2003 Deckchair Artists

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kd lang
What a phenomenal catalogue of material the Canada native has created. As founder and front woman for her groundbreaking ensemble The Reclines, and through her own brilliant solo career, k.d. has offered some of the most memorable music of our time. Along the way, she has garnered a mountain of awards, including multiple GRAMMYs. In her spare time she does indulge in some abstract landscape paintings, and (I believe) this is the very first of her painting to be sold.
Web: http://www.kdlang.com/

Andrew Carter
Born in Goomalling in rural Western Australia, Andrew Carter has established himself as one of the countries leading production designers in contemporary dance and Physical Theatre, as well as pursuing parallel careers in Painting, Industrial Design and Installation Art. In 1984 he received his Masters degree in Fine Arts (Design) from Yale University in the United States. Since returning to Australia he has received several grants and awards for his contribution to the visual arts, these include a Creative Development Fellowship and a Green Room Award for design. Carter has produced work for every major dance company in Australia and several overseas, including the Nederlands Dans Theatre, The Royal Ballet Covent gardens, The Royal Danish Ballet and The Dutch Nationale. As well as working for the Bermuda Arts Festival, Carter has had work tour North and South America, much of Europe, and South East Asia. He has held eight solo exhibitions of his paintings. Many of the paintings were based on trips he has undertaken to the remote regions of central Australia. He has also contributed as a visual artist/designer for numerous multi media events and happenings including the 2002 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony and the Yeperenye Dreaming Festival in Alice Springs. Presently Carter is working on a new series of paintings based on the creative and tragic life of the engineer C.Y O'Connor, as well as a Multi Media work in Holland for the National Festival in Amsterdam.

Andrew Hayim-Devries
Andrew has been a part-time tutor for the last eighteen years, and has exhibited both locally and interstate. The piece submitted for this auction is a part of a collaborative project, which is the construction of the world largest Snow dome, that will tour the world. This piece was influenced by a grandmother who owned a Swiss watch company and an Iraqi grandfather.

Annette Orr
Last year I was fortunate to participate in a volunteer residency programme at the Warwun Art Centre. In the morning I worked at the art centre, collecting artists? stories, cataloguing, grinding ochres for some of the older artists and making gallons of tea. While I was there Mabel Juli invited me to visit Darrajayn ( Springvale), her parents country. We stopped at a place called Billimack Springs for lunch and I noticed Mabel and her daughter Marlene searching the ground. I thought they must have lost something and offered to help. Mabel told me that Billimack had been a meeting place in the old days and it was possible to find old arrow heads. I looked down at Mabel?s feet and there was an arrow head. Mabel gave it to me as a gift from her country.

Annette Orr has been painting for eighteen years. She has travelled and painted in Australia and over seas. For the last six years she has been represented by Artplace in Perth.

Annie Rawle
Annie was born in England and emigrated to Australia in 1994. She has done embroidery throughout her life, but started to develop it’s current form just before she left to emigrate. Since then she has been developing her own machine embroidery style using a variety of stitch and appliqué techniques. She started selling her work in 1997 and now sells throughout Australia and in Japan. Annie is part of a four person exhibition “Quartte” which will be held at the Heathcoate Museum and Art Gallery in Applecross on the Tuesday 1st of July to the 3rd of August. Annie can be contacted at cosmo1@iinet.net.au

Becky Blair
British born artist Becky Blair has been painting and traveling since she left Art College in 1993. Traveling is her source of inspiration, feeding her love of colour and light. Becky has exhibited in the UK, France, India, New Zealand and now in Australia. Becky studied painting at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education where she received her Fine Art honors degree.
Gadfly Gallery: http://www.gadflygallery.com/
Web: http://www.beckyblairartist.co.uk

Ben Crappsley
After completing a diploma in graphic design some years ago, Ben has had various encounters with freelance illustration, mural painting and poster design, including the winning entry for the 1999 Artrage Festival poster competition. He is now focusing the organisational skill necessary to stage an exhibition of his work gathering dust at home.

Brian McKay
Brian McKay is one of WA’s best loved, most senior artist today. His exhibition history is extensive and examples of his work are to be found in major institutional corporate and private collections across Australia. In recent years he has constructed some of Perth’s outstanding public art pieces. In 1990 he was recognized for his contribution to the arts and given an Emeritus Award.

Bruce Slatter
Bruce Slatter graduated in Fine Arts (Sculpture) from Curtin University of Technology in 1992. In 2000 he completed Honours (1st class). He works as a sessional lecturer and technical staff member in the Curtin University Art Department. Slatter has been involved in a number of group exhibitions including; Pizza Surprise (2001), curated by Michelle Glaser and Katie Major, Parallel Worlds (2002) curated by Kate McMillan for the Perth International Arts Festival and Mnemotech (2002) curated by Bec Dean at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. In 2002 Slatter won the Popular Choice Award at the Joondalup Invitation Art Award. This year Slatter was involved in Maybe (a two person show with Nicole Huitson) at Kerb Gallery. He is currently studying towards a Masters Degree at Curtin University.

Cedric Baxter
Born of British parents in Rangoon, Burma he migrated in 1947 Migrated to Australia where he became a cadet journalist with the West Australian. After completing a Diploma in Graphic Design, Perth Technical College, he contributed to the West Australian Newspaper as their political cartoonist. It was a fantastic position for Cedric, as the flexibilty of the work, allowed him to sit in on many of the WA Ballet rehearsals and sketch the dancers. Cedric’s work is collected throughout Australia, Europe, USA and Asia.
Web: http://www.gomboc-gallery.com.au/artists/western_australian/painters/baxter.htm

Gao Xu Yong
GAO Xu Yong has an intimate knowledge of the essence of painting art. He has come to evolve in his conceptual views and observations of life matters that he reflects in his artworks. He successfully combines Chinese traditional thought of philosophy with modern artistic value, to associate traditional, classic and realism painting skills with modern ingenuity and its techniques. His works are a fusion of and blurring the frontiers between subject and object with an influence of Taoist philosophy (nature) and a profound realism blended with a bit of naïve feeling. Unintentionally he unveils his spirit emotion and attitude to life.
Web: http://www.1loc.com/gaoxuyong/Introduction.htm

Gizella Bosco
The way that Gizella, handcrafted her jewellery came bout was quite unplanned. I have always been involved in various forms of art and craft, my main love being sculpture and jewellery as I am fascinated by form and colour. There came a day, as does in most girls lives, when my daughter needed something new to wear out and claimed she could not afford anything so I set about creating a new piece of jewellery to become the focus of her outfit This resulted in many orders for my creations which has continued to snowball. My range of individually handcrafted pieces of jewellery vary in style from simple “star bursts” on tiger tail bands to pearl and swarovsky crystal formed wire creations.

Henryk Szydlowski
Henryk Szydlowski's works can be found in private, corporate and government collections in Austria, Australia, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Isreal, Italy, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Sweden, Swizerland, United Kingdom, U.S.A and the Vatican. In 1982 Henryk Szydlowski developed a new-printing technique which he named Polprint (Polish Print). His technique gained worldwide recognition by artists and critics. Henryk featured in the 1999 Who's Who in International Art "Great Names and Newcomers in 20th Century Art" Artcards. In the year 2000 Henryk was awarded the highest title of Academical official Knight by the Accademia Internazionale Greci Marino, Accademia Del Verbeno, Di Lettere, Arti, Scienze, Vercelli, Italy.

Ian de Souza
Ian has been a painter for 20 years. He places a strong emphasis on drawing. His subject matter is diverse and he is proficient with all mediums. He particularly enjoys the unpredicatbility of watercolour. Ian exhibits nationally and internationally and his art is in private and corporate collections worldwide. The handmade ceramic tile that Ian generously donated to this auction can be displayed interior/exterior and used as a serving plate.
Web: http://www.iandesouza.com.au

Jimmy Pike
Jimmy Pike sadly passed away last year.
He was a Walmajarri man who was born in his family's country in the Great Sandy desert. He left the desert when he was still a boy, and went to work on cattle stations in the Kimberly, as did most of his close relations. Later he lived in Fitzroy Crossing and became an artist. As an artist Jimmy's work is highly regarded and much sought after. These two backdrops were painted for deckchair's 2000 show JIMMY AND PAT MEET THE QUEEN and is unique in terms of the scale of the works. He is sadly missed by all of us at deckchair theatre.

Jon Green
Jon Green is a professional photographer who has specialised in photographing the visual and Performing arts since 1991. He has very generously supported deckchair theatre over the years and is contributing a portrait session to this years auction. The session includes:

* Portrait session - at home, any indoor / outdoor location of the sitter's choice.
* Proofs to CD
* Unframed 10cm x 40cm print - either colour or black & white

Photograph: Sally Richardson (2003)
Photography by Jon Green

Kayt Davies
A dreamy child who grew up wanting to be a writer and instead became a journalist, then an editor. (Currently editor in chief of Australian Lifestyle Publishing ie Perth Woman, Vital Magazine and others). Also studied psychology, life drawing and textiles at ECU and worked for a while as an art therapist at Palmerston Drug Rehab and the Cancer Support Association.

Self taught as a painter, but determined to further explore the medium.

Ken Done
Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, Ken Done has become Australia’s most famous artist/designer. He has held over 40 one-man shows, including major exhibitions in Australia, Japan and France. His work has been described as the most original style to come out of Australia, and his paintings are in collections throughout the world. Over the past few years, Ken has devoted most of his time to painting. His works have been shown in the Archibald, Sulman, Wynne, Blake, and Dobell Prizes
Web: http://www.kendone.com/

Kerry Stokes
Kerry Stokes is a prolific artist based in the tropical town of Broome where she is the Artistic Director of the Shinju Matsuri Festival and the Visual Arts Director of BAMF. Kerri has been exhibiting since 1968 and has garnered many awards. Her work can be found in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, United Kingdom & Spain.

Matthew Jackson
Matthew Jackson was born in London and emigrated to Australia in 1982. He has completed several years of Fine Arts education at Claremont School of Fine Art and the West Australian School of Art, Design and Media, where he was awarded an Advanced Diploma of Fine Art. Jackson has been active on the West Australian art scene for several years. He has exhibited in many group shows and in a handful of well received solo exhibitions, most recently "Naked" at the Artshouse Gallery in the Perth Cultural Center. Amongst his other credits Jackson has organized and curated several successful exhibitions and has had work exhibited as far a field as Florence, Italy. Presently Matthew Jackson's work is on display at The Ninth Floor in Mount Lawley, Reveleys Restaurant in St.Georges Terrace, Packenham Street Gallery in Fremantle, "On The Other Side" in Claremont and Code Red Gallery, also in Claremont.. Matthew Jackson is available for private and corporate commissions.
Web: http://communities.ninemsn.com/TheCoveStudioArtPhotos

Maya Scott
Maya Scott is currently furthering her photographic knowledge at Edith Cowan University. Her works indulge in lavish colour and meaty texture, portraying an eloquence and a strong sense of mood. Her images are designed to combat aesthetic sterility and promote the little nooks and crannies in this world that often go unnoticed. What feeds the senses creates inspiration and hopes. Much of her work tends towards the abstract and minimalist, inviting curiosity on the part of the viewer. Maya can be contacted at mayalebee@yahoo.com

Merrick Belyea
Over the last 10 years, Merrick has exhibited regularly both in solo and group exhibitions. He has also exhibited at the Joseph Gross Gallery in Arizona, USA and was invited by the Australian Embassy in the Philippines to hold an exhibition there in December 2001 on the theme of Sex and Death. He is exclusively represented in Perth by Gallery East.

Miranda Green
Millinery is Miranda Green's absolute passion. A self-taught milliner of exceptional talent and skill, Miranda has personally chosen and trained a select number of individuals to create a stimulating and supportive manufacturing environment. This type of initiative being not uncommon to Miranda, a woman of great style and substance, for her passion in millinery is matched only by her strong convictions. Miranda is a firm advocate of social responsibility and non exploitive business transactions- and this is evident in both a practical and theoretical way throughout Miranda Green Millinery.
Web: http://www.mirandagreenmillinery.com.au/glamour.htm

Nick Melidonis
Nick Melidonis is one of Australia's foremost travel, landscape and fine-art photographers. He spent his early years in Australia's Southwest timber country where his love of nature and wilderness grew. His lifelong pursuit of travel has produced emotive images depicting the people and beauty of some of the world's most scenic and wild locations. Nick has won numerous awards for his work. In May 2000 he was named the 'Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year' (he was runner-up for this title in 1999), runner-up in the 1999 Nikon Panorama Showcase Photographer of the Year. In May 2001, Nick again won the title of 'Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year' and was made a Master of Photography. As a Director of 'Odyssey Style Tours' he has designed and led numerous photographic tours in Australia and the Greek Islands. Nick is currently planning the release of a book on Greece to coincide with the Athens Olympics.

Nick has held several solo exhibitions of his work and his fine art images can be found in many galleries and private collections.

Patricia Hines
Patricia Hines has been teaching and exhibiting her art for the last 30 years. In 1994 Patricia retired from fabric design to take up painting full-time. As a painter Patricia is working on a new series based on Wheat Bales.

Paul Moncrieff
Paul Moncrieff is a lecturer and Coordinator of the Painting programme within the BA Visual Arts Degree at Edith Cowan University. Paul has extensive lecturing experience at tertiary level, and in the past has taught in the studio areas of Print making, Drawing and also Art Theory. Paul has exhibited extensively since 1981, locally, nationally and overseas. His work has been collected by the Australian National Museum Canberra, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia and the Edith Cowan University, as well as many other private and corporate collections, nationally and overseas. Paul's recent research interests include a two year site project centered around the Wongon Hills / Ballidu district within the area of rural Western Australia known as the North -West Wheat Belt. Iconic images from the district have been incorporated into a series of panoramic drawings as a personal response to the land. Paul is currently working on a series of paintings and drawings that are an initial response to the ever present flotilla of cargo ships in and around the Fremantle Harbour environs. This work embodies Paul's reflections on issues connected with politics, trade and ethics.
Web: http://www-waapa.ecu.edu.au/disc/sova/st_pm.html

Penelope Smith-Carter
My interest in art is far away from landscapes as such. I am interested in the expression of people. I feel I have created modern icons: they are fun and meaningful. I see my art as a tonic, a medicine that works on visual response. It gives pleasure with its colour and messages.

I create figurative landscapes. They reach out to every person with their quirky pop art sense.

In 1992 I began selling my art at the weekend cultural markets in Perth. I've recently restored and painted 500 year old icons in Churches located on the island of Corfu, Greece as a gift for the local people. I returned to Australia in 1998 and soon after relocated to the Fremantle markets where I was selling my art work prints and other pieces such as handpainted frames and furniture every weekend. After working on large life-size pieces in Greece I felt compelled to have an exhibtion and present myself as a painter. I want people to recognise me as who I really am, not who they think I am. "The Goddess Speaks" is an extension of myself and every other womans dreams and fantasies. Its about exploring womanhood.

Robbie Porrit
Again we find ourselves begging off our own kind , against the backdrop of another generation betrayed by public servants with mace in their pockets & shit for brains DER ! You can watch them squander this culture for bootcamps or the superanuation of some third rate reactionary bigot ... OR turn off SEEK PEACE, FIND some TRANQUILITY BUY THIS PAINTING, HELP YOURSELF, help the next generation...for a change...

Rosemary Hunter
Rosemary started her career as a nurse then midwife before taking to the arts. She has lectured at the Claremont School of Art for twenty years between 1970 to 1990. She has recently won the Acquisitive first Prize at the Stirling Art Award, and has exhibited her work for the last thirty years. Her work is collected in numerous private collections, both in Australia and overseas.

Sheila Benford
Sheila was born in England in 1935. She painted, self taught from an early age, later trained as an airbrush artist subsequently employed in London photographic studios for 7 years. Sheila emigrated to Australia with her husband and two children in 1977; where she established her own business as a photo restorer. Between 1980 an 1987 Sheila studied Fine Arts, passing with Distinction. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including major galleries around Australia and is represented in the Ministry of Health Collection. Sheila enjoys camping trips to remote northern parts of Western Australia with various art groups, finding the harsh landscape and unique formr and colours of Australia a never ending inspiration and challenge.
Web: http://www.sheilabenford.com

Tom Gare
Tom graduated from the Claremont School of Art in 1983 with a diploma of Fine Art (Painting).He has since been involved in a number of group exhibitions and solo exhibitions at the Church Gallery in North Fremantle.

William Yang
William Yang has worked as a photographer and theatre performer for more than three decades. He began his photographic career in the mid-seventies as a glossy magazine freelancer and documented Sydney socialites for the following ten years. In 1977, William held his first solo photographic exhibition entitled Sydneyphiles. This exhibition caused a minor sensation with its frank depiction of the Sydney party scene. In 1984, the photographs from Sydneyphiles became part of a larger exhibition, entitled Sydney Diary, which was published as a book of the same name. In the nineties, William developed and performed a series of thought-provoking monologues, using projected slides for illumination.
As well as performing his celebrated monologues all over the world, William Yang has held more than twenty solo photographic exhibitions across Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. As a multi-award winning artist, William has his work in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Portrait Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, State Library of New South Wales,Museum of Contemporary Arts in Sydney, Cairns Regional Art Gallery and at the Higashigawa-cho Municipal Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan.