ZOE AMOR

"End of the Road”
Pencil on paper
H 950 x W 720 mm (framed)
Commercial Value $1,200

Zoe Amor draws in space, sculpting and composing natural forms into works that gratify the senses with their strength and beauty. Her work reflects a deep love of nature and its mysteries, with structures and patterns found throughout the natural and built environment arranged in ways that are bold but also inviting and familiar. Working across mediums, she has embraced traditional and contemporary methods of bronze casting at the Garage Art Foundry in Central Victoria.

Zoe Amor was born in 1974 in Frankston and lives and works in Central Victoria. Her work is commissioned and collected for national and international galleries, institutions and private collections.

“End of the Road” is a drawing from the artist’s own collection of a sculptural work called Familiar Forest. This work was last shown at the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize at the Bendigo Art Gallery in 2006.

KAREEN ANCHEN

"Drawing the Orchard"
Etching
Image 600 x 300 mm, framed 780 x 500 mm
(museum acid free matt board)
Commercial value:$450

www.cascadeprintworkshop.com
5475 1085; 0408 844 152

"Drawing has become increasingly important in my life and Printmaking is a natural extension of Drawing. I enjoy the challenge of trying to capture an image that I can 'see' in the OBSERVED world. Making drawing marks allows me the opportunity to ‘put my art eyes on’ and to access a part of my brain that relishes the act of Drawing. There is something wonderfully alchemical about watching acid 'bite' into metal when making an etching, the smell of the ink, the feel of the paper, the rigour around the whole printmaking process gives me a sense of order which calms me down at a very deep level."

LEONIE AUHL

" Gravitating graptoveria "
Hand coloured linocut
Image Size: 200 mm x 200 mm
Framed work: W 405 mm x H 425 mm
Commercial Value: $320

5474 3086 or mobile: 0409 333 180

Leonie Auhl is a well-established local printmaker and painter who first exhibited in 1997. Since then, she has regularly exhibited in regional art shows, receiving many awards and commendations in various media, including photography, monotypes, collagraphs, linocuts, etchings and pastels. Her works are universally popular and are in collections in Europe, Asia and Australasia. With a Science degree in her past (with particular interests in palaeontology and botany), it is not surprising that many of her works are intimate studies of fruits, flowers and fungi. More recently, landscapes have been added to her repertoire, many inspired by the ever-changing atmospheric effects on the distant hills, as seen from her hilltop home in Barkers Creek.

“Gravitating Graptoveria” is a linocut, printed in black on 300 gsm water colour paper and later hand painted with artist quality watercolours. The design is based on a potted succulent purchased from Buda Historic Home and Garden. When transferred to a larger pot, the plant grew over the edge and downwards, hence the title ‘gravitating …. Shadows of a trellis fall on the pavement.”

JACQUI BICKART

This work was produced in the mid 1990's by Jacqui Bickart for an exhibition of her work at Tog's Place Café in Lyttleton Street Castlemaine. The artist produced amazing likenesses of members of the Tog's team at the time - Denise, (with hints of Deb), Cassie and Viv - and captured the ambiance of the first stage of Tog's under the ownership of Sue Turner and Don Wild: the freshly baked cakes, the bowl of fresh raspberries, Don's bread, the ever changing blackboard menu, and the row of red topped spice bottles on the top shelf.

Sue and Don bought this pastel and it hung in Tog's cafe for many years, even when the cafe changed hands. When Elissa and Jason did huge renovations to the building, it returned to its owners. Cards were made of this image by Jeni Simmonds of Art Publishing Australia.
Donated by Sue Turner & Don Wild

HELEN BODYCOMB

"Disculuru (even worse than aboriginally anticipated)”
Plastic figurine, mirror mosaic over plaster, timber, perspex
H 100mm x D 400 mm x W 150 mm
Commercial value: $1,300

Helen Bodycomb is a well known artist/mosaicist, recently returned from an In-Habit International/Punctum funded arts residency in Italy. Helen currently has work on exhibition in Ravenna which was very favourably reviewed just last week in The New York Times by Roderick Conway Morris in an article titled “An Ancient Craft Gets a Bigger World Stage”.
From Helen's 2011 solo exhibition 'Blancmange' held during this year’s Castlemaine Festival, 'Disculuru' - encased within its Museum-like perspex case, is a light-hearted post-colonial comment on the commercialisation of one of this country's most sacred sites - Uluru.
The figurine was purchased from Phillip Island’s “Penguin Parade Collection” with a tag that read “Through this purchase, you are helping a penguin”.

www.hbmosaics.com
helen@hbmosaics.com
0413 278 793

KRISTINA BROWNING

"The Contest"
Lino cut
H 310 mm x W 420 mm
Commercial Value: $450

'The Contest' is part of a lino cut series of with a nostalgic visual reference, The work features little Doug Browning playing migs with his cousin Walter Browning, with sister Dorothy in the background. The location of this intense contest was the family home at the time in Campbells Creek.

Recipient of a Bachelor of Arts with a major in drawing and printmaking, Kristina works in a variety of mediums: coloured pencils, printmaking, painting, as well as welded metal sculptures and conducts art classes in her Macoolama studios in Campbells Creek. Many quirky coloured pencil chook drawings are published on greeting cards by Jeni Simmons www.artpublishing.com.au. Kristina has gained the title of 'Chook Lady' and was featured with many other local characters in the book 'Bush Aussies' by Allan M. Nixon, Penguin Books.

SONIA BROWNING

"Encore"
Lino cut
H 220 mm x W 190 mm
Commercial Value: $130

Recipient of a Bachelor of Visual Arts degree in fine arts with painting as her major, Sonia is known for her vibrant acrylics and printmaking. Current subjects include outback landscapes and delightful figures represented in a playful naive style. Images published on greeting cards by Jeni Simmons can be seen at www.artpublishing.com.au

CHARLES CADDY

"MY Chair”
Miniature Chair / A Child’s First Chair
Bent plywood, hardwood construction; upholstery fabric
H 540 mm x W 380 mm x D 450 mm
Commercial Value $450

Charles Caddy has lived in Castlemaine all his life. After completing his upholstery apprenticeship, he commenced his own business almost 40 years ago, restoring and making furniture in the traditional artisan way. His commissioned work has ranged from children’s chairs to eight-foot couches, to the restoration or reproduction of many Victorian and Edwardian upholstered pieces. Charles often creates his own designs.

This miniature version of a spring box rocker takes inspiration from the minimalist style of the Art Deco period. The minimalist feel is accentuated by the bent laminated plywood arms and simple patterned fabric. The sturdy hardwood construction will allow the chair to be passed down through the generations.

CAS DAVEY

"Power up” From the “Fragile Worlds” series
Glass, computer parts and fake grass
H 400mm x W 350mm x D 350mm
Commercial value $1700

Cas Davey is a glass blower, sculptor and cheese lover living in Castlemaine. Her work currently focuses on issues around power production and destruction.

www.flameglass.com
5472 2547

CAS DAVEY

"Underwater Bubbles of Borneo”
Glass Necklace
750mm long
Commercial value $480

The glory of the underwater world after a recent trip scuba diving in Borneo has provided some lighter inspiration for a series of blown glass neckwear.

www.flameglass.com
Ph: 5472 2547

MICHELLE DAY

"The Revisited”
Oil and dry pigment on paper
Image H 160 mm x W 250 mm
Framed H 350mm x W 430 mm
Commercial value: $450

“The main objective of my imagery is the Australian Landscape. The land and the magnificent skies of my landscape are my most influencing factor. My work is not representational of the landscape but conveys a more subliminal concept, a feeling of awe and splendour. Rather than copying nature I want to interpret it. This work has been the result of my connection between the land and myself.

Shifting to Central Victoria has had a direct influence on my work. My eyes are continually being drawn upwards towards the sky. The soft light and the hazy effect it has on the landscape intrigues me. The place where the light hits the land on the horizon fascinates me, the effects of the illumination are beautiful.

I use the colours that I see in the earth and the atmospheric qualities of the sky, incorporating texture to represent a relationship with this land. The layering and the scraping back of different mediums is significant. It represents a symbolic and spiritual reference to this land."

www.michelleday.com.au
0417 825 261

IAN DRUMMOND

"Green Fluted Bowl"
Stoneware
H 140 mm x W 190 mm x D 190 mm
Commercial Value: $150

drummondpottery.com.au

The cornerstone of Ian's work is a belief in the traditional life of the potter gaining an understanding of his craft by working with clay, glazes and fire and through a dedication to this the artist gains a freedom to be creative.

Ian's methods are based in Chinese stoneware tradition using clay, slips, ash and felspathic glazes. Through a study of Japanese Sumie painting techniques Ian uses underglaze oxides to create a distinctive body of work.

IAN DRUMMOND

"Oak Leaf Bowl"
Stoneware
H 120 mm x W 200 mm x D 200 mm
Commercial Value: $150

drummondpottery.com.au

Details as above

LYNNE EDEY

"Small Head”
Bronze
H 90mm x W 65 mm X D 70mm
Commercial value:$650

The work will be offered with a similar plinth.

From the monumental scale of earlier stone works to the more linear and conceptual sculptures in bronze in her current work, Lynne Edey has preserved a sense of monument. Her sculpture, evolving for over twenty years, creates a metaphysical world through the artist's profound sense of humanity. Edey has the ability to represent the human form simply, yet with intense emotion. Struck by the impressive power of art’s history, she has added her own layer of creativity to those of the past. Edey’s work resonates in contemporary city interiors and in beach, desert and bush landscapes. She is currently represented by Scott Livesey Galleries, Armadale.

PHIL ELSON

"Sagrada Familia Basilica” Ceramic collection
Porcelain W: 1200 mm x H 420 mm x D 900 mm
Commercial Value: $5,500 To be sold as a collection

www.philelsonpottery.com
0429129 798

Phil’s practice over the last 28 years has been powerfully informed by the ceramic culture of South East Asia, Japan, China and Korea. He has been strongly focused on the development of form and in particular, the form of the bowl.

Recently he was awarded a 3 month residency at the Australia Council studio in Barcelona, of which he says, “I could find, hold and feel the traditional ceramics of the Basque regions in northern Spain. I was also able to visit the work of Picasso, Miro, Duchamp, Picabia. I was able to walk in the streets as they existed in Roman times. I stood, overwhelmed, in stunningly beautiful buildings such as Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia.”

“I loved how these buildings reached into the air; into the sky about them. They exuded a love of materials, a love of place, a love of life. Something of that time, something of those places now resides in me and has inspired my recent work utilizing high fired translucent glazed and unglazed porcelain.”

“My artwork has become more sculptural through the development of my multi piece installations. I continue to develop new colours to stand alongside my monochromatic high fired unglazed porcelain installation work. All of the work is made from Southern Ice translucent porcelain and is made and fired in my studio in Castlemaine.”

“This collection resulted from my many trips to the site of Sagrada at various times of the day and night. The colours reflect the density and complexity of the internal and external colours of this extraordinary building.”

DAVID FRAZER

"Half way Home (by day)"
Lithograph - Trial Print
H 330 mm x W 480 mm
Commercial Value $595

www.dfrazer.com
0431 162 434

David Frazer works in painting, wood engraving, etching, lithography and bronze. He holds a Master of Arts (visual Arts) from Monash University. He has had solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide and numerous regional towns in Victoria, and has received many awards and prizes. His work appears in the collections of Australian national, state and regional galleries and libraries, university libraries, the Print Council of Australia, and the Bundanoon Trust, and in collections in London, Edinburgh and Somerset, UK; and in China and Thailand.

JEFF GARDNER

"Life in the field with small things"
Etching
Image 650 x 550 mm, framed 1,000 x 950 mm
(museum acid free matt board)
Commercial value:$950

www.cascadeprintworkshop.com
5475 1085 or 0408 844 152

Graduating in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art - Painting from the Victorian College of Arts, Jeff Gardner hovered around Printmaking until the late 1990s. It was while working as a builder’s labourer he took with him on the train a small box of cardboard printing plates and scratched into these with a sharpened nail as he journeyed back and forth from the job sites around Melbourne.
A successful exhibition resulted from these very tiny plates. They proved themselves not only as a form of income but also as a natural way to “draw his brain out flat”.
Gardner moved to central Victoria in 2001 which marked a shift in his work towards ‘figure in the landscape’ which gave rise to a series of evocative oil paintings. Signature circular figures under the curving horizon line of his imaginary landscape combine with floating symbols of home, family and motifs from the everyday to create imagery of the empathetic and domestic poetica.

JOHN GLEESON

"Medium Cut Edge Bowl"
Stoneware clay, Reduction Fired to Cone 9, with a rich metallic gold glaze
H 200 mm x W 70 mm
Commercial Value $100

Artist’s Statement:
I love making pots. I have been practising this ancient art for more than 40 years now and am still learning. Such an empirical science – at each firing I put in some tests to observe yet another aspect or facet of this fascinating subject.
Who knows what the future holds! I know that I will continue making pots for as long as I am able, and continue to strive to find and express my unique voice in clay.

GEOFF HOCKING

"Ce n’est pas une métaphore –This is not a metaphor”
Oil on Linen
W 450 x H 600 mm, unframed
Commercial value: $1,500

Geoff Hocking is a well-known artist/illustrator/designer/author [and occasional sculptor] who has contributed to the festival over many years. He paints and exhibits regularly across the region; his range of works encompass contemporary landscapes, assemblages, whimsical garden scenes, humorous narratives and historical observations and are highly sought after. He was commissioned to do a large sculptural installation beside the Cobb Highway in Central NSW as part of the Artback Long Paddock Project, and has recently completed a work as a collaborative gift to the community supported by Castlemaine Rotary, installed at the gateway to Chewton.

www.geoffhocking.com

JUDY HOLDING

“Red Mallee”
Powdercoated 3mm steel in coreten base
H 420mm x W 450mm x D 80 mm
Artist Proof
Commercial value $1,500

Note- the tree is red, not orange as it appears in
the image

Judy Holding is a Melbourne based artist who has
been practising for over twenty-five years. In 1977
she completed a Diploma of Fine Art [Painting]
at Monash University. Since 1979, Judy has
consistently travelled to the Northern Territory to
observe and document indigenous ritual practices,
social structures and spiritual beliefs. Her abiding
interest in the landscape and people continues to
inform her work.

Her work is held in National, State, and regional
galleries, and corporate and private collections in
Australia and internationally.

KENNETH JACK

“Maldon Side Street”, 1960
Lino print
H 280mm x W 320mm
Commercial value $600

A prolific and gifted artist, Kenneth Jack has painted and made prints of practically every nook and cranny of this country. He has chronicled the great changes that have occurred, and his works record an Australia that has all but vanished. His earlier prints from the 1950s and 60s - which display the same unerring eye for detail, line and colour as his paintings - also bring a graphic boldness, willingness to experiment and at times decorative abstraction that is wonderfully surprising and remains fresh and original to this day.

www.unionstudio.com.au
5470 6446

Framing donated by Union Studio

JUDY JONES

" Drawing on Time #2 "
Graphite
H 540 mm x W 70 mm unframed
Commercial Value $225

Judy Jones lives and works in Castlemaine. Her practice includes painting, drawing and printmaking. She has studied art in the U.K. (Loughborough University ) and in France (IParis American Academy). She holds a BA (Fine Art) 1996, and MFA (Fine Art ) 2009, from RMIT, Melbourne. She has exhibited widely overseas and in Australia.

Recent exhibitions include - "Footprints" Counihan Gallery Brunswick (2011, ) "Essence", Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Maryborough (2010), "Circle-Phase-Loop", School of Art Gallery, RMIT Melbourne (2009).

LISA KENNEDY

“Carved Brooch”
Sterling Silver and 18 ct Yellow Gold
H 20 mm x W 40mm
Commercial Value $160

www.jewellerybylisakennedy.com
0408 373 378

Lisa has been a trade jeweller since finishing college in London in 1993, where she studied diamond mounting, design and gemmology.
She gained experience in some great workshops, including De Vroomen Design in London, Precious Metals in Canterbury, Victoria and Paspaley Pearls in Darwin. She returned to Victoria in 2004 to set up her own home workshop, giving herself the opportunity for creative freedom.

PAUL LAMBETH

“Three Apples”
Unframed photograph, digitally printed on museum grade archival paper.
H 300 mm x W 450mm
Commercial Value $450 unframed

Paul Lambeth is currently Head of Department, Arts Academy, at the University of Ballarat. He continues to work as a freelance photographer. He has broad teaching, research and industry experience, and has participated in many solo and group exhibitions.

This image is from an ongoing series titled Ordinary Things in a Post Photographic Age. The purpose and understandings of photography have shifted over the last couple of decades, impacted by the digital revolution. In this series Lambeth has set out to photograph ordinary things in an ordinary way. He uses the camera and its broad digital potential in an old fashioned way. The camera is a window on the world, visually describing the object before him and the lens.

PAUL LAMBETH

“Wine Glasses, with Blur”
Unframed photograph, digitally printed on museum grade archival paper.
H 300 mm x W 450mm
Commercial Value $450 unframed

Paul Lambeth is currently Head of Department, Arts Academy, at the University of Ballarat. He continues to work as a freelance photographer. He has broad teaching, research and industry experience, and has participated in many solo and group exhibitions.

This image is from an ongoing series titled Ordinary Things in a Post Photographic Age. The purpose and understandings of photography have shifted over the last couple of decades, impacted by the digital revolution. In this series Lambeth has set out to photograph ordinary things in an ordinary way. He uses the camera and its broad digital potential in an old fashioned way. The camera is a window on the world, visually describing the object before him and the lens.

PAUL LAMBETH

“Provincial Hotel Ballarat”
Unframed photograph, digitally printed on museum grade archival paper.
H 300 mm x W 450mm
Commercial Value $450 unframed

Paul Lambeth is currently Head of Department, Arts Academy, at the University of Ballarat. He continues to work as a freelance photographer. He has broad teaching, research and industry experience, and has participated in many solo and group exhibitions.

This image is from an ongoing series titled Central Victorian Built Environment. Lambeth’s intent is to use the powerful documentation capability of black and white photography to record aspects of the buildings in image form. Many photographs from this series present buildings that may be described as requiring restoration, or as having been photographed from an unflattering viewpoint.

PAUL LAMBETH

“Civic Hall Ballarat”
Unframed photograph, digitally printed on museum grade archival paper.
H 300 mm x W 450mm
Commercial Value $450 unframed

Paul Lambeth is currently Head of Department, Arts Academy, at the University of Ballarat. He continues to work as a freelance photographer. He has broad teaching, research and industry experience, and has participated in many solo and group exhibitions.

This image is from an ongoing series titled Central Victorian Built Environment. Lambeth’s intent is to use the powerful documentation capability of black and white photography to record aspects of the buildings in image form. Many photographs from this series present buildings that may be described as requiring restoration, or as having been photographed from an unflattering viewpoint.

KIR LARWILL

“Quiet Spot”
Monoprint on Fabriano paper
Framed H 500 mm x W 950 mm
Commercial Value $900

kirlarwill@mmnet.com.au
54722790
0412951107

Kir has been a painter and printmaker for over a decade, and busily, informally, domestically ‘making’ since childhood. She is part of a printmaking group that meet and make prints together each week at Studio Paradiso in Sandon. Kir enjoys exploring quiet shades, how one colour works with the next, and how assembling groups of prints provides a different way to combine observational drawing with layering and abstraction.

BEN LAYCOCK

" Yakanarra Rockface " 2007
Gouache and Pastel on paper
H 200 mm x W 300 mm
Commercial Value $400

Ben lives in Barkers Creek and has a studio above Stonemans Bookroom. He is a director of Castlemaine Contemporary Art Space, is the Castlemaine Fringe Visual Arts Coordinator and has an arts show with Jan Palethorpe on Wireless Mount Alexander 107.5fm at 5-6 Wednesdays. Ben is a landscape artist and has travelled extensively throughout Australia.

ARTHUR LINDSAY(1912 - 1990)

“Central Victorian Landscape”
c.1970
Oil on canvas on board
H 500mm x W 600 mm
Unsigned
Commercial value $300

This local scene has been donated by the Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum. Arthur Lindsay, a relative of Norman Lindsay, studied at the George Bell School, Melbourne and received advice and encouragement from Rupert Bunny.
www.castlemainegallery.com

CRAIG MACDONALD

"Rambo”
Bronze
H 240 mm x W 200 mm x D 170 mm
Commercial Value: $3,000

Craig MacDonald is a Master Founder who owns and operates the Garage Art Foundry in Elphinstone near Castlemaine. His own sculptures are highly sought after. In 2011, his work won the Montalto Sculpture Prize and was chosen as finalist in the Lorne Sculpture Prize.

0409 704 432

ROBERT MACLAURIN

"Walking the Irishman”
Etching on paper
H 120 mm x W 120 mm (image size)
Commercial value: A$ 330

Robert Maclaurin is a prize winning painter with an international reputation. Widely collected in Europe, America and Australia, he has at least one major solo show annually, with high profile gallery representation in London (Osborne Samuel), Edinburgh (Open Eye Gallery), Melbourne (Australian Galleries) and Sydney (Australian Galleries). Since moving from Scotland, he has made his permanent home and studio just outside Castlemaine since 2001.

Maclaurin has major works in many public collections including The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Scottish Government Collection, Contemporary Art Society, London, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, The Flemings/Wyfold Art Foundation and locally Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum. He has work in private collections worldwide like The Queen, Sir Jeremy Isaacs, Lord Jeffrey Archer and JK Rowling.

“I try to always carry a small sketch book and pencil in my pocket as I never know when I will be inspired. One evening as I walked over waste ground in Chewton, I spotted Randal taking Pogue for a walk on the dirt track in front of me.

The quick pencil sketches I made was then turned into a painting - "Walking the Dog” a year later. I also drew them a few times under the railway bridge at Chewton and as Pogue the Jack Russell was always in front, I named the etching done from the sketches "Walking the Irishman".

Having come to Chewton from Scotland and Randal from Northern Ireland, we always talked on our brief meetings about those things we had in common. I never had one conversation with Randal where I didn't walk away having learnt something from him. Randal died from cancer some years back and I miss seeing him on his daily walks but he is still here, walking around with Pogue who is still alive and well in Chewton.

robertmaclaurin.com
robert@robertmaclaurin.com
0417 545 147

ROBERT MACLAURIN

“The Secret River”
Etching on paper
Edition number: 9/20
H 120 mm x W 190 mm (image size, unframed)
Commercial value: $ 400

JACKIE MCMASTER

“ Pendant”
Vintage Black Czech Glass and Mother-of-Pearl Butterfly Buckles
Buckles – H 50mm x W 40mm
Length 400 mm
Commercial Value $65

Jackie McMaster works in a wide range of artforms: textiles, jewellery, clay sculpture, drawing and painting. She was drawn 5 years ago to the beauty of vintage buttons and buckles, and wanted to give new life to old treasures by creating jewellery. Most of the buttons and buckles she uses are from 1940’s & 50’s and she sources them from all over the world.

JULIE MILLOWICK & PIA JOHNSON

"Opera in the Open”
Digital collaboration, archival digital print
H 800 mm x W 340 mm
Commercial Value $700

This image was used to publicise the Victorian Opera’s “Sing Your Own Opera” regional touring event at the 2011 festival. It appeared on a ‘wrapped’ V/Line train, travelling for 3 months throughout regional Victoria and on the metropolitan network. It was originally an image of the woman in the pink cloak (photographed in the studio by Pia Johnson) overlooking a paddock. Julie Millowick shot the image of the dam (note the pink waterlilies) and the whole was reconstructed as you see it now.

Julie Millowick began her photographic career working in the darkroom of Athol Shmith, John Cato and Peter Barr. After completing her studies at Prahran College of Advanced Education she worked for 3 years as a press/public relations photographer. The direction of her commercial folio then changed and she worked as a corporate industrial photographer - lighting, both in the studio and on location, became the basis around which her imagery revolved.
Julie achieved early recognition for her photo journalism when she exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria and Australian Centre for Photography in 1977 [Australian New Work]. She has exhibited and published regularly since then, with work being purchased by major photography collections in Australia and internationally. In 1993 her work was exhibited in 'Intimate Lives' with Sally Mann, Nan Goldin and Jaques Henri Lartigue at the International Fotofeis in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Julie Millowick is Lecturer in Charge of Photography and Photojournalism at LaTrobe University Bendigo. She serves as a board member of the Bendigo Art Gallery and the Castlemaine State Festival.

Pia Johnson is a Melbourne based photographer. Her visual art practice seeks to investigate issues about cultural difference, diaspora and identity. Her work has been collected by the National Gallery of Victoria as well as several corporate and private collections. Pia is also well known for her photographs of Melbourne's performing artists, her clients include Australian National Academy of Music, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Victorian Opera and Peepshow Inc.

www.piajohnson.com

MORRELL GLASS

"Bowl of Cones”
Cast Glass
Diameter 330 mm x H 150 mm

Commercial value $1,400

Richard Morrell qualified with a Bachelor of Arts from Stourbridge School of Art, UK in 1979, then a Master of Arts from Monash University in 1999. He has tutored, lectured and acted as external assessor for various tertiary institutions, and had a number of residencies in Australia as well as being Glass Workshop Manager, in Jenggala Keramik, Bali from 2001-05. He has exhibitedwidely in Australia, Europe the USA and Asia. Morrell’s work has won numerous prizes and is held in all Australian state galleries, the National Glass Collection, and in corporate collections here and overseas.

www.morrellglass.com

0427 845 676

SHADES OF GRAY

2 x “Vine-Leaf Candlestick”
Rusted Wire and Metal
H 700mm
Commercial Value: $195 each

Artists Chelly and Peter Gray found a roll of rusty wire on their country property 16 years ago and started twisting it into works of art.
Perhaps because of their ceramics training, their creations are functional as well as original, from candelabras and bowls to beds, mirrors, fire screens, sculptures and garden art.

Shades of Gray has had work on display from Daylesford’s Convent Gallery to the Guggenheim in New York, in galleries and shops around Australia as well as commissions from private homes, restaurants, vineyards, cafes and corporate spaces.

KATARINA RAPP

“ The Key to the Future” 1998
Oil on Canvas
H 860 mm x W 830 mm
Commercial Value: unspecified; Katarina’s commissions of this size currently sell for approximately $6,000

Katharina Rapp knows that it takes greater strength to make light of, rather than to point out, what is wrong with the world. Her style is unquestionably anchored in German Expressionism, however, she manages to use distortion or exaggeration of the human form, and her innate use of colour, to create a feeling of warmth and happiness.

It is this quality which has made Ms Rapp's paintings popular. She is a specialist in painting 'the better moments in a woman's life'. Her frothy and life-affirming images have been used on wine and champagne labels. They have also been discovered and used by the mental health profession for the healing effect that her images can have, particularly on women with depression.
Donated by Sue Turner & Don Wild

JULIE SHAW

"Night Garden"
Mosaic
Glass on timber
H 450 mm x W 300 mm
Commercial Value $350

Julie Shaw grew up in a home where art was appreciated and talent encouraged. From an early age, she was taught to draw and paint by her mother, artist Peggy Shaw. She also explored different art forms during lessons from other artists. Her artistic talent was recognised throughout her schooling and she majored in Art during her tertiary education.
After attending a course in ceramic mosaic technique, she began to explore this medium with enthusiasm. She initially used ceramic tiles and broken china but then began experimenting with glass. Recognising its huge range of colours, luminosity, transparency and its individuality, Julie realised that glass had a greater potential to express her ideas. She now works mostly in glass, creating artworks for both the garden and interiors.

PEGGY SHAW

" Native Flowers in a Drummond Vase "
Watercolour
H 560 mm x W 540 mm
Commercial Value $500

5472 4412

Peggy Shaw’s work will shortly be featuring in a major retrospective at the Castlemaine Art Gallery, in celebration of her 90th birthday.
Peggy’s painting career began in 1964, with tuition from Donald Cameron in plein air painting in oils, followed by watercolour lessons from the late John Morrissey and further lessons from Jan McNeil following Peggy’s move to Castlemaine. She also worked in pen and wash on architectural subjects and cottages in the goldfields. She created a beautiful garden and her subject matter turned to flowers, which is now her main interest. Peggy has had many solo exhibitions and won several watercolour awards.

BARRY SINGLETON

"Jar"
Stoneware
H 290 mm x W 260 mm
Commercial Value $1,200

www.singletonceramics.com
5472 2485
0400 908 975

For biography, see Barry’s website.

DEAN SMITH

“Metal Forest”
Thrown and turned fine white stoneware with bronze metallic glaze, metallic crystalline glaze and platinum lustre.
H 95 mm x W 290 mm.
Commercial Value $620

www.deansmithceramics.com
2 Kelsall Ct Castlemaine
5470 6429

Dean Smith is an Australian ceramic artist and potter creating contemporary, highly refined wheel-thrown vessels from stoneware and porcelain clay. Dean has an interest in Industrial aesthetics and geometry in nature such as rocks and crystal forms – the chaotic and ordered structures embedded within them. His vessels are ritualistic, encapsulating and celebrating the relationship and metamorphosis of raw material/rocks and metal. The rich and complex glazes further convey the elemental properties of rocks and metal and the unexpected gifts they produce.
Born 1971 in Brisbane, Dean was introduced to pottery as a teenager by his mother and began making pots with his father and firing them in their backyard gas-fired kiln. From this pivotal experience, ceramics became Dean’s life path. Largely self-taught, he received some training at Southbank TAFE in Brisbane and from Master Potter Ted Secombe who introduced him to crystalline glazes. After living and working in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth, Dean settled in Castlemaine, Victoria with his partner Ana and their young son Vito. Living opposite an historic gold mine strewn with volcanic rock, quartz, ochre and machine relics, has given Dean direct access to some of the elements that inspire his work.

CATHERINE & NEIL TAIT

Balance series: Nouveau figure” Garden Sculpture
Bronze and mild steel
Height 1.8 m
Bronze height: 45 cm
Commercial value: $1,500

Catherine and Neil Tait are exhibiting members of the Association of Sculptors of Victoria. Both together and individually they have been selected for the Tesselaar Prize for Sculpture, at the international flower exhibition in Melbourne. Catherine has won 2 awards for her bronze forms. Neil's large sculptures are represented in several wineries in SA and NSW.
Catherine and Neil regularly open their workshop and studio to the public in the natural bush setting on the outskirts of Castlemaine.

5472 5120
tait@gcom.net.au

STEPHEN TESTER

“Acacia”
Hand made photograph on hand coated archival paper using Large Format Film camera. Matted & mounted
Photo 250mm W x 200mm H
Mount 400mm W x 460mm H
Commercial Value: $860

stester@stephentester.com.au
www.stephentester.com.au
0400 062 410

“Acacia” is one of a series of photographs taken on Mt Alexander itself over a three year period. Number 3 of an edition of 10, it is made with a large format film camera negative and archival paper hand coated with the precious metal Palladium. The exquisite tone and detail is due to the negative being the same size as the photograph and the attributes of hand coated papers.

Stephen Tester is a fine art photographer, and has held a fascination for photography ever since he made his first contact print at the age of 9. It took 45 years before that fascination evolved into a passion for landscape photography. Influenced by the work of Paul Caponigro, Michael Kenna, Don Worth and Gordon Undy, he developed his skills in workshops at Sydney University, Point Light Studio, and Black Mountain Photography. He worked in the Applied Engineering Industry until 2005, when he committed to full time Landscape photography.

He is attracted to photograph those places that he connects to and engages with. He is not only concerned with the physical objects seen through the camera, but the elusiveness of the moment; the light that falls upon the scene, the breeze sounds and scents that together form the quiet sense of place, its soul.

His use of film cameras, particularly large format cameras, provides the means to create unique, individual photographs unconstrained by proprietary processes.

He exhibits in Sydney, Melbourne and Regional Victoria.

CLAYTON TREMLETT

“The Beginnings of the Plague”
Linocut on Magnani pape, rPop-up Rabbit
3-dimensional work
H 150mm x W 150mm x D150mm
Commercial value: $180

Clayton Tremlett is a printmaker and painter who teaches art at the Castlemaine Secondary College. He has won several printmaking prizes, exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in the National Gallery of Australia.

CLAYTON TREMLETT

“Nature Morte (After Goya)”
Linocut on Magnani paper, Pop-up tree
3-dimensional work
H 280mm x W 270mm X D 280mm
Commercial value: $220

Clayton Tremlett is a printmaker and painter who teaches art at the Castlemaine Secondary College. He has won several printmaking prizes, exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in the National Gallery of Australia.

This is an appropriated/adapted work developed for an exhibition called SUSPENDED. Tremlett has always been mesmerized by this image and thinks it is as relevant now as when it was made as an etching in a series called "the Disasters of War" by Goya.

ANNE TWEED

"Succulent”
Watercolour
H 685 mm x W 515mm
Commercial Value: $700

Anne Tweed lives and practices her artwork in Central Victoria. She has been training and exhibiting her art for over thirty years.

Her watercolour paintings have been exhibited all across Victoria and parts of South Australia. Through many years of exploration, Anne has adapted her watercolours to a method of fine layering, creating pathways and depth to the painting as well as maintaining transparency.

Anne's main subject matter is drawn from her surroundings within the country ― local flora and fauna, food and interiors.

5439 6060

MICHAEL WOLFE

"Faraday”
Giclee photograph on Arches paper
H 560mm x W 560mm
Commercial value $600

Michael Wolfe is an artist, designer and picture framer with a great many enthusiasms. His current photography records scenes from the goldfields region. He has been inspired by these words from Alex Miller’s “Autumn Laing”:

“I saw in this image of the land below me an undreamed-of freedom from formal arrangement. I was thrilled. My country! My own country. Unknown to me. Its history mysterious, inscribed in the hieroglyphics and elaborate arabesques of its unrecognised landforms, waiting to be deciphered. As we shuddered and bumped our way across the uneven sky my inner voice announced to me, No one has painted this. It was a thought that carried for me the force of revelation. No one has painted it. It is uncelebrated. Untouched by my culture. And (what is more) it is undreamed in the dreams of Europe.”

www.unionstudio.com.au
5470 6446