Exhibitions Annual Unsigned Artist Exhibition Exploration 22 31st May 2022 - 18th June 2022

Now in its 22nd 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 for 2022 is KIRTHANA SELVARAJ. Kirthana will hold a solo exhibition with the gallery in 2023.

The FLG EMERGING ART AWARD this year was judged by Claire Harris FLG Director, Melinda Martin Director Linden New Art and Sarah Weston Craft Victoria.

The winner of the FLG People's Choice Award for 2022 is JOANA PARTYKA.

This year's participating artists are...

EVA BELTRAN

Aiming to depict an emotional experience more than any physical reality, Sydney-based abstract artist Eva Beltran's work explores nature, emotions, and memories through abstract figurations. Utilising intricate linework variations and complex paint layers and perspectives, her paintings connect with the mood and rhythm of the landscape.
View Eva's CV and Statement

BRAD GUNN

Brad Gunn is a Melbourne sculptor working in a range of contemporary materials and techniques. His works are often figurative and explore psychology and identity through surreal and fantastical characters. Gunn's work is very process driven, involving sculpting, moulding, and casting, with each piece hand painted or coated in a velvet flock.
View Brad's CV and Statement

MELODY JONES

Melody Jones is a contemporary artist from Lake Macquarie, NSW. Specializing in large scale figurative drawings, her work is concerned with challenging stereotypical, traditional, passive, and voyeuristic representation of women. Combining life drawing, photography and photo editing, Jones challenges and expands her understanding of art making to reveal new forms of expression.
View Melody's CV and Statement

ALICIA KING

Alicia King is an interdisciplinary artist working between Naarm (Melbourne) and Nipaluna (Hobart). Her work is driven by a fascination with natural phenomena and the re-thinking and re-working of our material reality. Within this broad context, King explores the intersections of nature, technology and the sublime, as well as ideas of deep ecological time and cultural mythologies of the future.
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FRANK MESARIC

Full of a sense of introspection and pervasive melancholy, Gippsland artist Frank Mesaric's small scale, black and white paintings focus on subjects of solitude and the landscape. Presented within heavy, antique frames his images suggest moments captured in time, and evoke memories of precious photographs his parents brought with them when they migrated from Slovenia after the Second World War.
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JOANA PARTYKA

Joana Partyka is a ceramic artist and political staffer based in Boorloo / Perth. Her work is deeply informed by the Australian political context and aims to push the boundaries of the ceramic medium - to arouse, to enrage and to energise - to invite people to think about and see things in new and different ways.
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JANE REYNOLDS

Jane Reynolds is a Sydney-based still life painter whose practice investigates the formal relationships between colour, form and light. Influenced by architecture and hard-edge abstraction, Reynolds' compositions strike a balance between restrained order and playful assembly, focusing on the optical play between flat planes and sculptural illusion, and invites the viewer to pause on the aesthetic value of form and colour.
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KIRTHANA SELVARAJ

Kirthana Selvaraj is a Queer, South Asian artist working on the unceded Gadigal Land of the Eora Nation (Sydney). Drawing on both individual and collective experiences within a Neo-Colonial feminist discourse, her practice is centered on race, intersections of the seen and unseen, violence and passivity, and gender and sexuality.
View Kirthana's CV and Statement

CAROLINE YUEN

Caroline Yuen's background in architecture informs her fascination with negative and positive spaces produced by structures and objects. Her sculptures are studies of form, spatial tension, and volumetric space through the repetitive use of simple elements. She encourages the viewer to experience her work from multiple standpoints, allowing audiences to create and manipulate their own experience of space.
View Caroline's CV and Statement

Exploration 22
Eva Beltran, Dove Lake in Love 2022
oil on canvas
122cm x 153cm

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Eva Beltran, The Boy in the Blue Tracksuit 2022
oil on canvas
122cm x 153cm

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Eva Beltran, The Gender of the Trees 2022
oil on canvas
153cm x 122cm

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Brad Gunn, Flummox 2022
resin & synthetic fibres
35cm x 60cm x 30cm

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Brad Gunn, Plume 2022
resin & synthetic fibres on timber board
60cm x 60cm x 15cm

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Brad Gunn, Flopsy Hang (cerise) 2022
resin & synthetic fibres
53cm x 18cm x 8cm

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Brad Gunn, Bread Flopsy Hand (teal) 2022
resin & synthetic fibres
53cm x 18cm x 8cm

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Brad Gunn, Flopsy (mustard) 2022
resin & synthetic fibres
40cm x 24cm x 12cm

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Brad Gunn, Flopsy (mustard - large) 2022
resin & synthetic fibres
70cm x 45cm x 25cm

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Melody Jones, Suspended 2 2022
charcoal and Pastel on paper, framed
170cm x 110cm (framed size 185 x 125cm)

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Melody Jones, Witness 2021
watercolour and ink on 640gsm paper, framed
101cm x 75cm (framed size 96 x 120cm)

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Melody Jones, Plummet 2022
watercolour on paper, framed
100cm x 70cm (framed size 96x 125 cm)

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Melody Jones, Adrift 2 2022
watercolour on paper, framed
100cm x 65cm (framed size 85 x 120cm)

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Melody Jones, Adrift 3 2022
watercolour on paper, framed
100cm x 75cm (framed size 94 x 124cm)

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Alicia King, (Possible Supernova) PSN-6.054670,-50177546 2022
iron, polymers, acrylic, aluminium
43cm x 30cm (framed in Perspex box)

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Alicia King, (Possible Supernova) PSN-71.32604,-79.37435 2022
iron, polymers, acrylic, graphite, aluminium
48cm x 37cm (framed in Perspex box)

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Alicia King, (Possible Supernova) PSN-20.2054864,-43.4902949 2022
iron, polymers, acrylic, aluminium
48cm x 37cm (framed in Perspex box)

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Alicia King, (Possible Supernova) PSN-22.751188,117.771425 2022
iron, polymers, acrylic, aluminium
43cm x 30cm (framed in Perspex box)

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Alicia King, (Possible Supernova) PSN-27.7436861,23.0043519 2022
iron, polymers, acrylic, aluminium
48cm x 37cm (framed in Perspex box)

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Frank Mesaric, Male with Folded Arms 2020
oil on canvas
38cm x 28cm framed size 66cm x 55cm

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Frank Mesaric, Female with Drape 2020
oil on canvas, framed
44cm x 33cm framed size 65cm x 53cm

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Frank Mesaric, Landscape 2019
oil on canvas, framed
49cm x 30cm framed size 60cm x 50cm

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Frank Mesaric, Laneway 2019
oil on canvas, framed
49cm x 30cm framed size 60cm x 50cm

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Frank Mesaric, Nude Female 2020
oil on canvas, framed
44cm x 34cm framed size 65cm x 53cm

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Frank Mesaric, Nude Male 2020
oil on canvas, framed
42cm x 31cm framed size 61cm x 51cm

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Frank Mesaric, Bridge 2022
oil on canvas board, framed
21cm x 26cm framed size 36cm x 41cm

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Frank Mesaric, Bird 2022
oil on canvas board, framed
23cm x 18cm framed size 38cm x 33cm

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Frank Mesaric, Wheelie Bin 2022
oil on canvas board, framed
26cm x 21cm framed size 42cm x 37cm

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Joana Partyka, Petrostate 2022
Stoneware, Glaze, Lustre
38cm x 20cm

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Joana Partyka, Eat the Rich 2022
black stoneware vessel with gold detail
12cm x 12cm x 12cm

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Joana Partyka, Red Line 2022
stoneware, mother of pearl lustre, red epoxy clay
20cm x 10cm x 10cm

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Joana Partyka, Prepare for War 2022
glazed stoneware vessel with gold detail
18cm x 12cm x 12cm

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Joana Partyka, Menacing Controlling Wallpaper 2022
glazed stoneware vessel with gold detail
18cm x 12cm x 12cm

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Joana Partyka, Dissent 2022
glazed stoneware vessel with gold detail
14cm x 12cm x 12cm

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Joana Partyka, Controlled By The Politicians 2022
glazed stoneware vessel with gold detail
18cm x 12cm x 12cm

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Joana Partyka, The Australian Way 2022
glazed black stoneware vessel with gold detail
26cm x 23cm x 23cm

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Jane Reynolds, Arrangement 133 2022
oil on canvas
79cm x 79cm , framed in oyster stained timber

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Jane Reynolds, Arrangement 131 2022
oil on canvas
64cm x 64cm , framed in oyster stained timber

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Jane Reynolds, Arrangement 132 2022
oil on canvas
64cm x 64cm , framed in oyster stained timber

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Jane Reynolds, Arrangement 134 2022
oil on canvas
64cm x 79cm framed in oyster stained timber

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Kirthana Selvaraj, Vicki Side Profile 2021
oil on canvas, framed
25cm x 25cm (framed size 27.5 x 27.5cm)

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Kirthana Selvaraj, Vicki in the Floral Shirt 2022
oil on canvas, framed
25cm x 25cm (framed size 27.5 x 27.5cm)

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Kirthana Selvaraj, Vicki's Screen Time 2022
oil on canvas, framed
25cm x 25cm (framed size 27.5 x 27.5cm)

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Kirthana Selvaraj, Vicki with the Button Eye 2022
oil on canvas, framed
25cm x 25cm (framed size 27.5 x 27.5cm)

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Caroline Yuen, Hazardous Red #1 2022
Recycled steel sign, welded steel rods, powdercoated paint finish
53cm x 50cm x 25cm

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Caroline Yuen, Hazardous Yellow #1 2022
Recycled steel sign, welded steel rods, powdercoated paint finish
68cm x 46cm x 20cm

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Caroline Yuen, Colours of the Kimberley Reimagined 2022
Corten steel, 2 pac paint
53cm x 35cm x 51cm

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Caroline Yuen, Red Dirt and Waterholes 2022
Corten Steel, 2 pac paint finish
45cm x 54cm x 50cm

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Caroline Yuen, Architectural Elements in the Landscape #2 2022
powdercoated steel and perspex
150cm x 120cm x 50cm