Current Profiles

Past Profiles

• Imagining a Story

  MARTIN TIGHE

  Melbourne artist Martin Tighe has built a career focusing on stories important to Australia s culture and identity.

• Observation to Inspiration

  Caroline CHRISTIE, Kate ELSEY, Phil ELSON, Xiaoping ZHOU

  August 9-19, 2012 at Smart Artz Gallery, 2 Alfred Place, South Melbourne.

• Recent paintings

  ANDREW BAINES

  Andrew Baines has become one of the most recognisable and collectable of contemporary artists in Australia.

• The Big Picture

  GREG JOHNS

  Greg Johns' journey as a sculpture artist over the past 35 years has been a complex one - from his early abstraction to the more symbolic and figurative works of recent times.

• Dream country

  Zhou XIAOPING

  Through an unlikely combination of traditional Chinese art practice and a 25 year collaboration with Aboriginal artists, Xiaoping produces works of wonderment.

• Drifting visions

  Richard BAXTER

  Richard Baxter has been creating and painting images of, as he describes it, lost visions of beauty for over 30 years. In that time he has built a large body of work that reflects both his technical skill and his rich imagination.

• Balancing act

  Stephen GLASSBOROW

  With influences drawn from diverse periods in art history, from Greco-Roman sculpture to Art Nouveau to abstraction, Stephen Glassborow has developed his own unique vision of sculpture and artistic beauty and put a contemporary stamp on it.

• Challenging traditions

  ZHOU XIAOPING

  Zhou Xiaopings adaptation of traditional Chinese and Aboriginal painting methods makes him unique among artists.

• A Life of Abstraction

  CHARLES REDDINGTON

  Charles Reddington remains one of Australia s most distinctive and recognisable artists.

• A Pure Aesthetic

  JANE VALENTINE

  Jane Valentine s aesthetic resonates with the essential elements of sculpture and its traditions to reveal the clarity of the material and its form.

• Silhouettes

  Phil ELSON

  A practicing ceramicist for over 30 years, Phil Elson has been largely influenced by the beautifully fine ceramics of South East Asia and focusses on the development of form and colour within his works as well as the space that surrounds them.