Waste To Wear The Art Of Reinvention

Participants

Mya Wilson
Mya is a Wurundjeri artist, bringing her Aboriginal heritage to life through painting. She depicts her Indigenous culture by exploring bright pigmented colours, expressing her own artistic flare through the added exploration of textures in her paintings. She is meeting with local Indigenous Elders to support her visual language.

Stefan Farina
Stefan's paintings reflect his passion for sports and architecture, depicting cityscapes through refined brush strokes. He is always eager to learn new techniques in the studio, having the confidence to explore new methods of making, such as his technicolour style through the investigation of digital art.

Tara Scott
Tara explores a vast colour pallet through pattern-based pieces. She works primarily in painting, expressing her ideas and concepts with different painting techniques. Tara demonstrates her meditative practice through the interpretation of the natural world that inspires her. Inviting you to her visions of a cubic maze of petals seeming to encapsulate the smell of a flower, or a sunset stained landscape.

Julian Campomizzi
Julian depicts a wonderous sense of ethereal through surreal exploration of riffing colour, composition, and character creation. Julian explores a unique style through their own personal portrayal of abstracted work, still life and human form with magical inclinations leaping into fashion as expression. Julian is exploring Taro cards as a creative expression and has started making wearable art pieces including these magical diverse characters they have created.

Jarrod Wendt
Jarrod explores art forms such as embroidered aprons with machine motifs, paintings of wild and domesticated animals, and makes jewellery from recycled paintings. His work demonstrates such skills that he can capture incredible likeness to your pet in a portrait or personify your car in a landscape!

Henry Deakin
Henry is a painter who explores an Australian themed subject matter, portraying native flora and fauna through stylized imagery. His use of humour is demonstrated through the use bright colours, bold outlines, and googly eyes, bringing many of his adored Australian animals to life. He is currently creating a children’s Alphabet book featuring a menagerie of native animals.

Shelby Gardner
Shelby has a strong eye for detail, working in painting and soft furnishings. She loves to try new techniques through the exploration of bright colours in sparkling repetition and ripples.

Tara Wood
Tara's has an interest in bright colours and geometry. Her paintings feature dynamic colour combinations and layered pattern. She works in a methodical and often meditative way creating striking colourful patterns on the page.

Lisa Hine
Lisa is a multidisciplined artist who focuses on painting and different sewing techniques in floral meanderings. She shows a passion for the natural landscape, through her portrayal of different garden scenes, inspired by the Old Masters. Her work includes textiles to adorn that speak a language of pattern enveloped in colours.

Miranda Millane
Miranda’s unique style explores the repetition of colourful shapes, capturing a variety of flowers, confectionary, and geometric forms. She dedicates her time investigating flat colours, enveloped within thick outlines, portraying everyday objects into colourful delights. Miranda has an affinity with Frieda Karlo, Henrie Matisse and Yayoi Kusama.

Kitty Yiu
Kitty cleverly captures dreamlike imagery through detailed illustrative techniques. She uses bright colours and fine line patterns to convey her ideas of human form and plant matter, exploring different drawing and painting. Kitty captures dreamlike imagery through detailed illustrative techniques. She uses bright colours and fine line patterns to convey her ideas of human form and plant matter, exploring different drawing and painting methods. Kitty has a wild sewing method using recycled patterned cloths which she brings details to life in floral explosions to then be created into something magical.

Sammy-Jo Matta
Sammi-Jo is a multi-disciplinary artist that works with soft sculpture and painting. She creates her ‘dollies’ that are 3 dimensional sculptures using fabric and paint. Her work reflects her unique imagination and sense of fun and play.

Sarah Gibson
Sarah is a multidisciplined artist who is eager to always try new techniques. She shows bravery in the studio environment, with her ability to explore new methods of making. She expresses her talent through various mediums such as painting, collage, and digital artwork. Sarah is enthusiastic about forests and trees in particular and looks for opportunities to celebrate the wonder she sees and depicts with a sophisticated understanding of colour.

Jordan Dyke
Using different painting techniques, Jordan conveys symbolic meaning through conceptual ideas. He focuses on animals and human form. His work seems to spring from a Sci Fi movie making us question our perceptions. Jordan explores detailed mark making with portraiture and ceramics and has a new nature inspired colouring book.

Tiffany McBroom
Through painting Tiffany creates playful aesthetics, exploring a range of subject matters which include animals, flowers, and abstract colour. She channels her bubbly persona into her art, creating canvases in bright and soft hues which make viewers feel a sense of joy that wafts into the spaces they inhabit.

Ashley Sergakis
Ashlea works primarily in painting, showing great attention to detail. She enjoys painting still life and can move from distinctive styles from geometric interpretations of the everyday to an obsession with line. She also explores embroidery and is drawn to its mediative qualities and the adventure of the line.

Fiona Lerk
Fiona’s art of embroidery and painting includes majestic colourful creatures and emotive portraits in dark moody hues, often with a haunting gaze of a female subject that dares to look out.

Mimi Varasdi
Is an emerging artist who has an emotive delicate style focusing on themes with a nature and love inspired vision. She is exploring different styles and is always eager to experiment with dissimilar materials and techniques in the studio.

Facilitated by art studio supervisors Gordon Hayward and Lily Platts

QArt Gallery and Studio by Endeavour Foundation is an innovative and forward thinking organisation, who provide a supportive environment for artists. The studio works with artists of all abilities, providing them with the resources and support they need to create and showcase their work. Building a sense of community and fostering a culture of kindness and compassion.