WINNER

Artist Name: PAUL TREFRY - WINNER

Artwork Title: UNWANTED

Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 55 x 40cm

Artist Statement:

The homeless are avoided and frowned upon, and for the most part treated as worthless beings in human society. The reality is they were once husbands or wife’s, mothers and fathers, or children to someone just like ourselves, but now they wander alone.

The concept of this piece was to make people aware of the plight of the homeless,
to treat them like everyone else, acknowledge them and smile, show them they aren't invisible. It's amazing how these little acts can brighten someone's day.

PEOPLE CHOICE

Artist Name: JACQUELINE MICHELL BUTTERWORTH

Artwork Title: UNFORGETTABLE

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 34 x 34cm

Price: $1600

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: MICHELLE CAITENS

Artwork Title: QUEEN OF POP!

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 61 x 61cm

Artist Statement:

Warhol's iconic screen print portrait of Marilyn is a quintessential image of the 60's pop era.
This artwork shows a juxtaposition between hyper-realistic fine art and pop art, blurring the boundaries between these artistic movements.
it captures the essence of what is real and what is a false reality, much like the beautiful and fragile woman it portrays.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: ROBBIE ERSKINE

Artwork Title: POSSUM'S PEARL

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 46 x 40cm

Artist Statement:

Referencing one of my favourite Old Masters, Vermeer, "Possum's Pearl" is a recreation of one of his classic paintings with a touch of Australian wildlife.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: CHRISTINA WALKER

Artwork Title: TOO MANY QUESTIONS, NOT ENOUGH ANSWERS

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas

Size: 30 x 61cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

My found animals, my spirit animals, have all their own character and personality. And they have a clear message if we take a moment, allow ourselves to be quiet and listen with our soul.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: GABI MIKA-MCNAUGHTON

Artwork Title: JO, ALICE AND I

Medium: Acrylic on Cotton

Size: 40 x 5cm

Price: $950

Artist Statement:

I have a house full of family heirlooms and sentimental objects that i will keep forever
.Objects of meaning...things that I can not part with. Three Vases, two from Jo, a past neighbour and one from Alice my great great Grandmother in front of a seascape of mine.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: SACHI OIZUMI

Artwork Title: CLASSICAL ORDER

Medium: natural mineral pigments

Size: 42 x 38cm

Price: $3000

Artist Statement:

I am sometimes reminded of the 'classical order' that I once believed in.
I feel that the form that has been built up by such predecessors up to now no longer fits the times. In response to this major change, I express the 'classical order' that I once believed in.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: NATASHA RUSCHKA

Artwork Title: BLUE GUM AND BANKSIAS

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 64 x 54cm

Price: $1100

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: MARLIES OAKLEY

Artwork Title: THINKING INSIDE THE BOX (CUBED)

Medium: Handcut Collage inside 462 Matchboxes in Perspex Cube

Size: 41 x 41cm

Price: $3500

Artist Statement:

Like the world we live in, the cube can be viewed from many angles.

Things have been flipped on their heads, and we have been forced to re-evaluate, re-think and reinvent the way we live our lives.

It taught many of us to Think Inside the Box, here are 462 stories

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: KALINDA WITCHEY

Artwork Title: 2022

Medium: oil on ampersand gesso bord

Size: 41 x 31cm

Price: $690

Artist Statement:

For many reasons I am captivated and drawn to paint the human skull.
It's bold and somewhat confronting symbology of mortality is a constant reminder of how precious our time is on earth.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: MELANIE KILBY

Artwork Title: PURE JOY

Medium: Pencil on paper

Size: 59 x 39cm

Price: $1700

Artist Statement:

Seeing a bee gleefully rolling around in pollen is pure joy. In the hive that pollen becomes sweet, highly nutritious honey which gives them energy to collect even more pollen. An incredible cycle of productivity that our whole planet relies on to feed us all.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: ANNETTE RAFF

Artwork Title: DELICATE BALANCE

Medium: Mixed media

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $2200

Artist Statement:

Using my small drawings, texture studies and mono-prints inspired by nature, I began adding and subtracting, defining and defusing, fragmenting, and unifying collaged pieces. Elements of man-made structures mingle with organic marks creating hybrid forms. The connecting and disconnecting passages emulate the delicate balance vital to our existence with nature.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: DELLENE STRONG

Artwork Title: BUNDARA CREEK I

Medium: watercolour

Size: 60 x 49cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

As an artist I want to reveal both the energy and beauty of nature. This artwork is close to home, the creek on the edge of my property. I’m inspired by the ever-changing filtered light, dappled rocks and reflections in the water.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: MINHAN CHO

Artwork Title: SUNDAY AFTERNOON, BRENNAN PARK

Medium: oil

Size: 45 x 61cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

“Sunday afternoon, Brennan park” is recreated from the plein air sketch at Brennan Park in Bribie Island QLD in 2022. It is such a vibrant place with strong contrast. I tried to capture the atmosphere with limited values and simplicity.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: DONNA MALONE

Artwork Title: BOY WITH YELLOW JUMPER

Medium: mixed media and collage on vintage paper

Size: 30 x 21cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

This work is about the innocense of children. I feel there is more pressure on children to conform to outdated sexual stereotypes and adult ideas than ever before, with the explosion of social media. I drew this vintage photo of an unknown child I found on the internet using watercolour on old book end pages which I have treated and collaged. Children are our legacy and it is up to adults to protect them from harm.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: DITA ANGELES

Artwork Title: GLAMOUROUS ANONYMOUS

Medium: oil on polyester canvas

Size: 33 x 27cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

With the concept of Identity rife as a contemporary objective, the images we’re shown are designed to gratify our personal ideals. Anyone aesthetically correct enough is sufficient to be celebrated & idolised in these images, ironically as a "nobody", so that we might project & imprint on their empty shell.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: JOHN HUTTON

Artwork Title: DICKABRAM BRIDGE

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 50 x 60cm

Price: $2500

Artist Statement:

My preoccupation is with the emotional potential of physical spaces. My surroundings become a springboard to explore personal responses to environments, both exterior and interior. Abandoned places, emptied landscapes and detailed architectural structures, bear traces of human presence and are suggestive of what went before, or what might still occur.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: DE GILLETT COX

Artwork Title: INTO OBSCURITY

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 51 x 61cm

Price: $950

Artist Statement:

Breeding the black out of Australia’s First Nations Peoples was an aim of the policy behind the Stolen Generation. Our national flower, the wattle, is here portrayed in pretty innocence obscuring traditional dot patterns as they fade, massacred into sepia-tinted, inaccurately re-written history.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: MARRILYN STAHMER

Artwork Title: NIGHT GLOW

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 58 x 53cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

The dragon fruit flower only opens for a 12 hour period and for most people it is never seen. I wanted to show how sculptural this magnificent flower is and paint it’s beauty so it can be seen and admired.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: KENNETH INWOOD

Artwork Title: THE RECITAL

Medium: Acrylic on paper

Size: 40 x 50cm

Price: $1950

Artist Statement:

A background of battered classical remnants at a recital contrasts sadly with the music's vitality, though both represent a culture which has captured the audience behind a girl, who faces and involves the spectator. Perhaps the music speaks of a thread binding the audience to their origin and their future.