“Trying to convey an idea with an emotional situation is one way of drawing the person a little bit further into it, but it’s such a sensitive, delicate thing to do. You have to tread really lightly with little movements of hands and things like that in getting things to connect.” – Sam Jinks
“There are no hard and fast rules,” says Richard Lewer about his studio practice. “I’ve been doing some very delicate drawings, next to some very heavy physical paintings.”
“To say the name of something is to make a fold in the world that doesn’t sever. The name isn’t severed from its object and the image isn’t severed from its object. But it’s distinguished by an edge that doesn’t sever.” – Ann Debono
“When people look at my work they think they’re so real, they’re portraits of people. But in actual fact, they’re not.” – Jan Nelson
Katherine Hattam has worked across diverse mediums for dozens of years, drawing on literature and psychology to bring the inside – out.
David Ray’s ceramic practice subverts classical forms with contemporary concerns. He works from a basement studio on the edge of the Yarra Valley.
For over half a century, Alun Leach-Jones has been diligently carving out a distinguished career from his North Sydney studio.
Natasha Bieniek captures gardens in painstaking detail as her Southbank studio is ever more engulfed by construction.
Brook Andrew’s astute interrogations of history and race are created from text and images in a quietly imposing warehouse studio.
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