Mel Brigg
Mel Brigg was born in 1950 in South Africa and is currently based in Queensland, Australia. As a self-taught artist, he began to paint full time in the ’70s and has established himself as one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. He is known for his support of institutions such as Child Welfare, Wildlife Trust, Save […]
Lori Pensini
Lori spent her early childhood on her family’s farm at Yilliminning in the wheatbelt of Western Australia, and her early adult life jillarooing on the cattle station of her husband’s family, Wyloo, in the Pilbara, Western Australia. She now farms with her husband on their sustainable agricultural farming property in the south west of Western […]
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 […]
Felicia Aroney
Felicia Aroney is Western Australian born, now living and working in Sydney as a leading contemporary artist. Felicia draws inspiration from her European heritage, channeling the distressed and peeled painted facades of classical architecture. Working with oils and acrylics, her distinctive abstracted floral works utilise a highly sculptural mark-making process. Using a palette knife to […]
Anna Fitzpatrick
Anna Fitzpatrick is known for the compositional rhythms, bold coloration, and sweeping gestural brushstrokes of her large and often multi-paneled paintings. Inspired by landscape and nature, there is a visceral quality to her artwork and her paintings resonate with energy. Influenced by the gestural painting of abstract expressionism, Anna’s abstract artwork comprises a highly spontaneous, richly […]
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 […]
Diana Watson
“What inspires me to make art? Everything. It is a complete way of life, never far from my thoughts. Seeing beauty all around me, colours, shapes, shadows, nature and the challenge of putting it on canvas.” Diana Watson. Australian artist Diana Watson’s elegant still-life paintings have earned the Sydney-based artist great repute locally, and now […]
Rosetta Santucci
Having spent over a decade experimenting with applications like jewellery and textile design, it was a natural progression for me to start painting. My background in costume for film and television and a passion for textiles – primarily tribal and ethnic designs – has influenced my painting style. I’m self taught, and it has only […]
Paul Haggith
The body of work that encompasses the exhibition at Gallery One is predominately water scenes. Often I include a number of architectural pieces in an exhibition but this show is to be compact and focused around one theme, water and light. The exhibition is therefore an attempt to recreate the feeling of light passing over […]
Kathrin Longhurst
Kathrin Longhurst is a fearless storyteller and an uncompromising voice in contemporary art. Born during the Cold War in East Berlin, her early years were shaped by the rigid ideals of a totalitarian regime. At 15, she escaped to the West, a seismic shift that ignited her passion for freedom, self-expression, and the reclamation of identity. […]