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 […]
David Bromley
High school drop out, surf bum, lost boy finds clay, starts making pots and works out that being busy is the best way to quiet an over active mind. A love of other artists’ work, a love of paint, a collecting obsession and a desire to try most things creative and explore different mediums. Bromley’s […]
Ken Knight
Ken Knight was born in Sydney 1956. Studies: Bachelor of Arts, Diploma of Education, Sydney University 1975-78 1979-82, Secondary School Teaching 1993, Overseas Study, London, Paris 1995, 97, Arthur Boyd Bundanon Trust, Artist in Residence, Bundanon 1996, Overseas Study, Paris, London, Amsterdam 1998, Associate Member Royal Arts Society, NSW 1999, Overseas Study, Los Angeles, New […]
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 […]
Stephen Glassborow
Stephen Glassborow Design Process: Through the action of construction and deconstruction he transposes the reality of a piece, creating an object rather than a subject. By either slicing or cutting up the figure and adding bold colours to what is usually a dark medium, Stephen Glassborow objectifies the sculpture and creates his own unique, contemporary […]
Michael Whitehead
‘I believe a painting has to be instinctive and have a sense of urgency, but at the same time it has to be a considered work. If paint runs across a canvas it’s because I’m happy for it to go there or I may have even encouraged it to do so. Every stroke, line and […]
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 […]
Anne Smerdon
Anne Smerdon is an Australian artist documenting the symbiotic relationship between humans and animals, particularly birds and horses. Facebeak are her pet birds Vonnegut and Schiele. Anne has an extensive knowledge of body language and psychology in birds and horses. She uses this to work with live birds to create each of her artworks. She may […]
Michael Davis
Michael Davis: Michael Davis’s most recent series of works blend together the realms of abstraction and landscape. For his larger works, bold colours flow across the canvas, making visible the figures of trees and the contours of river banks before slipping seamlessly back into abstraction.We are invited into an image of a landscape, yet not […]
Stephen Phibbs
Sydney-born Stephen Phibbs is a visual artist residing in the Northern Rivers region. From 2002 his art practice evolved through seeing the landscape through a multi-dimensional approach. He says “these works are about the metaphysical and physical elements of a site. The relationships and juxtapositions discovered in these chance objects signify multiple options of interpretation, […]