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City Slickers II - Opening Night Tuesday 10th April 2012

6pm - 8pm

 

Eleven contemporary Sydney artists including Jenna Bloom, Droogie, H Fish, Lesley Dimmick, Steve Mc Laren, Lewis Staples, Edmond Thommen, Nikki Mc Donald, Sharyne Doughty, Nick Flynne, Pedro and Victor Peralta.

Currently Showing

 

 

 

Sharyne Jewell (nee Doughty) is a Sydney based artist with a BFA from RMIT where she majored in Painting and Film
Making (animation). She has a background in dance and currently works as a fitness instructor.

Her paintings fall into two distinct categories: her relationship with the external world, and that of people in her
world and own self-reflection.Sharyne's second theme is an examination of the fleeting quality of beauty and sensuality.

Sharyne has won a number of art awards including:
The People’s Choice Award for the Kings Cross Art Guild Images Of The Cross Art Prize (2004)
The People's Choice Award for the Amnesty International Freedom Award (2002 and 2005). 
Sharyne was a finalist in Cromwell's Art Prize (2006).
Sharyne's works are in private collections in the UK, Europe, USA and across Australia.

 

 

Previous Shows

Wild Eye

An exhibition of photography
and art celebrating the
world’s natural beauty, and
the plants and animals we
share our planet with.

Stuart Cohen
Rosie Nicolai
Sandra Guy
Lesley Dimmick
Zackery Thomas
Peter Sherratt
Sarah Veitch
Neil Hammond
Mel Broe
Matt Feierabend
Di Robinson

16 November–Sunday 4 December 2011

 

 

 

  

 

Yelena Dyumin  is an Australian Artist from a Russian background. Yelena’s work is unique as a result of blending European art classics with fresh Australian colours of life and nature imbedded with her European life experiences.

Yelena has participated in numerous exhibitions and galleries around , the Middle East, Europe and having developed a large network of friends, collectors and investors.

Yelena is passionate about quality rather than quantity when it comes to producing finer art works. Yelena believes artistic merit is the product of inspiration, dedication and time.

 Yelena's work now on show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anastassia Balachova

Anastassia Balachova was born in St Petersburg, Russia. She came to Australia in 2000, where she completed her HSC, and then went on to study at the National Art School in Darlinghurst. In 2008, she completed a fine arts degree, majoring in painting.
Since that time Anasstassia has been a practicing artist. Her work often contains a narrative within which she develops characters and creates a context for her work. Anastassia often uses a brave selection of colours in her palette and her work often has an innocent tone combined with a poetic representation of her subjects in her pieces.

CATE TOWNSEND

Cate Townsend is an artist from the North Coast of NSW, utilizing her Graphic Design skills to generate thought processes in Adobe Photoshop to create work that she then transfers onto canvas. Cate also works intuitively with colour straight onto the canvas letting the flow of paint dictate the composition. Cate likens herself to the Bowerbird, as she is drawn to blues and turquoises, collecting bits and pieces (treasures from the artists universe) to produce her work.
Work to be included in “Slick City Chicks” Exhibition

 

CHRISTINE HAY 

Christine is an emerging artist living in Sydney’s inner west ‘Warren’ community, South Marrickville, near the Cooks River. 
Her studio is located nearby at the Old Streets Ice Cream Factory, Turrella. 
Spiritual connection to the natural environment and local history narratives are themes that underpin Christine’s work.
A fascination for water and her passion for the Sydney bush are unmistakable in her art practice and profession as a landscape architect.
Through her use of oil on canvas; she re-interprets her research and dreamlike impressions to develop a series of related works to tell her stories.
Textured surfaces, vivid colours, a strong ‘sense of movement’ and depth are characteristic of her paintings.
Christine often paints ‘en plein air’ by the Cooks River and is working towards an exhibition in 2012.

 

Graziella Alaimo
Graziella Alaimo is an Italian artist whose work has been influenced by the Italian landscape. She has received classical training in graphic design, together with photography and advertising, and has worked in the field for several years. Graziella has exhibited her work in her much loved city Torino, Italy where she was part of a group of young artists, musicians, photographers and models trying to find expression in a new language and a new space.

Following her partner, she moved to Sydney some years ago, where after a period of time spent exploring and understanding her new country, she again started to paint.

Her recent body of work involves the creation of invented and biographical character-based narrative, that attempts to resolve and awkward balancing act between pas knowledge and future desire, whether sexual of nonsexual. Influenced by history, by fashion and the pursuit of beauty, the artist imbues her imaginary world with a potent mix of lost love and sexual longing.

Her lovely idealised figures of women seem lost in their own world drifting between the 19th and 21st century. Be they superheroes, villains, goddesses or nymphs, the women are created from a mix of imagery from the late Renaissance period and from photos of modern women. The artist has positioned these beautiful women against backgrounds reminiscent of the famous paintings of Botticelli, and of Leonardo de Vinci, and others, to challenge the reality of what fuels our desires and insecurities. The story that emerges from this contrast of figure and backgoround is blured w and only suggested. "We will all have own interpretations and own won memories" the artist said "... and i tray to leave noom for this, in my painting." The women in it do not merely represent themselves, rather they portray the physical beauty and emotional energy of a universal womanhood with new idols, new heroes. These unattainable images of beauty and elitism sedate our senses. We can only pay homage to these images that we as new idols in our search for eternal youth.

 

Sharyne Jewell (nee Doughty)

Sharyne Jewell (nee Doughty) is a Sydney based artist with a BFA from RMIT in Melbourne where she majored in Painting & Film Making (animation).
Her work attempts to find harmony between nature and man's impact upon it and searches to find beauty within the often harsh realities of life. Sharyne paints highly textured canvases then embroiders found objects on to them. She likes the idea of transforming the everyday in to something beautiful & new … alchemy!
More recently she has been working with digital imagery, photographing her canvases then merging them with self portraits and photographs of friends to immortalize a uniquely mortal happening … ethereal and yet familiar at the same time.
Sharyne has won a number of art awards including the People’s Choice Award for the Kings Cross Art Guild Images Of The Cross Art Prize (2004) and the People's Choice Award for the Amnesty International Freedom Award (2002 and 2005). She was a finalist in Cromwell's Art Prize (2006). Her works are in private collections in the UK, Europe, USA and across Australia.

 

 

 

 

Sobrane

Sobrane has just got back from riding from Perth to Broome on a tandem push bike. Whilst in Broome she did a photographic shoot of James Price Point in the Kimberley and those photos will be exhibited at TAP Gallery, Darlinghurst in October.  That journey has inspired her so much that she is now writing a book, supplemented with her photography.
Sobrane has had many solo exhibitions around the country. She is originally from Western Australia, where she trained at Edith Cowan University, Academy of Performing Arts. She just spent 2 months at the end of last year as a Fremantle Festival Artist.  If you look for Sobrane you will find her drawing life models at least 3 times a week, bike riding down the beach in the early morning sunlight to catch those especially lit morning light beach shots and is fascinated with the way water falls within a wave.
She is heading back to Broome and up to Cape Leveque for more photos. Cape Leveque is a very remote outpost in the Kimberley’s only accessible by 4WD and a strong man! It is a Peninsular and apparently has some amazing footage to be taken.

 

 

SUSAN BOYLE (b. 1961)
Susan honed her skills working for many years as a professional illustrator in the advertising industry, excelling in drawing of all kinds on demand. She has illustrated several books and created commissioned works of every kind, from caricatures to portraits in a variety of media on paper and canvas, however her real passion lies in portraiture.

 

Yelena Dyumin

Yelena Dyumin is born and raised in Omsk, a Russian town in the middle of Siberia, full of history and famous for an active arts community, was the foundation for her exceptional talents.
In 2005 Yelena moved to Sydney, Australia, where she now lives and works, making this incredible city her home.
Yelena is a very rare and powerful artist who possesses the magnificent gift of creating classical art in a modern world. Her art creates a deep emotional connection between objects and human beings via her inspirational ability to illustrate the exceptional beauty of everyday life. Her vast repertoire of artistic techniques conveys this message in so many forms, where the result is simply unforgettable.
Yelena's finely tuned mix media techniques encompass numerous art forms: etching, lithography, xylography, pencil, oil, acrylic and watercolours.

 

 

 

 Sandra Guy

ECHOES of the PAST
Introducing the Fossil Artefacts range of ceramics by Sandra Guy
 
A reverence for ancient and beautiful things is evident in the exquisite new Fossil Artefacts range of delicate ceramic pieces by Sydney ceramic and visual artist, Sandra Guy.
 
A mysterious allure pervades the entire Fossil Artefacts collection.  The unique, hand-crafted pieces are eerily reminiscent of fossils or archaeological relics, evoking primordial times and extinct species. The pieces are meticulously presented in beautifully crafted timber box frames and have the gravitas of precious museum specimens, whispering seductively of our ancient and pagan past. 
 
Sandra’s colour palette is appropriately subtle and subdued. Warm sables snuggle into pale peaches; there are mossy greens like the patina of old copper; and rich mocha chocolates melt into creamy cocoas.  Natural mineral oxides are fired into the clay tablets to form the delicate, permanent hues that won’t fade even in high humidity or strong sunlight.
 
The range is inspired and distinctive: a modern and intriguing take on the current interior decorating passion for Victoriana, both authentic and faux. The pieces, all individually handcrafted and unique, have a quiet resonance when displayed individually.  However, when seen grouped as a series they have a truly formidable presence.  They resemble antique curios, clay tablets or shards of pottery retrieved, we could imagine, during exotic archaeological expeditions.

“With my Fossil Artefacts range I try to resolve a dichotomy”, Sandra explains.  My pieces honour the fragile, delicate and ephemeral beauty of nature while simultaneously acknowledging that nature itself employs the strongest power in the universe: the gentle yet irresistible tenacity of time.”
 
“While decorative and straightforward on one level, the fossil metaphor nevertheless captures the essence of my deeper themes”, explains Sandra.  “As an artist I strive to create pieces with strong visual appeal. However, I also need to convey some deep, heart-felt environmental commitments and if I am even partly successful at both then my pieces might initiate a conversation between myself and the viewer, which I find a supremely challenging artistic concept in itself.” 
 
Sandra’s Fossil Artefacts range is simply compelling. These pieces radiate a quiet power and manage to evoke a sense of awe and wonder.  Not unlike contemplating the immensity of the cosmos, we tend to sense our insignificance when considering the concept of geological time – a concept evoked so simply and eloquently in these beautiful ceramic pieces. A concept that has the universal ability to both humble and amaze.
 
Sandra references several plant and animal species with her fossil motif but her favourite, the Wollemi Pine, has the most extraordinary story. This magnificent tree flourished some100 million years ago across the ancient super-continent Gondwana - when dinosaurs dominated the globe. Thought to have been extinct for the past 2 million years, some Wollemi Pines were accidentally rediscovered, alive, in 1994: an authentic “living fossil”.  Astonishingly, a few precious individual specimens had survived in just one deep and isolated gorge in a National Park near Sydney - the exact location of which is still a closely guarded secret to preserve the immediate environment and protect those few precious trees still existing in the wild.
 
Like echoes of the past, Sandra’s beautiful ceramic pieces speak eloquently of untold millennia. Contemplating them, it seems that time itself begins to collapse.  We fleetingly grasp the powerful laws of decay and transformation and are compelled to consider both the far distant future as well as the long distant past. 

Sandra employs this effect to strip some of the current environmental debates to their bare essence.  “All species leave their trace: whether hundreds, thousands and even many millions of years into the future. What traces will we leave behind? How are we affecting the earth, its other species and our own future generations - and how will they interpret us through our fossils, shards and relics?”
 
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS:
Sandra Guy (b. 1957 - )  was born, educated  and lives in Sydney. She is an artist, curator and environmentalist and currently lives in Paddington.  She studied full time at the National Art School, Darlinghurst (1982-84) excelling in life drawing, fabric design and screen printing. She has exhibited extensively in both group and solo shows and works in a wide variety of media including ceramics, painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and plant fibre weaving. Sandra promoted local artists by curating 10 successful group shows at the Sydney Botanic Gardens between 2005 and 2010 under the banner of her non-profit association Equinox Arts, Her previous businesses were in fashion design, entertainment, hospitality and she has worked as a piece fabric artist.  She conceived and wrote a jazz cabaret that ran for six months in 1988 at Pastels Cafe, the then pre-eminent Sydney performance-café, which she also owned and managed.  Sandra has been involved with various environmental groups since 1972 and since 1995 she has also been an environmental information officer for the NSW government. Her artwork is held in both local and international collections.

 

Lesley Dimmick

Lesley Dimmick has had an extensive and active career within the Arts as an Artist, curator and manager.

Lesley has been a practicing artist for 20yrs, also managing a community gallery called the Tap Gallery located within Darlinghust, Sydney for over 11 years.

Lesley graduated from the National Art School with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in 2001 after many years study.

Lesley's work is figurative and during her studies was awarded a distinction in drawing.

Lesley has collectors in Australia, Spain, Switzerland and England.

EXHIBITIONS

2011  Space@565 Gallery Sydney RSL  ‘Slick City Chicks’ with Sandra Guy
2009-2011 TAP Gallery     Regular solo & group exhibitions
2008  Palm House Gallery    Botanical Gardens
2008  Who Art thou  Gallery   Gosford
2008  Mickey’s Café Gallery   Oxford St Paddington
2008  Wayside Chapel Annual Auction  Gallery 9 (Darley St)
2007  Master Drawings    TAP Gallery
2006  Wayside Chapel Annual Auction  King on Burton Gallery
2006  Images of the Cross    TAP Gallery
2005  Absolute Secret    National Art School Cell Block
2005  Wayside Chapel Annual Exhibition King on Burton Gallery
2005  Winter Solstice    Palm House Botanical Gardens
2004  Art for Labour    Michael Nagy Gallery
2004  Solo Show     TAP Gallery
2003  Bill Lucas Memorial    Roslyn Oxley 9
2003  Travelling Show- Private Collection Noosa Regional Art Gallery
2003  Solo exhibition    TAP Gallery
2003  Duo Exhibition    Taxi Club
2003  Duo Exhibition (with Christine Gibson) Bono Exclusive Italian Restaurant
2002  Real Refuses (Archibald entries)  TAP Gallery
2001  Solo Exhibition    TAP Gallery
2000  Nobell Drawing Prize   TAP Gallery
2000  Amnesty International Freedom Show TAP Gallery
1999  Portia Geech Art Prize   S H Ervin Gallery (National Trust)
        Selected & hung (50 chosen from 290 wks)
1999  Duo Exhibition    TAP gallery     
1998  Solo Exhibition    TAP Gallery
1996  Solo Exhibition    TAP Gallery
1995  Solo Exhibition    TAP Gallery
1994  Forty Women Artists    TAP Gallery
1985-1998 Worked extensively as scenic artist, sign writer & muralist for stage and TV
  Enmore & Stables Theatres, Fashion Awards, MTV, Fox Studios & Sports promoters.

TELEVISION APPEARANCES

2006  Guest Celebrity Greek Cookery TVS
2004  Interview on Community Art Channel 31
1999  Channel 9 Today on Saturday Drawing the Nude
1997  Interview on erotic art   Screening of her own artwork "Sex Life"
1996  Life Sketch classes   "Sex Life"
  Interview Midday Show   Kerry Ann Kennerly with Elizabeth Burton
1995  Interview ABC Arts Today   Artist run gallery philosophy
  Interview 7;30 Report   John Wayne Gacey Exhibition
 

 

 

 

 

 

Would you like to exhibit? 

 

If you have always wanted to experience the feeling of having your work exhibited and never had the opportunity or thought it was too difficult to organise - please do not hesitate any longer!

If you reside locally, regionally, interstate or internationally and you wish to participate please contact me on the links below .

The gallery will offer the use of it's framework stock within this exhibition at no charge. The prints or drawings must be sized A4 and preferably borderless.

If you do not have an extensive portfolio of work  you may submitt one piece only! 

The theme of the work to be submitted is Exclusivity-OPEN

"Participate and unveil the perception of exclusivity for the Arts and photography within the Sydney CBD"

 

 

Contact me and make the experience happen.

spaceat565@gmail.com or admin@thecityofsydneyrsl.com.au