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Denny Allnutt

gained her BA (Visual Arts) from Alexander Mackie CAE/City Art Institute, Sydney (now CoFA) in 1983. She ran her own graphic design business for 19 years while returning to professional art practice in the early 1990s, working in painting, assemblage, collage, photography, drawing and mixed media. She has taught adult classes in photography, design and composition, and given private drawing tuition, as well as studying ceramics, glass and printmaking. Denny exhibited in Sydney 1994-2001, before moving to Canberra in 2002. In 2003 she held a solo exhibition at the Tuggeranong Art Centre, initiated and co-ordinated the Canberra Fires Art Project and curated Pyroglyphics, a group exhibition of works by 20 artists responding to Canberra's January 2003 fires. In 2004 she settled in Gundagai and opened the Green Dog Gallery. Her work is represented in private collections in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and regional NSW.

Jenny Ashby (Elliott)

grew up in Gundagai and has now settled in Wagga Wagga NSW. She gained her BA (Fine Arts) from Charles Sturt University in 2003, winning several awards for outstanding student performance. Jenny now teaches printmaking at Riverina Institute of TAFE, as well as private teaching, and produces her own works in printmaking, drawing, painting and textiles. Her continuing professional development includes attendance at a George Baldessin print workshop and George Gittoes drawing workshop as well as workshops in textiles, basketry and Japanese bookbinding. She has exhibited in Sydney and the Riverina, and her work is represented in the George Baldessin Print Collection, Charles Sturt University Art Collection and many private collections in Australia and Japan.

Anne Beileiter

is an emerging artist, born in Gundagai, who began painting in 1999. She uses acrylic paints, ink and mixed media on canvas and paper, drawing inspiration for her unique visual vocabulary from her everyday life and her dreams. She has also explored sculpture in Hebel, soapstone, and plaster-and-wire. Anne completed Certificate II Visual Arts at Riverina Institute of TAFE in 2004 and is studying for Certificate III in 2005. She has exhibited regularly in the Visual Arts Section of the Gundagai Show, winning First & Third 2005, First 2004, First & Third 2003, Second 2002 and First, Second and Section Champion in 2001.

anne louise bourke

trained in film-making in Melbourne and also has a BA and MA in Communications. Her videos have screened at the Melbourne Film Festival and on European television. Her first solo show, Give thanks for the blessings of the earth, explored spiritual and environmental themes with representations of wildflowers from the region. It presented prints, paintings and video at Galeria del Centro, Boorowa NSW in 2002. Anne has also shown watercolours with the South Gippsland watercolour artists, Victoria. In 2005 she is working on original prints at Megalo Access Arts, Canberra.

Jim Brooke

is a Gundagai musician and sculptor working in local stone and timbers. He has a profound respect for Aboriginal culture and history after spending many years leading tour groups in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, where his ongoing contacts with Aboriginal people have inspired some of his stone-carving.

Robyn Cerretti

has been a practising artist in Brunswick, Melbourne since 1990, working in painting, digital photography, video and sound. She has a BA Fine Art from RMIT, and was a shortlisted finalist in 2004 for the Siemens RMIT Fine Art Scholarship. Robyn has been involved in public art events, including several Fringe Festivals. In addition to numerous group shows in Melbourne and one in Sydney, her solo shows include re collection, 2004, Counihan Gallery Brunswick (Vic) and Roadtrip, 2003, First Site Gallery Melbourne. Robyn's work was also exhibited in the Wyndham Contemporary Art Prize at Werribee Cultural Centre in 2002.

Anne Clifford

worked for many years in advertising as a layout artist as well as owning and operating a photographic lab and studio. She has a Diploma of Applied Photographic Technology, and often uses her photographic skills in the creation of her artwork. Anne has been painting with acrylics, mixed media and oil glazes for many years, working with artists including Gray Smith, Anton Dabro and Ron Hartree. She has exhibited in Sydney and around NSW, and won Highly Commended in the 2003 Dobell Art Festival, Contemporary Section. Anne undertakes ongoing professional learning through workshops with artists including Cherry Hood, Jan Vincent and Peter Griffen. Represented in private collections in Melbourne, Sydney, London & Paris, she now resides in Tumut NSW.

Jill Clingan

worked in the nursing profession in Sydney, Papua New Guinea and Canberra for over 30 years. A visual artist since childhood, winning prizes and publishing drawings in early years, Jill returned to professional art practice in the 1980s, as well as obtaining her BA in Linguistics and Anthropology from ANU in the 1990s. Most of her work has been in printmaking and oil pastel. Her book Sketch Diary from Greece was published in 1987. Her professional development spans studies in sheet metalwork, multiplate colour etching, watercolour, jewellery, Japanese wood block and pastel. She also teaches pastel through University of the Third Age in Canberra. Recent prizes include the 2005 and 2004 Pastel Prizes, Cootamundra Wattle Time Art Exhibition; shared 2005 Pastel Prize, Cooma Art Exhibition; Pastel Second Prize, Harden-Murrumburrah Arts Council 2005 Exhibition, and the 2002 Pastel Prize, Perisher Blue Art Awards. Jill's work is represented in the National Library of Australia, the Kodaly Institute of Music, Hungary, and in many private collections in Australia and overseas.

Annette Copland

is a Coffs Harbour-based ceramic artist. She began studying ceramics in Darwin in the 1970s, commencing an Associate Diploma of Ceramics in 1976, and learning with potters and visiting craftspeople including Joy Barwick, Vince McGrath, Terry Davies and Marea Gazzard. Graduating from the Darwin Institute of Technology in 1981, she became the first pottery tutor at the NT Government's new Arts Complex, and conducted weekend workshops at Katherine, Humpty Doo and across Arnhem Land to Gove and Groote Eylandt. She was invited to tutor in ceramics at DIT from 1983-5, taking students on clay digs around the Territory and to beach pit firings. After moving to Coffs Harbour in 1988 she and her husband built the 27 cubic foot gas kiln which she still uses. Annette also continues Raku and pit firings and teaches private students. Her work is widely represented in private collections and in NSW and Queensland galleries.

Anne Davidson

began painting in 1978 at adult education classes, and over the next 11 years undertook various tuition with a range of artists and teachers, developing her own style with oil and acrylic on paper and canvas. She paints from imagination, mostly finding inspiration from her observation of nature. Anne's extensive exhibiting history includes having work hung in the 2001 and 2000 Gosford Art Prize, the 1999, 1997 and 1996 Singleton Art Prize, the 1994 and 1993 Mosman Art Prize, and the 2001, 1994 and 1993 Royal Easter Show Sydney, among many others. Her works are held in commercial collections in Sydney and in private collections in the UK, India, Brisbane, Surfer's Paradise and Sydney.

Loretta Devjak

was born in Sydney of Italian and Yugoslav parents. After her schooling she pursued a number of interests in the art field. She moved to Wagga Wagga NSW in 1990. After years in a design career that included graphic and interior work, both commercial and domestic, Loretta decided to pursue her passion for fine arts. In 2004 she completed a Diploma in Fine Arts at the Riverina Institute of TAFE and began an Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts, majoring in painting and sculpture. Her work has been twice preselected for the TAFE NSW Art Prize. Loretta cites her European heritage, life experiences and keen interest in politics, literature and philosophy as her drive to communicate through her artwork. She has exhibited in group shows in Wagga Wagga, and her work is held in private collections in Sydney, Canberra, Hong Kong and Wagga.

Pam Fein

studied still life and life drawing at North Sydney Technical College and life drawing, portraiture, still life, pastels and oils at the Australian National University School of Art. She has also attended the Sturt Summer School and other summer schools in printmaking, etching, monoprints, collagraphs, drypoint, watercolour, oils, portraiture, inks, linocuts and acrylics. Her primary interests include works in oils and non-toxic methods of printmaking using intaglio, collagraph and solar plates. Pam is a founding member of the Tin Shed Art Group in Canberra ACT, with whom she has exhibited regularly since 1998. She has also presented her work in a solo exhibition in Baltimore USA. Her works hang in private collections in Australia, the USA, Canada, Hungary, the United Kingdom and Serbia.

Marie Graham

was born in the UK of Irish parents. She spent three years teaching in Trinidad, before settling for 41 years in Papua New Guinea. She then lived in Wee Jasper for eight years and now resides in Canberra. Marie has continually supported the community as an artist with large scale décor and installations for a range of local festivals, celebrations and exhibitions. Her current medium is mainly woven tapestry which she designs and interprets using a variety of textiles and local materials. She is a member of Canberra's Spinners & Weavers Group, with whom she exhibits regularly. Her work is held in private collections in Sydney, Canberra, Wee Jasper and the NSW Central Coast.

Frank Grech and Lorraine Turel

moved to Gundagai in 2003 to settle in a weatherboard house on part of what was once the Old Darbalara Homestead. Restoring the gardens inspired them to start creating garden sculptures from old corrugated iron, which they source locally. Lorraine completed a welding course at Riverina Institute of TAFE in 2004, and together they make a range of rustic Australian animals and garden furniture from recycled metals.

Marlene Greenwood

has a background in art education, but more recently has followed her interest in textile arts, most especially in ecclesiastic hangings and in miniature silk paintings with embroidery. A large part of her current work is in fashion design, particularly fantasy outfits. The design process, and in particular an intense interest in colour and texture, are the basis of her work. Marlene's textile work will often incorporate collage and piecework in mixed media. She is a member of the Belconnen Artists' Network and lives and exhibits in Canberra.

Donna Hartwig

is a Wagga Wagga-based painter and sculptor who works with abstraction and texture. Her work has been directly influenced by a thirst for adventure and extensive travel in Europe, Britain, America, Asia, Japan, Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Donna initially pursued her interest in the arts through a career in special events, but after completing a contract with the NSW Ministry of the Arts in 2000, she decided to undertake formal arts education, and graduated from the Riverina Institute of TAFE in 2004 with a Diploma and Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts. In addition to various group exhibitions she held a solo show at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery in 2005. Donna's work is held in private collections in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Quirindi and Wagga Wagga. She is currently painting and sculpting full-time.

Peter Hey

was born in Coogee, Sydney. Early travels to Europe and the UK left him highly impressed with museum art, especially at the Louvre in Paris. After a career which included banking, civil contracting, horticulture, tea-tree plantation, timber milling and metallurgy, he has taken up art full-time. He also has extensive experience in woodturning and sculpture, particularly with Australian ironbarks. Peter began bronze casting in 2003 and marble sculpture in 2005, and now works in these media as well as in timber and bronze resin.

Ian Houssenloge

has exhibited and worked in southern regional NSW as a professional artist since 1999, completing a Grad. Dip. in Social Ecology, University of Western Sydney in 2000. He worked in the building industry as a ceramic tiler and design consultant for over 16 years, and uses buiding materials and everyday objects in many of his sculptures, in addition to stone, timber and metal. Ian has exhibited in solo and group shows in Canberra, Queanbeyan, Cowra, Jindabyne Sculpture by the Lake, Orange, Bungendore, Canowindra and Gundagai, and his sculpture Salmon Rusty is on permanent display at the Novotel Resort, Lake Crackenback. Another sculpture, Legionnaires, a 6-metre high steel robotic figure, can be seen on a property beside the Monaro Highway at Royalla NSW, and features in the book The Road South by Ruth McFadden.
http://www.enink.com

Ken Hutchinson

is an established artist from the Central West of NSW who works primarily in the sculptural media of wood and stone. He has exhibited in Sydney, Canberra and Orange and has twice been selected for the East Coast Sculpture Prize in Ballina, winning Highly Commended in 2004. Ken curated the Western Area Sculptors Exhibition at Cowra in 2004, and has directed environmental and community art events including Sculpture on the Mount, Lachlan Valley 2002. In 2005 Ken was selected to participate in the National Limestone Carving Symposium in Mount Gambier, along with several international artists, and will also be Artist in Residence at Hill End from August to September.

Ron Kirkland

grew up in Sydney. He studied art at the National Art School, East Sydney in 1953, then undertook a BA and additional teacher training at Sydney University, graduating in 1960. He taught at country schools in Warren, Dubbo, Cowra and in 1971 moved to Cootamundra NSW. While Head Teacher of English and History at Cootamundra High School he also studied art at Cootamundra TAFE from 1987-90, and began exhibiting in 1987. Most of his work is in oils, but he also paints in watercolour and pen-and-wash. Among many prizes Ron has won the Cootamundra Shire Award, the Kruger Prize for best picture in the Harden Murrumburrah Arts Council Show, and his work has been hung at the Royal Easter Show, Sydney and in the Bald Archy.

Louise Klein

was born in Sydney and studied art from an early age in the studio of her aunt Betty Morgan, a well-known Sydney portraitist and art teacher, who worked in close association with Dattilo Rubbo. After brief studies in commercial art Louise returned to fine art, completing commissions including many portraits of thoroughbred horses which hang in Sydney homes. She worked on the Gold Coast for 14 years, where many of her paintings and murals can be found, before moving to Gundagai in 2001, where she teaches privately. In recent years she has entered paintings in the Archibald, Doug Moran and Bald Archy competitions, winning the Bald Archy satirical portrait prize in 2003 with her painting of Robbie and Gai Waterhouse. Her professional development includes attendance at art camps in the Blue Mountains, Bathurst, Grafton Artfest and the Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney.

Isha Knill

was born in Zimbabwe in 1970. In her early 20s she began experimenting with her artistic flair, combining her love of paint, colour and texture with the earthy elements in the weave and design of fabrics to successfully create a unique style, on which she founded an interior design business in Harare, including a retail outlet selling her Isha range of fabrics and soft furnishings, and decorating a number of houses throughout Zimbabwe. Isha and her family migrated to Australia in 2004, settling in Deniliquin NSW. Inspired by her 'new world', she began to create paintings incorporating the rustic feel and touch of her work in fabric. She won First Prize in the Modern Art Section, Deniliquin Rotary Easter Art Show 2005, and has recently exhibited at galleries in Griffith NSW, Finley NSW, the Waverley Art Prize (Sydney), and Pantechnicon Gallery Daylesford Victoria.
isha@gotalk.net.au

Barbara Leigh

was born in Griffith NSW of Wiradjuri Aboriginal descent and grew up in Gundagai. She has attended Riverina Institute of TAFE, Tumut Campus, from 1993, studying computers, sewing, Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Practice, and Visual Arts. Barbara works primarily in painting and also explores drawing and sculpture. She received the Koori Achievement Award for highest achiever in a vocational course, and Outstanding Graduate Award for Visual Arts Certificate III in 2004. In 2005 her painting Falling Leaves won First Prize in the Open Section, Cootamundra Wattle Time Art Exhibition.

William J Leigh

was born in Gundagai of Wiradjuri Aboriginal descent. He has attended Riverina Institute of TAFE, Tumut Campus, studying printmaking, sculpture and painting, and has also worked in pyrography.

Richard Lyle

arrived in Australia from Wales in 1965. He grew up on Sydney's Northern Beaches and settled in Gundagai in 2001, where he works as a policeman. He began creating art in the late 1990s, inspired by the works of other artists, and makes 'junk sculpture' from recycled materials including metal and timber.

Alan McClure

spent nine years in London after Army service in WWII, furthering his drawing and painting skills. Returning to Brisbane in 1956 he worked as staff artist for the Courier Mail, then in Sydney for the Sydney Morning Herald, Sun Herald and People magazine, also creating comic strips which ran in Woman's Day, the Australian Financial Review and the London Observer. During all this time Alan continued painting and drawing. Deciding he wanted to work full-time as a painter and illustrator, he and his family moved to Cootamundra in 1975, where he taught at TAFE until 1989. Alan exhibits regularly at the Royal Easter Show Sydney, and many regional shows, and his numerous prizes include the 2004 and 1994 Harden Murrumburrah Arts Council Kruger Award (Best of Show); 2003 Best of Show, Henry Lawson Festival Grenfell; 1995 Bald Archy; and 1984 Open Award, Cowra Art Festival. Alan's work is represented in many private collections both in Australia and overseas, and he has illustrated five books, most recently Frank Daniel's Chucking Rocks.

Hazel McIntyre

trained in ceramics at Cootamundra TAFE with Judi Elliot from 1968. She established her own kiln at her home in Coolac NSW, where she combined her ceramic skills with lapidary, as well as breeding sheep and training working dogs with her husband, and spinning wool. At present Hazel does most of her pottery on the wheel, but does some hand-building, using earthenware and stoneware clays. Her knowledge of minerals acquired through lapidary has been of use to her both in ceramic glazing and in the dyeing of wool, and some of her ceramic works incoporate Australian semi-precious stones.

Jane Mitchell

attended Art College in Salisbury, England for a while after leaving school, then put art on hold while she pursued other careers, travelled and raised a family. In 2002 she started painting and drawing again, initially creating detailed pen and watercolour drawings before undertaking studies in pastels. Developing a love for this medium, Jane attended workshops with well-known Sydney and South Coast pastel artists and diversified into oils, studying Impressionist landscape painting with Colley Whisson. Specialising in landscapes and portraits, she has exhibited successfully in and around the Canberra region, and in 2004 was the winner of the Queanbeyan Leagues Club Works on Paper acquisitive prize. Jane also runs her own full time picture framing business in Canberra and is an active member of both the Artist Society of Canberra and the Queanbeyan Artist Society.

Anthony Murphy

is an engineer who has been working with metal for 45 years and runs his own firm, A T Murphy Engineering, in Wagga Wagga NSW. Over several years he has begun designing and creating a range of metal sculptures and garden furniture, inspired by the Australian bush and the 'Aussie backyard'.

Freda Nicholls

grew up in Perth WA where she explored art from an early age in the studios of artists Robert Juniper and George Haynes. Discovering photography in high school, she was awarded a Sydney Morning Herald photographic commendation for her work in 1983. Freda moved to Gundagai when she married a farmer, and now also works as a freelance writer and photographer for publications including Outback and Hoofs&Horns. Living on a farm with her husband and children has made her acutely aware of the importance of the seasons, and of being good custodians of the land, plants and animals. She has recently begun exploring digital photography and digital image manipulation, applied to her photographs of country life.

Meagan Osgood

is an emerging artist from Tumut NSW. She studied Visual Arts at Riverina Institute of TAFE in 2004, working in painting, drawing, mixed media and collage.

Jay Segall

was born and grew up in England. He served in the British Army and later in the Australian Army as an artillery officer. He held an executive position with French oil company Total before setting up and managing his own retail fuel business. Having dabbled in painting for many years, Jay took up serious art studies with Australian landscape artists Dora and James Jackson in 1965. He developed a style in the post-Heidelberg tradition of the Melbourne Gallery. Since the late 1960s he has won a number of awards, including Highly Commended in the 1988 Willoughby Bicentennial Art Competition, exhibited widely and received many commissions from collectors of Australian traditional landscape painting. Jay settled in Gundagai in 1994, and his work is now inspired primarily by its landscape together with those of the Snowy Mountains and Murrumbidgee River valley. He is a member of the Tumut Art Society, exhibits and wins prizes in local and regional Shows, and his paintings hang in several of Gundagai's historic buildings.

Wendy Shanley

is a Canberra-based artist who works extensively with resin and mixed media sculpture, painting and assemblage. She exhibited across Victoria and NSW in group and solo exhibitions of photography from 1983 to 1987 and has exhibited with other artistic genres since 2000 in the ACT and southern NSW. Wendy studied photography through the Australian Photographic Society in 1983-4, printmaking with Chris Graham in 1988, welding with the Canberra Institute of TAFE in 2001 and completed a basketry course under Virginia Kaiser at Sturt Gallery in January 2005. Her work reflects her interest in human, social and political conditions but she has also begun displaying works centred on Australia's geography, flora and fauna.

Barb Smith

has a background in science and journalism, but since completing a diploma in Photomedia at the ANU Institute of the Arts in 1992 she has been a fulltime artist and writer. Barb has had six solo shows in Melbourne and Canberra, and has contributed images to more than 100 group exhibitions in the ACT, Victoria, NSW, Queensland and the UK. Her art work is based on the use of camera optics to modify, distort or create different perceptions of reality. She is a member of the Multicultural MultiFocus group of photographers and a foundation member of the Australian Photographic Society's Contemporary Group. Barb has curated two group exhibitions: Cuban Kaleidoscope, shown in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and Wollongong (1993-5), and Mirage and Metaphor for the Australian Photographic Society in Canberra (2000). Her images and her articles on the visual arts have appeared in a variety of Australian publications including The Canberra Times, Professional Photography in Australasia, Panorama and Image. She has also had several short stories published.

Tim Spellman

was born in Cooma NSW and worked for many years in landscaping and horticulture before undertaking a BA Visual Arts (sculpture honours) at the Australian National University, graduating in 2000. He has since worked as Technical Officer for the Ceramics and Core Studies workshops at ANU School of Art, as well as completing public commissions including installations in Belconnen Library forecourt (ACT), National Institute of the Arts School of Music (ACT) and Chatswood Park, Sydney. Tim works primarily in sculpture, drawing and acrylic painting. His awards include a 2000 MAAS Emerging Artist Support Scheme Award of Excellence in Sculpture and a 2001 Australia Council Emerging Artist Grant. He has exhibited widely in the ACT and southern NSW from the late 1990s, and also participated in the 1999 Taipei 9th Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Taiwan.

Maria Stephenson

is an artist from Wagga Wagga NSW who works with recyled materials, fencing wire and found objects. She is self-taught and draws inspiration from the Australian vernacular, domestic objects and gardens, and farm animals. Maria has exhibited with Kath Powdley in Wagga Wagga and at local exhibitions and events, and her works have sold widely to private collectors in NSW, Victoria and Queensland.

Denise Sutherland

was born in Melbourne and has been involved in art since her childhood. She studied Biological Sciences at the Australian National University and also has a degree in Graphic Design from Reid CIT, Canberra. In 1993 she began creating 'recycled art'. Working in papier mâché, assemblage and collage, she loves giving discarded materials a new life in art. Denise has exhibited and taught in both the US and Australia, and has been widely commissioned, including for a series of collages to illustrate a national Centrelink publication. She was the recipient of an artsACT Emerging Artist Grant in 2003. In 2005 she is teaching Collage and Papier Mâché at the Woden Brain Gym, Canberra.
http://sutherland-studios.com.au

Do Thanh Hai

was born in 1959 in Thanh Hoa province in central Vietnam. He studied painting and graduated from Hanoi Art College in 1980. His works in oil on canvas and gouache on paper explore his chosen subjects: the ancient streets of Hanoi, the Vietnamese rural landscape and lifestyle, and abstract themes. His paintings are brought to Australia by Art of Vietnam, Canberra, and are also exhibited and sold in France and Italy.

Dianne Thompson

was born in Western Australia but has lived most of her life in the ACT. Her relationship with bushlands and the natural environment began as a child, and continued through the medium of photography, extended through voluntary work in NSW and ACT National Parks. Dianne has a deep commitment to the protection of iconic Australian bush heritage, from alpine mountain huts to the grand pastoral buildings of outback NSW. In 2003, having experienced the devastating Canberra fires, she published her first book, Ring of Fire 2003, in which she documented the aftermath in the ACT and alpine parks. She also won three photographic competitions: the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme Photo of the Year; Woden Community Council Arts Competition; and NSW National Parks Association Photographic Competition. Further photographic prizes followed in 2004. An image from her recent exhibition Kosciuszko National Park Recovery After the Fires is held in the NSW Parliamentary Collection.
www.bajabout.com

Ross Tranter

is a scientific instrument maker working at the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mount Stromlo, Canberra. Ross has worked all his life in research environments, and made his first sculpture in 2003 from stainless steel, incorporating burnt timber and fused telescope lens glass salvaged from the firestorm destruction of Mount Stromlo Observatory. He has since gone on to create works combining a range of materials, including metals, timber and concrete, which have been exhibited in Canberra. Ross is self-taught and applies his precision technical skills to the making of his sculptures.

 

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