Through her ceramic sculpture Kellie explores the relationship between human-kind and our natural environment, noting our traditional distinction between the two. Themes of the life cycle and our fear of death in Western culture dominate her work.
She works with multiple pieces, grouping together increasingly deteriorated forms to represent the universal wearing effect of time. To Kellie, the process of making is just as important as the finished product as she is able to play out the role of creator/destructor.

Craig embraces a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and photography.

His works are represented in private, corporate and public collections – including drawings in the Ian Brown Collection held by the National Gallery of Victoria, and the installation work “Everyman” at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne. Two main themes run through Craigs’ work. One is the historical/mythological – the other is the land – both for their power of story telling.

Visit Craig Barrett’s website at www.craigbarrett.com.au

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Kris Coad is a ceramic artist who produces pieces for exhibition, a translucent porcelain tableware range for retail, and pieces for commission. She has been a practicing ceramicist for over 20 years, dividing her time between her studio practiceand being an educator.In 2002 Kris was awarded a Masters of Fine Art by Research RMIT. During the same year she was the only Australian honoured at the Sydney Myer Fund International Ceramic Award Shepparton Art Gallery.

Kris has exhibited in over 60 exhibitions including the third World Ceramic Biennale in Korea, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Manly Museum and Art Gallery and Craft Victoria. Her work has featured in many magazines and journals including Ceramics Art and Perception International, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Ceramics Monthly USA, Hand Made in Melbourne, Donna Hay, Vogue Living, Vogue Entertaining and Travel and Gourmet USA.Her work has been acquired for public collections including Icheon World Ceramic Centre (Korea), Parliament House (Canberra), Shepparton Art Gallery, Manly Museum and Art Gallery as well as private collections in Australia and overseas.

Visit Kris Coad’s website at www.kriscoad.com

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Ursula Dutkiewicz creates a diverse array of works including ceramic paintings, sculptures, functional wares and murals.  Ursula has been a professional ceramic artist since completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1993. She has been commissioned to produce artworks for various organisations including City of Port Phillip, Women’s Circus and Kensington Management Company. Ursula has implemented many Community Arts Projects including the tile project at Footscray Community Arts Centre and has designed workshops for people of all ages and abilities.

Ursula has also been an Artist in Residence at the Brighton University School of Health Professions (UK) and at a number of schools in Australia.  In 2007 she was invited to participate in a conference and exhibition at the University of East London (UK).
Although her work is often abstract and vibrant, Ursula’s involvement with so many varied and interesting projects constantly informs her work and leads her to develop in new and exciting directions

Visit Ursula Dutkiewicz’s website: www.ursuladutkiewicz.com

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A passion for sculptural qualities coupled with pragmatic rural sensibilities form the foundation of Benjamin’s pluralist method. Humpback Gunship, in the permanent collection of AROS Danish Contemporary Art Museum, reveals an appetite for architectural scale sculpture.

“habitable scale permits the innocent to embody implicit concepts”

Working with various materials such as ice, timber, stainless steel and more recently stone. His practice extends into consultation, community construction and project management. Four years professional practice in Europe and Russia inform the creative approach to furniture design and sculpture. He holds a postgraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania. Benjamin’s projects span the globe, from a permanent ethnographic ice sculpture exhibition in Lofoten, Norway – to the interior of an historic gaol in Richmond, Tasmania.

Vist Ben Gilbert’s website: www.agencyofsculpture.com

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Matthew Harding is a multi-faceted sculptor, furniture designer and craftsman whose practice ranges from large-scale civic sculptures and exhibition pieces to innovative object design.  His ability to cross-link traditional construction methods and craft techniques with industrial materials and processes has been shaped by a background encompassing the visual arts, design and construction industries.

This coupled with a deep appreciation of form, structure and function brings a unique sensitivity to Matthew’s art and design practice. Matthew’s commissions include the the ACT Memorial (2006), the Garden of Remembrance (2004-5), Playhouse Theatre (Newcastle, 2005), Calvary Hospital (ACT, 2003).

Matthew won the People’s Choice award for the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award in 2004.

His work is held in the public collections of National Gallery of Australia, Art Bank (Sydney), Australian National University, University of Newcastle, Chinese Embassy (ACT), John Hunter Hospital (Newcastle), Sydney International Airport Terminal (Sydney), Lord Mayor’s Office (Newcastle), Newcastle Regional Museum, The Royal Collection (England), Saskatchewan Arts Board Collection (Canada), Inami Sculpture Park (Japan), Toyota (Japan), Vanuatu Parliament (Vanuatu), Wing Tai Holdings (Singapore), Eastcom City (Hangzhou, China). He has exhibited at the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award in Werribee Park (2003, 2004 and 2006), Sculpture by the Sea (2002), Victoria and Albert Museum (2004), and in several galleries in New South Walles and throughout America.

Visit Matthew Harding’s website: www.matthewharding.com.au

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The thrown and softly shaped domestic vessels are a response to the plasticity and translucency found in porcelain and moving water. The sculptural pieces are thrown and constructed. They are objects which might be found on the beach with its ever-changing system of growth, deposition and erosion by waves and wind.

Liz graduated from RMIT with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and a Siemens RMIT Fine Arts Travelling Scholarship in 2002. She has been short- listed twice for the Sydney Myer Fund International Ceramic Art Award (2004 and 2008), won the 2007 Box Hill Community Arts Centre National Art Prize with the winning piece being acquired by the City of Whitehorse. Her work has been selected for exhibitions in Melbourne, Townsville, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, New Delhi.

Liz is interested in the particular purity, edginess, harshness and vigour found on Victoria’s coastal orientation to the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic. However, now working so close to the head of Port Phillip Bay, a very different body of water, she’s looking forward to seeing what will happen with her thoughts and work.

Visit Liz Low’s website: www.lizlow.com

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John Meade (born, Ballarat, 1956) is a sculptor who has participated in regular individual and group exhibitions with commercial and public galleries and museums in Australia and internationally. His public sculpture commissions include Mean Yellow (2000) in the Victorian Arts Centre forecourt for the Melbourne International Festival and Aqualung (2006) at Victoria Harbour, Docklands, Melbourne. His awards include the 2003 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship, an Asialink residency in India in 1999, and grants from The Australia Council, Cinemedia, Arts Victoria and the Besen Family Foundation His academic achievements include an MA by research from RMIT University (2000) and an MA in Studio Art from New York University (2004).

John Meade’s work is held in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Monash University Collection and the Heide Museum of Modern Art.

John is represented by Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.

Visit Sutton Gallery’s website: www.suttongallery.com.au

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Sculptor Jamieson Miller works with the idea of exploring tensions that exist between the internal and external forms. Jamieson plays around with the notion of the outside becoming the inside and vice versa. “I try to leave some ambiguity as to what is occurring with my work,” he says.   The grid-like forms can either be seen as a means of containing space or perhaps presenting space entering a defined area.

Put simply, upon viewing his work, the eye finds it difficult to distinguish a definitive front andback. Jamieson likes the struggle this imposes on the viewer’s mind. The visual complexity adds aparticular curious energy.

Jamieson’s commissions include The Melbournian Apartments (St. Kilda Road, Melbourne), Great Western Tiers Sculpture Trail (Deleraine, Tasmania) and Swinburne University of Technology.

Visit Jamieson Miller’s website at: www.jamiesonmiller.com

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Englishman Arthur Edward Powell was schooled in the same British art tradition that produced a generation of creative luminaries such as David Hockney, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Keith Moon and Roger Daltry in the sixties.

He studied Fine Art at Ealing College of Art, London, before embarking on a career in advertising. This led to senior positions with the JWT agency in London, Detroit, Melbourne, Auckland, Taipei and Bangkok in a career that spanned over thirty years and achieved many national and international awards.

Painting, while set aside for many years, was always his first love. In 1989 a trip to the Kimberley Ranges in Western Australia with one of Australia’s best loved artists, Clifton Pugh, re-ignited the flame. Under the tutelage of Pugh, Arthur began to explore the full extent of his artistic potential in the unique landscapes of Outback Australia and later the cityscapes of Australia.

The current exhibition at the Angela Robarts-Bird gallery at the Gasworks is his 5th solo exhibition. His work appears in private collections in the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, South Africa, Germany, Greece and Japan.

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Tricia Sabey is a visual artist whose work reflects her interest in the abstract qualities of the land and the sea in relation to the horizon line. Tricia likes to use plywood because of its timber grain and its reference back to the land. Tricia is the winner of 2 dimensional art category at the Williamstown Tattersall’s Contemporary Art Awards 2005.
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Gary Willis is a post-conceptual painter who returned to the 2 dimensional image after 10 years of practice as an event, installation, performance and video artist.

He lived in Sydney for most of the 1980’s teaching at the National Art School and held solo exhibitions with Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Coventry Gallery, The Painter’s Gallery, Performance Space and was on the board of ARTSPACE.
Gary spent most of the 1990’s in Europe under the patronage of Arthur Boyd, exhibiting with Corbally Stourton Gallery, Cork Street; Hackney Festival of the Arts; Delfina Studios Spain; Galleria Pacifico Amsterdam; The Actors Institute Gallery, London.

Oleh Witer is a still life painter who draws his subject matter both from nature and from man made objects. He uses various process devices and pictorial elements to create evocative oil paintings which explore the divide between narrative and descriptive, representational and abstract. His work displays great attention to detail, both in the rendering of the subject and to the way the subject is lit. Oleh won the painting category at the 2007 Churchie Emerging Art Prize and the People’s Choice Award at the 2007 Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize. He was a finalist in the 2007 Sulman Prize. Oleh is also currently assembling work for an exhibition in the virtual world Second Life under the name of Starey Oh.

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