"ROSS TAMLIN PAINTINGS Exhibiting to May 25"
by ROSS TAMLIN
25-04-2013 - 25-05-2013

"ROSS TAMLIN CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS "
by ROSS TAMLIN
25-04-2013 - 25-05-2013

"THE ANNUAL BIENNIAL continues"
by TRACY DODS
28-04-2013 - 25-05-2013

Exhibition Comments:

ART PARK SCULPTURE EXHIBITIONS     -    Sydney and Melbourne

Purchase  enquiries,   Artwork visual and sculpture enquires on application.  

  ARTPARK sculpture exhibition visuals :   Current : 83 Clarence Street Sydney continues though May/June

ARTPARK at 83 CLARENCE ST, SYDNEY

ART PARK EXHIBITION at BOURKE PLACE, MELBOURNE 

Large Format contemporary sculpture for interior and exterior placement.

Some of the many  Participating artists presenting large format sculpture in the  exhibitions:

Andrew Rogers, Andrew Kasper, Andrew Wood, Antonio Colangelo, Bronwyn Oliver (1959-2006), Chen, Chris Vassallo,  Damian Vick, John Gardner, Nicholas Uhlmann, Rudi Jass , Greg Johns, Main Artery Studios, Nicole Allen, Pierre Le Roux, Rick Clise, Stephen Coburn, Todd Stuart,  Trevor Berry, Wendie McCaffley. 

For further  sculpture detail and enquiries   information Visit: ART PARK website 

Exhibition Comments:

HU MING & FRIENDS GROUP EXHIBITION   

PREVIEW NIGHT MAY 25, 6 to 8pm

Participating artists,

Hu Ming; Wang Lan; Yuman Zeng; Liu Haion

Exhibition of contemporary  paintings 

Guest speaker JIAWEI SHEN

Artworks visual and list of works on application.

Exhibition Comments:

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.

Soho Galleries, 104 Cathedral St, Sydney(Corner Crown & Cathedral St) 

Gallery Hours Tuesday to Sunday 12-6pm

 HU MING & FRIENDS ARTIST GROUP EXHIBITION

Exhibition Artworks visual and catalogue list of exhibited works on application.

GUEST PRESENTATION SPEAKER 

 SHEN JIAWEI to open the exhibition.

About Shen  Jiawei

Born 1948 in China

Lives and works in Australia

 Shen Jiawei became one of the most influential painters in China in 1970s.

One of his famous works from this era, Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland (1974), exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York for the

1998 China: 5000 Years exhibition, later also at New York Asia Society Museum.

Shen won awards five times at the Chinese National Art Exhibitions. He immigrated to Australia in 1989 and is now one of leading portrait and history painters in Australia. Shen is a 13-time finalist for Archibald Prize, and also winners for Mary MacKillop Art Award in 1995and Sir John Sulman Prize in 2006.

He was invited three times to Australian National Portrait Gallery, twice to Australian Federal Parliament House to paint portraits for celebrities, including the Danish Crown Princess Mary and the Australian Prime Minister John Howard. 

Shen’s works are in state and national collections in both Australia and China, including his ten history paintings collected by National Museum, National Art Museum, and Military Museum, all in Beijing.

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:

CONCHITA CARAMBANO 

CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT PAINTINGS

‘Through a fusion of vibrant and unexpected colour, Ms Carambano generates a strongly individualized interpretation of her natural surroundings and experiences.’ 

Conchita Carambano’s textured paintings are filled with a fusion of light,  colour  and a dash of metallic leaf, and have  a nuance of  playfulness in  abstracted figures etched into the canvas. No canvas is alike even with the restraint of pallet in some works.

Her  work is full of the joy of the enchantment  of working with paint and canvas. Conchita’s work has consolidated with her progressive reputation as an established, collectible artist.

Exhibition Comments:

Exhibiting at SOHO GALLERIES Exhibition   

MIERTJE SKIDMORE PAINTINGS

This high energy body of work has been created over a substantial time period. It can take up to 4 or 5 weeks from starting a painting, depending on the layers. In certain parts of the work to being sent on its way into the gallery, there are up to 8 layers and processes in different areas of any particular work.

The varied choices of processes I use depend a great deal on the type of story I am telling in that particular work. Some areas of intense interest are done with tools such as the point of a needle. Numerous brushes from extra large to the tiniest are used  for detailing.

 I love to concentrate on the ‘Please come closer’ invitation. I often attach to the body of work,  to show the dual effect created on the initial  observation.

I often have to crush powder or liquefy many of these high quality art products that I bring in from overseas unprocessed due to the fact I have a very individual application of the products which keeps my work ever evolving, intriguing and hopefully just as exciting to every new viewer of my work.

Exhibition Comments:

SUZANNA LANG        ABSTRACT PAINTINGS

To me painting is a continuous spontaneous journey of exploration, experiences and emotions. I enjoy the whole process of painting and experimenting.  My intention is to capture a moment, a feeling, and a sense of presence and to encourage and inspire the viewer to broaden their own perception and possibilities.  It is neither precious nor serious, but a snapshot in time. 

The process of experimenting with different materials and techniques has enabled me to create interesting textures and surfaces. My work neither describes nor defines, but diminishes to the point of pure and sole designation.  Refined  into a touchstone of suggestiveness. 

In the mind of an aware observer it opens again into an image that is immediate and tangible, and pulsing with that delight of the senses that carries a conviction of one's unity with all existence. 

Each painting proves to be a delightful challenge, illustrating depths within depths, meanings within meanings, somewhat like an open door, that looks shut. 

Suzanna Lang

Exhibition Comments:

ANNETTE LODGE 

CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS EXHIBITION 

PREVIEW AUGUST 10, 5-8pm

GHOSTS OF CALEDONIA

new work by Annette lodge

                                                           Soho Galleries Aug 10 - 31,  2013 

This body of work is a response to a recent time I spent alone in Scotland in the winter.

The wildness of the weather beat against the solitary abandonment of the wilderness in the Highlands and the unfrequented villages with their private shadows.

The land seemed steeped in the possibility of specters and veiled by dark histories.

These paintings explore the notion of being alone, in relation to this experience. They are not necessarily about loneliness, but more, a surrender to isolation and a celebration of solitude.

Exhibition Comments:

ANNETTE LODGE 

CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS EXHIBITION PREVIEW AUGUST 10, 5-8pm

GHOSTS OF CALEDONIA

new work by Annette lodge

                                                           Soho Galleries Aug 10 - 27 2013 

This body of work is a response to a recent time I spent alone in Scotland in the winter.

The wildness of the weather beat against the solitary abandonment of the wilderness in the Highlands and the unfrequented villages with their private shadows.

The land seemed steeped in the possibility of specters and veiled by dark histories.

These paintings explore the notion of being alone, in relation to this experience. They are not necessarily about loneliness, but more, a surrender to isolation and a celebration of solitude.

Exhibition Comments:

CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS

Exhibiting Soho Galleries,Sydney

Marshall Williams lives and works in Melbourne as a full time practising artist. He studied fine art at Monash University , Caulfield Campus, has  taught fine art and photography , has work in numerous private and corporate collections, and has travelled extensively.

He lives and works over looking Port Phillip Bay and his work reflects his interests in the light, the water , and the sea and all those vessels that drift past his studio vista.

Reflections, distant lights, clouds, boats and skies being of fascination in a new series of his work. He maintains a strong formal and contemporary edge to his imagery, yet it also shows his interests in classical realism and a dialogue with the past .

Marshall Williams in his latest paintings continues with his absorption and focus upon the sea,  the isolated subtle shapes of boats,  silently drifting, the weathered ,washed and worn surfaces, the subtle curves of the hull, fore and aft, the drifting stillness of the solitary hull, mirrored in the waters, symmetrical,  reflected and floating within a sea of calm, the sea merging into the drama of the skies above, the fiery red of burning sunset clouds, the subtle softness of the waning light of day, the glow of dusk or of a deeper twilight sky, and upon the horizon, pinpricks of distant lights, still just apparent through the paleness of the harbour evening.....lights from buildings, a burning incandescence within the night, reflected and shimmering in the inky depths below, lights delineating the horizon, the atmosphere, the colour and mood of the skies above.