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  admin 8:45 am on March 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

  brut is a 137 years old Male artist born in Slovenia, currently working in Slovenia.

  
  Digital collage on the verge of abstraction

  brut bases his work on combination of photography and computer generated random and/or pseudo-spatial graphic patterns resembling topographic maps entwined into a real-life landscape, mostly urban and quite so often industrial. The central theme of his digital graphic works is unidirectional as well as omni-directional vision and synchronicity, an attempt at re-exposing unconscious elements of human vision. The very essence of perceiving time as an irreversible progression of tiny moments is being questioned. Time and space, position and direction are no longer separate dimensions; different moments in time and several views of the same place are being recombined into what seems to be an abstraction at first sight. The remaining few recognisable details lure active spectator to examine delusive construct only to discover more and more familiar fragments with every glimpse, complementing completed construction of the artwork with creative deconstruction and reconstruction of the viewing process.

  

   

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  Kati Rule is a 1010 years old artist born in Australia, currently working in Australia.

  

   
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  Lisa Radford is a 1010 years old artist born in Australia, currently working in Australia.

  

   
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  Simon Terrill is a 41 years old artist born in Australia, currently working in Australia.

  
  Born 1969: Currently lives & works in Melbourne, Australia

  Simon Terrill’s work is concerned with relationships between bodies, architecture and habitat. His images have ranged from exploring the crowd’s dark matter to its utopian ideal of liberation and the temporary dissolving of barriers between people. Terrill’s Crowd Theory series (2005-07), made in collaboration with the Footscray Arts Centre, is concerned with the structure of communities and relationships formed by virtue of place. These works are photographic-performance-events that are stage managed public operations involving many collaborators and large groups of people associated with each chosen site.

  Simon Terrill has exhibited extensively since 1998. He has had a number of solo shows, including most recently Closer, Sutton Gallery, 2008; and Crowd Theory – Southbank, ANZ Pavilion, the Arts Center, 2007. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, both in Australia and internationally including The William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, 2009; Photo-ID, Contemporary Art Norwich 09; Slade Graduate Exhibition, Gower Street, London 2009; and Double Orbit, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London, 2009. Terrill has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards and grants, including grants and residencies from the Australia Council (2009, 2002 and 1998); and the Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2007. His work is in held in important public collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria; the Samstag Museum of Art; Monash Gallery of Art; the Australian Center for the Moving Image; and Artbank; as well as private collections in both Australia and the UK.

  Simon Terrill is represented by "Sutton Gallery":http://artabase.net/listings/gallery/368-sutton-gallery/ in Melbourne, Australia

  

   
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  Deborah Paauwe is a 38 years old artist born in United States, currently working in Australia.

  
  Born in the USA in 1972, arrived in Australia1985
  Currently lives and works Adelaide, SA, Australia.

  Deborah Paauwe completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Visual Arts) at the South Australian School of Art,University of South Australia in 1994, and in 2000 completed her MA in Fine Art at the Chelsea School of Art in London, UK. Paauwe’s practice involves an ongoing study of the female subject. Using young girls and women arranged in tableaux form she investigates the world of childhood memories and their impact on adult life. While the surface of her images draw on the glamour of fashion photography there is a delicate balance between voyeurism and something altogether more disturbing. Issues of identity, gender roles and the underlying eroticism of the change from girl to woman are central to Paauwe’s work. In the last 10 years Deborah has held more than 20 solo exhibitions within Australia, Spain and New Zealand. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally including Dutch Under, Canvas International Art, Amstelveen, Netherlands in 2006; The Children’s Hour, Museum of New Art (MONA), Michigan, USA in 2005; Surface Tension, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney in 2004; Fotonoviembre 2001 & 2003, photographic biennial, Centro de Fotografía, Canary Islands, Spain; Photographica Australis, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, 2002; Chemistry, Art in South Australia 1990-2000, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2000; Telling Tales: The Child in Contemporary Photography, Monash University touring Australia, 1999; and Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition in 1999; ARCO ‘99, International Art Fair, Madrid. Deborah was awarded the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 1999 and was commissioned for the Hermés Photography Project by Hermés Australia in 2002. Deborah won the Living Art Award and The Gerda Pinter Award both in conjunction with the 2002 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Queensland and the 32nd Alice Prize Award, Alice Springs. In 2003 she represented Australia at the Naarden Foto Festival, Netherlands. In 2004, Deborah exhibited new work in the 2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Also in 2004 a hard-cover publication on her work was published, Beautiful Games, sponsored by Arts SA, and she was awarded a 3 month studio residency in New York City through the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council.

  Deborah Paauwe is represented by "Sutton Gallery":http://artabase.net/listings/gallery/368-sutton-gallery/ in Melbourne, Australia.

  

   
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  Raafat Ishak is a 43 years old artist born in Egypt, currently working in Australia.

  
  Born 1967, Cairo, Egypt,
  Arrived Melbourne, Australia 1982

  Raafat Ishak’s work thematises a relationship between the image and its refusal, that relationship which seems to manifest itself so often in moments of major social upheaval, like Cromwell’s England, revolutionary Russia, or late 20th century Afghanistan. Great masses of Arabic text have long been a part of Ishak’s pictorial vocabulary, implicating the iconoclastic symbolic systems of Islam. Yet his paintings also draw on the junk image-saturated culture of capitalism: football crowds, stadiums, fast food, spectacles of violence. When we encounter Ishak’s paintings, we find ourselves negotiating such divergent attitudes to the image. These attitudes are different ways to provide collectivity with its image, to shape it, to give it rituals. They are also different ways to promise a future, a constant undercurrent in Ishak’s work, which inflects the quiet secrecy of his work with the allure of the world as another place.

  Excerpt: Tom Nicholson: "21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art" Art Gallery of South Australia, (ex.cat.), 2006

  Selected Exhibitions:
  2006: Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (solo show); Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, curated by Victoria Lynn, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville; Meeting Place, Keeping Place, The Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne; 21st Century Modern, 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, curated by Linda Michael, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; 2005: Home Ground, Ocular Lab, Melbourne (solo show); Ocular Lab:12, Spacement, Melbourne; 2004: Organisation for Future Good Steps, Conical Gallery, Melbourne (solo show); Octopus5, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, curated by Nicholas Chambers; 2004- Australian Art Now, National Gallery of Victoria, (in collaboration with Tom Nicholson)

  Selected Collections
  Michael and Janet Buxton Collection, Melbourne; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; National Gallery of Victoria; RACV, Melbourne ; State Government of Victoria; Private collections

  Raafat Ishak is represented by "Sutton Gallery":http://artabase.net/listings/gallery/368-sutton-gallery/ in Melbourne, Australia

  

   
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  Ruth Hutchinson is a 1010 years old artist born in Australia, currently working in Australia.

  
  Ruth Hutchinson is represented by "Sutton Gallery":http://artabase.net/listings/gallery/368-sutton-gallery/ in Melbourne, Australia.

  

   
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  Jon Cattapan is a 54 years old artist born in Australia, currently working in Melbourne art precinct, Victoria, Australia.

  
  Jon Cattapan has established himself as a prolific and significant Australian artist having exhibited his paintings, drawings and prints extensively since 1978. Central to Cattapan’s practice is a concern with the way in which humans negotiate space and territories. Cattapan’s urban imagery depicts a fragmented, mobile, pulsing environment. Cityscapes filled with flows and vectors reflect the increasingly digital and global reality we are confronted with in the 21st century. This concern extends into more political terrain in works dealing with the ‘children overboard affair’ as well as broader issues of immigration and border protection. Interweaving influences from contemporary culture ranging from cinema, digital media, travel and science fiction, can also be located throughout his works.

  In 1983 he held his debut one-person show at Realities Gallery in Melbourne, and from the early 1980s through to the present, his work has been shown widely in both commercial galleries and curated museum shows. Such exhibitions have included Fireworks: tracing the incendiary in Australian art, Artspace McKay, Queensland, 2005; Sticks and stones, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, 2004; See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Collection of the 90s, the Ian Potter Museum, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003; Terra Australis, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2000; Telling Tales, Neue Galerie Landesmusuem Janneum, Austria, 1999; and Decalogue: A Decade of Australian Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, 1997. Cattapan has exhibited regularly at Sutton Gallery since in 1994 with other important solo exhibitions including: Jon Cattapan: the City Submerged, touring Australian galleries 1999-2000, and Fire and Life, (Collaboration with Surendran Nair) at Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 1997.

  As an artist he has practiced in various cities around the world, having lived in Sydney; New York City; Baroda, India; Seoul, Korea; and Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. Cattapan was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship in 1992, and in 2003 completed a major new work for the National Gallery of Victoria, commissioned through the Hugh Williamson Foundation, titled The Melbourne Panels. In 2005 he received a grant from both Arts Victoria and the Visual Arts board of the Australia Council. Cattapan’s work was brought together in a major survey exhibition, The drowned world: Jon Cattapan works and collaborations, at the Ian Potter Museum, the University of Melbourne, in 2006. In 2007 he was one of four Australian artists to participate in ‘Venice Views’ a residency project at the Venice Printmaking Studio, culminating in the exhibition ‘Fondamenti Nove’ held at the Australian Print Workshop. In 2008 a monograph ‘Jon Cattapan: Possible Histories’ written by Dr Chris McAuliffe was published by Miegunyah Press and also that year Cattapan became an official artist for the Australian War Memorial and was deployed to Timor Leste.

  Jon Cattapan is represented by "Sutton Gallery":http://artabase.net/gallery/368-sutton-gallery in Melbourne, Australia.

  

   
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  brutjunk is a 50 years old Male artist born in United Kingdom, currently working in Redbridge, United Kingdom.

  
  The name relates, in part, to Art Brut – the raw, unschooled art of lunatics – I a human-being, new to the tools of transformation but recognising change on an evolutionary scale.
  The task, for me, becomes to interfere in the digital ‘exactness’ – the machine process – to transform, obscure, humanise and badge an emotional identity: to disassemble the real and rearrange the pixels.
  Commercially-driven ‘digital culture’ is the behind ‘deliverance’ of this strange new machine Age and I see ourselves as the midwives in the ‘deliverance’ of change.
  I can see an emerging a ‘global village’ with a window, forever like this – interpolating -the ‘real’ and the deafening, crushing, silence of machine control.
  I work across media from print to digital video.

  

   
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  admin 3:43 am on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

  Tom Strachan is a 1010 years old artist born in Australia, currently working in Australia.

  
  Tom Strachan received a Bachelor of Education at Melbourne State College (1982) and completed his Post Graduate Diploma at Sydney College of the Arts (1985).

  Working from his own studio in Albury in southern New South Wales (and previously from a studio in Newtown, Sydney) Tom Strachan’s ceramics involve the processes of slip casting, press moulding and hand building, with a particular focus on colour and design. His works are usually functional; however the current innovation in his work is to preserve botanical specimens within a paper clay porcelain slip.

  Since 1987 Tom Strachan has held numerous solo shows, both regionally and nationally, including Albury (annually), Melbourne, Sydney and Alice Springs. His works are in national and international collections in Ireland, the United States, Japan, Spain and Europe. Many group exhibitions in Albury, Wodonga, Wagga, Shepparton, Melbourne and Sydney have also featured Strachan’s ceramics. His works have been profiled in The Age and The Australian newspapers and Crafts Arts International.

  Commissions include working as Project Artist Outhouse to Arthouse, at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (1995) – a Community Art Project funded by the NSW Ministry for the Arts; and as Artist in Residence at Myrtleford Secondary College on the Artists in Schools Program (1996. He has also received a 1997 grant from Festivals Australia to work within his own local community.

  Tom Strachan has retailed his work from various outlets, including the Jam Factory, Australian Trends and Gallery Handmade in Melbourne and the Albury Regional Gallery. Tom Strachan currently works as a ceramics tutor at Riverina Institute of TAFE, Albury Campus. His previous professional experience includes working within the NSW and Victorian Education Departments as teacher for ten years, as well as working within various Adult Education Programs.