Isabelle Devos

Isabelle Devos

BIO

Isabelle Devos is a contemporary painter whose landscape paintings capture a quiet yet strong sense of place and mood. 

The paintings explore scenes where people have shaped the landscape and a story is waiting to unfold.

 “I simplify what I see to its essence of form, light and colour, creating a glimpse into a hidden story that exists beneath a serene surface.”

CONTACT 

Mobile: 0427 758 229
Email: isabelledevosart@gmail.com
Website: www.isabelledevos.com.au 
Instagram: @isabelledevosart
Facebook: Isabelle Devos Art

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CV

Solo Exhibitions

2022   ‘While Standing In One Place’ ARO Gallery, Frances Keevil, Sydney NSW

2019   ‘An Uncertain Stillness’, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney NSW

2017   ‘A Distant Summer’, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney NSW

2016   ‘Where the Road May Take You’, Gallery 126, Armidale NSW

2016   ‘Townscapes’, Weswal Gallery, Tamworth NSW

2015   ‘The Wait for Evening’, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney NSW

2013   ‘Calm Before the Storm', New England Regional Art Museum, NSW

2011    ‘From There to Here, Gallery 126, Armidale NSW

2008   'On A Clear Day’, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale NSW

2006   ‘A Sense of Quiet', Gallery 126, Armidale NSW

2003   ‘Insecurities Project', Struts Gallery, Sackville NB Canada

1997   ‘New Paintings, Gallery 96, Stratford ON Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 ‘Through the Eyes of Strangers’, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW

2022 ‘Reflections’, Frances Keevil, Sydney NSW

2022 ‘Through Our Eyes’ Incinerator Art Space, Sydney NSW

2022 ‘Artists to Watch’, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane QLD

2020 ‘The New England Landscape, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW

2020 ‘The Panorama Project’, sketch book project touring regional libraries. Curated by Arts North West NSW

2019 ‘Everything is Gonna Be Fine’, Art Bank Collection, NB Canada

2016 ‘The Mother Art is Architecture’, Frances Keevil, Sydney NSW

2013 ‘Ode to Olley’, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale NSW

2016 ‘The Drawing Project', Gallery 126, Armidale NSW

2009 ‘A New England View’, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW

Prizes

2023 Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Finalist

2023 Glover Landscape Art Prize, Finalist

2022 Paddington Art Prize, Finalist

2021 Lethbridge 20000 Art Prize, Finalist, Highly Commended

2014 Calleen Art Award, Finalist

2012 Norvill Art Prize, Finalist, High Commended

2010 Armidale Art Prize, Winner, Still Life Award

2011, Country Energy $35,000 Landscape Art Prize, Finalist

2009 Country Energy $35,000 Landscape Art Prize Finalist

2009 Warwick Art Prize, Finalist, Highly Commended

2009 Tattersalls QLD Art Prize, Finalist

2008 Norvill Art Prize, Finalist, Winner, Unpacker Prize

2008 Stanthorpe Art Prize, Finalist

2007 Muswellbrook Art Prize, Finalist, Highly Commended

2006 Australian Artist Magazine Landscape Art Prize

2005 Country Energy $35,000 Landscape Art Prize, Finalist, Highly Commended

Education, Residencies, Public Commissions, Grants and Awards

2021 Artist Residency with David Keeling, Tasmania -1 week

2020 Gunyah Artist Residency, with writer Helena Pastor, NSW- 2 weeks

2020 Helen Dangar Memorial Art Bursary, New England Regional Art Museum

2020 Artist Grant, Arts North West, NSW

2018 Commission: Boilerhouse painting, University of New England, NSW

2016 Putting the Pieces Together, workshop artist, Arts North West, NSW

2009-22 National Association of Visual Arts, member artist

2003 Artist Grant, Canada Council for the Arts: Insecurities Project, Canada and Artist Grant from New Brunswick Arts

1998 Artist Grant, Canada Council for the Arts: Landed Immigrant Seeks Landscape, and Artist Grant from New Brunswick Arts

1991 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Mount Allison University, Canada

Publications & Media

2012 poster design for Sydney Theatre Company, ‘In A Heartbeat’

2011 Artist Profile, FOCUS magazine, July issue, New England NSW

2010 ‘Kangaroo: Portrait of an Extraordinary Marsupial, by Jackson and Vernes, publisher Allen+Unwin, multiple chapter illustrations

2006 Geist Magazine, issue 58, ‘Findings: The Insecurities Project’

2003 CNN Interview, ‘The New Insecurity’, National News

2002 BBC International Radio, ‘The World’: The Insecurities Project

2002 New York Times, newspaper, ‘Airport Security and Art’

2002 Vogue, (Italian) Five Female Conceptual Artists - Insecurities Project

1998 Arts Atlantic Magazine, ‘A Performance in Three Stories’, Performance Art

Public Collections

State Library of NSW, Sydney NSW (2021)

University of New England, Armidale NSW (2018)

Galerie d’Art Université de Moncton, Canada (2004)

Art Bank Collection, NB, Canada (2002)

Anchorage Press, Jolicure NB Canada (1998)

Lucy Munro

Lucy Munro

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Writer, weaver, designer, digital media creator

ARTIST STATEMENT

Lucy Munro lives amongst the poplars and the pear trees in the rural highlands of Northern NSW; a pen in hand, and a cowboy and sausage dog by her side. She is deeply affected by the patterns, colours and changing faces of the landscape across the seasons, and her office is in a hilltop paddock with the cows. Lucy has an Honours in Graphic and Textile Design from UNSW and is currently studying a masters of writing.

BIO

Lucy graduated with Honours in Design (Graphics and Textiles) from UNSW in 2018, specialising in pattern creation and fibre weaving. She spent six months studying at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India during this time, and was exposed to the incredible world of colour and pattern that exists there. Her rug and fabric designs were selected by Master block printer, Sufiyan Khatri to be commissioned and printed at his studio in Bhuj. Lucy also interned with fibre artist Harriet Goodall in Robertson, learning intricate weaving techniques. Lucy worked at the online publication The Planthunter from 2017-2020, editing, creating digital content and penning essays, interviews and feature articles about the complexity of interactions between plants and people. In this role, she interviewed some of the best garden designers, creatives and thinkers from across Australia and the world, including Kate Cullity, Juan Grimm, Carolyn Robinson, Charles Massey, Lalage Snow and Alice Fox. She has also spoken on Radio National with David Astle and Casey Bennetto about some of these works. Lucy’s writing has appeared in Belle Magazine, The Planthunter, Smith Journal, New England Magazine, Art:Place exhibition, and most recently, amongst garden writer and historian Trisha Dixon’s book Spirit of the Garden, published by the National Library of Australia. Lucy is currently completing her Masters in Art (Writing) from the University of New England.

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CONTACT

lcmunro@gmail.com

Adele Chapman-Burgess

Adele Chapman-Burgess

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Visual arts

To provide an awareness and interest to revive traditional values and cultural practices through workshops

ARTIST STATEMENT

I have always had an interest in art and I have been painting on and off all my life. My paintings are about my many journeys and the many hats I wear – it is my spiritual strength and learning more about my family connections to the places, we visit. My spirit has grown stronger and wiser over time (55 plus years) as I continue to gain more knowledge of my Aboriginal cultural heritage.

‘Connection to country is inherent, we are born to it, it is how we identify ourselves, and it is our family, our laws/lore, and our legacy’ …My art/weaving takes on many forms. I bring a modern expression to an ancient custom. Despite significant change and diversity, art retains an underlying unity of inspiration—the land and the peoples’ relationships with it. It is simultaneously connected to the past whilst engaged with the present. My art/weaving is engaging with the world through actions which are lively, positive, political, social and creative. I love the way tasks overlap with memories. I enjoy painting and weaving for healing, to feel good and to connect to my unique Aboriginal culture. My paintings and weaves are merely a new form incorporating the classic elements of Aboriginal Life. They state a person's relationship to those around them, to the land and to the Dreaming. They also represent a new context of interaction between Aboriginal and western societies – as a First Nation artist I need to be able to ‘walk in two worlds’, I need to be two ways strong, strong in traditional culture and strong in the new ways – contemporary ways.

Through modern art and the knowledge holder of cultural practices of weaving I am able to introduce and pass on my culture to my community and the world beyond. I am an artist who loves to use contemporary colours in my artworks and weaving. I love to share my cultural practices with friends and family it keeps my spirit strong to see the joy my art/weaving brings to them. I use a wide range of modern materials and techniques to create contemporary works of art. My inspiration comes from creation, the old people, the inner spirit, my family connections, my life journey and what makes me happy.

BIO

A proud Ngarrabul/Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay/Kooma yinaar from the New England area of NSW with 30 years in Aboriginal Education

EDUCATION

• Masters in Indigenous Language Education (MILE) University of Sydney • University of Sydney B.A.(Hons). Dip. Ed • University of Sydney. Assoc Dip (Early Child Care Studies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Creative Practice

• Partner in Quindalup Aboriginal Art and Photograph • Aboriginal Creative Workshops for schools and communities

Teaching

Current

• TAFE NSW Department of Education and Training – Glen Innes/Inverell

Aboriginal arts and Cultural Practices, Aboriginal Family & Kinship, Aboriginal Cultural Values, Aboriginal Art, History 1, Aboriginal Art History 2

Previous

• TAFE NSW Department of Education and Training - Aboriginal Health and Education • Emmaville Central School • Glen Innes High School • Glen Innes Public School • St. Josephs Convent School - Aboriginal Educational Aide (4 year)

EXHIBITIONS

Group Exhibitions

2018
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale Myall Creek and Beyond

Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place, Armidale Bulaar Yinaa’s Gimabi-li -Two Women to Make

2017
Inverell Art Gallery NAIDOC exhibition Our Languages Matter

Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place, Armidale For the Love of Culture and Country

Inland Café, Tamworth Ngaya-gal Gimubi-Li -Our Mob Creates

2016
Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place, Armidale Making Old Markings New

Art on the Corner, Glen Innes Recognition

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS AND WORKSHOPS

2019
Artmaking and stallholder Lift Off! Festival of the Wind, Glen Innes

2015
Glen Innes Town Mural – working with students from the Glen Innes High School

COMMISSIONS

• Glen Innes Lands Services • Armidale Police Department • Inverell Child Care • Glen Innes Aussie Kindies • Glen Innes High School

CONTACT

0412 923 500

Robyn Sim

Robyn Sim

CREATIVE PRACTICE

I classify myself as an 'emerging artist' who does commission work with Zentangles. I also dabble in photograph, pottery, watercolour an art in general

ARTIST STATEMENT

I have often dabbled in artistic practise with little or no training but as I grow older I am finding many different media to pay with. I have become enamoured of 'Zentangling' over the last two years and have been selling may pieces on line and at local markets, and taking on commission work in this style. I am currently taking courses in pottery and artist practice and have completed a digital photography course.

BIO

I have participated in two exhibitions - the Glen Innes Art Galley Christmas exhibition (2020) and the CWA Guyra Evening Group Exhibition (2021). I have entered my photography at the local show, earning 1st, 2nd and high commendation award. I have completed a hand building pottery class for beginners with Max Powell (2021) and am currently studying wit Tanya Robertson-Cunninghame, who is conducting an ongoing art course covering all the basic. I completed a digital photography course with Steve Wright at the Glen Innes TAFE (2015)

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CONTACT

sim-004@hotmail.com
0467 586 319

Sarah Fletcher

Sarah Fletcher

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Pencil on paper, black and white and colour drawings.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Sarah is a relative newcomer to the art world, but has always had a love of creativity, leaving school to study Graphic Design, during which she realised she had a passion for drawing, particularly portraiture and what could be achieved with the simplicity of pencil on paper. Her early works won awards, and caught the eye of Lloyd Hornsby, curator and owner of Gawura Gallery to encourage her to develop her art practice. In a short period of time, Sarah’s work is in high demand, being one of the sought-after artists at Gawura Gallery.

Sarah’s work is influenced by the Rural New England Region, having grown up on the family farm in Glen Innes. With a medium of pencil, and a focus on realism and attention to detail, she has a goal for each artwork to capture the character, emotion and story behind the subject. Beginning primarily in black and white, she has begun exploring colour and how that can add depth in bringing an artwork to life.

BIO

Certificate III Graphic Design 2015. WINNER GLEN ARCHIES 2017; CHAMPION ARTWORK GLEN INNES SHOW 2017, 2018 & 2019; FINALIST HORNSBY ART PRIZE 2018; FINALIST ROYAL EASTER SHOW 2018 and 2019; SECOND PRIZE GLEN INNES SHOW 2020; Acquisitions Gawura Gallery; Art Sales Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Europe, England. Exhibitions Glen Innes Art Gallery 2017, 2018 and 2019; Gawura Gallery 2018, 2019 and 2020; Hornsby Art Prize 2018; Sydney Royal Easter Show 2018 and 2019;
Ongoing Exhibit Gawura Gallery 2020-21

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CONTACT

Enquiries via Gawura Gallery
info@gawuragallery.com
www.gawuragallery.com

Lloyd Hornsby

Lloyd Hornsby

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Aboriginal Artist (Yuin man from Wallaga Lake)

ARTIST STATEMENT

Lloyd Gawura Hornsby (b.1947) Koori, descendent of the NSW Aboriginal Yuin People. His passion and talent for art manifested in childhood and developed while in his adolescence. In fact he wooed his childhood sweetheart Wendy (now his wife of 53 years) with gifts of paintings and carvings. Lloyd never paints on location; he uses knowledge and observation as a basis for finished paintings. His artwork comes together using the traditional dot technique used widely by the northern Indigenous artists. Lloyd’s strong knowledge base of sketching and drawing are evident in the detail with his bold use of colour to finish the experience. At the age of 73 my learning is continuing today through the discovery of Aboriginal culture and life. Through the passing down of stories, our history and life experiences, all are adding to the richness of my understanding. This knowledge is the basis to all of my artworks.

BIO

Bachelor of Australian Indigenous Contemporary Art – Griffith University 2009; Diploma Commercial Art – Queensland College of Art 1963; Diploma in Management TAFE 1983; Cert 1V Workplace Trainer and Assessor Brisbane TAFE 2010; Practicing Professional Artist – 2005 to current 2008 Part of the team that did a 11mt x 7mt instillation outside the State Library, Brisbane; 2009 completed a Bachelor of Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art at Griffith University; 2015 Wrote an art therapy program for Aboriginal prisoners in Arthur Gorrie and Woodford; 2016 Australia Day Award for Art and Culture; 2017 Built our own Art Gallery – Gawura Gallery in Glen Innes; 2020 Invited to exhibit at the Biennale in Europe/Cannes Film Festival; 2020 Artwork chosen for the United Nations report on the treatment of Aboriginals in Australia; Raised $250,000 through art programs for research into Indigenous Heart programs (closing the gap) for the Heart Foundation; 2021- Have been invited to exhibit artworks in four major galleries across Europe. Solo Exhibitions: 2007 Queensland State Library; Cooroy Butter Factory – 2006 collection; Pine Rivers Regional Gallery – My Stories; 2008 Gawura and Friends – Graydon Gallery; Queensland State Library; 2009 Brisbane Convention Centre; Queensland State Library Road Show through Regional Queensland; Armidale Regional Gallery; 2010 Armidale Regional Gallery – 5 Masters Exhibition; Redcliffe Regional Gallery; Strathpine Regional Gallery; 2011 Townsville Cultural Centre; 2012 Stanthorpe Regional Gallery; 2013 Kempsey Indigenous Gallery; 2014 The HUB Caboolture; 2014 Pine Rivers Art Gallery; 2014 Stanthorpe Regional Gallery; 2015 The Coalface Gallery Moranbah; 2015 Armidale Keeping Place and Art Gallery; 2016 Graydon Gallery New Farm; 2016 The Coalface Gallery Moranbah

CONTACT

info@gawuragallery.com
0403 383 080

Tanya Robertson Cunninghame

Tanya Robertson Cunninghame

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Artist, Teacher, Drawing, Oil and Watercolour.

My themes are based on time, place & experience. I am environmentally inspired. My latest exhibition based on Water and Light was an escape from endless drought and fire. Painting for me is a problem solving, I have done it all my life, it is my safe place. Creativity is like capturing water in your hand, the more you try to contain it, the more it slips away. Creativity needs to be honest, don't pretend it is something that it is not.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Visual Arts has been a constant throughout my life. I commenced teaching Visual Arts in my early twenties, which hastened my own steep learning curve in gaining the necessary experience & qualifications. Creating art is about problem solving & that is the ongoing challenge.

BIO

Graduate Diploma in Education UNE Armidale 2007; Cert IV assessment and Workplace Training 2006; Dip of Arts Tamworth TAFE 1994; Art Cert Course East Sydney Technical College 1980-1981;

CONTACT

wattlebend@skymesh.com.au
0413 212 979