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Dietrich Wegner

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BORN: 
 1978Adelaide, Australia.
 
EDUCATION:


 2003Ohio State University, Sculpture, MFA
 2001Maryland Institute, College of Art, BFA


"Every society accumulates contradictions amidst their ideals. Dietrich Wegner employs those contradictions, situating opposites together in sculpture and photography that feed on the friction between two conflicting ideas. When an image stands in limbo, between associations, it occupies a flexible place in our mind. Wegner creates images that are safe and unsettling, abject and beautiful. Some of his work shows us how a mushroom cloud can resemble a tree house, an anus a vortex, a suicide bomber a vulnerable human being, all in an effort to explore our varied states of contentment and security. In other works, such as in Cumulous Brand, babies are covered in multicolored tattoos in a meditation on how our identities evolve and how we declare them.

Often Wegner chooses materials that contradict an aspect of an image while striving towards a realistic depiction of the image. A mushroom cloud is fluffy like synthetic cotton, yet a Poly-fil mushroom cloud becomes fun and cozy.  A blood splat (such as in Red Field) is shiny and exciting, yet perhaps signifying something not so fun. Both a Poly-fil playhouse and a urethane blood splat are examples of material reflecting what an image looks like and contradicting the tone of what a subject feels like or “means”.  Sometimes the material choice does not both challenge and support an image; the material may simply do one or the other. In these cases, when the material does little contradicting, the image(s) itself must create the limbo.

The ephemeral beauty of a mushroom cloud is frightening, how it floats for a minute, delicate and blooming, yet remains chaotic and utterly destructive. We experience a contradiction between what our eyes enjoy and what our mind knows. It is this conflicted experience Dietrich Wegner’s work strives to evoke in a viewer in order that we will have a sparked curiosity and unstable assumptions."

 Dietrich Wegner



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Chris Martin

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"Paintings...
Since I became a full time artist in Nov 2011, my paintings and drawings have been finalists in;
The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2012
The Xstrata Percival Portrait Award 2012
The Shirley Hannan National Portrait Awards 2012
The Black Swan Prize for Portraiture 2012
The Redland Art Awards 2012"

Chris Martin







A little background info...
I am British, but my wife and kids are Aussie, and we've lived in Brisbane since Sept 07.  In Dec 08 we moved to Logan - where we bought an acre of land whilst we were still in the UK.

I’ve spent 20 years in the UK Special Effects industry doing all sorts of things, that whilst they were creative, were not really ‘what I want to do when I grow up’.  This year at 51, I realised that I don’t want to grow up.  

I did an MBA before we left the UK in the mistaken belief that I had something to offer the world of management.  The problem is that the world of management doesn’t’ understand that.  

Last year my daughter Molly came over to get her folio together for art college and I got into painting with her.  

This year, after a brush with cancer, I’ve realised that actually, I just want to paint, and after all this time… I’ve made that leap of faith.  
So I"m painting and drawing, some commissioned work, some not.  I'm working towards an exhibition called 'THINKERS' at Logan Art Gallery in May next year.  It's a collection of significant thinkers in the Brisbane locale...who've made a difference to the rest of us, by being different one way or another.  It will be about 10 or 12 paintings.  I also teach at Logan Art School 3 times a week, and run a life drawing group.  


Chris




Michael McWilliams

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Michael McWilliam's works from his studio in Perth, outside of Launceston, Tasmania. A visual arts graduate at the University of Tasmania, his exhibition, Mixed Company, at Handmark Gallery was his 13th solo exhibition.

Michael is twice overall winner of the Waterhouse National History Art Prize, Museum of South Australia; winner of the Glover Art Prize and numerous other awards including finalist in the Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW in 2008 and 2010.





Michael McWilliams won the Waterhouse Natural History art prize for his painting 'Bandicoot Playground'.


QUALIFICATIONS

1978 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Art), University of Tasmania
1977 Diploma of Education, University of Tasmannia









PRIZES
2011 Glover Art Prize, Evandale, Tasmania, Curator: Jane Deeth
2010 Glover Art Prize, Evandale, Tasmania, Curator: Jane Deeth
2010 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2008 Overall Winner, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, Museum of South Australia
2008 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2008 Glover Art Prize, Evandale, Tasmania, Curator: Jane Deeth
2008 Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize
2007 Glover Art Prize, Evandale, Tasmania, Curator: Jane Deeth
2006 Glover Art Prize, Evandale, Tasmania, Curator: Jane Deeth
2005 Overall Winner, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, Museum of South Australia
2005 Island Art Prize, Ten Days on the Island, Curator: Catherine Wolfhagen
2005 Glover Art Prize, Evandale, Tasmania, Curator: Jane Deeth
2004 Winner, Glover Art Prize, Evandale, Tasmania, Curator: Jane Deeth
2002 Tasmanian Art Award, Eskleigh, Tasmania
2001 Tasmanian Art Award, Eskleigh, Tasmania
2000 Winner, City of Burnie Art Exhibition – Lactos Award for Oil or Acrylic
2000 Tasmanian Art Award, Eskleigh, Tasmania
1999 Winner, Woolmers Art Award
1999 Tasmanian Art Award, Eskleigh, Tasmania
1998 Tasmanian Art Award, Eskleigh, Tasmania1998 Trust Bank Tasmanian Art Awards, Launceston, Tasmania
1996 Winner, Tasmanian Art Award, Eskleigh, Tasmania
1994 Winner, Trust Bank Tasmanian Art Awards, Launceston, Tasmania




Kit Hiller - Christine Hiller

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1948 Born (Alexander) Hobart, Tasmania
1953-65 Education at the Friends School
1966-69 Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart
1970-72 Art teacher at Burnie High School

Lives and works at Lower Mt. Hicks near Burnie







Christine Hiller lives on the North-West Coast of Tasmania.
Born in Hobart and trained at the Tasmanian School of Art she has exhibited her art for over thirty years.

Her watercolour portraits have been shown in the Archibald Prize exhibition on five occasions and she has won the Portia Geach Memorial Award for Women Portrait Painters three times. Now painting in oils, she produces landscapes of the North-West Coast of Tasmania, still-lives and portraits. She is also well known for her hand-coloured lino-cuts, elimination lino-cuts and dioramas.

A survey show of Kits work over the last thirty years opens on October the 29th 2010 at the Burnie Regional Gallery




GRANTS AND AWARDS
1979 Tas. Resident Artist Award - Tas Art Exhibition, Burnie
1983 Watercolour Award - Tas. Art Exhibition, Burnie
1985-86 T.A.A.B. Grant
1986 Portia Geach Memorial Prize
1987 Portia Geach Memorial Prize
Tasmanian of the Year
1992 Advocate Award ($1000) - Tas. Art Exhibition, Burnie
1996 T.A.A.B. Grant - McCulloch Studio, Paris
1999 Open Award ($3000) Tas. Art Exhibition, Burnie
2001 Island Art Prize ($10,000)- Stanley
2009 Portia Geach Memorial Prize




Mitchell Grafton

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Mitchell Grafton is a full time ceramic artist making unique sculptural works of art in Panama City, Fl. At age 19 he started working for Odell Pottery while getting an Architecture degree at Louisiana Tech. Bruce Odell was a three time winner of the Pottery Olympics in Wisconsin and taught Mitchell everything he knew about pottery and life for the next 7 years. While at Odell Pottery, Mitchell became the head designer of lamp bases that were produced for Hart and Associates, an interior design manufacturing company. After graduation Mitchell moved to Panama City, FL where he and a business partner started Round Tree Pottery. Mitchell designed, managed and handled the finances for Round Tree for the next 9 years. At its peak, Round Tree sold wholesale pottery to over 400 art galleries and gift shops around the country and owned a retail art gallery in Seaside, FL. In 2009 Mitchell started his own art-pottery company, Grafton Pottery, in Panama City where he now creates one-of-a-kind works of art.













Marie Prett

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"Marie Prett gained a BA Hons. in Ceramics from Leicester Polytechnic in 1992.

She now lives and works in the south of England.

Her interest in the human and animal form has been there from her earliest memories of painting and drawing. Her sculptural ceramics are about the magic of transformation. They have been described as sensual and gently mischievous and express the desire for passion and wild magic with snippets of everyday life thown in. Marie says "It is my constant aim to create an infusion of energy, movement, colour and humour into each piece, to inspire curiosity and to make people smile." ...













Larson ClayWorks Ken and Pat Larson

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"Larson ClayWorks Ken and Pat Larson live about 100 miles north of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Their house stands on 80 acres of the original family homestead and is widely know to be prime wood tick and mosquito country in the summer. In the winter, along with making their clay pieces, they like to cross country ski and spend some evenings getting really hot in their sauna. In the summer, along with making their clay pieces, they like to work in their garden and, if they can work it into their busy schedule, they like to go backpacking in the mountains of Wyoming, Montana or Utah."




Margaret Wozniak

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New York sculptor Margaret Wozniak was born in Poland and studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Krakow. Originally working in bronze, she now devotes her time exclusively to clay, a transition that allows for wider scope, freedom of expression, and the exceptional use of color. Each work is handbuilt and meticulously painted with carefully formulated glazes.

Wozniak's art cannot be easily categorized in terms of style. Her works evoke both a strong reverence for antiquity and serene feelings of the spiritual and mythic realms: choirs of small angels caught in mid-song; the winged steed Pegasus standing proudly in muted shades of pastel; bowls and other lidded vessels that might well have served in ancient religious or ceremonial rites. Animals and trees are also dominant themes; horses (sometimes carrying small children on their backs), birds, deer, dogs, reindeer - many perched atop other figures and vessels, some standing or sitting alone. The more modern pieces include larger angels, as well as figures and busts of men, women, and children, some in quiet repose, others in movement or at play. These vary in color from monochromatic to subtle hues and bold strokes. Beautiful plates and platters carry forward the animal and tree designs in finely executed drawings and carvings, with color again being used from minimum to maximum advantage for each piece.

Margaret Wozniak is an emerging artist whose time has come. She has participated in various arts and craft shows in the New York area, including the Lincoln Center festival. In addition, she has received commissions from private collectors who are becoming increasingly aware of the beauty, originality, and museum-quality appeal of her art.










Sophie Ryder

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Sophie Ryder was born in London, England, in 1963. She studied Combined Arts at the Royal Academy of Arts where, while obtaining her diploma in painting, she was encouraged by fellow artist to develop her sculpture. Inspired by Picasso, Goya and Henry Moore, she famously developed the Lady Hare as a counter part to Ancient Greek mythology's Minotaur.














Nicola Hicks

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"Born in London in 1960, Nicola Hicks studied at Chelsea School of Art, and took her MA at the Royal College of Art. In 1982 Elizabeth Frink spotted her raw talent and predicted that she would be ‘a very great artist one day’. Twenty years on, Nicola Hicks has lived up to Frink’s expectations exhibiting widely and being given an MBE for her contribution to the visual arts.









Hicks’s practice adeptly combines discipline and skill to create sculptural works with both charming and menacing qualities. The study of anatomy and drawing is essential to her work. Although not concerned with mimetic representation her achievement is founded on a unique ability to capture the physicality and psychology of the animal and human figures she creates. " ...












Sophie Woodrow

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Statement

Sophie was drawn to working with clay from an early age. Born in Bristol in 1979, she graduated in 2001 from Falmouth College of Art with a BA in Studio Ceramics. Since then she has refined an intricate labour-intensive technique and a highly distinctive visual language. Each piece is hand-built, involving coiling, incising and impressing to create a delicately textured surface.

Her work has been informed by an interest in the Victorians as the first generation who chose to define nature in opposition to what is human. In a spirit of wild curiosity, tinged with fear, the Victorians idolised nature, ‘packaging’ it into highly romanticised, palatable works of art. Our modern-day understanding is very different, so that we now interpret much Victorian art as ‘unnatural’ or kitsch.

Pursuing an interest in natural history, Sophie has looked particularly at our continually shifting theories of evolution. Her work has been inspired by the enormous misinterpretations of geological evidence made by the Victorians, often with bluff self-confidence. She regards these misinterpretations as a game of Chinese whispers played over millennia.

Sophie’s sculptures are not visitors from other worlds, but the ‘might-have-beens’ of this world. She seeks to assemble creatures from the strange notions of what we define as ‘nature’ and of each other as people – as ‘other’.
















Born Bristol 1979
Studied Falmouth College of Art BA Hons. Studio Ceramics

Working from:
2001-2 Market Mews Studios Penryn Cornwall
2002-4 Jamaica Street Studios Bristol
2004-6 Vulcan Studios Sheffield
2006 Jamaica Street Studios Bristol
2009 BV Studios Bristol






Masri Hayssam

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"I am always on the move discovering something artistically new and impressive; something significant with an eye-opening impact on the human psyche; something that does not let monotony and rote repetition take hold of my soul and the flow of my thoughts.

This insatiable and agonizing feeling of unexpressed great potential inside of me is not fulfilled by the versatility in my work. I often feel that it needs to explode and express itself in different domains.

It is easy for one to be haughty, vainglorious and pretentious, but to be humble needs deep understanding to the universal truth in the conscience of the universe. I like to see the faces of people wearing no masks: I do not wear one"










Education

In Lebanon he studied architectural design,and he finished his studies in 1986 and then he studied privately calligraphy.
In 1993 he completed his studies at the Art Institute of Florence, specialty Professional Art, advertising and Photography. And at the Academy Art Florence a course in Drawing, Incision and History of art.
He has since he finished his study here in Florence, worked as full time artist in his studio in Florence.


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Ersilia Leonini

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Nasce a Firenze nel 1955. Diplomata all'Istituto d'Arte di Siena ha frequentato la Facoltà di Lettere seguendo i corsi di Storia dell'Arte, del Cinema e del Teatro mentre al Centro Studi Tecnico-Cinematografici di Firenze quelli per Cineoperatori e per Fotografi. Nel 1978 espone nella sua prima personale di pittura. Insieme ad alcuni artisti senesi dà vita all' "iperfantastico", colori e forme in rigorose composizioni geometriche. Negli anni Ottanta apre a Siena un laboratorio per la creazione di maschere artistiche - con le quali collabora anche a coreografie teatrali e ad uno stage a new York - che divengono nel tempo vere e proprie sculture. La sua fervida attività espositiva la porta in numerose mostre nazionali ed internazionali sia in Italia che all'estero; tra gli appuntamenti più recenti ricordiamo, fra 2011 e 2012, la rassegna “Pelle” presso “Simultanea – Spazi d'Arte” a Firenze, le Fiere d'Arte di Arezzo e Forte dei Marmi, la personale alla Galleria “Arte in movimento” di Forte dei Marmi ed una imponente commissione pittorica - ritratti - per una collezione privata che la porta spesso a lavorare a Parigi.







“Artista decisamente non convenzionale, Ersilia Leonini viene da un percorso formativo che già sovverte le regole giungendo alla dimensione figurativa di oggi dopo l'esperienza dell'astrazione geometrica quanto della sperimentazione materica e non viceversa. Così appare anche dalle sue scelte tematiche nelle quali, fino a poco tempo fa, prevalevano i nudi di soggetto maschile piuttosto che femminile. Il suo realismo diviene infatti una sorta di metalinguaggio, più incline alla dimensione psicologica che a quella dell'oggettività e della concretezza. I suoi personaggi, ritratti prima fotografici e poi ri- e de-strutturati pittoricamente, così veri da forare il quadro eppure vanno oltre la narrazione della propria vicenda umana come dimostrano le ambientazioni ed i “fondali” scenici nei quali l'artista espande la narrazione a stratificare memoria personale e comunicazione di massa, con la libertà di recuperare in certe valenze gestuali e materiche il proprio background culturale ed esperienziale ma con la consapevolezza anche di suscitare un impatto visivo spesso disorientante. E del resto, come lei stessa dichiara, ciò che intende provocare è piuttosto un'emozione estetica prima che una riflessione filosofica o concettuale.” Roberta Fiorini 



















Roz McQuillan

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http://www.saatchionline.com/RozMcQuillan



I live in Melbourne Australia, and work as a full-time artist. I welcome commissions of nudes and portraits. 

I developed a love of drawing as a child, when I first drew my aging auntie in the bath. I have always been 

fascinated by people, their character and the individuality of their faces, which has led to my passionate 

interest in portraits and figurative work. My nudes are real people, not generic or idealized. I try to 

capture the essence of a person, their unique beauty, their mood, and the way they express themselves in 

their body. My other fascination is with the drama of light, and the way it shapes and changes objects, 

enhances composition and creates mood. I work in a number of mediums, including pastel, charcoal and conte, 

pen and ink, gouache, watercolour, pencil, acrylics, photography, and mixed media, and currently, oils. I 

find that changing and experimenting with mediums keeps me fresh and open to learning.




Roz graduated from R.M.I.T. in the late 60’s with the Diploma of Illustration, and worked in children’s book 

illustration for a number of years. 
Her work is represented in private collections, including commissioned portraits.

Roz attends painting and life-drawing groups in Melbourne, and monitors a painting group at Hawthorn Artists 

Society.

She has always had a special affinity for portraits and the nude, and has worked in a number of mediums, 

including pastel, charcoal and conte, pen and ink, gouache, watercolour, acrylics, pencil, photography, and 

mixed media, and is currently painting in oils.

She has studied oil painting with Peter Churcher, Lee Machelak, and Maxwell Wilkes, and drawing with Godwin 

Bradbeer.













Awards include:

Best oil painting in the Victorian Artists Society Student Show 1999,

Highly Commended at Dandenong Rotary Art Show 2001,

Best Picture in any Medium under $1000 at the Camberwell Rotary Art Show 2002.

Selected to hang in the Alice Bale Art Award in 2001 and 2003.

Best Painting under $500 at the St. Kevin’s College Art Show 2003,

Highly Commended at Ivanhoe Art Show 2003,

Dean’s Encouragement Award at Camberwell Rotary Art Show 2004

Highly Commended at Bayside Art Show 2006

Best in Show Brighton Art Society 2006

Highly Commended at Aust. Guild of Realist Artists Summer Show 2006

Commended Aust. Guild of Realist Artists Winter Show 2007

Two Highly Commended Aust. Guild of Realist Artists Spring Show 2007









John Petrey

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Since 1981, I've been creating art that stirs the emotions

of the viewer. As I've grown as an artist, my work

has become more of an expression of my soul.



Images in nature, art, and new technology all influence me.

I'm especially intrigued by the moments in life that catch my eye,

random ideas that erupt in my mind, and words people say

that just hang in the air.



I'm constantly re-formulating the process of my creative thinking.

I'll observe something that strikes a chord with me,

tuck it away in my mind, and later it becomes an inspiration to me.

As a result, my art can be lighthearted and whimsical or deeply symbolic.



Imagination is the most powerful tool humans possess.









Louise Gardelle

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"Born in 1944 in Sweden, Louise studied pedagogy and literature at Gothenburg.
She now lives and works in Aquitane in France.
She was intorduced to photograghy in Stockholm and then turned to ceramics. She is also a painter and sculptor. Louise worked at various potters in France, before establishing her own workshop in 1974. Her works are exhibited in many French and international galleries and appear in both public and private collections. "

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Elya Yalonetski

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"I'm Elya Yalonetski, ceramic artist.

I studied ceramics in Russia, in Abramtsevo Art and Industry College, then moved to Israel, then worked mostly in Moscow, then in Berlin. Wherever I am, I can ship you my works all over the globe, and don't worry - it will arrive safely at your home.

You can admire some of my sculptures on the Abramtsevo website:



some more ceramic and not only on flikr: "





















Peggy Bjerkan

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"Some of you may wonder why I'm putting so much energy into the making of masks. Well, after years of being a maker of many different things, I finally began to dabble in masks (inspired by my own collection of masks from around the world). It dawned on me, after the first few that I made, that a path was opening up before me. I knew that I didn't want to copy foreign masks or even to borrow ideas from them. I did want to be a part of the mask tradition. Thus began my journey. Very early on, around 1998, I decided that I would make "American" masks with contemporary ideas - my contribution to the tradition. After a while, the masks became more and more personal which seemed a natural progression. I continue making them with the hope that some of the ideas I present are universal."






I use several methods to form my masks. My favorite is to sculpt over a hump (a built-up surface). I form each piece with earthenware clay and then carve it back to bring out and define the details. Sometimes I will make a mold of one of these pieces. I use the molds as starting points for new masks: either pressing soft clay into them or slipcasting. Each mask is then altered and further sculpted to become a unique piece. When the masks are completely dry - from 2 days to 3 weeks - I paint them with underglazes and fire them to cone 04. Some pieces are painted with other glazes and fired again. When all firing is completed, I use colored gessoes, acrylics and Prismacolor pencils to define the features. One to four coats of varnish are then applied. At this point, many pieces get some type of "mixed media" addition: I like to make "hair" out of my own hand-painted silk cords or bits of wire or leather. Lately, I've been having fun using driftwood and river stones and I sculpt many small clay parts to help each mask tell its story.






























Robert Dickerson

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"Robert Dickerson was born in Sydney in 1924. Dickerson achieved public recognition in the 1950s as a prominent member of the 'Antipodean Group'. His work was included in the controversial Antipodean Exhibition in Melbourne in 1959. 

The figures that Dickerson paints are highly stylised and distinguishable with elongated angular features. He places his figures in foreboding urban environments that typify loss and poverty, a symptom of the years of post-war depression in Australia. 

Dickerson represents the working-class man, the punter; many of the studies show an inherent loneliness and anxiety, many of the studies drawn from Dickerson's observations of daily life. 

"Dickerson paints the most uncompromising pictures of oddly evocative figures, fore-touched by the atom age, human who, you feel, have existed through all sort of trails and tribulations, by a cunning, and at the same time pathetic naivet? which produces a most direct sympathy in us", Hal Missingham - Director of AGNSW from 1945-1971, Robert Dickerson, 'Against the Tide', by Jennifer Dickerson, Pandanus Press, 1994, pp68 + 70. 

Dickerson moved to Queensland in the late 1960s, where in 1971, he extended his works in charcoal to commence working with coloured chalk pastel. Some dealers of Dickerson's work at the time rejected the drawings and even went so far as to glue the pastels on paper to board and coat them with a varnish as a disguised oil painting. Considering the treatment of his work and the carcinogenic dust emitted from the chalk technique, Dickerson now rarely works in this method. 

Savill Galleries has a long association with Robert Dickerson's work and will consider the purchase of any authentic Dickerson painting or drawing held in public or private collections."

















"Robert Dickerson (b.1924)

Robert Dickerson is a painter known for his brooding, angular figures set in emotionally heightened landscapes, evacuated spaces and melancholy interiors. Although he had no formal training, his highly recognisable style has won him considerable representation in many important Australian collections. His works are often explicitly social, referencing human isolation, and finding their depth in haunting depictions of lonely and outcast figures. The only Sydney-based member of the Antipodean artists’ group in the 1950s and 60s, Dickerson is associated with prominent Australian artists such as Blackman, Boyd and Perceval. He is an unquestionable master of colour and drama, and a considerable body of charcoal and pastel drawings complements his paintings."

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Robert Lucy Animals

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"Robert has been painting and drawing professionally for 25 years, and loving animals for his whole life. With a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Robert made a reputation for himself with powerful still lifes, landscapes, portraits and fantasy paintings and drawings. Originally from St. Louis, Lucy spent many years in Chicago, several years on the Oregon Coast and now lives in NYC."











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