" ABSTRACTION : PREVIEW JUNE 22"
by GROUP EXHIBITIONS SOHO GALLERIES
21-06-2013 - 12-07-2013

"ABSTRACT PAINTINGS GROUP EXHIBITION"
by JONATHON HAYDE
22-06-2013 - 12-07-2013

"ABSTRACT PAINTINGS GROUP EXHIBITION"
by MIODRAG JANKOVIC
22-06-2013 - 12-07-2013

Exhibition Comments:

HU MING GROUP EXHIBITION      PREVIEW NIGHT MAY 25, 6 to 8pm

Participating artists,

Hu Ming; Wang Lan; Yuman Zeng; Liu Haion

Exhibition of contemporary  paintings 

Preview Saturday May 25, 6 to 8pm

Guest speaker JIAWEI SHEN

Further information to follow on the website.

Exhibition Comments:

 HAIOU LIU  CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS

Writing is the consummate passion of my life.  For the past ten years I have tried, with words, to capture endurance and struggle within the members of my family.  Such a narrative is ripe with sorrow and suffering at the hands of war and politics. 

I would paint as a break from the emotional intensity of writing.  Once I had a small collection of completed works in front of me, I realized that contrary to my writing, they reflected peace, tranquility and harmony.  That’s when I understood that painting was more than a hobby.   It was  equilibrium to life.

Exhibition dates May 25 to June 21, 2013.

Participating artists:  Hu Ming, Wang Lan, Yuman Zeng, Liu Haiou.

GUEST PRESENTATION SPEAKER  

 SHEN JIAWEI

Exhibition Comments:

YUMAN ZENG 

I love the color of the natural world, and try to recreate it in my painting .   

Exhibition dates May 25 to June 21, 2013.

Participating artists:  Hu Ming, Wang Lan, Yuman Zeng, Liu Haiou.

 GUEST PRESENTATION SPEAKER 

 SHEN JIAWEI to open the exhibition.

Exhibition Comments:

LAN WANG

I wish for my paintings to be like timeless poetry. I try to explore the quieter and more harmonious realms 

of the human spirit in my own way, and like the words in poetry, the figures in my works  are each symbolic 

of something. My paintings are not of real events or stories; I only wish for those who see my works to 

momentarily escape reality, like the birds in the paintings that can fly up high and see the world from a 

different point of view.

HU MING & ARTIST FRIENDS GROUP EXHIBITION of Contemporary paintings.

Opening Preview May 25, 6-8pm

Exhibition dates May 25 to June 21, 2013.

Participating artists:  Hu Ming, Wang Lan, Yuman Zeng, Liu Haiou.

GUEST PRESENTATION SPEAKER 

 SHEN JIAWEI to open the exhibition.

Exhibition Comments:

HU MING & FRIENDS GROUP EXHIBITION   

Participating artists, 

Hu Ming; Wang Lan; Yuman Zeng; Liu Haion

Exhibition of contemporary  paintings 

Guest speaker JIAWEI SHEN

Group Exhibition Visual   -   HU MING & FRIENDS ARTIST GROUP EXHIBITION

About HU MING  :

Chinese immigrants began to trickle into Australia in 1940. Nowadays men and women of Chinese ethnicity contribute greatly to the life of Australia particularly in the Valley of the Arts. There is growing interest in Asian Art with both private and public art galleries intensifying the now long pursuit ties with Asia, which is having a far greater social and artistic effect on our community.

There is a new face in the wave of established Asian Artists. HU Ming is a pioneer in her field being diverse in combining both modem and classical styles. There is a blend of exotic, strange, humorous and above all mysterious in her art. She merges a conscious sense of post modernism and element of sub-culturalism.

Her paintings express dearly her worship of the female form depicting both physical strength and feminine beauty. Her works are not of a planned process born of her dreams and represents an accumulation of her diverse experiences.

She has held exhibitions in Japan and Singapore with her paintings being sold to buyers in the US, Canada, Asia and Europe.

In 1970 at the age of 15 she joined the Chinese Army. Her mother and father both served in the army as Doctors. She was eventually promoted to the rank of Major after 20 years continuous service. Hu Ming began her army training as a nurse. Whilst still in the army she studied art and graduated in 1983 from The Fine Arts College of 7‑janfin where she majored in traditional Chinese painting. She further developed her skills sufficiently to become a scenic artist, costume designer and production designer in the Chinese military film studio. As a part of her training Hu Ming studied extensively at the ultimate shrine to Buddhism in Dun Huang. Here she traced a large number of cave paintings, which helps her perfect her skills in traditional figure painting. One of Hu Ming's works was added to the collection of the Tiarijin Museum.

She moved to Australia in 2000 and is a permanent resident, most recently  exhibiting in China, Australia and Germany.

Exhibition Comments:

HU MING & ARTIST FRIENDS GROUP EXHIBITION of Contemporary paintings.

Also weekend trading daily 12-6pm

HU MING & FRIENDS ARTIST GROUP EXHIBITION

Opening Preview May 25, 6-8pm

Exhibition dates May 25 to June 21, 2013.

Participating artists:  Hu Ming, Wang Lan, Yuman Zeng, Liu Haiou.

GUEST PRESENTATION SPEAKER 

 SHEN JIAWEI

Exhibition Comments:

ARTIST SCULPTOR ANDREW ROGERS

Exhibiting at  SOHO GALLERIES  &  ART PARK ,   CBD SYDNEY.    Visit : www.artpark.com.au 

LARGE FORMAT CONTEMPORARY BRONZE  SCULPTURE 

ANDREW ROGERS SCULPTURE VISUAL

Andrew Rogers specialises in monumental and landmark sculptures both figurative and abstract and has carried out an impressive number of commissions and has major works not only in Australia, but also in San Francisco, New Jersey, Dallas, Vienna, Kobe, Osaka, Singapore, Athens, Jerusalem, Taipei, Berkshire UK, and Machu Picchu in Peru. They range from a small intimate bronze, Resistance, presented to Simon Wiesenthal in Vienna, to Evolution a huge complex work  43 metres high. 

Andrew Rogers is one of Australia's most distinguished and internationally recognized contemporary sculptors. He exhibits internationally and his critically acclaimed sculptures are in numerous private and prominent public collections in Australia, South East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States of America. He has received many international commissions and has created "Rhythms of Life", the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world, forming a chain of 40 massive stone sculptures, or Geoglyphs, around the globe. The project has involved over 5,500 people in 12 countries across five continents. 

"Rhythms of Life" comprises 40 large scale stone structures/Geoglyphs. Its creation has involved over 5,500 people in 12 countries across 5 continents, spanning a period of 11 years. These structures are in exotic disparate locations including deserts, fjords, gorges, national parks and altiplano. It is the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world and spans the globe.

These connected drawings on the surface of the Earth refer to the physical building blocks of history and civilization, while addressing the interconnection of humanity throughout time and space. Unique is an intent of this undertaking to have these drawings on the earth photographed by specifically commissioned satellites from a distance of 450 kilometres (280 miles) above the Earth revealing the structures as specks in space and a moment in time.

A purpose of the "Rhythms of Life" Land Art structures is to establish consecrated space. The structures denote the separation from the ordinary and provide contemplative settings.  

The Australian sculptor  began his personal artistic journey almost 30 years ago as a painter. But in the late 1980s, after numerous visits to the Musee Rodin, in Paris, he decided to give up painting to take up sculpture. "With sculpture we learn to perceive, to recognize differences, to clarify, to make a decision, and eventually one can see what it is that matters to create a form."  

Exhibition Comments:

 ZYGMUNT  LIBUCHA  

INNOVATIVE CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE   - Level One Open Gallery

If my parents had had their way I would have been an engineer. Although I studied Electrical Sciences in my native Poland, I never completed my degree. I was yearning to learn a craft, to shape things with my hands. So, instead of fulfilling a parental ambition I became a silversmith. As Gdansk has a fine tradition in gold and silversmithery it was not too hard to find a silversmith to take me in. After three years of apprenticeship in Gdansk's leading workshop I passed my journeyman exam and shortly after I got my Master's Certificate. At the same time I was spending my evenings in a sculptor's studio next to my silversmithing workshop carving in wood and later creating sculptures in bronze.

In 1982 I migrated to Australia. The richness and beauty of Australian fauna and flora boosted my creativity profoundly and I became well known as a creator of many designs depicting Australian animals and flowers. From the beginning I was selling my works through Seasons Gallery in North Sydney, Beaver Gallery in Canberra and Maker's Mark in Melbourne. While living in Sydney I attended workshops with well-known sculptor John Gardner and made works mainly in bronze. Shortly after my move to Brisbane in 1988 I started to work in stone and operate now from my studio in Brisbane. Apart from bronze, I work in marble, granite, sandstone; and black Chillago marble is my favourite stone. In 1997 I stopped working as a silversmith and now I work as a full time sculptor.

Working for many years as a silversmith I developed a great need for details and even now when I sculpt on a large scale I cannot divorce myself from it. Although the amount of time I spend on each sculpture increases enormously, the more it takes the better. I guess, I want to enjoy every piece of stone as long as possible. I love to carve in marble the most intricate and crisp lines and lack of forgiveness of stone makes it more challenging. I create both figurative and abstract works and there are always several of them in my studio to appreciate.

 

Exhibition Comments:

GARNER SCULPTOR - Unique found object assemblage sculpture. 

Garner is a 70 year old sculptor originally from Texas. Garner sources and  uses found metal objects to create mixed medium assemblage sculpture .

Some objects are now rare, never to be repeated objects which have been sourced from old settlements in the outback. The assemblage sculpture is then welded, glued, sandblasted  and mounted.   

Each sculpture contains objects,  some of which are many years old - each artwork contains a special object relating to the story of each sculpture.

Each sculpture is entirely unique never to be repeated due the rare pieces of carefully selected old metal.

 After many scavenging expeditions to the outback, Garner has collected, collated and stored

enough unique objects,  to fullfill his lifetime of current  and future sculpting .

His  quest, to create unique sculpture from discarded metal objects.

Exhibition Comments:

MAIN ARTERY STUDIOS

SMALL & LARGE CONTEMPORARY  SCULPTURE

Exhibiting at Soho Galleries, AT PARK  MELBOURNE  & ART PARK SYDNEY .  

The profile & branding of ‘MainArtery Studio’ has been created as a platform to support a number of talented artists who have been directly sourced nationally & internationally to assist in gaining appropriate exposure of their works.

These art creations have been selected by a curator for their artistic merit, appeal, craftsmanship & quality of lasting materials. The selected art pieces are also restricted to low volume reproduction, given that time is a limitation as it takes several hundred man hours to create & refine each piece to the level of perfected detail . 

This limitation also extends to the fact that there are very few artisans with the specialized hand skills & level of craftsmanship needed to achieve the level of detail & refined finish that is synonymous with ‘MainArtery Studio’ art pieces.

Artwork visual and list of works on application