Sherren currently lives in Malvern with her family. Since having 2 children, Sherren’s artistic talent & desire has now found a new outlet which has manifested into her beautiful paintings.  Her motivation is driven for a passion to create beautiful living spaces. She is also a part time home staging stylist and uses many of her own paintings to deliver beautiful room settings. Sherren surrounds herself with creative people & has Interior Design friends who also commission her to paint for their own clients (working in Melbourne’s inner east).

‘There is always abstraction in my paintings regardless of the subject. Before I start any painting I am considering the environment or room setting in which it is to be placed. My paintings mostly reflect the Australian landscape – but with a contemporary translation.  I like to use many different layers and keep building the painting up slowly until I have something that is substantial & complex, but also restful.  My paintings appeal to Interior Designers and their clients. I always carefully consider dimensions, colour palettes and how one painting can be versatile to use in different room settings. This is why my painting style can vary from a whimsical tonal style and colour palette for an elegant setting, to then something very bright, abstract & textured to create a more industrial or minimal feel. I will always be experimental & brave with my painting style. I will always try something new, to keep things versatile, and to set new trends’.

Roy’s paintings are created by experimentation with acrylics, ink, salt, drawing, collage, stencilling and spray paint. This is applied in layers of patterns, shapes, lines and colour. They are reworked and layered until satisfying results are revealed.

The motivation for painting comes from feelings and reactions to music stimulae, usually repetitive electronic music. The images are emotional landscapes in a spontaneous abstract expressionist style. The subject matter is derived from tribal masks and incorporates abstracted iconography. Artistic influences are Jean-Michel Basquiat, Albert Tucker and Jean De Buffet.

On arrival in Melbourne Roy worked at Heide Art Gallery preparing the gallery for exhibitions. During this time he was privileged to view Albert Tucker’s collection. This was a major motivation to dedicate his life to painting.

From 1979 to 1987 Roy was involved in public art and murals for the Greater London Council. Since 2008 Roy has had 4 solo exhibitions in Melbourne. He has been involved in group exhibitions around Melbourne since 2002 and was a finalist in the Smorgon Steel Art Prize in 2001. In 2009 he was awarded Best in Show at Roberts McCubbin Art Show where the school purchased one of his paintings for their collection. In 2010 he won the prize of Highly Commended. His work is held in private collections in Australia, Spain, Portugal and England.

Three of his paintings will be featured in the forthcoming short film, Deep, produced and directed by Suzy Markovski, starring Scott Major from Neighbours.

Since 2008 Roy has had 6 solo exhibitions in Melbourne. He has been involvedin group exhibitions around Melbourne since 2002 and was a finalist in the Smorgon Steel Art Prize in 2001.In 2009 he was awarded Best in Show at Roberts McCubbin Art Show where the school purchased one of his paintings for their collection.In 2010 he won the prize of Highly Commended.

His work is held in privatecollections in Australia, Spain, Portugal and England. Achievements include:
Smorgon Steel Art finalist 2001: “Shoes and Teeth”Best in Show Roberts McCubbin Art Show 2009Roberts McCubbin acquired “Tropical Bloody Hell”Camberwell Girls Grammar Art Show acquired “Sad Emoticons” 2011 Best in Show Hart Art “Big Baby” 2011Highly commended Roberts McCubbin Art Show “The Green Man”2011Best Abstract/lnterpretive work Camberwell Rotary Art Show “Inner Chapel”2012.

 Influenced by science and art, she enjoys exploring pattern and shape.

Inspiration for Antoinette comes from many things – daily life, art history, abstract expressionism, science and the natural world, architecture, her children’s drawings -  she says she simply loves to create.  An artist, wife to David and “Mum” to Tehya & Lawson, she is the creative designer behind the sold-out success of Ziporah designer towel collection.  She is excited to be launching her next designer towel collection for NINNHO in January 2015.

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 Ministry of Art will host her first gallery exhibition commencing 13 November, 2014.  She is a feature artist for the annual Camberwell Girls Grammar School Art show, CamArt, 28 November, 2014.  Her original paintings hang upon walls in Australia, Europe and the USA. She works directly with art collectors for private commissions in homes and offices, regularly collaborating with interior designers and stylists for television and print press.  She is represented by Greenhouse Interiors for her original, boutique retailer art collection. 

Paintings from the Healing Machine

Interview with Godfrey Lewi

Godfrey Levi’s artwork depicts images that are abstract and erratic. These images are rich in interpretation and that was something that I learnt while speaking to the artist and his family.

Firstly the machine that Godfrey uses is very erratic in a sense. He places a canvas on a motor and its spins at 200-600 rotations a minute. To this he adds the paint to the canvas and lets the machine decide what image it want to show:.

“They talk to you. You can’t see what it is doing while it is spinning. It is spinning at anywhere between 200-600 revs a minute. You put on bits of paint around the canvas- but once it’s spinning that paint goes wherever it goes. It’s has a mind of its own…. It’s not like paining a portrait of someone or a still life- where the apple tells you it’s an apple. You can interpret it differently but ultimately it tells you that it wants to be an apple. With the spinning process you haven’t got a clue where it is going to take you. Which I like.”

“What I have learnt is that I am not actually doing the paintings. The paintings are telling me what they want to be. I start out one way, then I am taken in a completely different direction. It tells me where and what it wants to be. It is a very emotional time- it is like…I don’t particularly believe in this… but when you go into séances they tell you to feel the vibes. These works feel the way that you are feeling at the time and it just comes out that way. The wheel tells you how you feel.”

This artwork is a reflection of the artist and his emotions. It has been a very cathartic process for him. In the artists words this images are a “mixture of imagination and emotions.”

“Cathartic is a good word. Until now I have been calling it more therapy. I don’t know why but it just is. If you asked me to come and paint you now I couldn’t because I have to be in the right mood. The feeling has to be there.” The artwork “is all different emotions that I have felt. I can start out very melancholy and then uplifted by they end. Art invokes memories. It seems to express me. What sort of expression I’m not sure. The combinations and the results are quite limitless. It is an infinite amount of variations that you can get. My way of thinking is slightly scrambled. I don’t know why but I like trying to look at things differently”

I asked Godfrey about his colour scheme and queried why he chose to uses just black and white. He explained that black and white where extremes of each other. They represent the light and dark of life.

“I think black and white are two very distinctive colours. They express two extremes of feelings. It’s light and dark and it covers the entire gambit of emotions. You need to black and white to get the grey. What I want the artwork to do is have a different meaning to anyone who looks at it. I want you to impart your own emotions onto the works.”

Abstract artist such a Picasso and Salvador Dali inspire him not necessarily their finished product but the interpretation and perception of an image. What interested Godfrey was how these artists viewed the ordinary and manipulated it to represent their own unique view.

“It is more the abstract artist type Salvador Dali, Picasso… even though that is not my style of painting. I’ll look at these works and say “how can I do this differently” It’s not so much their finished product. It is just the way they looked and viewed that object. The finished product doesn’t really interest me… it’s the steps before it and what made him look at it in that way.”

Always a creative type form a young age, Godfrey was always drawn to artistic and creative jobs. From restoring to vintage cars for weddings and a party company specialising in balloon decorations I asked why it was only now later in his life he was finally creating art. Late discovery of an artist outlet is bit of a foreign concept for me. I am of a generation that refuses to have our dream questioned and every second 20 year old is an artist these days. I asked him why now at this point in his life he was creating art and why it was such a late discovery for him.

“I’ll answer this in two fold. I was creative from a young age but I had one of the worst art teachers that knocked the urge right out of me. Art was seen as a subject for unintelligent students. If you were smart you had to do maths, physics and chemistry. Any artistic bend was quelled from a young age. Now going back to your diplomatic question “coming into it later in life” the timing is right for me. I have more time and I don’t have to work that hard to put bread on the table…and I am guessing the teacher that knocked out my creativity is dead now. This was the education system back then. In the 50s and 60s they didn’t help you develop any artistic bent. What art does teach you is to use your imagination where other subjects don’t. Once you learn to use your imagination it can take you in so many directions.”

This exhibition is created for the viewers experience and whether you hate or love the work the intention of the artist is to create images that are evocative to the viewer. The abstract imagery is reminiscent of the black and white emotions that we all experience in our daily lives.

Education:

2010-2013 Bachelor of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts

Exhibitions: Group:

2013 ‘Graduation Show’ VCA “40 x 40 Exhibition” Brunswick Street Gallery Group Show, Fitzroy

2012 VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery BFA Student Group Show

2010 Hell Gallery, Richmond Victoria

Her degree and previous working life in Graphic Design has shaped her understanding of formalist elements such as colour, composition and edge which are evident in her subtle abstract works. They are intended to evoke mood, challenge the eye and offer a simple, restrained outcome from a complex process. She uses her hands and strips of cardboard as frequently as brushes to generate unique, unexpected marks and her tight palette concentrates attention on form and compositional balance.

‘These works are pure abstract. They’re based on the colours of the sky when it’s in a state of change. The sky offers an infinite number of colours and grays which are explored in this new body of work. Pinks, blues, mauves, greens are softened as the sun lowers or clouds move in. I’ve attempted to capture the mood that I so enjoy when light changes quickly and everything else changes colour in response.’

Naomi’s work is collected throughout the country and she has completed several private and corporate commissions.

Solo exhibitions

2003 Implemental Arrangements, Pacific International, Adelaide
2005 Relative Frequency, Depot Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney
2007 Men, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Busby, Stephen Sinclair Gallery, Adelaide
2008 Recent Paintings, Stephen Sinclair Gallery, Adelaide
2009 Through the gaps, Stephen Sinclair Gallery, Adelaide
2011 Here to help, Abeo Design, Adelaide

Groups exhibitions (Selection)

2005 The Wayside Chapel Sydney
2006 The Wayside Chapel Sydney
2006 Scotch College Art Show, Adelaide
2007 Adelaide Fringe
2009 Loreto Art Exhibition, Adelaide (also 2010-2013)
2009 South Australian Living Artists Festival, Adelaide

Education:
1988-1989 Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies Victoria College
1987 Post Graduate Studies New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture New York City, USA
1983-1985 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Distinction) Victorian College of the Arts

Awards:
1985 Overseas Travel and Study Award from the Victoria College of the Arts
1983 Fred Williams Family Prize

Exhibitions: Solo:

2012 Carbon Black Gallery, Prahran, Victoria
2007 Recent Paintings. HO Gallery, St Kilda, Victoria
2006 Recent Paintings. HO Gallery, St Kilda, Victoria
2004 Recent Paintings. HO Gallery, Balaclava, Victoria
2003 Recent Paintings. HO Gallery, Balaclava, Victoria
“Dreams & Fears in the Big City” (Recent Paintings) City of Kingston Art Gallery, Mordialloc, Victoria
2002 “Far From The Madding Crowd” (Recent Paintings) City of Kingston Art Gallery, Mordialloc, Victoria
1996 Recent Drawings. The Gallery at St Martins, South Yarra
1994 Paintings. The Lounge, Melbourne
1987 Paintings & Drawings. Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Art work completed in New York whilst on grant from the College Exhibitions

Group:

2013 Carbon Black Gallery, Prahran, Victoria
Linden Postcard Show. Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Victoria
2009 Two Painters. New White Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2006 End of Year Show. HO Gallery, St Kilda, Victoria
2004 End of Year Show. HO Gallery, Balaclava, Victoria
2000 ‘On the City: Urban Realities and Fantasies’ (painting). Artwork chosen and curated by Art Historian Irving Sandler. Alumni Show.
New York Studio School Gallery. New York City, USA
1997, 1998, Art Kiosk Gallery. Kensington, Victoria
1993 Victorian Teachers Union Art Prize Exhibition
1992 ‘Booked Up’. Hub Art Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Castlemaine Drawing Prize Exhibition. Castlemaine Art Gallery
‘Paintings’. Linden Gallery, St Kilda Victoria
Drawing Exhibition. Watermark Gallery, Elwood
1988 Castlemaine Drawing Prize. Castlemaine Art Gallery.
‘Works on Paper’. 70 Arden Street Gallery, South Melbourne Victoria
1987 ‘Yale Nominations Exhibition’ (Paintings)
New York Studio School Gallery. New York City, USA
1986 St Kilda Art Prize Exhibition. Linden Gallery, St Kilda Victoria.
‘Three New Painters’. 70 Arden Street Gallery, South Melbourne Victoria
1985 International House Gallery (Sculpture) Columbia University, New York City

Publications:

1991-1993 Illustrator of an independent publication entitled:
‘The Wasteland’. Five editions were published. Illustrations from this magazine were published at the Hub Gallery, Melbourne 1992

Born 1963 Melbourne

Education:
1981-1983 Bachelor Of Arts(Fine Art, English, Philosophy)University Of Melbourne
1981-1983 Private tuition in Painting
1984-1985 Bachelor Of Arts(Fine Arts) Victorian College Of The Arts
1987 Studies in Painting The Art Students League Of New York City
1988 Bachelor Of Arts(Fine Art) Victorian College Of The Arts, completed degree.
1989 Graduate Diploma Of Education (Arts Education) Institute Of Catholic Education, Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions
1993 Caulfield Arts Centre, Caulfield
2007 Ho Gallery ,St Kilda 2008 Ho Gallery, St Kilda
2009 New White Gallery, Melbourne
2010 New White Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Carbon Black Gallery, Prahran
2012 Carbon Black Gallery, Prahran
2012 Queen St Gallery, Woollara

Group Shows 
1987 St Kilda Festival Prize, Linden Gallery, St Kilda 
1989 Murdoch Travelling Prize, Victorian College Of The Arts, Melbourne 
1991 Murdoch Travelling Prize, Victorian College Of The Arts, Melbourne 
1994 Booked Up, Hub Gallery, Melbourne 
2008 End Of Year Exhibition, Ho Gallery, St Kilda 
2009 End Of Year Exhibition, Ho Gallery, St Kilda 
2010 Two Painters (with Aileen Jordan) New White Gallery

Awards: St Kilda Festival Prize 1987

Work Experience 
1990-2008 Taught Art, Graphics ,English and History in Catholic Secondary Schools, currently painting full time.

Displaying an extraordinary artistic energy he has experimented with a wide variety of different media – printmaking, ceramic, sculpture and, recently, film. He is currently working on designs for a collection of utility furniture. Though born in Sheffield, England, in 1960, Bromley moved to Australia at the age of four and has lived there ever since. As an artist he is self-taught. He has had over thirty solo exhibitions across Australia, Europe, the USA and Asia. His work is held in corporate, private and public collections in both hemispheres. He is listed as one of the ’50 Most Collectible Artists in Australia’ by Australian Art Collector Magazine.

Her attention to detail along with the whimsical tension created by her miniatures is a unique perspective into her world.

“It began back when you collected toys from cereal boxes- they were small and you had to put them together” says Roby Sainsbury-Vale, miniature art maker.
She describes her style as every day, with a twist. Her love of the macabre always comes into it, and you, as the viewer can make up your own story about the piece. “It’s my work, your imagination, and together they make a great tale.”

She has been creating these pieces for over ten years now. One of her favourite pieces is a diorama with a dark theme and central coffin that she made in memory of her friend who had died just months before.

She uses an unimaginable range of materials to create, have a workspace that looks like an overstuffed pillow. Putting them together takes place over a week or so. Sketching the idea, pattern making and material hunting, prototype, then finished piece. 

She is a member of a miniature organisation VAME, and along with others runs workshops a couple of times a year. She displays her diorama pieces at their annual show. It’s all about getting the scale right- if one part is out of scale it puts the whole piece off. The
smaller you go the more you can trick the eye, but attention to scale and detail is of the utmost importance to her.

Roby works for Vision Australia’s Feelix Library producing braille and tactile books for children who are blind. There is a huge crossover that compliments between work and my art. Miniatures feeds my imagination for creating pictures tactually, which in turn increases her hands-on skills for precise work.