October 2013



10am Saturday 28 September 2013

Join us for the October artist walk 
meeting at Stefano's Cafe Bakery 27 Deakin Avenue at 10am, then off to Premier Arts and finishing at Shugg Group.


Roxanne Hills

Stefano’s Café Bakery
27 Deakin Avenue

 
Robin Daykin Reardon Bates-Koroi

Premier Arts
10th Street

Laree Hills

Shugg Group
126 Lime Avenue


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July 2013



10am Saturday 6 July 2013

Join us for the artist walk for July
meeting at Stefano's Cafe Bakery 27 Deakin Avenue, then off to Premier Arts and finishing at Shugg Group.

This month shall showcase three writing pieces to fit in with the theme of the Mildura Writers festival

Kelly Matsuura

Stefano’s Café Bakery
27 Deakin Avenue

Hilary Thiele

Premier Arts
10th Street

Tara-Leigh Davison

Shugg Group
126 Lime Avenue


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June 2013




10am Saturday 1 June 2013

Join us for the artist walk for June 
meeting at Stefano's Cafe Bakery 27 Deakin Avenue, then off to Premier Arts and finishing at Shugg Group.


Biankah Miller

Stefano’s Café Bakery
27 Deakin Avenue

Win Moser

Premier Arts
10th Street

Becky Phillips

Shugg Group
126 Lime Avenue


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May 2013




ArtRageUS MAY


10am Saturday 4 May 2013



We are proud to announce in collaboration with ArtRageUS the exhibiting artists for May 2013

Sarah Davis
Annelyse Sloper

Hannah Hunt

Please join us Saturday 4th May for the artists walk starting at 10am at Cafe'27 


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ArtRageUs Studio is a part of Christie Centre Inc. suite of services. We provide a unique opportunity within the Sunraysia region for adults with intellectual disabilities  to create and participate in visual arts and performance projects. 

April 2013



10am Saturday 6 April 2013

Join us for the first artist walk for 2013 
meeting at Stefano's Cafe Bakery 27 Deakin Avenue, then off to Premier Arts and finishing at Shugg Group.


Anissa McRae
Stefano’s Café Bakery
27 Deakin Avenue

Sarah Curtis
Premier Arts
10th Street

Steve Mars
Shugg Group
126 Lime Avenue


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March 2013



10am Saturday 2 February 2013

Join us for the first artist walk for 2013 
meeting at Stefano's Cafe Bakery 27 Deakin Avenue, then off to Premier Arts and finishing at Shugg Group.


Danielle Hanifin & Denise James

Stefano’s Café Bakery
27 Deakin Avenue

Elif Yavuz

Premier Arts
10th Street

Nicholas Stamp

Shugg Group
126 Lime Avenue


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February 2013




10am Saturday 2 February 2013

Join us for the first artist walk for 2013 
meeting at Stefano's Cafe Bakery 27 Deakin Avenue, then off to Premier Arts and finishing at Shugg Group.


Danielle Hanifin & Denise James

Stefano’s Café Bakery
27 Deakin Avenue

Elif Yavuz

Premier Arts
10th Street

Nicholas Stamp

Shugg Group
126 Lime Avenue


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Hannah Hunt

Hannah likes to work with iconic comic book and movie characters bringing her own style and emotion to the work.  She works across a range of mediums from paint to pastels and has had great success with sales of her work.



Mr Bean Card
Acrylic paint on paper, 2012



Annelyse Sloper


Annie is a relatively new member of ArtRageUs coming to us after graduating from Mildura Specialist School in 2011.  She loves to work across all mediums with the main subjects of her work revolving around her family and her dog Marley.






My Dog
Pencil and ink on paper, 2012

Sarah Davis



Sarah likes to use colour and repetition in her work and has mainly worked with pencil and texta.  Recently she has been exploring the use of ink in her work with some fantastic and beautiful relults.


Flowers and Colours
Texta on paper, 2012

Becky Phillips

Bianka Miller


‘The Visual Journal’,


The creation of the ‘Visual Journals’ is evidential documentation that combines production with the study of visual art practices through theory.

By creating my version of the ‘Visual Journal’ of the honour students of La Trobe University Mildura Visual Art and Graphic Design, I am attempting to put into context the artists’ developing methods. An analysis of the art practises and narrating the constant changing art methodologies essentially becomes my own art form through text.


Biankah Miller, 2013, ‘The Visual Journal’, Installation of constructed artist’s journals from recycled books, La Trobe University Mildura

Melissa Castleman

Melissa Castleman - Artists Bio
I've always wanted to create and I've loved drawing since I was a kid so when I finished school the
natural thing for me to do was to go to art school.  Art school in my case happened to be Sunraysia
Institute of Tafe and a Diploma of Fine Art - Visual Art.  I only stuck around for a year though as I
had a huge urge to get out of Mildura and go and see the world which is what I did, well I saw bits
of it anyway.  On returning to Mildura some four or so years later I somehow ended up re-enroling
into the second year of my course then from there onto the Bachelor of Fine Art offered by LaTrobe
University.  All up it took me around 9 years from start to finish with time off and part time study
and I think it was 2004 when I finally recieved my BA.  I met some lifelong friends as fellow students
and lecutures and would have to say that I had some of the best times of my life there. 
Since graduating I haven't really created much of my own art, I've created kids and done the odd
bit of oddball craft at home though.  I am very lucky though to have a job within the arts helping to
run art and drama programs for adults with intellectual disabilties at ArtRageUs Studios  This keeps
me in touch with art around town, gives me inspiration and keeps the creative juices flowing.  I have
never stopped having ideas they just haven't come to fruitition, but hopefully now that is going to
change.  It seems in all the different guises my art has taken over the years I can see that the basic
theme has always been the same.  That is our essential elemental, emotional and spiritual existence
as human beings and our mortality, not death though more our finiteness and infiniteness.
 
 
When I look back on all the art I've ever created I can see a common thread that holds it all together. 
The themes of mortality and the essence of our very existence, our place in time, where we are
turning back in on itself to ask "Where are we?".  At once and at the same time being introspective
and yet looking to the world of the material yet mutable to somehow try and answer a question that
if it is asked directly ceases to have meaning.  If it was an image it would need  to be viewed from
out of the corner of your eye because if it was to be looked at directly it would simply not be there. 
Hopefully I haven't gone too far down the path of being conceited and I'm not trying to be clever I'm
more simply than ever just trying to make myself feel whole through creating my art and to create
something that feels authentic to me and hopefully conveys the same feeling to others.
I couldn't throw these rusted nails out, I found them too beautiful and poetic so they sat in the
backyard somewhere growing rustier until something sparked in me.  This is by no means a
comprehensive explanation but I like the idea that iron can symbolise humans potential to prosper
and capatalise. Iron is strong, hard and seems so alien to nature yet it rusts, crumbles to dust and
becomes dirt.  Mortality, lifespan, mutability, finiteness and infinite cycles.
Nails have also been used in binding spells to bring the two elements of a spell together, I like the
feeling of that and it is the thing that can't be looked directly at but I'm sure exists.  It's like a stage
we've had to go through, will go through again and an idea that our will can have power beyond the
physical.  When I am making these I feel a connectedness and a story and a narrative is forming, I
imagine people from past worlds, tribal cultures and future post apocalyptic civilisations. They are
making bracelets for the children and necklaces for binding  together a marriage.  Making these
things make them feel connected too. These things that symbolise where we have been, where we
are and where we are going.
 
Previous work below
 
 

Wedding dress cocoon