Kate Vassallo

Kate Vassallo, Secrets, 2022. Image courtesy of Document Photography.

Kate Vassallo is a visual artist, based on Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri Country (Canberra, Australia). 

When making artworks, her focus is setting the scene for something to happen in the studio. Using rules and parameters, she develops fully fleshed out “systems” of materially focused steps. Usually highly repetitious, these processes slowly unfold over time. Her artworks are a labour of love, spending highly focused time, along with mental and physical energy, building up their surfaces. 

Vassallo graduated from the Australian National University School of Art in 2010 with First Class Honours and a University Medal. Her work debuted as part of PICA’s well-renowned showcase of emerging talent ‘Hatched’ in 2011. She has since regularly exhibited throughout Australia, including solo presentations at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Galerie pompom, Firstdraft and a raft of other arts institutions. She has been a finalist in numerous art prizes, including the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Jacaranda Acquisitive Art Award, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize. In 2021, she was awarded the Local Artist Prize at the M16 Artspace Drawing Prize. In 2019, Vassallo won the Preparator’s Artist Residency Award, as well as Highly Commended for Early Career Artists, at the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award. Her artworks are held in the Artbank and Goulburn Regional Gallery collections, as well as private collections throughout Australia and the USA.

Website: katevassallo.com
Follow the artist: @kate.vassallo.studio

Lynne Flemons

Lynne Flemons, Creek with Waterfall, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 76 cm.

Lynne Flemons, Hill End (detail), 2008. Image courtesy of the artist.

Lynne Flemons, Ronny Creek Landscape from Waldheim, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 76 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

After completing a MPhil (Visual Arts) at ANU in 2015 Lynne has continued her exploration of place. She has been a finalist in many art awards, including the Calleen Art Award and the Fishers Ghost Art Award. Lynne has been a recipient of the Jennifer Lamb Veolia Creative Arts Scholarship, has been awarded first prize in the Wingecarribee Works on Paper Prize and the Goulburn Art Award. She has been highly commended in the Wingecarribee Drawing Prize.

Art residencies are integral to Lynne’s practice. She has been awarded art residencies in Australia and internationally, including a residency at Murrays Cottage at Hill End, Cradle Mountain NP and at the Serlachius Museum, Manta, Finland. She is a Fellow of the Ballinglen Artist Fellowship, Ireland. Lynne continues to exhibit her work regularly in solo and group exhibitions, most recently at M16 Artspace in Canberra, Weswal Gallery in Tamworth, Project 90 Gallery, Paddington and Goulburn Regional Art Gallery.

Lynne’s work is held in public and private collections in Australia and internationally, including Ballinglen Art Foundation, Ireland, The National Museum of Wales, The National Gallery of Australia, Kyoto Seika University Japan, Wingecarribee Shire Council, Upper Lachlan Shire Council, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Allens Arthur Robinson, Lawyers, Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Sydney.

Website: lynneflemons.com
Follow the artist: @lynneflemons

Nick Offer

Nick Offer, Father’s Day (detail), 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.

Nick Offer bases his paintings on collages, assemblies of disparate imagery which he finds and sources. Aiming to find an unexpected link between figures and their environments (and/or each other) he combines and recombines these found images - often merging them with parts of other collages - until an association emerges.

As the collages form the foundations for his paintings, Nick tries to make their compositions strong enough so that if he veers from them - following new routes the paint takes - their structure remains.

His main hope is to create a unique and persuasive world in each picture. One which works according to its own logic and convinces by the strength of imagery and the paint that depicts it.

Website: nickoffer.com
Follow the artist: @nick_offer

Nick Offer, Interlude (detail). Image courtesy of the Artist.

Nick Offer, Running Figure 2 (detail), 2022. Oil paint, acrylic paint and screen print on canvas, 50 x 55 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

Nathan Hughes

Nathan is an artist/filmmaker/musician with a diverse background in audio-visual narrative and site-specific immersive theatre.

Encounters, the UK’s leading short-film festival described his work as ‘demonstrating a distinctive cinematic and artistic vision', and it has been supported by Creative Europe, London Screenwriter’s Festival and the British Council.

His award-winning dramas, documentaries, and design fictions have screened internationally, and he has mentored young screenwriters to develop media resources to combat ideological radicalisation.

Website: roughgloryfilms.com
Follow the artist : @rough_glory

Nathan Hughes. Image Courtesy of the artist.

Nathan Hughes, Bark 3 (detail). Image Courtesy of the artist.

Nathan Hughes, Bark 3 (detail). Image Courtesy of the artist.

Fiona Little

Fiona Little, Material Grid painting (4), 2015. Acrylic on wood, 60 x 55 cm.

Fiona Little works in the field of abstraction making paintings and drawings that draw upon the influence of industrialisation and mass-production. Repetitive grids have formed the basis of her compositions which explore the basic nature of what painting is – paint applied to a flat surface using colour, texture, shape, line, space. Little creates her paintings through a process of layering, where time becomes a crucial element in the creative process. The idea of the machine has influenced her work in various ways; from using machine-made cloth with tartan designs as the ground on which to paint, to employing a process of repetitive mark-marking through the artists hand, thus turning the artist into a machine. Little’s recent explorations of the grid have been pushing painting into 3-dimensions. 

Alongside her painting practice, Little works in photography and graphic design. Her photographs were selected as finalists in the Sunstudio’s Emerging Photographers Award 2021, and Perth Centre For Photography’s CLIP- Contemporary Landscapes In Photography Award, 2022. 

Little lives and works in Canberra, where she graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours in Painting from the ANU School of Art. In 2021 she gained a Certificate IV in Photography and Photo Imaging from the Canberra Institute of Technology. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions across Australia, including at Watters Gallery, Sydney, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, and Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra.

Website : FionaLittle.com

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