardines are native to the Mediterranean waters near Sardinia - these are the waters that her parent’s boats would have navigated as they left Italy on their journey to Australian. This works continues Filomena’s exploration of being caught between the Italian culture of her parents and the Australian culture that she was born into.





Wallflower - Meow, Meow, Lick Me


Artist Statement
Filomena, like the Lady in the Unicorn tapestries is obsessed with the senses. If her drawings could release scent - they would be a perfumers delight - not quiet smells but a cacophony of sound. And if you could lick them the slippery sensation would cover the tongue and tickle its way down your throat. But for now, she is making drawings that want to be stroked. Furry plant forms that confuse the visual and evoke the need to touch.


Filomena is currently represented by Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney and has work hanging in Australian Galleries, Melbourne. She has been included in several drawing exhibitions including JADA Drawing Award, The Robert Jacks Drawing Award, the City of Banyule Drawing Award and The Hutchins Drawing Prize, where she was awarded a Judges Selection in 2001, and she was awarded The City of Hobart Art Prize in 1994. Filomena has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Vermont Studio Centre Residency and Part Fellowship, Vermont, USA in 2004, Ian Potter Foundation Individual Grant in 2001, Arts Tasmania Development Grant in 1999 and the Rosamond McCulloch Scholarship to the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris in 1997. Her work is represented in collections including Artbank, Print Council of Australia, University of Tasmania, Launceston and Hobart, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, The Hutchins School, Banyule City Council and the Devonport Art Gallery.

Links
Stella Downer Fine Art
Australian Galleries



Kirbi Kennewell



Unbroken Subjugation
Aluminium cans

Australia. Home to over 22,000,000 people of different age, gender, religion and nationality. The majority of our population live in large cities and often don’t see the Australian outback. Our true multicultural background is being swept away to boast an ‘Occa’ monoculture when this stereotype of the average Australian makes up a very small minority of today’s society.
My work aims to explore the ritualistic nature of this stereotypical society using the backdrop of my native town in far west NSW, a regimented outback society seemingly untouched by time, leaving it to become what is the romantic notion of the untamed and free outback. My work explores the struggle to survive in a glorified Aussie society and the rituals carried out by the proud people who dwell there. It is the insignificant customs that are of interest to me as to an outsider, they are unseen, while to a local, they are heightened by the lack of external influence.
Unbroken Subjugation is a tribute to the life within a tangled web of ritual. Each entity with its own trace incessantly connected to all existing paths forcing our subjugation, ever reliant on our past.

Stuart Hills


July Installation
SMH Welding
Copper wire and mixed media

Born in Perth to itinerate workers,I had two sisters that I soon took responsibility as protector.
Life involved a lot of travelling ,meeting many and varied people.It was soon realisied that
I would be a creator ,I spent much of my time alone making anything that would be of some use for the family
Much of which was just neglected when it came time to move to another town.
At the age of 20 I decided to become a welder /metal fabricator.Following the basic principles of the trade
however always adding my own special flare to my work when possible.
After the passing of my Mum Dad and little sister (whom was my best friend ) my life spiralled into alcohol abuse
Finding myself in this addiction and no apparent way out ,I took the initiative to take myself into Rehab.
Comming out from under the cloak of addiction opened up my real creative mind.

My art ,and in particular the wire insect sculptures are a form of meditation for me ,I am able to switch off from the world and
use my own interpretation and imagination to create .Life is about ever changing evolution ,just as a dragonfly and or a butterfly changes .
Starting life as a grub,going into a cacoon and finally transforming into a wonderful and beautiful creature to be admired .

This is how I see my art ,as my life.
So far.

Curriculum Vitae
School of hard knocks and University of life, works displayed throughout Sunraysia in the form of Structual Steel Fabrications. Wire sculptures are proudly displayed in many homes around Victoria, and Australia

Other happenings!!


 July

ArtRageUs Visual & Performing Arts StudioPresented by Christie Centre Inc.
Exhibition opening: 6 - 7:30 pm, Friday 22nd July 2011
Venue: ArtRageUs Visual & Performing Arts Studio, 19 Magnolia Avenue, Mildura
For more information call 50232761 or visit the Christie Centre Inc. website at www.christiecentre.com.au and follow the links to ArtRageUs.

Colour Me CrazyPresented by Mallee Family Care & LEAP
Until 29 July 2011
Venue: The LEAP Project Space, 39 Langtree Avenue, Mildura
Open Tuesday - Friday: 11 am - 3 pm
Colour Me Crazy is an exhibition which showcases the talents and aspirations of artists in our community living with mental illness.
refuge: (a place which gives) protection or shelter from danger, trouble, unhappiness, etc 
LEAP Project Space exhibition
39 Langtree Ave Mildura  Tues - Fri: 11.00 - 3.00
Opening Monday  June 20 @11.00am National Refugee Week 2011
For more information contact the  Mildura Arts Centre on 50188330



Saturday25th July 2011 5.00pm
Winter Solstice Gathering on the river at Merbein on the Common, on turn off wentworth rd, down the hill from the merbein winery factory and lookout area will be sign posted for details. More info, phone  0427 888 708
 
June

Sunday 26th June from 1-3pm
Free floristry techniques demonstration by Colin Straub, Australia's internationally recognised floral designer. 

Sunitafe Mildura, in the seminar room at the NCS building.
RSVP is recommended and refreshments will be provided.
To find out more call Taleah on 5022 3731.

May

Gallery 25
Please join us on the 19th May for the opening of Mark Schapper's exhibition of photographic images of the ever-fascinating landscape in our area.

Rosemary Chisari and Susan Alexander
Stefano's Gallery 25 at 6.00 pm on Thursday the 21st of April is the opening of Romancing the Renaissance, a selection of paintings by emerging artists Rosemary Chisari and Susan Alexander. The exhibition will be officially opened by Geoff Brown of La Trobe University.


Deserted Domains
Deserted domains is a participatory art installation as part of Kerryn Sylvia's Honours year of study this year.
With your help, she hopes to create a 'Cyber- Estate' of abandoned houses from  locations around the globe. Once you start looking, abandoned houses will seem to be everywhere. 


April


Robert Watson 
solo exhibition
Stefano's gallery 25
24th march (opening 6-7.30pm)
Until 12th April


Lyn McDonald
Ghosts of Future Past
An installation which is the culmination of Lyns' work towards Masters of Visual Arts
(Research) through Latrobe University.
6pm on Friday 18th March
at 39 Langtree Avenue, Mildura (upstairs)


Grant Opportunities
Applications for Mildura Rural City Council’s Events and Festivals Grants Program are now open. Community–based groups and private and commercial organisations can apply for financial assistance to help stage festivals, functions and celebrations.
Grant applications will be accepted up until 5pm Thursday 31 March 2011.
Read more here: http://www.mildura.vic.gov.au/page/page.asp?page_Id=3479




February


Launch of “designsbyhmmm…”
is on Thursday the 17th of February @ 6.p.m.
Venue: 135 Lemon Ave
Entrance via Hawkes Lane
Drinks and nibbles supplied
http://www.designsbyhmmm.com.au/

Donata Carrazza


Postal
August installation

Postal is a work that seeks to engage with its audience. Outcomes are completely unknown, but the objective is to encourage letter writing at a time where this exercise is no longer the standard form of communicaton. While we write many things all day such as emails, forms and documents, lists of all sorts, professional letters, text messages and even blogs, the act of writing a letter to someone is rare. The intention is to create an opportunity for the participant to take the time to think, to write on paper and to express themselves with candour. I look forward to receiving these letters and to experiencing their impact on me when I read them.


Donata Carrazza is an avid reader, occasional writer and visual arts enthusiast. In 1990 she completed a BA at the University of Melbourne majoring in Italian language and literature and has continued her studies in the humanities intermittently at the Mildura campus of La Trobe University. She was a founder of the Mildura Arts Festival in the mid 90’s and continues her involvement, specifically in the Mildura Writer’s Festival. With Paul Kane, the artistic director of the Mildura Writer’s Festival she has edited two books, Vintage: A Celebration of Ten Years of the Mildura Writers’ Festival and Letters to Les.

Neil Fettling

Il Grillo Parlante
June cube installation 2011

Neil Fettling has been an exhibiting artist since 1977, with solo and numerous group exhibitions held throughout Europe, USA, Asia and Australia.
His current work and research involves the history and sociology if North West Victorian Mallee dry land farmers and their determination to tame a vast semi desert land. This is traced through the collection and re-interpretation of the relics left behind on their farming properties. Neil is interested in the abundant waste and bloated heritage of our post industrial materialism and how the cultural artifact has replaced nature as a signifier of meaning.
A Senior lecturer and coordinator of the School of Visual Arts and Design and Campus Director at La Trobe University’s Mildura Campus, Neil has also been the Chair of Murray Darling Palimpsest – a biennale contemporary visual art event where artists are invited to respond to environmental and social issues affecting inland Australia.
Neil has a Master of Arts by Research from Royal Melbourne Institute of technology and is currently undertaking a PhD at Monash University in Australia. Previously, he completed a Diploma of Fine Art at Bendigo Institute of technology and a certificate of Fine Art and language at the Paris American Academy in France.


Donnie Byrne

Even The Snakes Died
Mixed Media

Misty Morning
Digital Photograph


Artist Statement

Thanks to my great-grandparents coming to Mildura in 1888, my recent family history has been centred in and around the Sunraysia District.

My family were hoarders, and I soon discovered that everything had a story to tell – no matter how old, battered or broken it was. Everything has had a life and is therefore interesting and worthy of acknowledgement and respect.

My childhood was spent out of town, much of it in the bush or on the Murray River. My father was a true old-fashioned bushman, and so I grew up learning about the flora, fauna and history of this area.

I owned an Antique shop in Mildura for thirty years, with the result I learned much about Antiques and Collectables and even more about Mildura’s history. I became particularly interested in collecting Australiana and early Australian Pottery.

Almost every day I take our dogs for a walk in the bush, and it is on these walks that I have become interested in the animal and human detritus that is scattered everywhere and the stories it has to tell.

My favourite saying is “If only it could talk”, as the stories these discarded objects could tell us would be fascinating. I think it is out of curiosity and respect for the past that I pick up anything that appeals to me on these walks and take it home to add to my collection.

I am particularly interested in the shape and texture of bones, feathers, gnarls from trees, grasses, roots, bark, insects, broken china (particularly with the Maker’s mark still visible on the back), rusty tin, wire, etc., as often I can see the potential in it for some future artwork.




Curriculum Vitae
2011 – HERstories Exhibition, International Women’s Day, Mildura.

2009- Wangumma meets Peaka Exhibition, Stefano’s Gallery 25, Mildura.

- Wetland Dreaming Exhibition, (selection), Stefano’s Gallery 25, Mildura.

2008 – Portrayed, Photographic Exhibition (invitation), Stefano’s Gallery 25, Mildura.

- Inaugural Exhibition, The Art Vault, Mildura.

- Studio Artist, The Art Vault.

- Wangumma Artist’s Exhibition, Wentworth.

- Wetlands Wet and Dry – A Study of Water without Water. Gallery

25, Mildura.

2007 - White. Gallery 25, Mildura.

- Winner Open Photography, Mildura Rotary Club Easter Art Show.

- Inaugural Member, Wangumma Artists.

2006 - Solo Exhibition, Hommage to Hallett, Mildura Arts Centre.

- Student Exhibition, La Trobe University, Mildura.

- Wentworth Sweat Box Exhibition.

2005 - Student Exhibition, La Trobe University, Mildura.

- Wentworth Sweat Box Exhibition.

- 2005 / 2009 – Chair, Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival Mardi Gras Street Parade Committee .

2004 - Student Exhibition, La Trobe University, Mildura. - Wentworth Sweat Box Exhibition.

- Exhibition Gallery 25, Mildura.

2003 - Student Exhibition, La Trobe University.

- Exhibition (invitation) Gallery 25, Mildura.

- Student Exhibition, Mildura Arts Centre.

2003 / 2006 - Part-time Bachelor of Visual Arts student, La Trobe University, Mildura Campus.

2002/ 2003 - Member Mildura Arts Festival Board.

1990s’ - Committee, Gentle Arts Exhibition, Mildura Arts Centre.

1980s/1990s (8 years) - President, Friends of Mildura Arts Centre.

1972/ 2002 – Proprietor Granny’s Antiques, Mildura.

1970’s - Organising Committee, Henderson Park Art shows.

Denise James





Title: Anabranch; an unremarkable history.

Jack Fisher

'I am'        October installation, wire and paper


Something out of Nothing,
A blank canvas, a ball of clay, a piece metal, a coil of wire.
Transformation of expression to inspire conversation and inspiration.
Art a collective term of music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings.
What’s perceived by some may not be perceived by others.
The idea of a Rembrandt once priceless now worthless.
A forgery once worthless now priceless.
A Winslow Homer dumped at a rubbish tip.
A useless national treasure.
The most sought after art work lost forever.
What is art?
I have no training nor do I have a talent, but I have imagination.

Kristian Haggblom

 
Saddam’s Arse (prototype #1)
Wax and stand
20x35cm
2011
The scenes of free Iraqis celebrating in the streets, riding American tanks, tearing down the statues of Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad are breathtaking. Watching them, one cannot help but think of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Iron Curtain”
From the prolonged “War on Terror”, most will recall the fall of the Saddam Hussein statute 20 days into the invasion of Iraq and the rapturous crowd response at Firdos Square in 2003. This was followed by the poignant imagery that documented the dragging of Saddam’s head through the streets of Baghdad. It is claimed this is the second most choreographed photographic war moment after Iwo Jima. The toppling of the statue happened just outside of most of the hotels where foreign journalists were housed and the journalistic opportunity is more than apparent. In this case the audience is uncountable as it bounced of satellites to all corners of the earth. This sculpture of a section of Saddam’s buttocks is a replica of a piece “acquired” at the falling by ex-solider and photojournalist Nigel ‘Spud’ Ely of which he is attempting to sell. The event questions photography and the wax questions war.
“… as a result of the media coverage, the statue it came from has probably been viewed by a bigger audience than even the Statue of Liberty and, by definition, is probably the most famous statue of all time – or even the most infamous statue of all time. It does therefore offer an opportunity to get a message across to a vast number of people and I believe the content of this message is very important”.
If you are interested in purchasing the original visit the website above, if you are interested in purchasing an editioned replica (as presented in this cube) cast in bronze contact Haggblom.

Kristian Haggblom is an artist, independent curator and educator who came to Mildura in 2008 to work at La Trobe University. He has exhibited internationally and curated projects with artists from Japan, Finland and Switzerland. Haggblom’s work ponders the notion of landscape and how we, as humans, impose across all spaces we inhabit, and how this is recorded as culture. For more detailed information visit: www.kristianhaggblom.com

Eunice Wake


Tapestry of Life

 
Tapestry of life,  October Installation, Glass and mixed media
Life is like a gigantic Tapestry, it begins with great anticipation as the pattern takes shape; the gathering of threads of glorious colours and then the addition of contrasting sombre tones. The story of the Tapestry is started with great hope in our heart.

As the project grows the delight in the work brings great joy, sadness may follow as understood by each of us as we journey through life and the tapestry is put on hold. Eventually though, like life we once again gather the threads and continue on.
The Tapestry is intricate, full of the complexities that befall us in life.

And my Tapestry? It is far from done as I have too much to achieve

Eunice Wake




Originally I started working with textiles over the years I have tried a lot of mediums in art before I discovered glass. I began creating Leadlight in 1981 with individual designs for local and interstate clients. During this time I began exploring Kiln Fired Glass with painting, fusing and slumping. Glass in various forms e.g. bowls, platters, free standing objects to wall hangings. Over the years I have displayed work in selected galleries including Buckland Gallery Beechworth, Mulgrave Gallery Melbourne, The Art Room Hyde Park S.A. and Bunyong VIC. I have a great passion for glass and enjoy totally working with this medium. I am continually going to work shops in major capital cities through out Australia to learn new techniques and ideas. My art exists in the state of evolution so there is unlimited possibilities for the future.
Eunice's Studio /Gallery is open to the public at 6 Ovens Ave Red Cliffs.
Open Wendsday to Sunday from 10 am - 5pm and on Public Hoidays

Leadlight
Course with Geoff Moebus at Mildura Technical School (pre Tafe College)
Work shops over the years though The Australian Glass Association (for which I am a member)

Kiln Work
Course with Daniel Meldrum and Barbara Collingwood at The Ivanhoe Gallery Melb, Access Glass Melb American Tutors, Australian Glass Artists Graham Stone and Alan Crynes, more recent with two world renowned Australian Artists Jessica Loughlin 2005 and Gerry King 2010 .It was a real privilege to participate in a work shop with these two people
Work shops again with the Australian Glass Association.

Commissions
Art Piece for the Mayor of Wentworth for their sister city in Japan.
Victorian Rural Fire Brigade Championship Trophies
Mildura City Council (Ouyen) Glass Vanilla Slice
Private commissions for Australian and over seas clients

Group Exhibitions
Daylesford Art Festival (over 3 yrs)
Maldon Art Festival
Ouyen Art (over 2 yrs)
Art Room Hyde Park S.A.
Alfred Deakin Centre
Mildura Regional Gallery
Art with a Difference Shepparton Vic
School of Art AustralianNational University Canberra A.C.T.
Mildura Rotary Art Exhibition (Won an Award)
Kerang Rotary Art Exhibition


Stedman Watts

'patience'


August installation


I have been playing with self-portraiture for about 5 years. This has primarily been through the use of existing x-rays and MRI scans of my body.  I am taken by the simplicity of the structure of the human artefact and what lies beneath.  Imperfection of form is seen on occasion at the heart of being.
My story is not exceptional; I have learnt that I can’t find a quick diagnosis or treatment. This is a process of experience, rather than healing.  

Having left Mildura I lived, studied and worked in Melbourne for 7 years.  I was associated with many artists and spent many, many nights in their company at events and openings. However it was not until I followed a French woman to France (the excuse) that I was drawn to and felt a desire to explore creating and making for myself. Living in Canberra for the last 8 years, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to study art, work in Ethics and fall in love with an artist (not French). My life has been an incredible journey that has led me full circle, back to Mildura.

Information for exhibiting artists

Artists who have confirmed exhibition dates should make sure they read the following information. 

The exhibition spaces are contained within the cube. Please make sure that you contact us to get the specific dimensions before you make your work so it will fit comfortably within the space.


BLOG SITE REQUIREMENTS
2 months before your exhibition date

you will need to send us
  • a 300 word bio telling us a bit about yourself 
  • a photograph of an artwork that will be loaded onto the site, along with the title of the artwork, date created, size and medium
  • a 300 work artist statement about your piece
  • up to 3 links to other websites where your work may be viewed online

INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS
The three exhibition spaces are located in businesses through out the Mildura CBD. These are public spaces and we ask that you be aware of these sensitivities when making your work. These businesses have given us three very prime exhibition viewing locations and we want to be sensitive to their business and clientele.

This is especially important during installation. Change over times will be co-ordinated so as not to interrupt their normal trading and will occur during their trading hours. We expect that artists will be available to install and take down their own work.

THE ARTISTS WALK
We ask that you make yourself available for the "Artists Walk" during the middle of the month. These will occur as the "opening event" for the exhibition and give other artists and interested walkers a chance to meet and chat with the exhibitors.

All artwork is not covered under insurance during the exhibition period. If you require insurance you need to organise it at your own expense. The White Cube Mildura will not be responsible for any damage which may occur during installation or take down. Artists should also be aware that the boxes may be exposed to direct sunlight for part of the day, and take this into account when choosing materials. Even the best arts materials can fade when exposed to direct sunlight over one month.

Sarah Nickas

PAST

This is my life, scoring paper with ink and pen, creating straight, vertical or horizontal lines, drawn at angles or with curves. An image becomes a map for someone else to use.

This is architecture.


MOMENT

Since I was very young I listened to my uncles tell stories of laying bricks.

I enjoyed the community they created amongst themselves, the humour and the tricks they would play on each other.
Once they buried a car.


PRESENT

I enjoy the problem solving that comes with thinking about creating a very large three dimensional solid form. Forming voids that are the spaces we live and work in. Taking an idea from your mind to your hand to the paper.

This is my everyday space.


MOMENT

Other times when no one watches I sit and score paper with my memories and observations. I do this in moments that are evasive, moments that are crammed either side by life.

I always ensure the paper is small.

I fill up the small notebooks, the pages create the pattern, the time creates the length. For a period of time I wrote from the back to the front. Trying to make it cryptic from the eyes of others.

This is my ‘me’ space. When I am present with myself.

Daria Healy-Koljanin



I’m Daria Healy-Koljanin and I am 19 years old.

I have always been obsessed with doing art since I brought home my first finger painting in kindergarten, which is pretty revolutionary mind you.

My first piece of art (a finger painting) was exhibited, when I was 8 months old, in an international Ronald Mc Donald House Art Show in New York.

I won my first award when I was 8 years old along with $5.40 of prize money. It was the Mildura Show, but hey, you gotta start somewhere.

A lot of my artistic evolution probably happened at the Pizza Café, scribbling on the table tops with my trusty cup of crayons. Or perhaps at all those work things mum would drag me along to when I was younger and I’d nag her for paper then sit quietly doodling away in a corner.

I’ve been very lucky to be so exposed to the art scene in Mildura and I’ve met many amazing, inspirational and supportive people. It has been a great community to be raised in artistically.

I take photographs and do a bit of filming but basically drawing is my thing. My work is basically girls, girls and more girls and sometimes animals incorporated with the girls.

My work began very simplified but seems to be evolving into intricate detailed pieces. I work with fine liners, grey lead, watercolour and coloured pencil. The women I draw have attitude, elegance and superiority beyond anyone else’s. As of late I have also been doing some paste-ups, a form of street art, which basically consists of doing the drawing beforehand then going out and sticking it up with homemade glue.

My number one fan is my Nan, without her my ego wouldn’t be oozing. Second would be my forever amazing mother.

My work is inspired by so many different factors from ugly Melbourne cup fascinators, fashion, music or a messed up dream I had the night before.

I am off to Adelaide next year to begin a Bachelor of Visual Arts at UniSA. I’ve done some workshops at the Art Vault where Julie has always been supportive of my work and letting me do paste-ups on her back wall. Steve Hederics, a local artist, has shown me bits and pieces and has been my artistic father throughout my childhood. I completed year 12 in 2009 where I was looked after, encouraged, supported and pushed artistically by the lovely Anne McMaster and Chris Fraser. Apart from that I don’t have a whole lot of impressive stuff up my sleeve. Yet!

The Shugg Group Black Cube


After exposure to the thought provoking White Cube exhibitions rotating through the Shugg Group Foyer, Toni Easterbrook came up with the idea of a Shugg Group black cube. Toni was also concerned with the number of coffee cups filling our rubbish bins each week.
So the exercise of saving the cups for a week, looking at our consumption and using the cups in a creative way became an activity in our weekly staff meeting. The results are shown here on the blog.
Kate Skelton

Larry Timpano

Leanne McGinty

Leigh Blenheim

Megan Johnson

Pam Shugg

Philip Shugg

Samara Farnsworth

Toni Easterbrook

Tonia Mammone

Rachel Kendrigan




February 2012 Installation
Klemm's Newsagency

 

July Installation



A man rakes leaves into
A heap in his yard, a pile,
& leans on his rake &
Burns them utterly.
The fragrance fills the forest
Children pause & heed the
Smell, which will become
Nostalgia in several years
                -Jim Morrison

Born and raised in Mildura I have had an interest in art since being a young child and am lucky to come from a very creative family. I completed a Diploma of Visual Arts at Sunraysia Institute of TAFE in 2008. I have worked for several local arts organisations and businesses. In 2011 I have returned to study to complete my Bachelor of Visual Arts through La Trobe University, Mildura.
Previously my medium has been photography but I have a passion for mark making that I am now focusing on. Using drawing, painting and mixed media, I am creating work that is a direct expression of the self.
My latest work focused on the ideas of nostalgia, memories and dreams and how these visions can often be distorted and out of touch with reality. I am now interested in taking this idea further, not just using my past but the past before me. I am very lucky to have access to information, images and stories of up to nine generations of my family dating back to the 1700’s.
In this work created for the White Cube I have focused on the matriarchal line. I am looking to my ancestors to help discover who I am and take me into my future. These women, Barbara Anne Buckler, Dorothy Elaine Williamson, Irene Constance Mary Thomas, Martha McMillan, Jane Bowen, and Margaret Gay are a mystery to me yet have directly passed down genes that have made me who I am. This book is a small offering to my matriarchal anscestors.