2016 International Residency Support Material

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Un Holy Worship 2015 Acrylic on canvas 30x50cm

Fully Sick 2014 Acrylic on canvas 90x80cm

Squirm and Thrive 2015 Acrylic on canvas 90x110cm

Dusted Ice 2014 Acrylic on canvas 110x90cm

Ashes to Ashes 2014 Acrylic on linen 80x60cm

Candy 2014 Acrylic on canvas 120x110cm

Mineral Galaxy 2014 Acrylic on canvas 110x90cm

Disappearing act 2014 Acrylic on canvas 90x80cm

Fertility 2014 Acrylic on canvas 120x110cm

Tusk 2015 acrylic on canvas 65x45cm

The Bammy Residency October 2015

This October Jacqueline Larcombe, Prince and myself were awarded the Bammy artist Residency by the Sydney based gallery Marrickville Garage. The residency was a month long stay in an old cottage in a  remote part of the bush on the Hawkesbury river NSW. The property was situated on Mangrove Creek and featured a private jetty onto the water with impressive views of the landscape that was a comfortable distance from civilisation. 

I had a positive experience during the Bammy residency, as it was both a personally therapeutic and an artistically productive time. It gave me a much needed break from my urban life and it’s professional and social pressures, whilst providing me with uninterrupted time and space to work on my art practice. I found the isolation and natural beauty of the landscape cleansing and gained a renewed sense of confidence and positivity.

I responded to the landscape whilst visiting Mangrove Creek, making drawings and watercolours outdoors, before working on collages and larger paintings in the studio. I find the Australian bush a captivatingly complex subject from which to work, the beauty of the residency was that I could revisit sites and be immersed in the space on a daily basis and as such form an intimate knowledge of the landscape over time. This relationship formed a valuable part of my residency that enriched my painting practice. The final works that I produced operate as interconnected psychological interiors and landscape paintings that chart the emotional terrain of my experiences within the natural environment of Mangrove Creek.

Dripping 2015 watercolour on paper 25x15cm

Garden 2015 watercolour, crayon & pencil on paper 25x15cm

Dusk in the Garden 2015 watercolour, crayon & pencil on paper 25x15cm

Mangrove Mountain 2015 watercolour & pencil on Indian paper 15x25cm

Purple Rain 2015 watercolour & pencil on Indian paper 15x25cm

Rock Whispers 2105 Acrylic on canvas 100x110cm

Mangrove Tide 2015 Acrylic on canvas 110x100cm

     

What lived in the Mountain watercolour & crayon collage on paper 25x15cm

Bunyip Dance 2015 watercolour collage on paper 25x15cm

A selection of my work from the Bammy Residency are currently on display at NANA contemporary art Space Newcastle until the end of November. 

current exhibition

You are invited to drinks with the artists
Clara Adolphs | Sally Anderson | Justin Cooper 
Madeleine Cruise | Robert Malherbe
opening Wednesday 11th November 2015 from 6 - 8pm

735 Bourke Street Redfern 9310 7606  
Gallery hours Thurs 2 – 5pm, Sat 2 – 5pm & Sun 2 – 5pm

Clara Adolphs
I work with anonymous old photographs, recreating the image and restoring the life of the subject.
By capturing isolated details of the past, my work explores the notion of memory, and the fragile, fleeting existence of humanity.
I use a combination of palette knife and brush, with a generous amount of paint. I take much pleasure in surrendering control and allowing the paint to take on a life of it's own. I also enjoy the contrast this creates, between the surface of the painting and that of the photograph.
The anonymity of the characters in my paintings is an attempt to avoid sentimentality. Being disconnected from their identity, allows a focus on the indefinable, yet timeless nature of the human condition.

Sally Anderson
There are many ways we remember, occupy space and anticipate situations. Sally Anderson’s work blurs dualities: foreground/background, floating/falling, fact/fiction, interior/exterior, remembering/forgetting and thus reinterprets our understandings of familiar spaces, relationships, associations, situations and emotions.
Sally uses an intuitive play with colour, perspective and suggestive architectural motifs within abstracted landscapes. Deliberate metaphoric reference to still-life and landscape, both experienced and anticipated, are suggestive of language and thought, presence and absence.
Sally recently graduated from UNSW Art and Design (COFA) with a degree in Fine Art majoring in Printmaking. In 2013 she was awarded the Nortec Young Artist Award (Tweed River Gallery) and the Earle Backen Award for excellence in Printmaking (COFA). In 2014 she undertook the SIM artist residency in Reykjavik (Iceland) and in 2015 was a finalist for The Brett Whitely Travelling Arts Scholarship. 

Justin Cooper
Cooper studied at the National Art School graduating with a BA (Hons) in 2008 and has recently exhibited at Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery in Glazed and Confused and at Sydney Contemporary.
Justin's approach to ceramics is linked to his interest in sustainability and the impact of consumption on the environment. Working with found and recycled materials Cooper's surfaces suggest glazes but are often the results of surprises borne of firings of found and recycled materials including glass. 

Madeleine Cruise

 UTILISING SCULPTURE AND PAINTING MADELEINE CREATES COLOURFUL TACTILE AND HIGHLY SENSATIONAL objects and ENVIRONMENTS THAT EXPLORE SUBCONSCIOUS DREAMING AND DESIRE. HER WORKS OPERATE AS FUSIONS OF THE REAL AND IMAGINARY WORLD BY COMBINING REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGERY WITH AN ABSTRACT LANGUAGE.

Madeleine graduated from the National Art School with a BFA (HONS) IN 2009. her ongoing practice has been supported by studio residencies with First Draft, Fraser Studios, the bundanon trust, banff centre canada and marrickville garage. madeleine has exhibited in group and solo shows in Australia and canada and has been a finalist in the mosman and waterhouse art prizes. 

Robert Malherbe

Malherbe's work responds to the immediacy of the life model and plein air approaches to painting. His sensual and direct approach are evident in the lush, rich surfaces of his landscapes in this exhibition. Malherbe was the recipient of the 2015 Manning Art Prize: Naked and Nude, and a finalist in this year’s Wynne, Mosman, Paddington and NSW Parliament Plein Air prizes.

Robert is represented by Jan Murphy Gallery in Brisbane and James Makin Gallery in Melbourne.

Home@735 is an art gallery located in a terrace house in Sydney's Redfern.

The gallery's aim is to promote artwork in a domestic context.