January Installations

Artist Walk
Join us for the third last artist walk

10am Saturday 14th January 2012
Meeting at Stefano's Cafe Bakery 27 Deakin Avenue, grab a coffee and walk to Klemms Newsagency for your morning paper and then find out if they are tax deductible at Shugg Group! 

 Steve Alden

Shugg Group
126 Lime Avenue

Kerryn Sylvia

Love and other Collisions

Stefano’s Café Bakery

27 Deakin Avenue

 Jayne Bawden

One lump or two

Klemm’s Newsagency

53 Langtree Mall

Rosina Byrne

 

 

Rosina Byrne. Bio.

Rosina Byrne is a Mildura based artist who is trying to understand or make sense of life, death and everything in between, she was born in 1965 to Italian migrant parents and raised on a Grape Fruit Block on the outskirts of Euston, N.S.W. Byrne works predominantly with photography, and however video work is used in her installation work occasionally. Byrne completed her Bachelor of Visual Art at LaTrobe, Mildura,2013, where she received The Collin Barrie Acquisitive Award, the La Trobe Executive Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence in 2012 and also in 2012 she was awarded the Golden Key from Golden Key International Honour Society for excellence. Byrne has exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions, Palimpsest #9 in Mildura, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura, 2013 and has exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne in 2012.  Byrne’s art practice is constantly evolving; she is currently exploring the uniqueness of individuals through her surveillance and voyeuristic approach to making art.  Byrne is the random and opportunistic photographer out there capturing the inner workings of life

Night Windows.  Publication, 2012

Artist Statement

Night windows are about being voyeuristic. You want to look into people’s lives without them knowing. It is similar to what Forrest Gump says in the movie by the same name, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re guna get”. You walk the streets at night and a light in a window catches your eye, you don’t want to look but you can’t help yourself, because you never know what you might see. Each window at night is as if you are observing someone’s life story; it is about standing outside the story looking in. Windows come in many shapes, some are decorated or partly covered, and the light can be soft or very strong.

 Working at night has its advantages, you are given lots of negative space which is wonderful, and the darkness has the ability to erase the clutter that exists in peoples live and you are left with only beauty. Night windows is all about, going into the deep of night and looking from the outside in.

 ‘Twas deep; so deep of night, When I saw what I had seen - So truly deep of night, When I went where I had been, And really deep of night, When I heard what I had heard.  Ricky Baker

Kerren Miles

Jamie Murray

My name is Jamie Louise Murray and I am 20 years of age. I was born here in Mildura on October the 11th, 1991. Ever since that day I have always lived in my home located in Merbein West.

My main interests in life are drawing, painting, fashion design, modelling and to keep rolling on with my education, absorbing as much knowledge as I can before I settle down in life.

I began studying at La Trobe University in 2010, starting with my Bachelor of Visual Arts. After my degree, I hope to move on to Bendigo to complete my Diploma of Education for the Visual Arts, and then travel back home to teach.

My love for drawing began at an early age of three when I could hold a pencil properly. Throughout my years at the Merbein West Primary School, my attention to detail through the smallest of drawings would drive the teacher’s nuts. My mum always joked about how one specific teacher would tell me off during maths;

“I just wanted her to draw stick figures; one stick figure plus two stick figures, equals three stick figures. But she has to draw them with bows, hats, skirts and shoes. That’s not what I asked of her.”

My high school years through Merbein Secondary College and Mildura Senior College were the years where I was able to fully blossom through my skills in drawing. I was able to open more doors and was successful to take out ducts of Art and Studio Art three years in a row. For a young teenager who never received awards in English and Science – both subjects I still love to this day - it was a big deal to me.

My drawing levels have always been stated at least 8-12 years above my actual age since I was a little girl, and it is not until recently I have decided to break my barrier and try my hands at sculpture, which I am finding to be a lot of fun. Different, however fun.

Melissa Elliot

Coming Soon

Rae Gadzinski

TRAPPED BLACK

BY RAE GADZINSKI

Trapped black is a visual investigation into the notion of death, its effects and consequences. This work was made sight specific for the white cube and is a continuation of my 2011 honours project. The box of black has become a representation of my currant life, stuck within a small chaotic space filled with uncertainty, disorder and confusion. Whilst still trying to overcome and comprehend the sudden passing of my eldest brother, I am now left to untangle the mess that is myself.

With the use of my artistic practice and sculptural mediums, I am constantly on the journey of self discovery and left to unravel each strand of string reflecting on the discissions I made to lead me where I am today.  A piece of string an obvious analogy, but one that continues to resinates within my art practice over time.

Everyone has a piece of string with a beginning and always an end. How far your string travels, in what direction and where it ends is unknown. But for me where I stand within my life right now lies inside this box of black. The end of the string is unavoidable, but for now I will continue to channel my emotions and feelings into my work, and will continue to do so until I feel as if I am free from inside the black.

This story is mine to tell, and only mine to untangle. 

Deb Symes

Artists Statement: To those who know me the Sunraysia community I have been a seamstress over the past 30 years. In my fashion design drawings and photography, I imagined making works fit for an avant-garde renaissance revival. I am greatly influenced by 1950 to 70’s film stars such as Audrey Hepburn from the elegant black and whites to the vivid and glamorous colour combinations and stylised sets of Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor. Milton H. Greene was the most renowned celebrity photographer of most movie stars, musicians and artists particularly for his romantic sexy atmospheres of the ideal perfect lives from ‘Rags to Riches’. Best known for his auto-biography entitled Of Women and Their Experiences, which was Norma Jeane story of Marilyn Munroe which she called My Story.

 In between studying for my Fine Arts Degree, majoring in Photography. I was sewing ball gowns for all my friends and their friends as a second income after graduating, working in a Bridal Boutique. Wedding dresses and bridesmaids came easily, then juggling my three beautiful children and gaining my Graduate Diploma of Education at the same time.

My love for sewing was very clear to me at a very early age, sitting at my mother’s feet counting the buttons from the reused coffee tin, whilst she was tread ling on the her old ornate singer sewing machine, making clothes for us, as children which they did in those days. My inspirations for garment construction and fashion design blossomed in my teenage years. Not much has changed to date, only that my artwork and sewing are combined with my passion for landscape watercolour painting and now experimenting with felting, hand dyed pieces of artwork which I hope to have the opportunity to exhibit in the middle of next year at the Art Vault.    

My current work which is displayed in Shugg Group encompasses three different but related bodies of work: fashion design, fashion photography, and fine art, depicting a Vanitas in a three dimensional  sculptural installation defining the lace doily with the hand dyed fine silk fabric.

Aaron Rose

Artist Statement

I began making my dolls in Sarah’s class. They were giant ones. Then I made others when I entered them into the Mildura Show.

I made them in my favorite colours – green, pink red and blue.

  I love my drawings too.

I put them in the Mildura Show as well.

My favorites are… all of them!

I tell stories about all my dolls. They all have their own stories and they are all related.

I like the Simpsons, especially Marge who is made into many dolls.

I love my scarecrow women. I spent a lot of time making her for the Cardross Show.

Artist Background

Aaron is totally focused on making dolls which evolve out of stories and characters that he is constantly revising and expanding through elaborate and complex family trees. He uses just about any material and item in the making of the dolls, from fabric offcuts, newspaper, foam, cotton wool to rolls of sticky tape, old biros and pens and masking tape. Each doll goes through many changes as they get transformed into their final personas. Aaron actively interacts with each doll as he constructs their features.

From the creation of these stories and characters Aaron also works on large scale close up portrait drawings. His drawings at this stage are made using pencils and felt tip pens. Recent drawings have been noted for their heightened detail in clothing and background. Aaron is gradually being enticed towards developing paintings using brushes and acrylic on canvas and with this new attention to detail, the envisaged paintings will bring out exciting possibilities.

Bob Jankowski

Mildura Specialist School