Artist: Ian Chamberlain
I have been involved in the arts for many years. Exploring space and colour, sound and form is what I do. I work in any medium which suits the work - the work chooses the medium.
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Designer/maker: Rosemary Shepherd
Rosemary Shepherd's wire lace jewellery is inspired by her historical
research during twenty years as the Powerhouse Museum's specialist lace
curator. It is light and comfortable to wear and much tougher than it
looks.
Rosemary uses the bobbin lacemaking technique which is at least 500 years
old. It was used originally with wire, or metal-wrapped thread, but has
been more commonly associated with linen or cotton thread for several
centuries.
Rosemary learned bobbin lacemaking in England and has taught in Australia
and overseas for Community Arts Centres, TAFE and special interest groups
for the last 30 years. She has always experimented with technique, design
and materials while maintaining a deep interest in the complex history
of lace. She has exhibited widely and her work is in a number of private
and public collections. She also continues to write books and articles
about lace and lacemaking.
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Artist: Julie Chamberlain
Born in Adelaide in 1947, into a household filled with paintings and visiting painters, Julie learnt colour theory and the rudiments of drawing from her father, painter David Dallwitz.
When she began seriously creating pictures in the 1980s, her visual inspiration came from the memories of a childhood spent playing and drawing in her father's vicinity, and the intense experiences of travelling in Europe and Asia, which began when she was 7 years old.
This first body of work consisted of appliqué pictures made from recycled fabrics. As a fabric appliqué artist, she worked and exhibited in Sydney and Adelaide over a twenty year period. Her fabric works are represented in many private collections around the world.
In 2005, ready for a new challenge, she took up painting. Her innate sense of colour and form, developed in her years of working with textiles, has been the launching pad for an emerging series of paintings. The subject matter of these new works has shifted from the conceptual focus of her earlier work to an exploration of the physical world around her: interiors, cityscapes, landscapes, people, animals.
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Artist: Martin Levy
My artistic concern has been to explore aspects of my Jewish identity with reference to migrationary and diaspora issues.
My own migration in 1991 raised personal issues, such as displacement, identity and direction. I continue to investigate these personal issues and
explore my concerns, by developing the potential of an abstract, textual and gestural language through the photographic medium; creating a series
of ambiguous artworks. These aspects, I believe express, explore and challenge the boundaries between painting, drawing and photography through the
use of a symbolic and linear language.
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