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2017 Carmel McCrow
Water Dance Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 30 X 30 cm
Reserve $200 Retail Price $300
Biography
Carmel has been a practicing painter for 25 years, and previously in Sydney, a Graphic Artist for 25 years. Original training was at, what is now, the National Art School, Sydney, followed by time in the UK working as a Graphic artist and flight crew with British Airways. Later years led to a move to the Snowy Mountains, and whilst there, completed a Certificate in Painting and another in Drawing at NSW TAFE. During this time, a Gallery and watercolour classes were compiled and administered for Perisher, also watercolour classes plus an annual, National Art Exhibition for Thredbo, during which time, work was produced in watercolour, acrylic, charcoal, pastel and oil. On moving to Canberra, a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) was completed at The Australian National University in 2004. Since then, there has been participation in numerous group exhibitions, and 7 solo exhibitions. Five years of that period was at my studio at ANCA, producing larger pieces in oil on canvas.
BID Name Reserve $200
Sarah Murphy
Meander II (Necklace) Titanium, Sterling Silver, 45mm x 45 mm (pendant)
Reserve $200 Retail price $350 Biography
Sarah Murphy maintains her practice in Canberra at M16 Artspace where she creates her work to exhibit nationally. In 2011, she received her Bachelor of Visual Arts from the School of Art, Australian National University – Major Gold and Silversmithing. Since then she has been a finalist in various contemporary jewellery award exhibitions, including most recently The Contemporary Australian Silver and Metalwork Award at Castlemaine Art Gallery in 2015. Of her work, Murphy says ‘Rhythm, repetition and movement are the fundamentals which are often the driving forces behind my work. I use repetition as a rhythm and a play between worlds of colour, movement and shape. In life we experience repetition every day. The simple act of walking, breathing or the sound of our own heartbeat. The gesture or movement of the human body, creating its own random yet syncopated pattern. The use of repetition in my work creates structure. The presence of structure in our lives gives us the sense that we are somehow in control of our own existence. I enjoy creating jewellery with these characteristics and exploring how this might affect the relationship between the wearer the viewer and the piece itself.’
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Sanne Koelemij
Pushing Boarders (lilac), 2016 Acrylic on Perspex, 30.6 x 36.7 cm
Reserve: $250 Biography
Sanne Koelemij is an emerging Artist living and working in Canberra, Australia. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) within the Painting Workshop at the ANU School of Art in 2015. The following year she was highly commended in the Undergraduate Awards, Dublin, for Visual Arts and Design and received the Oceania Regional Winner Award within this category. Her practice explores the relationship between material and colour through abstract painting. She draws influence from Optical Art and Colour Field Abstraction to construct ambiguous pictorial spaces that challenge the order in which gestural marks are layered. Sanne has exhibited locally, interstate and internationally at galleries such as Watters Gallery, Sydney, and being catalog published in the China Academy of Art Survey on Experimental Painting. This year, Sanne has completed a residency at the Fremantle Arts Centre, WA, and contributed artworks in numerous exhibitions. She currently has paintings installed with the Young Moderns exhibition on show at Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW, until November 19, 2017.
BID Name Reserve $250
Sanne Koelemij
Pushing Boarders (outside red), 2016 Acrylic on Perspex, 30.6 x 35.7 cm
Reserve - $250 Biography
Sanne Koelemij is an emerging Artist living and working in Canberra, Australia. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) within the Painting Workshop at the ANU School of Art in 2015. The following year she was highly commended in the Undergraduate Awards, Dublin, for Visual Arts and Design and received the Oceania Regional Winner Award within this category. Her practice explores the relationship between material and colour through abstract painting. She draws influence from Optical Art and Colour Field Abstraction to construct ambiguous pictorial spaces that challenge the order in which gestural marks are layered. Sanne has exhibited locally, interstate and internationally at galleries such as Watters Gallery, Sydney, and being catalog published in the China Academy of Art Survey on Experimental Painting. This year, Sanne has completed a residency at the Fremantle Arts Centre, WA, and contributed artworks in numerous exhibitions. She currently has paintings installed with the Young Moderns exhibition on show at Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW, until November 19, 2017.
BID Name Reserve $250
Phil Page
Bottom of the Harbour 1, 2014 Acrylic on canvas, 41 x 51 cm
Reserve - $200 Retail Price - $400 Biography
My original training was as an architect and I practised actively in that profession until 2007. Since 2010 I have been primarily studying painting at the ANU School of Art +Design. In 2011, I completed a Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts and am currently a candidate in the PhD program in the Painting Workshop. I am currently a Studio Artist at M16. My interest in painting is the built environment. I use the characteristics of cities, and my reactions to them, to drive the composition of my paintings. My work builds an overall image using fragments and layers of figurative imagery of cities together with gestural marks. My paintings also generally involve an ongoing dialogue between line and shape, and between drawing and painting. This reflects my involvement with drawn communication in architectural practice.
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Alan J. Jones
Hanging on at Kings II, 2017 Oil on Canvas, Miniature, framed 23 x 20 cm
Reserve - $250 Biography
Alan J. Jones is primarily self-taught and has painted on and off for 30 years, but he became entrenched in art in the new century when he started to communicate with other artists and tutors. Consequently, he developed a greater range of techniques and skills using oils, pen and ink drawing, and acrylics. Alan has won numerous awards including being a finalist in the 2009 Mortimer Prize for Landscape MY YOUTH – CARBON TAXED! , oil on canvas. He won the ActewAGL “Best in Show” at the ACT Catchment Groups Art Prizes 2014 for BELOW SCRIVENER DAM, oil on canvas; and in 2017 placed second for Agricultural Heritage Prize, ActewAGL Royal Canberra Show, 2017 for SPARSE GRAZING “SNOWIES”, oil on canvas; and Best-in-Show at the ASOC Spring Exhibition 2017, Albert Hall, Canberra for ROCKY DUNE, oil on canvas, 2017. Alan has held two “one-man shows” in Melbourne and Canberra and his work is represented in private collections throughout Europe, in Japan, the USA, and Australia.
BID Name Reserve $250
Jeffree Skewes
Attune Oil paint, tuning fork, polished stone on place mat, 19 x 23 x 2 cm
Reserve price - $120 Biography
Jeffree Skewes is known for establishing and running studioMAP, a unique art education studio and painting, drawing and illustration workshop for children and teens for more than twenty years and based at M16 Artspace for the past ten years. Jeff and fellow M16 colleague Kerry Sheperdson established and voluntarily maintain Chutespace, probably Australia's smallest art gallery located at the front of M16 Artspace Over many years, Skewes has continued to create his own visual artwork and develop writing projects. In later 2018 he will present Silk on the Road, a solo exhibition at M16 that unfolds an imagined and contemporary epic journey of art, discovery and adventure set in across the fables lands of the Silk Road. The small works displayed here are mixed media constructions built on painted surfaces added with found objects; chosen to evoke and reflect their intended uses but reassembled to provoke alternate interpretations and perspective as suggested by their titles.
BID Name Reserve $120
Jeffrey Skewes
Pond Oil paint, gold leaf, plaster, found object on motherboard, 20 x 20 x 2cm
Reserve - $120 Biography
Jeffree Skewes is known for establishing and running studioMAP, a unique art education studio and painting, drawing and illustration workshop for children and teens for more than twenty years and based at M16 Artspace for the past ten years. Jeff and fellow M16 colleague Kerry Sheperdson established and voluntarily maintain Chutespace, probably Australia's smallest art gallery located at the front of M16 Artspace Over many years, Skewes has continued to create his own visual artwork and develop writing projects. In later 2018 he will present Silk on the Road, a solo exhibition at M16 that unfolds an imagined and contemporary epic journey of art, discovery and adventure set in across the fables lands of the Silk Road. The small works displayed here are mixed media constructions built on painted surfaces added with found objects; chosen to evoke and reflect their intended uses but reassembled to provoke alternate interpretations and perspective as suggested by their titles.
BID Name Reserve $120
Derek O’Connor
Clouds. Oil on book cover, 9 x 23 cm
Reserve - $ 950.00 Retail Price - $1200 Biography
Born in Warwickshire, England in 1957, Derek O’Connor moved to Adelaide in 1969, and today lives and works in Canberra. His work is held in major public galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, as well as important private and corporate collections such as ABN AMRO, Renzo Piano Building, Sydney; Art and Australia; Artbank; RACV Art Collection; Pan Pacific Collection; and Austcorp. USB collection. University of Wollongong. UTS collection. ANU Drill Hall Gallery. Tamworth Gallery Collection.
BID Name Reserve $ 950
Leeanne Crisp
Rising, Falling Watercolour on Arches paper, framed size 98 x 81cms
Reserve - $1100 Biography
Leeanne has been painting since 1972. Highlights have been the Archibald (and travelling exhibition), Portia Geach 4 times, Dobel Drawing prize, CMAG exhibition and my MA show at ANU, residencies in Cape town and Bundanon. I am now making abstract images focusing on colour and gesture. I am living at Ballalaba in the high reaches of the Shoalhaven catchment. This permeates my new work, ‘Peach Summer’
BID Name Reserve $1100
Leeanne Crisp
Emergent Watercolour on Arches paper, framed size 98 x 81cms
Reserve - $1100 Biography
Leeanne has been painting since 1972. Highlights have been the Archibald (and travelling exhibition), Portia Geach 4 times, Dobel Drawing prize, CMAG exhibition and my MA show at ANU, residencies in Cape town and Bundanon. I am now making abstract images focusing on colour and gesture. I am living at Ballalaba in the high reaches of the Shoalhaven catchment. This permeates my new work, ‘Peach Summer’.
BID Name Reserve $1100
Michele Mack
Feathered Friends Acrylic on Linen, 40 x 30 cm
Reserve – $70 Retail Price - $180 Biography
Michele Mack is a Canberra-based artist. She has completed many short courses and workshops with excellent Australian and international tutors, developing skills in a wide range of media and techniques including watercolour, acrylic and pastel, drawing, collage and printmaking. Michele is particularly inspired by the natural world, colour, texture and pattern. Her practice is informed by a sense of playfulness and joy. Her work has been exhibited in the ACT and NSW and forms part of several private collections. She is a member of the Artist’s Society of Canberra.
BID Name Reserve $70
Michele Mack
Ocean Dreams Acrylic on Linen, 100 x 100 cm
Reserve – $150 Retail Price - $500 Biography
Michele Mack is a Canberra-based artist. She has completed many short courses and workshops with excellent Australian and international tutors, developing skills in a wide range of media and techniques including watercolour, acrylic and pastel, drawing, collage and printmaking. Michele is particularly inspired by the natural world, colour, texture and pattern. Her practice is informed by a sense of playfulness and joy. Her work has been exhibited in the ACT and NSW and forms part of several private collections. She is a member of the Artist’s Society of Canberra.
BID Name Reserve $150
Merryn Lloyd
Thick surface painting (black gradient), 2017 Encaustic on plywood, 20 x 15 cm
Reserve - $300 Retail Price - $650 Biography
Merryn Lloyd works with beeswax and pigment to create paintings through a process of accretion, build up, mixing, reworking and scratching back into the textural surfaces of her works. Her paintings investigate the irregularities of using beeswax as a painting medium, and the possibilities for mindless experimentation in the studio to produce finished works - trial and error; acceptance and rejection of the outcome. Merryn graduated from a Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting), Monash University, 2008. Selected exhibitions include Hot Mess Paintings, Daine Singer, Melbourne (2017); What’s Happening Here? Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne (2017); Dusty Plain, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand (2016); Oil on a Spoon, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne (2014); Soft Eyes, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne (2013); Abstract Now, Shepparton Art Museum (2010). Her work is held by Artbank and private collections in Australia and New Zealand.
BID Name Reserve $300
Kerry Shepherdson
Fenced In, 2016 Acrylic on canvas, 46 cm x 46 cm
Reserve - $250
Short biography
Kerry studied at ANU School of Art and achieved a BA (vis) Hons with awards in 2014 followed by a Master of Philosophy in 2009 -2011. She conducts her active art practice including solo and group exhibitions at studio 25 M16 Artspace and co curates Chutespace mini gallery at M16.
BID Name Reserve $250