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WINNER OF THE 2021 EXPLORATION AWARD: LUCY ROLEFF. Lucy will be exhibiting at FLG in 2022.

WINNER OF THE 2021 EXPLORATION PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD: MELODY SPANGARO

Now in its 21st year the FLG Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition provides a platform for emerging artists to successfully exhibit their art within a commercial gallery context. The winner of the FLG Emerging Artist Award will be offered an exclusive solo exhibition with the gallery in 2022.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

PAUL SUMMERFIELD
Paul Summerfield's elaborate digital artworks combine technology and nature to create uniquely hopeful realities full of serene beauty alongside implausible dream-like realities.
View Paul's CV and Artist Statement

TREVOR TAGLIABUE
Influenced by model making, Japanese netsuke, jewellery design and other miniature decorative arts Victorian artist Trevor Tagliabue creates small scale wooden sculptures that draw inspiration directly from the unique Australian biosphere.
View Trevor's CV and Artist Statement

KATE VASSALLO
Kate Vassallo is an Australian visual artist, currently based in Canberra. With an interest in process-orientated repetition, building material density and optical perception, Vassallo's artistic practice spans a number of different media including drawing, printmaking, painting and installation.
View Kate's CV and Artist Statement

LUCY ROLEFF
Melbourne artist Lucy Roleff's paintings explore notions of beauty and purpose. Depicting everyday items and elements of the natural world, her work seeks to gently question our desire to claim and revere such objects.
View Lucy's CV and Artist Statement

MELODY SPANGARO
Melody Spangaro employs monochromatic drawing-based mark making to document experience, memory, and emotional response to natural environments, while exploring the imaginary thresholds between nature, culture, philosophy and art.
View Melody's CV and Artist Statement

ANNA CAMPBELL
Anna Campbell is a West Australian artist and illustrator whose delicate ink and watercolour drawings explore themes of botanical art, portraiture and the fantastical.
View Anna's CV and Artist Statement

LORRAINE BRIGDALE
Lorraine Brigdale is a YortaYorta Woman who weaves and uses handmade ochre paints in her works, drawing on her connections to both family and land.
View Lorraine's CV and Artist Statement

MAHALA HILL
NSW artist Mahala Hill uses clay to reflect her insatiable curiosity for nature and desire to replicate the sense of bewilderment and unknown that it arouses for her.
View Mahala's CV and Artist Statement

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Paul Summerfield, Walking through an Ancient Undergrowth 2017
ink on archival paper
90cm x 250cm (framed 105 x 265cm)
edition 3/5 last remaining edition

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Paul Summerfield, Fishing for Dreams 2017
ink on archival paper
80cm x 80cm (framed 97 x 97cm)
edition 3/5
$1650 unframed

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Paul Summerfield, Osiris and the thoughtful garden of Quetzalcoatl 2019
ink on archival paper
80cm x 40cm (framed 97 x 57.5)
edition 10/10 available

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Paul Summerfield, Mycelium Network 2021
ink on archival paper
80cm x 40cm (framed 57.5 x 97cm)
edition 1/9
$690 unframed

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Paul Summerfield, Ancient Ceremony on the Longest Day 2021
ink on archival paper
80cm x 40cm (framed 57.5 x 97cm)
edition 1/9
$690 unframed

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Trevor Tagliabue, North Deck Gazing 2021
16 x carved wood sculptures
64cm x 63cm framed

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Trevor Tagliabue, South Deck Wander 2021
16 x carved wood sculptures
64cm x 63cm framed

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Kate Vassallo, Legacy 2021
acrylic on canvas
103cm x 97cm

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Kate Vassallo, Eternal 2021
acrylic on canvas
100cm x 100cm

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Kate Vassallo, Muscle Memory 2021
acrylic on canvas
100cm x 92cm

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Kate Vassallo, Float 2021
acrylic on canvas
87cm x 75cm

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Kate Vassallo, Echo 2021
acrylic on board
30cm x 22cm (frame size 33 x 25cm)

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Kate Vassallo, Fragment 2021
acrylic on board
30cm x 22cm (frame size 33 x 25cm)

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Kate Vassallo, Inner Harmony 2021
acrylic on board
30cm x 22cm (frame size 33 x 25cm)

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Kate Vassallo, Shapeshifter 2021
acrylic on board
30cm x 22cm (frame size 33 x 25cm)

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Kate Vassallo, Signal 2021
acrylic on board
30cm x 22cm (frame size 33 x 25cm)

$Kate Vassallo, Refraction$

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Kate Vassallo, Refraction 2021
acrylic on board
35cm x 28cm (frame size 38 x 30.5cm)

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Kate Vassallo, Oracle 2021
acrylic on board
40cm x 30cm (frame size 43 x 33cm)

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Kate Vassallo, Watcher 2021
acrylic on board
30cm x 22cm (frame size 33 x 25cm)

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Lucy Roleff, Country Cabin 2021
oil on linen
50cm x 60cm framed

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Lucy Roleff, Mushrooms 2021
oil on linen
20cm x 25cm framed

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Lucy Roleff, Sunlight on Red Carnation 2021
oil on linen
20cm x 25cm framed

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Melody Spangaro, Main Street 2021
graphite on synthetic paper (Yupo)
122cm x 172cm framed

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Melody Spangaro, Razed 2021
graphite on synthetic paper (Yupo)
54cm x 73cm framed

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Aftermath 2021
Graphite on synthetic paper mounted on aluminium
65cm x 168cm unframed

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Anna Campbell, Four O’Clock I 2021
ink and collage on paper
28cm x 38cm framed size 54 x 45cm

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Anna Campbell, Four O’Clock 2 2021
ink and collage on paper
28cm x 38cm framed size 54 x 45cm

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Anna Campbell, Wanderer (quadtriptych) 2021
ink and collage on paper
116cm x 90cm (framed size each 58 x 45cm)

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Lorraine Brigdale, Borringyu 2021
natural ochre and handmade charred protea paint on 650gsm watercolour paper
105cm x 75cm framed

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Lorraine Brigdale, Malka 2021
natural ochre and handmade charcoal paint on 650gsm watercolour paper
105cm x 75cm framed

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Lorraine Brigdale, Monda 2021
natural ochre and handmade charred protea paint on 650gsm watercolour paper
105cm x 75cm framed

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Mahala Hill, Blistered 2021
bone china, mid fire clay, glaze
8cm x 7cm x 7cm

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Mahala Hill, Decimated Landscape 2021
bone china, mid fire clay, glaze
16cm x 13cm x 10cm

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Mahala Hill, Melting World 2021
bone china, porcelain, glaze
15cm x 14cm x 12cm

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Mahala Hill, Microplastic Wasteland 2019
bone china, porcelain, glaze
12cm x 12cm x 9cm

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Mahala Hill, Plastic Ooze 2021
bone china, porcelain, glaze
11cm x 18cm x 12cm

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Mahala Hill, Eldritch Landscape 2021
bone china, porcelain, glaze
18cm x 18cm x 15cm