Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Contemporary Australian and Aboriginal paintings, sculpture, original prints and drawings

Richard Blackwell : Claire Bridge : Ian Greig : Abie Loy Kemarre : Jean Lyons :
Christophe Stibio : Christine Willcocks


Abbreviated CV 2008 BA (Visual) Honours, ANU School of Art, Canberra, ACT 2007 Exchange program at The School of The Art Institue, Chicago, USA Collections Artbank. Private collections in Australia Artist's Statement My intention is to create work which intersects divergent contemporary realities. These include the finite spaces we physically inhabit, the built environment we place in those spaces and the architecture of virtual reality that we produce and is infinite. I seek to create a platform that reveals the condition of being an artist and the action of making things in that context.


Downtown I laminate on medium density board 114cm DIA		Downtown II laminate on medium density board 114cm DIA		Pritzker Pavillion laminate on medium density board 114cm DIA


N Clark St laminate on medium density board 60 x 120cm		N Randolf St laminate on medium density board 70 x 120cm


Washington Street laminate on medium density board 80 x 120cm


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Abbreviated CV 2007 Art Study, San Francisco, BACAA Bay Area Classical Art Atelier, USA 1991 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Painting Major, Monash University, VIC Collections Maroondah Art Gallery, Federation Estate. Private collections throughout Australia and internationally including England, Italy, USA and The Netherlands Awards 2009 Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2009 Finalist, R & M McGivern Prize 2009 Winner, Living Art Award, Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize Artist's Statement My work investigates transitions; from stillness to movement, changes of psychological states and notions of shifting time. Essentially, through the figure I explore the human condition and the evolution of the human spirit, embodied most often through the female form in shifting moments of experience, poignant or dramatic. Light and dark become symbolic of the emerging and disintegrating natures of our existence. It is this edge of change in which I am most interested.


Wanderlust oil on Belgian linen 95.3 x 77cm		The Wanderer oil on Belgian linen 36 x 45.6cm		Origin - study for Wanderlust Oil on panel 15 x 20cm


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Abbreviated CV 2002 PhD, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, SA 2000 Artist in residence, Barcelona Institute of Art, Spain 1997 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), South Australian School of Art, SA 1993 Studied drawing, painting and printmaking, Canberra School of Art, ACT Collections Artbank, Country Arts SA, Government House SA, University of South Australia. Corporate and private collections in Australia, UK, Spain and Canada Artist's Statement My paintings are inspired by the reflective surface of water such as ponds, creeks and rivers. The contemplative nature of the surface of a pond is the result of three visual fields coming into play simultaneously - the bottom of the pool, the surface with its leaves and ripples, and the reflections of what exists above. All these combine to create the shifting visual ambiguity that drives my work.


The world wants to see itself oil on canvas 100 x 100cm		Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget oil on canvas 73 x 121cm


Out of the blue oil on canvas 100 x 140cm		Installation image


Abbreviated CV Solo Exhibitions 2006 Abie Loy Kemarre, Bush Leaf & Other Dreamings, Gadfly Gallery, Perth 2005 Abie Loy Kemarre, New Paintings, Gadfly Gallery, Perth 2005 Abie Loy Kemarre, Solo Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 2004 Abie Loy Kemarre, Solo Exhibition, Gadfly Gallery, Perth 2004 Abie Loy Kemarre, Solo Exhibition, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney 2003 Abie Loy Kemarre, First Solo Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne Collections The Ishibashi Foundation, Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Lyon Musee of Art, Lyon, France, The Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Commission Collection, The National Gallery of Victoria, Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, The Art Gallery of South Australia, The Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles


Body Painting red,black & white polymer paint on Belgian linen Click here to view a detail of the painting 91 x 152cm GAAL12091574		Body Painting silver & black polymer paint on Belgian linen Click here to view a detail of the painting 91 x 152cm GAAL04061436


Bush Leaves acrylic on linen 107 x 107cm		Installation image


Abbreviated CV 1995 Diploma of Education (Primary), La Trobe University 1993 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art, RMIT 1990 Advanced Certificate in Art and Design, RMIT Tafe Artist's Statement This work continues my current series using mainly black and white and experimenting with matt and glossy surfaces. These works continue my interest in using black and white, exploring matt and glossy surfaces and using patterns of nature as inspiration. The compositions are unbalanced and spatially ambiguous, depicting rock meeting water and rock meeting sky. Water flows around obstacles gently but with determination, bringing into play the idea of yielding and proceeding. The tiny beads of water, abstract layers and repeated marks are significant because together they form the entire rhythm and momentum of the works.


Breakwater oil and enamal on linen 91 x 152cm		Wash oil and enamal on linen 91 x 152cm		Installation image


Abbreviated CV 1993 National Academy of Fine Art. Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China 1989 Bachelors Degree, Chinese Arts & Civilisation, Bordeaux III University, France 1988 Masters of Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts , Bordeaux III University, France Collections Deakin University, Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection, Murdoch Collection, Private collections in Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux, England, Spain and North America Artist's Statement My paintings, across their visible transformations, speak about untarnished, infinite places. When I paint, the topic is not solely the physical subject matter. The topic is as much how to look at the subject matter, how to perceive what is hidden, and as an artist, asking what to reveal. Consequently, these landscape paintings are as much about resolving a sense of experience - of what we see over what we think we see, what we wish to see but can’t as yet see - the interaction between the visible and the invisible, the known and the unknown.


Where were you when it happened? #11 natural pigments on paper mounted on cotton duck 37 x 89cm		Where were you when it happened? #9 natural pigments on paper mounted on cotton duck 46 x 47.5cm


Where were you when it happened? #6 natural pigments on paper mounted on cotton duck 30.5 x 109.5cm


Where were you when it happened? #2 natural pigments on paper mounted on cotton duck 47 x 97cm


Sunset with Belinda # 11 natural pigments on paper mounted on cotton duck 110 x 110cm


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Abbreviated CV 1996 Post Graduate Diploma of Arts, Printmaking, Monash University, VIC 1994 Bachelor of Arts, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW Collections Artbank, Victorian State Library, Print Council of Australia Queensland State Library, Tweed River Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery, University of Southern Qld, University of Western Sydney, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Artist's Statement My practice is concerned with collections and with the psychology of display. How the vitrine actually relates to the object, what they reveal about the work of constructing and reconstructing history. I'm interested in the way the vitrine can effectively dematerialise its contents. While my work takes in cross disciplines such as drawing, photography and 3D, it is the printmaking that is the backbone of my practise. I wish to expand the possibilities of drypoint etching from cardboard, a process that suits a non-toxic environment.


Fallen Leaves hand coloured drypoint etching & found object (unique 1/1) 28cm x 28cm		Atrophy hand coloured drypoint etching (Artist Proof 1/5) 60 x 80cm		The Quiet Collector graphite with etching overlay (unique 1/1) 36cm x43cm


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