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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mela Cooke
Mela Cooke, a sculptor and former physiotherapist, has always held a fascination with the human form. Her artistic process involves using family and friends as models, capturing their essence through a series of photographs taken from different angles to accurately depict the lines of a pose. Cooke’s medium of choice is bronze, which she finds […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Peter Watts
Peter Watts is an award-winning landscape artist. A finalist in the 2021 and 2022 Glover Prize, he captures fleeting moments of light and shade in the dramatic skies across Central Victoria and South Eastern Australia. In 2022 Peter won the “People’s Choice” award in the Glover Prize in Tasmania and “Best in Show” at the […]
Maringka Tunkin
The Ken Sister – Tingila Yaritji Young, Maringka Tunkin, Sandra Ken, Freda Brady and Tjungkara Ken – are part of this desert art tradition, a distinct lineage formed initially by women, under the name of Minymaku Arts (meaning ‘belonging to women’), just twenty years ago in Amata in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. By […]