Luccio is an award winning artist whose work is represented in over 24 major public collections both nationally and internationally.

As a professional full time artist he has held 30 major solo exhibitions, exhibited in over 130 group, curated and award shows and received several commissions.

His work has been shortlisted for many major awards including the 2010 and 2009 Dobell and the 2013 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.

Luccio has been collected in various private, public and corporate collections, including the New York Public Library, the Museum of the City of New York, the New York Historical Society and the National Gallery of Australia.

In addition, Luccio has completed artist residencies and study travel trips in New York, Paris, and Italy. He has given many guest lectures throughout Australia and overseas, including the Art Students League of New York and the Printmaking Centre of New Jersey. He has taught drawing, painting and printmaking at various institutions including ongoing classes at the National Gallery of Victoria.

In March 2010 Luccio was invited to exhibit his solo show, ‘International Cities’, at the Australian Consulate General in New York.

Michael was born in 1957 in Kashmir India and moved to Australia at the age of 10. At the age of 14 he was taught tonal oils by Carl Anderson. He is self taught in watercolours, acrylics, pastels and inks. He gave up a retail management career in 1989 to become a professional artist and concentrate on his artistic development. He is mainly a landscape artist preferring to paint on location but also uses his own sketches and photographs to draw on for inspiration. He is a member of Sherbrooke Art Society since 1988 and Australian Guild of Realist Artists since 1992. He teaches art classes at Sherbrooke, Ringwood and Malvern Art Societies and at his home studio. He is a sought after demonstrator and Judge at Art Societies and Rotary and Invitational Art Shows. He has been a featured artist at several Rotary Art Shows and has been part of numerous successful solo and group exhibitions. He has many works in private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas. Winner of many awards and commendations, most recent being —Best pastel to the value of $2500-at the Camberwell Rotary Art Show 2008

Kerrie Warren Artist Statement ‘Salt Water Series’

Abstract Expressionist

My aim as an Abstract Expressionist is to bypass self-censoring thought; this allows me to be influenced by layers deeper than the surface and to be open to being taken on an unplanned journey within, through the work.

I enter the studio without a preconceived idea and make a start with any colour.
Initially it is more about letting go and trusting in the process itself. Mark follows mark, a rhythm is inspired and this is visually recorded and reflected back to me from the surface.

Very much like a conversation with oneself it creates a domino effect and I continue to respond to the mark making and work ‘within the moment’. The visual layers, unexpected organic patterns, textures and colours resonate with an internal stream of ever flowing feelings, thoughts and experiences.

Form, substance and story begin to evolve and as an artist I build on this and develop it further by using it as a starting point for composition, pushing boundaries in technique and application.

The essence of the journey often continues and evolves into a major body of work, a series of paintings… as did the ‘Salt Water Series’.

The ‘Salt Water Series’ takes me on a journey back to my childhood and early experiences of sensing, loving and respecting the extreme power of the ocean and the sea, the rhythmic push and pull and sway… and then to more recent experiences relating to our human interaction with, and the global want to own, harness and control the life it supports, nurtures and contains…the battles within.

Kerrie Warren 2012

Biography

Born in Melbourne in 1968, Kerrie Warren spent her childhood moving from place to place in Australia, mainly in Victoria. From a young age she found herself reading and writing poetry, drawing and painting to keep an emotional balance.
At the age of 16 Kerrie left school to enter the workforce, soon making her way into regional television production. Throughout this period the young artist continued to paint and won a Young Achiever’s Award for Best Painting in 1993 which inspired her to go back to school at the age of 25, deciding to enrol in a full- time Diploma of Art in Ceramics with additional studies in Painting and Life Drawing.

It was through ceramics that Kerrie first relaxed with her work and experienced ‘working in the moment’ and she soon discovered abstract-expressionism and developed a deep fascination for spontaneous, instinctive mark making, inspiring her to continue and complete a Diploma of Transpersonal Art Therapy at the Phoenix Institute in Melbourne (then known as Ikon Institute)

“Abstract expressionism provides me with a direct link to self where I explore layers beneath the surface and work within the moment. Through gestural movement, gravity and paint, the ‘essence’ of these moments is captured and recorded on canvas and offered as a form of communication to others. The journey within continues with each piece and I move forward with the evolvement of my work”.

Kerrie Warren has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions since 2004. She coordinated “Wild Dogs from Down Under” in 2007, a group of artists who toured with their works as part of a Cultural Exchange through Regional Galleries in Australia and JiuJiang, China.
In December 2008, Kerrie’s works were exhibited by Art Platform at the Guangzhou International Art Fair.

Kerrie exhibited works in Chelsea New York in 2009 and took part in a group exhibition at the Red Sea Gallery in Singapore; during that same year Kerrie produced a powerful and historical body of work directly influenced by the Black Saturday Fires in Victoria which toured with ‘Fields of View’ through Regional Galleries in Victoria during 2010 and made a special presentation in Queen’s Hall Parliament House Melbourne and Federation Square (Atrium) in 2011.

In February 2012 Kerrie Warren’s painting ‘Shadow Land’ was awarded 1st Prize for Best Painting Avant Garde at the Edrington Grand Art Exhibition by judges Jon Dwyer & John Thomas.

The artist (now 44) settled in Crossover West Gippsland more than a decade ago and enjoys the peaceful country lifestyle whilst focusing on her large abstract works on canvas, ceramics and Kerrie Warren Designs.

After attaining a diploma in Transpersonal Art Therapy, with the idea that it would provide her with a means of support while following her true path as a painter, Warren eventually discovered that she had been drawn to painting primarily “for my own healing and evolvement as a person, as an artist.”

Thus she now paints full-time in her rural studio in Crossover, Victoria, approximately an hour from the capital city of Melbourne. Yet, ironically, it would appear that the curative aspect of her work may still be more contagiously extensive than she thinks, given the serenity that radiates out from her paintings when one encounters them in a gallery context. “My reference points are internal, my influences are environmental and I feel a deep connection with nature and the energy of life,” Warren states; all of which may account in part for the meditative feeling of peaceful calm that her work promotes in the viewer.

But in purely painterly terms, her technique also has a great deal to do with it.

Unlike many Australian artists who look closer to home for artistic models, attempting to emulate well known Australian modern painters such as Sidney Nolan or Brett Whitely, Warren was drawn to Abstract Expressionism. Of the artists in that American movement, she is closest in both spirit and technique to those who work in an ‘overall’ mode of composition such as Milton Resnick, and, especially, Richard Pousette-Dart, who once stated, “I am an artist of the spirit, not of the brute physical form.”

The same might be said of Warren, whose thickly encrusted surfaces seem to undergo a magical metamorphosis from the material to the ethereal and emit actual light. A strong sense of movement also comes into play in her large acrylics on canvas.

The vital new field of quantum physics provides Warren with some of her inspiration. In an artist’s statement she speaks of ‘the tracking and marking of energy,” as well as “finding patterns within chaos” that enables the viewer, with the slightest perceptual shift of vision, to arrest the movement that she generates with her vigorous swirling strokes and discover the serene stillness at the heart of her compositions. And this duality of effect, manifesting in the constant perceptual shifts that occur as one contemplates her paintings for prolonged periods of time, is what distinguishes Warren’s work significantly from that of Abstract Expressionist predecessors like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

For Kerrie Warren appears to have evolved the capacity, through the layering of intricate tiny strokes of mainly pure primary hues that ultimately seem to meld into a single energy field, to simultaneously animate and stabilize all activity on the picture plane, and finally apprehend the calm stillness at the center of the painterly storm.

After coming out of a 12 year business relationship with major reputable clothing retailers, Rania Baroud decided to take off and enjoy the next 6 months adventuring around some of the world’s oldest cities.  Given her background in clothing, her passion for texture, pattern and colour was reignited as she walked through ancient markets and visited beautiful old textile shops. Returning to Melbourne with inspiration and love for what was once her infatuation. Cadeau
Pulling out her dusty sketch books and cases of French vintage fabrics hidden away in storage, Rania began to design the first range of CR.Exploring vintage floral and modern colour ways, nostalgic textures and vibrant embroidery the range has began with sleep ware, under ware and a little home ware.Republic was born!

The intention for these charming products is for our clientele not to worry or leave the home in search for the right gift. The translation for the French word ‘Cadeau’ is Gift, and our Cadeaux are for men, women and children and packaged in beautiful boxes that can be kept after the gift is opened. The prospect of creating an online store that expands in range every few months motivates us to provide you with a place to find that unique gift every time, for who ever it may be.

My work explores the human impact of industry and creative activity on the world around us. There is an architectural quality that is reflected in nature… it gives us a sense of history, memory and inspiration that is reflected in all levels of activity and creativity.

Education

Studied Art and Design Prahran College of Advanced Education 1977

Adv. Cert. Art-Drawing Dandenong Tafe 1990

Adv. Cert. Art-Painting Dandenong Tafe 1991

Diploma of Fine Art Chisholm Frankston 2011

Advanced Diploma of Creative Product Development 2012

Exhibitions

Solo-      2002          ‘Horseworks’ Jetty Upstairs Art Bar, Phillip Island

2002          ‘One Room’ Meeniyan Art Gallery

2009          ‘Bulls and Bones’ Ride the Wild Goat Gallery Fish Creek

2012          ‘On the Beach’ Applestick Contemporary Art Balnarring

Group-    1999          ‘Body Works’ Island Influence Gallery Phillip Island

2000          ‘My Place, My Space’ Island Influence Gallery PhillipIsland

2005          ‘Life Force’ Meeniyan Art Gallery

2009          ‘Making a mark’ Ride the Wild Goat Gallery Fish Creek

2010          ‘Little Landscapes’  Brightspace Gallery St Kilda

2010          ‘Ron Rado Art Prize’ Drum Theatre Dandenong

2011          ‘Little Landscapes’      Brightspace Gallery St Kilda

2011          ‘Looking Up’     Bartiste Bar and Artspace Frankston

2011          ‘Open Studio’ Best Painting folio Chisholm Frankston

2011          ‘Prom Country Sculpture Trail’ Gippsland

2012          ‘Sculpture in the vineyard’ Lyrebird Hill Winery Koonwarra

2012          ‘Reason for Being’ Oakhill Gallery Mornington

2012          ‘Little Landscapes’ Brightspace Gallery St Kilda

2012          ‘Creative Product’ Walker Street Gallery Dandenong

Articles-  ‘The Pattern of Things’ the Current Newspaper Gill Heal 2006

‘Out on the Town’ The Star Newspaper 2005

Commissions-

‘Waterline Project’ 2006
private collections’Practical Sustainability Series’ Art in the Garden 2006

Jane Chandler

RECENT WORK: 2011 – 2012

Setting up the disparate group of objects used in these paintings, is like designing a stage for them to play out their character roles, and be acutely scrutinized as they are transcribed onto the canvas. Sometimes whilst painting, I am spooked by the strange sensation that I am being spied upon by these objects, and that they are monitoring my actions.  One of my favorite films is “The Lives of Others”, by the German film maker Florian Henckel von Donnermarck. It is a story about an East German Stasi agent who is assigned to set up surveillance to spy on the activities of a group of dissident actors and writers. I have named this exhibition ” Lives of Others,” and I hope the viewer will have a satisfying investigation of the paintings, and also be tempted to watch the award winning film.

Curriculum Vitae

Patricia Janeway Chandler

1958                                       Certificate, Advertising, Art and Design, RMIT

1984                                       Bachelor Degree in Fine Art, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne

1999                                       Summer School at the New York Studio School of Drawing and Painting New York.

2001                                       Drawing Studies with the Fordham University of New york at Ovietto, Italy.

Solo Exhibitions

1984                                       Distlefink Art Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne

1985                                       Jam Factory Art Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia

1985                                       Distlefink Art Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne

2004                                       Ochre Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

2012                                Stephen McLaughlan Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions

1984                                       Graduate exhibition, Phillip Institute of Technology Melbourne

1985                                       Walkers Award Exhibition, Caulfield City Art Gallery

1985                                   Ceramic Sculpture, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne

1996                                       Distlefink Art Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne

1996                                   Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne

1996                               Diamond Valley Art Award Exhibition

1996                               Nillumbik Shire Art Award Exhibition

1996                                       Victorian Ceramic Artists Exhibition. Ballarat

1997                                       Nillumbik Shire Art Award Exhibition

2004                                       Ochre Gallery

2006                                       Motor Works Gallery, South Yarra, Melbourne, Portraits of Ros Hill

2012                                Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne

2012                                Mingara Gallery, Phillip Island.

Awards

1984                                       The Walkers Ceramic Sculpture Award

1997                                       Winner Nillumbik Shire Art Award for sculpture

Acquisitions                           The Walkers Award Collection

The Victorian State Craft Collection

The Nillumbik Shire Art Collection

Publications                           101 Victorian Women Artists

Sara’s vibrant treatment of subject matter using vivid colour and contemporary form gives her paintings a unique, expressive style.
Born in the UK and growing up in an artistic and creative family environment, she chose painting as her medium. She moved to Sydney in her early twenties

where she continued to study and develop her individual style.
She currently resides on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsular and frequently draws inspiration from the extremes offered by Victoria’s natural beauty.
Sara has developed a strong Australian following through her solo and shared exhibitions and is developing an international following with increasing interest from Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Exhibitions
Art Melbourne 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010
Seaview Gallery, Queenscliff 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011.
Without Pier Gallery, Melbourne 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Pantechnicon Gallery, Daylesford 2006
Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne 2010

Galleries representing Sara Paxton Artworks
Mingara Gallery – Cowes – Victoria
Seaview Gallery – Queenscliff – Victoria
Without Pier Gallery – Cheltenham & Hampton – Melbourne
Clayfire Gallery – Daylesford – Victoria
Town and Country Gallery – Yarragon – Victoria
Gallery Sorrento – Sorrento – Victoria
Moulton Galleries – Mosman – Sydney

Main Street Gallery – Rutherglen – Victoria
Atelier Unique Fine Art – Toowoomba – Queensland
Hope & Co Gallery – Hamilton – Victoria