Craig Parnaby
Craig Parnaby creates a unique visual iconography of coastal living. His imagery pays homage to the architectural forms and easy-going lifestyle of the urban coastal landscape. Craig’s perspective is positive, youthful and essentially humanist in its celebration of life’s simple pleasures. Parnaby’s figurative works are developing as sculptural studies of the human form. The poses, […]
Goompi Ugerabah
Goompi has traced his Aboriginal lineage as far back as possible to Pialba in Queensland. Upon European contact and settlement, his 2 female ancestors who were coincidentally gathered from the same region and placed on the Pialba mission. Knowledge of the specific tribes both women came from in that area is not yet verified. Both […]
Richard Dunlop
Richard Dunlop has had a distinguished professional practice for almost four decades, and according to Curator Eric Nash has been instrumental for that duration for the resurgence of interest in, and making a highly original contribution to painting in Australia. Richard’s work is in the collections of several universities (QUT, UCQ, UTAS, Griffith), many regional […]
Ken Done
Ken Done: Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, Ken Done has become one of Australiaʼs most famous artists. Ken Done’s work has been described as the most original style to come out of Australia, and Ken’s paintings are in collections throughout the world. Ken Done has held over 50 one-man shows, including major exhibitions […]
Christopher McVinish
Contemporary realist painter Christopher McVinish is a master of light. It is essentially this element of his work, which invites us to see the commonplace as special and suffused with potential. While McVinish’s urban landscapes tell intriguingly oblique narratives revealing contemporary life as a kind of half-remembered dream, his still life paintings convey a reverence […]
Anita West
Anita West is an Australian Landscape, Sea Scape artists who’s artwork have been purchased by Parliament House for their permanent collection from Gallery One in 2019. Anita states about her artworks:“Glimpsing an ancient landscape through the Eucalypts breathing in the quiet. Feeling the Australian Bush opening pages of my memory. Looking through the windows of my […]
Kathrin Longhurst
Contemporary figurative artist Kathrin Longhurst was born in communist East Germany. A classically trained figurative painter, Kathrin Longhurst began attending life drawing classes at the age of fourteen. When Kathrin was just fifteen, her family escaped from ‘behind the iron curtain’, relocating to Sweden. This jarring transition from a totalitarian regime to a democracy sparked […]
Cynthia Breusch
Poetic and dream-like imagery is the hallmark of Cynthia Breusch’s art. Her atmospheric paintings convey an other-worldly timelessness and evoke universal themes of meaning and purpose, memory, dreams and the transcendent. As she puts it, “I want to paint invisible things – the figure might be the motif but my real subject is the human […]
Herman Pekel
Herman Pekel was born to Dutch parents in Melbourne, Victoria in 1956. The art teachers of Herman’s youth, Roger Webber, Ernest Buckmaster and Lance McNeill were all primarily oil painters, but the experience of painting with them on location left a strong impression on Herman, giving him the freedom of spontaneity and leaving him an […]
Martine Emdur
Born 1966. Lives and works in Sydney SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Martine Emdur, Manly Regional Gallery, Sydney (survey exhibition) 2017 New Works, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne 2016 New Paintings, Olsen Irwin, Sydney 2015 New Paintings, Olsen Irwin, Sydney 2014 New Paintings, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne 2013 New Works, Olsen Irwin, Sydney 2012 New Paintings, Scott Livesey […]