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ARTISTS
Vivienne Litson
The Studio Shed
Bridgetown
Vivienne Litson is a potter and having lived in an area where water is highly regarded as an important resource, especially in drought times, this year continues a series based on a celebration of Artesian water.
Demonstrations of hand building and wheel throwing will be available from 10.00 am to 11.30am
Tracey Jarick
Tracey Jarick Art
Bridgetown
Tracey Jarick is a plein air landscape and still life artist. The majority of her work is painted alla Prima, wet in wet and from life, giving them the feeling of not being over blended and with exciting brush strokes visible. Her medium of choice is oil paint.
Cassi-Jo Davis
Totem Bohemia
Bridgetown
‘Threads the Settlers left behind’
For this new series of works, textile artist Cassi-Jo Davis explored ruined and abondoned houses in her travels in regional Australia. She ponders on the life of our early women settlers in these remote places and presents the traces they have left behind on genuine antique linen, textile fragments, embroidered pieces and handmade laces.
Isobel Macaulay
Slow Grow Project Workshop
Bridgetown
Isobel is a passionate textile and clay artist who combines the beauty of plant dyed linen and clay to create unique, sustainable pieces that celebrate nature's palette. With a commitment to environmental mindfulness, she transforms natural materials into exquisite works of art, blending texture and colour harmoniously.
Liz Janney
Blackwood Weaving
Nannup
Discover the Art of Weaving
Embark on a journey into the rhythmic world of weaving at my SheSHED. As a new weaver, I find immense joy in immersing myself in the process, dreaming of patterns, selecting colors, and planning the next project. Experience the creativity and tranquility of my SheSHED, where every thread tells a story.
Lori Pensini
Lori Pensini Farm Studio
Boyup Brook
Lori is a narrative figurative storytelling artist. Her practise is an exploration of identity and placement within her ancestral grazier history and lived experiences on country. The exploration of matrilineal memory within her shared European and Indigenous lineage engages commentary around the simultaneously constructive and destructive relationship between wo(man) and land.
Laurie Allison Bullied
Black Barn Studio
Bridgetown
My exhibition will include contemporary figurative and colourful still life works as per recent years but will feature a return to large vibrant abstracts, a genre I have not focused on for many years. The Black Barn Group of five artists looks forward to welcoming visitors to a diverse and exciting range of works.
Colleen Currey
THINGSweMAKE
Bridgetown
Colleen Currey is a potter, amongst other things. Her work is varied, from functional domestic ware (generally with an artistic feel) to more sculptural decorative pieces. Colleen enjoys playing with texture and special firing techniques to give her work unique character.
Anna Murchison
Curlew Estate
Boyup Brook
Anna is an award-winning, internationally recognized poet working across literary and visual art disciplines. Metaphysical and spiritual dimensions move through her artmaking and onto the canvas where responses to 'space, place & sentience' become form and formlessness. She works intuitively and spontaneously to produce highly textural and multi-layered (mostly) land and seascape abstractions.
Michael Miller
Michael Miller Studio
Bridgetown
This years exhibition will showcase Western Australia's spectacular wildflowers capturing their unique beauty. Michael has spent a large period of time traveling the outback experiencing the beauty of wildflowers which led him to create the pieces presented.
Kerry Burns
Balingup Art Gallery
Balingup
Kerry creates in a variety of media but predominately works as a printmaker. She also loves using watercolours, inks and pastels sometimes combining them with other paint mediums as well. Other interests include photography and creating quirky felt and bead-based jewellery.
Helen Baldock
Nannup Arts Gallery
Nannup
Helen channels her creativity as a source of tranquility. For her, art is an oasis—a time to unwind and immerse herself in a flow state. She loves experimenting with a vibrant array of colours and textures on both canvasses and sculpture, exploring three-dimensional qualities in her work.
Monique Chapman
The Joyful Little Art Space
Boyup Brook
Monique Chapman, is a leather crafter who has been making leather accessories for the last 2 years. She makes everything from leather key chains to belts and bags. She also does custom work creating beautiful individual pieces that will last you a life time.
Sarah Warwick
The Joyful Little Art Space
Boyup Brook
Sarah Warwick , artist, painter
After some time away from painting Sarah has rediscovered her love & joy of art. Her artwork shows her love of cubism in both portrait & nude, inspired by Picasso. Still life & impressionistic landscape is also emerging. The “special meaning behind the painting” being her mark
The basis of painting being that of colour, contrast, form & shading.
Susan Bowers
The Little Art Gallery
Boyup Brook
Susan is a textile artist/sculptor based in Boyup Brook. Her distinctive sculptures are created using fabric, clay, wire and wool and reflect her love of both animals and vintage and antique textiles. She also creates a range of home textiles based on images of her characters including cushions, tea towels and tea cozies.
Melinda Stephens
THINGSweMAKE
Bridgetown
I draw inspiration from 'the space between' in relation to the trees and forests of the southwest, coupled with a deep love for atmospheric landscapes. Additionally, I've initiated research into the emotional responses and facial expressions portrayed in portraiture.
Dennis Wilson
Black Barn Studio
Bridgetown
Dennis Wilson, a self - taught sculptor transforms discarded scrap metal into thought-provoking artworks. My main interest is sculpting birds. I try and utilize landfill materials that come my way either by salvaging them or from other people knowing that I will be able to re-create a piece of artwork from the recycled steel.
Miranda Free
The Eyrie Studio Gallery
Nannup
Miranda’s practice features still life, landscape & figurative works. Recent work focuses on still life works that combine simplicity with intricate detail, while highlighting the beauty of everyday objects arranged with care. Known for incorporating highly patterned fabrics or objects, her compositions add layers of complexity and depth, creating interesting juxtapositions between objects, organi
Margaret Beechey Rothery
Perrier Sculpture Garden
Bridgetown
I started sculpting at 91 and now at 94 have completed seven pieces, three which are currently being cast in Bronze. I will soon have enough work to hold a solo exhibition.
The process of producing a piece of sculpture in bronze is very complicated and challenging, its another world to me and so exciting.
I was honoured to appear on the ABC in a short documentary of myself on Christmas day 2023.
Trish Durham / Flourish
Bridgetown Greenbushes Visitors Centre/Goorbiliyup Gallery
Bridgetown
Trish Durham's arts practice is a continuous journey into the aesthetic realm of texture & colour.
This alongside a passion for inclusion of upcycled & reclaimed elements within her pieces, aims to engender engagement & interaction.
There is a celebratory reverence in many of the works that fit her ethos of art for betterment in all contexts
Rozanna Johnson
Holberry House
Nannup
Rozanna is a painter and ceramicist exploring themes of memory, physicality and ritual. Having long fostered a fascination with the forests of the South West, she now resides in Nannup, where the surrounding landscape inspires her work.
Rozanna will be showing paintings and hand-built ceramic works in the beautiful grounds of Holberry House, where she will also be creating in a temporary studio.
June Wood
Weaving Threads - ONLINE ARTIST
Bridgetown
Wool is hand blended from NZ Merino Wool / Alpaca / Goat / Silk & hand spun on a traditional spinning wheel to create decorative art yarn. The wool is then either hand woven ( on a rigid heddle or tapestry loom) to make unique decorative textile wall hangings / scarves / wraps or ponchos, OR hand knitted into jumpers / beanies or garments.
No two pieces can ever be alike - absolutely unique
Christopher Redfern
Balingup Artists Collective
Balingup
Christopher Redfern has a master's degree in Visual Art. His practice is guided by autobiographical imagery, chipped away from the cold iceberg of inter generational trauma at the core of his being. Virtual Reality art, watercolour and oils are his media, informed by a western art tradition which has begun to erode under the profit motive of late stage capitalism.
Gwen Edwards
Gwen's Art Room
Donnybrook
Gwen's main subjects are Australian rural scenes, birds, flowers and trees. Colour, contrast and the play of light are well portrayed in her paintings. Gwen's favourite medium is acrylic, however she does do some watercolour paintings. Her latest adventure has been to paint on the wonderful patina of aged tin with some fantastic results.
Heather Elliott-Smith
Elliottsmith Sculpture and Glass
Nannup
This beautiful studio/ gallery in Nannup is well worth checking out. Artist Heather Elliott-Smith creates beautiful kiln formed glass art pieces. Her work includes functional items, whimsical animals, in addition to exquisite sculptures and centrepieces that highlight the beauty and colours of the glass. Her work incorporates other medium with glass.
Robert Lawson
Nannup Arts Gallery
Nannup
Robert has explored his art through many mediums like photography, film, mixed media, oil and acrylic paintings. He is inspired by the vibrant earthy tones of northern WA, Seychelles and Kenya which he now evolves into abstract impressionism of their desert landscapes.
Melanie Van Impe
Balingup Art Gallery
Balingup
Melanie Van Impe is a Belgium artist that has found her heart here in Donnybrook. Nature has inspired her to reconnect with her inner child and create as much as she can. She loves taking pictures of the wildlife that surrounds her and recreate it on a canvas.
Art is medicine.
Helen Hills
Yarn n Co
Boyup Brook
The day can take me in the direction of oils, water colour, inks, or pastels. Whichever captures the subject best along with the mood. I have painted on and off, along with running a business for some years. In my retirement I hope to spend more time now with brushes and my easel.
I do like historical subjects and also have a passion for painting animals and portraits. I sometimes do an abstract.
Leanne White
The Leanne White Gallery
Nannup
In Nature I Stand
Leanne White conveys the ephemeral mood of each location and the eternal beauty of that moment captured in time. Her wilderness paintings and drawings take on a fresh perspective, engaging the viewers to find the sense of unparalleled reverence and enchantment in our natural world.
Kim Lyle Perrier
Perrier Sculpture Park
Bridgetown
Kim has been a sculptor in Bridgetown since 1978, having mastered many materials, including cast lead crystal glass. His jewellery design is included in the National Gallery, Canberra, and State collections in WA and the NT. He has won multiple People's Choice Awards, including Bondi Sculptures by the Sea. Now, working with large-scale Concrete and cast Aluminium human forms.
Gemma Lawlor
Black Barn Studio
Bridgetown
Printmaking is at the heart of her work. Combining prints of plants and found objects; painterly and textured backgrounds, the artworks are semi realistic and largely based on Australian landscapes. The surrealist nature of the work allows for creativity and interpretation. There are strong design elements and a minimal colour pallet, referencing pindan cliffs, sandstone weathered rocks.
Tina Matthews
The Little Art Gallert
Boyup Brook
Tinas Art is inspired by the landscape, livestock and lifestyle of the Australian Outback. Repurposing and using old rustic tip finds to paint or create with is a favourite. Working primarily with oil on Canvas, Tina also loves photographing and painting wildflowers.
Maz Dreaver
The Salted Earth Studio
Donnybrook
Marilyn Dreaver a clay artist who specialises in woodfired salt glazed works that are unique and individual-no two pieces are the same.Her practice involves creating timeless works that radiate her love of clay by showcasing unique quirky pieces or functional ware to enjoy everyday
Thelma Cluning
STOPPING PLACE CAFE
Nannup
JUXTAPOSITION - The Fusion of Art & Food. Thelma’ Cluning’s BRAT25 exhibition at Stopping Place cafe, Nannup will present a cohesive and exciting range of works designed to grace walls in all settings.. Primarily a Textiles artist, Thelma also works across a wide range of 2D and 3D techniques, in order to fulfil her desire to create innovative and engaging artworks. A 'must see' visit for BRAT
Anneli Salo
Nannup Arts Gallery
Nannup
Natuer Funtastico – In her mixed media, nature based works, Anneli creates a reflection of life itself, inviting viewers to explore them from multiple angles to appreciate their complexity. She infuses her works with a sense of colour, texture and vitality to intrigue and encourage viewers to see things differently. If you’re a nester, you are going to love this!
Kim Gillespie
Saffron Moon by Kim Gillespie
Greenbushes
I am a professionally trained potter and have been making pottery for more than 30 years. My pottery reflects my love of traditional rounded forms and glazes. I create my own glazes, and I work with textured and iron-rich stoneware clays including wild clay dug from our property in North Greenbushes, making beautiful functional and ergonomic forms that people can use every day.
Joanna Hales-Pearce
Yarn n Co
Boyup Brook
It's all about the joy of colour, of creating something bright and happy that didn't exist before, and making people smile. From bright abstracts to tiny details, in a variety of mediums, no two pieces are ever the same. If it can be put on canvas or paper, Joanna seeks to make art that makes the world a more beautiful place.
Christine Latham
Things we Make
Bridgetown
Christine Latham is a professional Visual Story Teller of Yamatji/Caucasian descent. She begins most of her artworks with a visual recording/sketch on country where she experiences her initial, emotional response. This is also where she regains and learns indigenous culture, lost until the age of 35, due to The Stolen Generation.
Gary Smitherman
House of Dada
Donnybrook
Hi ,I don’t have much to sell but do have some interesting things to experience . It’s a concoction of Art and Entertainment also bits of Art history and Sci fi are thrown in .If you are passing , I welcome you to drop in for a sticky beak .Over the years I been Inspired by other people’s creations from around the world . It’s time for me to give a little back.
Nicholee Vitali
Balingup Art Gallery
Balingup
My art is colourful, textured, a little shiny, and comes from my heart, nature and my imagination. When I create, I am in another world. I love to use metallics, inks, pressed flowers, leather, string and materials. My works change depending on how the light catches them, as does life. May my paintings bring the viewer a little something, if just for a moment. An escape for you, as it is for me.
Nina Hoad-Pipkin
Nannup Arts Collective
Nannup
The art of fiber is a journey, each step a new chance for expression. With her spinning wheel Nina uses innovative spinning techniques, incorporating fibers and recycled yarn off cuts to create textures, weaving them into fabric for garments, and textiles.
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