CAROLE KING CAROLYN O’NEILL ARTIST STATEMENT ARTIST STATEMENT Carole has been painting The last hint of crimson mangroves and their coastal before sunset; a blood red environs in recent times and orange on a salad plate; or has a great attachment to the burnt orange glaze on them, for her they are trees my favourite West German with personalities and many vase. Despite not human attributes like being consciously stylising my bossy, clingy, flamboyant, works, I express my tolerant and tenacious to emotions with raw freedom name a few. Her favourite in layers so that I might find habitats for exploring the suggestion through mangrove communities are Nundah, Wynnum Mangrove imagery. Wisps of colour are freely dripped, splattered Boardwalk, Jabiru Island and Currumbin Creek. and stained onto my canvases; bizarre formations appear ''Seagrass with Community'' expresses the personal as thick brush strokes of paint reinforce the composition. emotion she feels for the coastal water worlds of south- east Queensland. BIO/CV Seagrasses in themselves exude a whimsical energy as Bendigo-born abstract expressionist artist Carolyn O’Neill they are carried by the ebbing and flowing tides, allowing currently resides in Hamilton, Victoria and has been a glimpse of the plants and sea creatures within. painting since 2003. Although her preferred medium is painting, she also BIO/CV enjoys drawing, mixed media collages and sculpture. Carole was born in Newcastle (NSW) and has lived in Her former career as a psychiatric nurse has left an Sydney, Melbourne, London and Italy. She now resides in indelible mark and the significance of self-expression is the Gold Coast Hinterland. evident in the emotional connection with her work. Carole has a Diploma in Fine Art majoring in Colour & A short beginners painting course in Melbourne back in Design and Printmaking. Whilst living in London she had 2003 marked the beginning of her interest in art and her first solo exhibition at the Court Gallery, Hampton Carolyn began to exhibit locally. However it took a move Court. to W.A. in 2007 to consolidate her art via formal art Upon returning to Australia, Carole taught drawing and studies. This shift in her confidence and ability led to her painting for Macquarie Community College, Sydney, decision to pursue an art career. Fossicking through op tutored for The World Education Fellowship, Mittagong and shops and adding to her Mid Century collectables are a completed a Diploma in Adult Education (Community) at constant inspiration. An ongoing fascination with how University of Technology, Broadway Campus, Sydney. In objects connect together in their simplest form; 2007 she tutored in 'Conversation English' at Vaughan particularly modernism also influences her work. Town, Madrid. In July 2014 Carole was named the winner of the $50,000 EDUCATION Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize with the South 2008 – 2011Certificate II & IV Visual Art and Australian Museum. Contemporary Craft (Tafe) EDUCATION Diploma of Fine Art, Sydney EXHIBITIONS Mitchell College of Creative Arts, Charles Sturt Uni 2015 RED Expressionism Group Show, 19 KAREN Diploma of Adult Education, UTS Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast QLD Royal Art Society of NSW, Sydney 2014 PAINT Melbourne Arts Club, Ruffian gallery, Dr. Irene Amos, Brisbane. Footscray VIC 2014 CONNECT 4, brightspace Gallery, St KIlda, VIC EXHIBITIONS 2014 Art Crasher, Launch Exhibition, San Francisco, California, USA 2015 RED Expressionism Group Show, 19 KAREN 2014 ‘Instinct’ Six Years Later Magazine Launch, Richmond Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast QLD VIC 2014 'Carole King', Artarmon Galleries, Sydney NSW 2014 A Tribute to Michael Jackson's 10 Best Film Clips, 19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast QLD MEDIA 2013 'The Art of Cirque du Soleil', 19 KAREN 2014 Artwork featured on Channel 9's 'The Block Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast QLD Glasshouse' 2013 'Water World', 19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast QLD PUBLICATIONS/COLLECTIONS 2014 Cover Artist - 'Bespoke' Magazine, 'Inner Animal' SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS Winter Edition 13 2014 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South 2014 'The Best of Modern and Contemporary Artists 2014' Australian Museum, Adelaide SA - Winner Pg. 203, Curated by Salvatore Russo and Francesco 2011 Kenilworth Arts Prize, Kenilworth Arts Council Inc, Saverio Russo. EA Editore – Palermo Kenilworth QLD - (Shortlisted) www.19karen.com.au www.19karen.com.au P> 07 5554 5019 E> [email protected] P> 07 5554 5019 E> [email protected] DAIN GO SUGA ARTIST STATEMENT ARTIST STATEMENT Glamour in the midst of the "JIGOKU" means hell. chaos around us. The eyes are the window to the soul. Distracted from humans evil In the grime of the streets doing towards earth, the drip colors of beauty. Universe slowly starts to open its eyes with anger and it releases 3 flaming demons. The blazing fire of the 3 demons burns every living thing on earth... BIO/CV BIO/CV One of the most influential street artists to emerge from Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Go migrated to Australia and New York, DAIN combines the visual language of graffiti settled on the Gold Coast in Queensland 1990. His talent with collaged old portraits of Hollywood glamour stars. for drawing has been a lifelong passion with a mystical Crossing genres and often working single pieces back and seamless blending of cultures. forth between the street and studio, DAIN combines Go's work draws upon and reflects his personal views on a wheatpasting, silkscreening, spray paint, collage, and wide range of influences including social, political and acrylic. His process begins with a black-and-white photo cultural issues, blended with a rare beauty and mystique that he layers with old advertisements, printed fragments, with the vibrant use of colour, shape and movement to logos, and miscellaneous smaller images. He then begins create a truly unique and entrancing artwork. adding paint; his unmistakable trademark is the “circle and Completing his Diploma of Graphic Design on the Gold drip” around the eye of his subjects. DAIN views his work Coast has also given Go the knowledge and skills to as a confrontation between the destructive gestures of enhance his original style with the use of Typography, graffiti and the femininity of his Hollywood subjects. Layout and Composition to complete his works. Happily married, Go has found his place in the world, his EDUCATION Nirvana and his art has grown and become an essential part of his life. EXHIBITIONS EDUCATION 2015 RED Expressionism Group Show, 19 KAREN 2015 RED Expressionism Group Show, 19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast QLD Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast QLD 2007 Diploma of Graphic Design, TAFE Gold Coast, ACHIEVEMENTS Queensland DAIN has had numerous shows across the US (including Chicago, Miami, Portland, New York and Brooklyn) and EXHIBITIONS also in Montreal, Paris, on the Gold Coast and in London. 2015 Solo Show, Depo Restaurant, West End, Queensland, In 2014 he was invited by Silvia Fendi to show his work at Australia AltaRoma Fashion Week in Rome. DAIN has also been working on a project with Urban Nation. www.19karen.com.au www.19karen.com.au P> 07 5554 5019 E> [email protected] P> 07 5554 5019 E> [email protected] HELEN HOLMES HELEN OPREY ARTIST STATEMENT ARTIST STATEMENT To express the theme RED I Expressionism gives me a wanted to conceptually wonderful excuse to ponder explore how we use this questions that are important colour and what it means to to me. My paintings for this us socially. exhibition mainly feature characters and subjects that BIO/CV reflect my thoughts and feelings about being a Originally from the Central woman. The power we have, Coast, NSW, Helen Holmes the judgements we endure, is a contemporary abstract the roles we play, the artist who has called the choices we make and the worries we carry. The complex Gold Coast home for over 20 years. lives we live. For example, the painting RED WINE Helen is a vehicle spray painter by trade with an industrial celebrates the graceful ageing of a woman and the choice background. Her innate love of colour was enhanced by we have about what ageing means. Do we choose to see the many hours spent mixing paints and colour matching our ageing bodies as evidence of how much we have in her field of trade, and has carried itself over to her grown and evolved or run to the cosmetic industry to take artwork. the evidence away? Who do we listen to when deciding our Her paintings are vibrant acrylics and charcoal on board or worth? I am sure our answers to such questions are not canvas. Her work is sassy and fun with lots of energy. black and white so nor are my paintings. My art is therefore colourful and layered with a touch of humour and EDUCATION is my way of expressing the beauty, madness and richness Cert IV in workplace assessment and training-Southport of our lives. Gold Coast Cert IV vehicle painting-Ultimo Sydney 1984-88 Vehicle Painting Apprenticeship BIO/CV 1984-89 Ultimo TAFE College, Sydney Helen Oprey hails from the Northern Rivers area of NSW. 1989-95 Dux Lighting Currumbin -Industrial Spray As a social worker and as a mother, Helen has been painting exposed to all sorts of situations, people and emotions. They all play important parts in inlfuencing the direction of her art. EXHIBITIONS/ACIEVMENTS Her works are layered pieces celebrating her love of colour 2015 RED Expressionism Group Show, 19 KAREN and texture, playfully creative, always unplanned, where Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast QLD random thoughts and ideas take over and