Sharon Billinge
Sharon Billinge is an English born Melbourne based artist with a predominately drawing and painting based practice. Billinge is a current recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship for her Masters research at VCAM and was awarded the KPMG tutorship award in 2009.
She
has exhibited widely across Australia including recent solo shows at The Centre
for Contemporary Photography, the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts and
WestSpace Gallery, Melbourne. Her work has been included in a number of high
profile competitions including The
Silkcut Award, The Bangkok Triennial and the City of
Perth Art Award.
Billinge
recently returned from a residency at the BlueCoat centre in Liverpool, England
and has held residencies at The Arthur Boyd Trust property in NSW and the
Nilumbikshire Laughing Waters Artists program in Victoria.
Celeste Chandler
Celeste Chandler is a Tasmanian born
artist, based in Melbourne. Her
practice is concerned with the representation of the human body, autobiography
and the language of painting.
Celeste has held numerous solo exhibitions
and exhibited in many curated exhibitions and prizes throughout Australia. She has twice been awarded an Elizabeth
Greenshields Scholarship, won the R&M McGivern Prize for painting and the
Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship and has undertaken residencies in
Australia and overseas. Celeste
has received an Australian Postgraduate Award and a Melbourne Research
Scholarship and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne.
“My artwork explores
the experience of embodiment - the intersection between the internal and
external worlds that meet in the visceral sensations of the body – and,
specifically, how this can be expressed in painting. Painting, for me, is a romantic gesture and
also one of brutality and disclosure.
It is a space to speak about aspects of experience that are difficult to
articulate through other means.”
Erika Gofton
Erika
Gofton is a Melbourne based artist, working predominately with drawing
and painting. Working with the figure she explores notions of fragility,
balance and tension and aims to create works that encourage the viewer
to breathe in the stillness. Erika Gofton has been running private Art Classes for adults since 2007. She also teaches drawing at the VCA in Melbourne.
Erika
grew up in Hobart and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Diploma of
Education (secondary) from the University of Tasmania. She has
exhibited in numerous group shows and had solo exhibitions at Smyrnios
Gallery, Dickerson Gallery, Frances Keevil, Schubert Contemporary, The
Substation: Centre for Art and Culture, Anthea Polson and The Ballarat
Regional Gallery. She has been a finalist in the EMSLA, Sunshine Coast
Art Prize, Mosman Art Prize, R & M McGivern Prize, Redland Westpac
Art Prize, twice in the City of Albany Art Prize (winning peoples
choice), and 6 times selected in the Williamstown Contemporary Art
Prize. In 2012 Erika won the $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Travel
award and will undertake a residency in New York in 2013.
Ilona Nelson
Ilona Nelson is a photographic and new media artist
who has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with distinction. She has exhibited extensively and been
selected in numerous prizes throughout Australia including The Sunshine Coast Art
Prize, Tattersall’s Contemporary Art Prize and The Flanagan Art Prize. Ilona works
predominately with photography but also incorporates film, performance and
installation. Her imagery has been
featured in many publications including The Age, frankie and Harper’s Bazaar
Australia.
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