MEGAN REDFERN

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Performance poet. A member of the performance trio, the Bodgie Bards. A member of the winning Queensland Poetry State of Origin team, Troppo Verso. Two published works - Tales my mother never told me and Performing Bare. Published in a variety of magazines.

Editor of poetry from Boggo Road prison - In the Vegetable Garden but Don't Look Under the Cabbage - and from sexual abuse survivors from Toowoomba and the Darling Downs - The Secret is Out. Writing coordinator for Carer's Australia - Stories from the Heart - carer's writing project (2008).

Winner of a Qld government grant to produce a one woman show 1996.

Currently a presenter on community radio 2CBD.

CONTACT 

Mobile: 0409 100 956
Email: megan.redfern@yahoo.com

Anne Bell/Anne Knight

Anne Bell (writer/poetry); Anne Knight (visual arts)

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Writing, poetry and visual arts.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Anne suspects that both writing and visual arts are a compulsive form of communication (even if she is only talking to herself!). She prefers to portray wonders rather than woes in both mediums, and values the remarkable wonder of individuality. "I went mushrooming over the hill on a morning clear as thrushes' song. I brought my bucket back empty, but my five senses were filled to the brim by the overflowing day."

Anne Bell: Has published various journals and some 30 anthologies. She began writing for The School Magazine (Department of Education) when her own children where young, and has happily continued. She has twice won the Henry Lawson Award and her book "Muster me a Song" was short-listed for the Premier's Prize and a CBA Notable Book. Commissions include "Corrugations", a poem for an artist's book with lino-cuts by Kate Clemson (UK) - with a copy in the National Library, Canberra, and libraries elsewhere. Anne Knight: Has exhibited widely throughout the north and northwest of NSW and elsewhere, including mixed exhibitions, group and two-person exhibitions with Pat Rowley. Her solo exhibitions have included exhibitions at Crisp Galleries (Yass). She has work in Artbank, Gunnedah, Somerset (UK) and various private collections, including a commission for Grace Brothers. She has conducted various workshops and tech classes and worked with Katie Clemson in the UK and Pat Rowley at Gunnedah. Her awards include Best in Show at Frost Over Barraba, the North-West Art Prize and Works on Paper, Narrabri. She is eternally grateful to Enid Dickson and Joy Ewart, inspired teachers during her school years.

CONTACT

bellknight@westnet.com
6742 1693

Lizzie Horne

Lizzie Horne

CREATIVE PRACTICE

printmaker, teacher, poet, children's writer, journalist, speechwriter and copywriter

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am inspired by what I see around me, my family and the simple beauty of nature and the landscape. I am also interested in exploring complex ideas about what it means to be human, our relationships with each other and the natural world. This can take my work in weird and wonderful directions, sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing!

I am constantly seeking to refine and expand my practice with new techniques, mediums and ideas. Experimentation, chance and accidents play a significant role in this process of refinement, whereby any mistake that is repeatable can become a technique – if I understand how I did it I can use it again on purpose.

One way that I approach making is working en plein air in front of whatever subject I am drawing, making marks on a metal plate right there within the natural environment. I love the immediacy of these marks, which convey energy and mood rather than realistic accuracy. My series of Point Lookout landscapes entitled “The Edge (Wright country, New England National Park)” are an example of this creative process.

My studio practice is more deliberate, often involving research and repetition to allow me to develop ideas more deeply. I am currently expanding on the work begun for my solo show at the New England Regional Art Gallery in 2020, The Uncivilised Garden. The key motif is the santos cage doll, of the type used since Medieval times in religious parades and ceremonies. For me these dolls reflect the dark side of our society, the consequences of corruption, greed and apathy. “Crime scene” and “Rose” are examples of these ideas in my work.

BIO

Predominantly a printmaker working in intaglio and relief, Lizzie Horne was born in Tasmania and currently lives in the NSW university town of Armidale.

She held her first major solo show The uncivilized garden at the New England Regional Art Museum in February/March 2020, and has recently participated in her first international exhibition at the Athens Printmaking Centre in Greece.

She has exhibited her work in group exhibitions at galleries in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, including Carriageworks, Sydney, NERAM, the Brisbane Institute of Art, the Tanks Art Centre, Cairns and the Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop.

She has been shortlisted for the 2020 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Award, 2019 Peeble’s Print Prize, the 2018 Stanthorpe Art Prize, and has had works selected for Inkmasters Print Exhibitions in 2018 and 2016. She has also been short-listed for the Milburn Art Prize and has won the portrait section of the Armidale Art Prize. In 2017 she was the inaugural winner of the Helen Dangar Memorial Art Bursary administered by NERAM.

Lizzie teaches sessional printmaking at the Museum of Printing at NERAM, as well as running workshops in her fully-equipped home studio.

She is also a published children’s writer and author of Kangaroos in my blood and other poems (Douglas & Brown 2017) and holds a Bachelor of Languages.

EXHIBITIONS
Black Gully Printmakers, Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW
Swan Hill Print & Drawing Prize, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Herbarium, Athens Printmaking Centre, Greece
The Uncivilised Garden (solo), New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
Wonderment Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop, Victoria
2019 Peeble’s Print Prize, Queescliff Gallery & Workshop, Victoria
This Country (solo), Anna & Co Gallery, Uralla
New England Print Prize, Armidale Art Gallery
Between the lines, Black Gully Printmakers inspired by Judith Wright, NERAM
Material Thinking, NERAM, Armidale
2018 Sydney Contemporary Paper, Carriageworks, Sydney
Inkmasters 2018 Exhibition Tanks Art Centre, Cairns
2018 Stanthorpe Art Prize Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Birds The Uralla Print Gallery
Artists’ books & bookplates The Uralla Print Gallery
Stereotypes Black Gully Printmakers at the Museum of Printing
Kangaroos in my blood New England Regional Art Museum
Luminous Land Black Gully printmakers at the Museum of Printing
Blossoms The Uralla Print Gallery
Inkmasters 2016 Print Exhibition Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns
Black & white The Uralla Print Gallery
If you go into the woods New England Regional Art Museum
Go Figure! Armidale Art Gallery, Armidale
Impressions 8 Impress Printmakers GalleryKedron subARTstation, Brisbane
Milburn Art Prize Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane
Flowers Wild (solo) Chaucer on Bridge St Gallery, Uralla
10 Printmakers Gallery 126, Armidale

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CONTACT

lizziehornecreative@icloud.com
0487 184 059

Karrin Thurston

Karrin Thurston

CREATIVE PRACTICE

artist, muralist, potter and poet

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am an artist, muralist, potter, poet and gardener. I use many different media – raffia, natural fibres/textiles in my weaving; acrylics, ink, watercolour and sand in my painting, and earthenware clay in my potting. Art is the expression of my soul and speaks to my relationship to the land, to the earth, to Country, and all that is creation.

I look to Nature for my inspiration and want to promote sustainability and the importance of the environment. I put so much of myself into whatever I am making that it never turns out the same as the mood and inspiration changes with my spirit, just as the seasons and nature evolve every day.

When in Lightning Ridge I was very fortunate to have had Aunty Rose and Aunty June to guide my art development. They helped me to reconnect to our Land and my stories through my art. I was born off Country and had never been given a totem, Aunty Rose gave me hers. I am Dhulii the sand goanna.

ARTIST BIO

Karrin Thurston is a proud Kamilaroi woman and lives in Upper Horton NSW. Interested in art from an early age, she has completed Certificates in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts and Culture, and in Tourism at TAFE. She was the Regional Indigenous Cultural Development Officer for Outback Arts at Lightning Ridge for six years, and also art coordinator for Murdipaaki Regional Enterprise CDEP.

Karrin works in many media – weaving, pottery and painting. She is an artist, muralist, potter and poet. She is heavily influenced by nature and by Country. Her work is spontaneous, the expression of her soul and communicates her relationship and bond to the land and to the earth. It speaks to sustainability and to environmental issues.

She has exhibited widely in both solo and group shows, including Inverell Art Gallery, Gosford Art Gallery and Queen Street Woollahra. She has mural commissions in Mendooran, Cowra, Walgett, Collarenebri and Lightning Ridge. Karrin was invited and attended the worldwide mural conference in Chemainus BC in 1998. She designed the Warrambool Dreaming Weavings which were part of the String Theory Exhibition at the MCA in 2013.

Karin is the President of the Barraba Potters and Craft Guild which runs the Fuller Gallery and Claypan. Her Thorungulla studio is nestled in the Nandawar Ranges near Blue Nobby mountain.

RECOGNITION

EDUCATION/TRAINING
2008 - Completed Certs 1,2,3 of Aboriginal and Torres-straight Islander Art and Culture
2010 - Completed NSI TAFE Cert 1 in Aboriginal Tourism and Aboriginal Tour Guide with National Parks and Wildlife NSW
2013 - Completed TAE cert 4

MURALS/COMMISSIONS
1995 to 2005 – Painted murals throughout Castlereagh Country Stores – Mendooran
2000 – Painted two murals on the Royal Hotel Mendooran
2001 – Painted history of tennis on Tennis court – Mendooran
2001 – Coordinated the painting history of Sport in Cowra on Cowra Water treatment works (105m)
2007- Coordinated – Murals Outwest – murals in Walgett, Collarenebri and Lightning ridge
2010 –Painted 18m history of lightning ridge
2011 – Painted “underground mining” at Big Opal Lightning Ridge
2010 to 2015 – Painted mural throughout our home at Lightning Ridge – (green door road)
2015 – Painted “riding for our Lives “ at Rochester Mural Fest -Vic

EXHIBITIONS
2020 Inverell Art Prize, Inverell
2019 - 2020 Gallery on Gwydir, Bingara
2017 - 2020 Fuller Gallery/claypan, Barraba
2018 - 2019 Frost over Barraba exhibition, Barraba
2017 Wild Women of Arkaroola exhibition, Orange
2016 Playhouse Hotel, Barraba
2015 Queen street Gallery, Woollahra
2014 Winton Art exhibition (selected as a finalist)
2014 “I love a sunburnt country”, Winton
2014 Art Show, Mungindi
2013 MCA String Theory Exhibition Warrambool Dreaming Weavings
2012 Where is the art
2010 Art unlimited
2010 Orana health art comp
2008 - 2012 Naidoc art exhibitions , Lightening Ridge
2011 Sand Mud and colour – solo exhibit, Lightening Ridge
2010 - Two Rivers exhibition Gosford Art Gallery
2010 - 2014 Coonamble Archies

AWARDS
2001 – Winner of Telstra women in Business – owner business section for NSW
2002 – Australian Centenary Medal for business leadership

CONTACT

thorungulla@bigpond.com
0478 411 914