| Archive of Featured Artists |
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Listed below are our past Featured Artists. To read their story click on the story title. |
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| » | Art for Heart's Sake | | Meet Raelean Hall, inspiring and healing others through her art and art therapy. | | |
| » | The Art of Spirit | | Meet Meloney Steyl, expressing her passion and faith through paint and pen. | | |
| » | Magic Music Mamma | | Meet Kath Willams, a talented performer and teacher, touching others through the magic of music. | | |
| » | Jewellery Gems. | | Meet Pauline Murray, decorating women everywhere with her exquisite jewellery. | | |
| » | Market Art Magic | | Meet Adrienne Parker, blending pattern and colour to create inspiring works of art. | | |
| » | Glamorous Glass | | Meet Glenys Fentiman shining a light on the diversity and beauty of glass art. | | |
| » | Inspiring Images | | Meet Tracy Woolley a photographer and business woman inspiring people all over the world. | | |
| » | Outback Artist | | Meet June McCotter, promoting and painting the essence of the outback experience. | | |
| » | Soulful Singer | | Meet Delany Delaney, a mesmerizing and magical performer, weaving her magic through song. | | |
| » | Natural Beauty | | Meet Saffron Drew, capturing the texture, colour, and dynamic pattern of nature in her art. | | |
| » | Forming the Female | | Meet Lindi Birnie – ‘Body & Soul’ – celebrating the female form sculpturally. | | |
| » | Funky Females | | Meet Denise Daffara, celebrating the light and joy of women in her funky, fun, colourful paintings | | |
| » | Captivating Ceramics | | Meet Shannon Garson, a porcelain artist inspired by nature and history, blending them into magical pieces. | | |
| » | Painting Pleasures | | Meet Natalie Dyer, diversely expressing the beauty of life in sensational works of art | | |
| » | Sensational Sistas | | Meet Louise and Sarah, sisters in life, string and song, creating beautiful music together. | | |
| » | Alluring Abstracts | | Meet Christine Maudy, French born abstract artist creating soulful abstracts and striking colours. | | |
| » | Sculpting Sensations | | Meet Anne-Laure Demene, superbly sculpting form and fauna in a variety of mediums. | | |
| » | Mayan Magic | | Meet Heidi Woodman, ceramic artist blending ancient wisdom with intuitive impulses, expressed in earth material. | | |
| » | Divine Drawing | | Meet Francie Griffin, using her artistic and intuitive gifts to contact and draw your spirit guide | | |
| » | Quintessential Quilts | | Meet Cynthia Morgan, creating tantalizing textile art, specializing in art quilts. | | |
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| Meet Lindi Birnie – ‘Body & Soul’ – celebrating the female form sculpturally. |
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| How long have you been creating your sculpture? I have been sculpting the human form for around the last eight years. Before this my subject matter was more diverse and I used various mixed media although I felt an affinity for clay very early on. |
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| How have you developed your skill in this area?
My early training was in exhibition design and window display. I then studied fashion before further specialist studies in embroidery including ceremonial, religious, historical and conservation textiles as well as my favourite area, contemporary and 3 dimensional embroidery. All contributed to my feel for form, texture and general design. |
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| What has been a major inspiration/influence on your work? The human form has always held a fascination, from the fluidity and graceful movement of a ballet dancer to the shapes of tree lines in nature and the rugged solidity of natural forms in rock and stone. In Portugal, the yellow ochre fields. And of course, the rust red earth of the Red Centre and Ularu echoing the terracotta of Italy and Spain. All have given me a sense of colour, shape and spiritual inspiration.
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| What do you hope to give with your art?
A sharing of the visual and tactile experience of the pure, simple line of the female torso. The awareness that form can appear to alter simply by the individual treatment and application of surface decoration . ‘Look for the purity within – beyond the sometimes harsh exterior’ |
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| What do you get from your art?
The satisfying feel of raw clay in the hand. To push, pound and manipulate. My initial perception of a figurative piece whether contemporary or traditional evolving with a sense of adventure into its final form. |
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| What has been you greatest moment with your art?
Realising that there are no boundaries in art and since residing permanently in Queensland, being able to embrace the spectacular environment and natural resources that enable me to further my ephemeral artwork. A great experience was being part of the ‘Floating Land’ firing at Lake Cootharaba, Boreen Point where we built a dozen kilns on the lake and fired at dusk to the accompaniment of an aboriginal fire making ritual. |
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| Where would you like to take your art?
I would like to extend my sculpture into larger installation works using the human form as my main focus. |
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| What would you say to someone who is interested in taking up sculpture?
Sculpture is a wonderful means of self-expression whatever media you choose. I would certainly recommend clay as your first choice of material.
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| What part of your spirit adds to your success as an artist? I think it must be my adventurous spirit that needs to mould and manipulate natural materials into works of art. |
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| Who do you know who is a spirited woman?
Kim Schoenberger the ceramic artist from Dulong who produces wonderful pieces inspired by the textures and finishes of the past. |
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| Is there anything else you would like to let us know about you?I am open to feedback, which enriches my awareness to responses to my work, and hopefully encourage others to go ahead and try releasing their creative side.
I have work at the annual "Maleny Teapot Show" running 25th to 27th Sept 1st at the R.S.L. hall 1 Bunya st. Then !st to 30th Oct Maleny Artworks gallery- 50 maple St (Upstairs )Maleny www.malenyartworks.com. Also at Maleny Artworks gallery "Vessel" exhibition from the 1st to 21st October (upstairs 50 Maple Street Maleny .
and most proberbly "Spring Feve 09r" 15-19th Oct Alexander Headlands Sunshine Coast at the Conferefence Centre .
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