Salon des Refusés
Artist Name: LEIGH SCHOENHEIMER
Artwork Title: URBAN FOREST (BOXED LANDSCAPE)
Medium: Acrylic on Ply with laser cut perspex and hollow copper rivets
Size: 41 x 61cm
About the Artist:
Multi-disciplinary artist Leigh Schoenheimer is known for her thought provoking, multi-panelled paintings and idiosyncratic assemblages. Regularly shortlisted in an array of significant art awards, her work was recently toured throughout QLD’s regional gallery network courtesy of Flying Arts Alliance and is part of many private and public collections throughout Australia.
Artist Statement:
A contained ‘forest’ shows signs of intrusion by the built-environment, while the draftsman happily plans the next phase of development. With the surveyor’s sight and bulldozer at the ready, a ghostly gum-tree hovers, as a reminder of what might be at stake.
These two stylistically disparate images tell a story, drawn from my anxieties around the plight of our natural environment. As well as the unfolding narrative, by presenting two very different image styles side by side, the work also sets up a conversation about representation and interpretation in image making.
Artist Name: TERESA POON
Artwork Title: MUNGO AT DUSK
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 20 x 20cm
About the Artist:
Teresa is an emerging artist living and working in Brisbane. She works primarily with acrylic and draws inspiration from the colours and transient details of everyday life.
Artist Statement:
'Mungo at Dusk' preserves the last glow of light over the landscape as the sun sets on Mungo National Park.
Artist Name: WAYNE SINGLETON
Artwork Title: GOING ABOUT LIVING
Medium: hand coloured linocut print
Size: 65 x 88cm
About the Artist:
Printmaking makes me be still and it gives me a grounding that comes from reflecting on my relational place in the world; it is a way of appropriately being in it.
I draw and cut my relief blocks in lino. Relief block-making has been a constant thread throughout my adult life.
Artist Statement:
This print captures a moment on a friend’s property at Ilkley in Southeast Queensland.
Our viewpoint determines much of what we make of the world.
The same is true for birds; we weren’t viewed as predators or competitors, thus could be ignored while the seed gleaning was undertaken.
Artist Name: JOSEPHINE HILL
Artwork Title: ALONG THE WAY.
Medium: Mixed Media
Size: 61 x 91cm
About the Artist:
Josephine has communicated using visual art, for decades. As a Colour Designer she assisted clients to achieve colour schemes which reflect their personality and transform their spaces. Currently, she splits her days between, teaching visual art and working on her artworks. As an artist, she is evolving, exploring and experimenting whilst continuously learning and shaping her practice.
Artist Statement:
Driving South, along the coast road, on an 11 hour journey, a few hours in, the land began to awaken. The sun rose, the beauty and majesty of the Northern NSW landscape lay ‘along the way’ in front of me. The shapes and layers of colour capture this magnificent moment.
Artist Name: KERRY DRYSDALE
Artwork Title: FALLEN SKY MINJERRIBAH
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 90 x 90cm
About the Artist:
Kerry Drysdale is a Brisbane artist and art educator. Kerry has had various exhibitions in Brisbane. He works are based on his love of the Queensland subtropical climate and landscape with a particular interest in decay, light and shadow.
Artist Statement:
This work is taken from a camping trip to Minjerribah island (Stradbroke Island) in December 2021. I have tried to capture the contrasting play of light and shadow on a creek in the late afternoon. The technique is much influenced by French Impressionism.
Artist Name: SOPHIE DALGLEISH
Artwork Title: DAWN
Medium: oil on linen
Size: 30 x 30cm
About the Artist:
please see www.sophiedalgleish.net
Artist Statement:
" Sophie's fascination with the Australian landscape is present throughout her work, focusing on the observation of nature and its different interpretations. Her paintings are an exquisite offering of 'views through small windows', these are evocative vignettes of those soft warm, sensual experiences that we associate with luxuriating in beautiful countryside and feeling 'at one with Nature'. "
Artist Name: ROGER CALLEN
Artwork Title: MUSIC BOX (RECYCLING.HISTORY).
Medium: Mixed media, found objects, collage, acrylics, watercolour on interactive recycled cardboard packet.
Size: 102 x 40cm
About the Artist:
Roger is an artist and poet who loves to invent and try new methods. He works in painting, collage and construction mainly with landscape and still life. His works address the cultural transformation of nature and form. He works on site and in studio mainly on paper and canvas.
Artist Statement:
The cardboard packet is the container for much consumer domestic hardware and when opened up produces challenging odd shapes and panels. Mother's music box fascinated her children and grandchildren. The box cannot be opened, but everything else can, symbolizing the private and public aspects of life history and place.j
Artist Name: ZORICA PURLIJA
Artwork Title: FADE INTO YOU
Medium: Archival Pigment print.
Size: 63 x 90cm
About the Artist:
Zorica Purlija has spent the past twenty years practicing as a fine art photographer and raising her family. She is currently based in Sydney. Of Montenegrin heritage, she migrated from Serbia to Australia in 1972 at age 8. Immersed in an unfamiliar culture and language, she learned that the nuances of human interaction were often more revealing than words. After graduating with distinction in graphic design and photography she travelled to Europe, where she devoted several years to the experience of life and art. In 2020 she completed her Masters of Art in Photo Media at the UNSW School of Art and Design.
Zorica’s practice is focused on attachments; the psychology and space around our primary relationships and how it impacts the future self. Her work incorporates ethereal elements of landscape and everyday objects seen in new ways. Zorica’s art is informed by her feminist values.
Zorica exhibits widely with recent exhibitions in Manhattan, Zurich and Venice. She has been a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize, HeadOn Portrait Prize, the Bowness Award, the Kuala Lumpur Photographic Portrait Award, the Ulrick Award and the Olive Cotton Award.
Artist Statement:
In this series my desire is to reclaim the wholeness we are born with in Nature, a symbiosis forgotten about with the progress of modernization. The figure and landscape are one, both reveling in the beauty of each other.
The landscape here is of a place imbued with body, memory and life itself.
“Landscape is not only an aesthetic category, but a site where individual and collective memories are inscribed: by destroying it, we may deprive ourselves of our identities.”
Rosario Assunto 's Philosophy of Landscape.
Artist Name: SHEREE WRIGHT
Artwork Title: PROFOUND - DIVINE NATURE5
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 111 x 122cm
About the Artist:
Sheree Wright is an Adelaide based artist who works mainly with oils in contemporary tonal realism. Sheree holds an Associates Degree in Visual Arts from Adelaide Central School of Art and is a full time artist spanning over 20 years. Her theme, representing nature and life.
Artist Statement:
Earthly and Divine
Divine art is the divinity we see in the inner world and the outer world, in the world of our earthly experience. The existence of this painting is of my imagination to move with nature into spirituality, where landscape and reflection reveal central images in a divergent perspective.
Artist Name: SHERYL LEE FAINGES
Artwork Title: TOTEM POLE, CAPE HAUY, TAS
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 91 x 91cm
About the Artist:
My name is Sheryl Fainges and I am a local Brisbane Artist who recently moved to Toowoomba. I work with oils, acrylics and watercolour. I paint a variety of subject matter. I have a Grad. Dip. of Visual Arts from Griffith University and I enjoy attending workshops run by local artists.
Artist Statement:
I am fascinated with the rugged shoreline of Tasmania. In painting the 'Totem Pole", I chose to use acrylics with medium applied by the palette knife to create a sense of drama highlighting the cold, choppy, ocean waters set against the rugged windswept rock formations.