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 Banksia serata near Crystal Creek, 2008 by Peter Solness |
Photographic artworks generously donated by the following photographic artists ~ Anthony Amos Hayley Anderson Anthony Browell Catherine Cloran Sandy Edwards Bonita Ely Cassie French Chris Gleisner Luke Hardly Mayu Kanamori Ian Lever Julie Martin Belinda Mason Rob Scott Mitchell Ben Ali Ong Zorica Purlija Bronwyn Rennex Moshe Rosenzveig Lisa Sharkey Peter Solness Some of the photographic art for auction viewable here |
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Dominica Matthews |
Dominica Matthews completed her Postgraduate Diploma in Performance with Distinction at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2004 and a Diploma of Opera, on scholarship, at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2002. She currently studies singing with Caroline Crawshaw. Dominica has achieved great success in competitions in both the UK and Australia. Awards won include the 2005 Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Award (RNCM), the 2005 Brigitte Fassbaender Lieder Prize (RNCM), the Robin Kay Memorial Opera Prize (RNCM), the 2005 Clonter Opera Audience Prize and Runner-Up Award, the 2002 Nina Barden Memorial Scholarship, the 2001 2MBS-FM Young Performer of the Year and the 1997 Joan Sutherland Society Scholarship winner. She was also an Ian Potter Foundation Grant recipient in 2003-2004. In 2006, Dominica returned to Australia to become a Young Artist with Opera Australia - there, she appeared as Third Lady in The Magic Flute, Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto and Edith in The Pirates of Penzance. Her association with the national company continues in 2007 when she will sing Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann, Flora in La Traviata and Eunice Hubble in A Streetcar Named Desire. |
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Jeanne Bastos |
Jeanne Bastos is a passionate Brazilian singer. Her repertoire includes familiar songs from the gentle bossa nova to the fever of samba! | |
| Emanuel Lieberfreund | Emanuel Lieberfreund studied jazz and classical flute at the NSW Conservatorium.
He now plays flutes, saxophone and percussion in a wide variety of styles,
and performs poetry over music, sings, and even dances when the spirit
moves him - all to share the joy of music by any means possible. Emanuel
has a jazz / funk / world band called Flight and plays with other bands. Emanuel plays regularly at Sydney Northern Beaches restaurants: with Flight at Out of Africa and the Artichoke; with Manuela Frehlau (folk and jazz, ex James Morrison Band) at the Manly Pier and Whale Beach Restaurants; and with the Feel Rhythm Band (African percussion) at Sea la Vie. He also enjoys playing for film, dance and theatre, such as when he composed and performed the music for a production of Hamlet at the Seymour Centre. |
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| Andrew Shapiro | Andrew Shapiro is Managing Director of Shapiro Auctioneers Australia. His career in the auction industry spans 30 years, from bases in New York, London and Sydney. In 1984, Mr Shapiro joined Phillips New York, where he established his reputation as a leading specialist in 19th and 20th Century Fine and Decorative Arts and became a senior vice-president. In 1990 he arrived in Australia and introduced auction sales for Phillips Australia. Mr Shapiro was profiled in the international publication, Art and Auction (Nov 2000) as the progressive leader in the Australian auction industry. |
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| Photographers Info and links | ||
| Anthony Amos | Anthony Amos, a Sydney-based abstract photographer who has spent much of his career in New York city, marked his transformation from a successful editorial photographer of portraits, interiors and still life to an artist constructing hand-made images from large-format film with his first solo show, Redemption, at the Erickson-Davis Gallery in the USA in 2004. "Until a few years ago, I always looked at my photographs as pages," Amos says. "I suddenly felt the overwhelming need to move beyond the figure and express something that would be hung up. It came about from a frustration at the temporary nature of everything I produced for work. I wanted to make something closer to music that you could meditate on." |
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| Hayley Anderson | Her main interest is travel photography, with her lifelong passion for
new places and experiences preceding her career as a photographer. Hayley
started taking photography seriously several years ago when she was thrust
into the tour leader's position on a working trip in Yemen. The 'leader'
fell off a vehicle leaving Hayley with a group of 10 people, 2 Libyan drivers
and an old SLR Pentax camera. Hayley also worked in New Zealand, South
Africa, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Andorra, France, Greece, Turkey and the
UK before settling in Australia. As well as travel photography, Hayley has had many years experience photographing people with disabilities for different organisations - winning national awards for the International Year of People with Disabilities competitions in Australia. Her photos have been used for front covers of annual reports, large billboard advertising, posters and promotional materials. |
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| Anthony Browell |
"In these digital times, when photographers are techno-wizards, photographs
are files and Photoshop is as vital as film used to be, Anthony Browell
deliberately runs against the tide. |
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| Catherine Cloran |
Catherine Cloran is a Sydney-born artist who, having lived on the edge of the National Park in the Blue Mountains, NSW for many years, re-located to Hong Kong in 2003. This disjuncture drives her current art practice, which utilises digital photography to deal with themes of nature and urban culture. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Western Sydney and graduated
from Monash University with a Master of Visual Arts. She had two solo exhibitions
in Hong Kong and returned to Sydney in mid-2007. This year she had a solo
exhibition in Sydney in conjunction with Arthere |
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| Sandy Edwards | Sandy Edwards is one of Australia's leading documentary photographers. Her images have been widely exhibited and published. Her work focuses on the portrayal of women and Aboriginal issues. Her best known work Paradise is a Place is an evocative black and white series about a young girl's growth to adulthood set on the far south coast of NSW. This highly successful exhibition has been published by Random House with an accompanying story by Gillian Mears. Her series Welcome to Brewarrina, is an intimate portrait of the Aboriginal community in the NSW country town of Brewarrina. Her work is held in collections at the Art Gallery of NSW, Parliament House Canberra and the National Gallery of Australia. Sandy Edwards is also the curator of two major photographic public art programs - Sydney Airport 2000 Art Project with Linda Slutzkin, and Sydney Looking Forward, part of AMP and Sydney City Council's project Art & About. |
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| Bonita Ely |
Bonita's current work, The Murray's Edge: a River in Drought, is a series
of photographs of the Murray River documented from the headwaters in the
Mount Kosciusko National Park to the Coorong in South Australia. The narrative
sequence refers back to earlier works creating a comparative study of the
Murray River from 70s and 80s to the present. |
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| Cassie French | "I have had a number of successful exhibitions of my own. I have organised many exhibitions for other photographers and operated my own gallery in Paddington for many years. I love photographing people and am happy to photograph on location." "The Workers" - Portraits of the workers 'behind the scenes' at St. Vincent's Hospital. - January 2008 This project, photographing the workers of St. Vincent's Hospital, was inspired by one particular storeman, Gary 'Ginger' McLean. When I was taking down my previous exhibition in Xavier space I was chatting with 'Ginge' as he was walking by with another trolley full of 'stores'. I realised, no department could operate if their supplies were not delivered from the docks; everyone likes clean bathrooms, and the staff and patients need to eat. So, the idea of capturing this vibrant workforce, 'behind the scenes', so to speak, was born. |
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| Chris Gliesner | I'm a Sydney-based photographer and teacher. I am passionate about documentary, portraiture and landscape photography! | |
| Luke Hardy | Luke Hardy is a Sydney-born photographer who has lived and worked in Asia. Hardy's photography practice grew out of a more documentary discipline. His work of late has tended to grapple more with mystery, emotional and spiritual. A preoccupation with ritual, usually introspective, permeates Hardy's work and water is often present in one form or another. His work is held in private collections in Australia, the UK, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and the USA. Hardy presented the multi-panel work OBSEQUIAE at Stills Gallery in 2003. His more recent shows were SNOWFORMS ((007) and VOTIVE (2009) at Danks Street. His most recent show was the very successful YUKI ONNA (2009) at Meyer Gallery, East Sydney. |
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| Mayu Kanamori | Mayu Kanamori, was raised in Roppongi, Tokyo where her family still lives. She was educated at the American School in Japan and grew up bilingual in English and Japanese. She migrated to Australia in 1981 and studied philosophy and writing at Toorak College in Melbourne. Mayu started her career in journalism in 1992 as a researcher and photographer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers' Tokyo Bureau. For the past ten years, Mayu has been working as a freelance photo journalist, writer, radio broadcaster and photo media artist based in Sydney. As an artist, Mayu employs her experience as a journalist to create multi media art documentaries, working in collaboration with artists from other disciplines, including theatre and installation works. She exhibits her work in galleries and in theatre venues, often as part of arts festivals in Australia and overseas As a photo journalist, Mayu has contributed to a wide range of publications including magazines, newspapers, and news services both Australian and international. Mayu has taken the photographs for six books. She is a member of Sydney based photographic group Broken Bench and is a board member of The Koto Music Institute of Australia. |
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| Ian Lever | Ian Lever was born and educated in Sydney. He began his career in photography at the age of nineteen. After a four year stint overseas, managing photo labs in Canada and London, Ian opened his own Black & White Lab back in Sydney, 1974. It is now one of Sydney's oldest commercial Black & White Labs. Ian's first exhibition was at the Bondi Pavilion in 1987. This was quickly followed by several shows around Australia and one in New York. Best known for his series on Eastern Suburbs Pools, Ian has shown a variety of other subjects, including series on tugboats, nudes, Luna Park, Australia, East and West Coasts and abstract architectural to name a few. Since 1987, Ian has exhibited in over 40 shows (solo & group). The State Library, Maritime Museum, National Gallery Canberra, various hotels, numerous businesses, councils and overseas collectors including many locals, have purchased Ian's photos. |
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| Julie Martin | TBA | |
| Belinda Mason | Belinda Mason is an award-winning Sydney-based photographer. She worked as a News Ltd Press photographer in the late 1980s before becoming a freelance photographer. Her work focuses on taboo social subjects that explore the very personal and sometimes difficult subjects of grief, body image, identity and family. Belinda is the 2008 winner of the richest photography prize in Australia, The Moran Prize. Her winning image is entitled "Four Generations". Belinda was recently awarded "Most Emotionally Intense Image" at the CCP 2008 Kodak Salon. This same image of a burn survivor won the Perth 2008 PCP Iris Award. Her work has been exhibited at the NSW Art Gallery as part of the Shoot The Chef exhibition, and she has participated in exhibitions such as Head On, Josephine Ulrick and Olive Cotton Awards, the Alice Prize, Iris Awards |
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| Rob Scott-Mitchell | Rob's 3D creations have a strong narrative feel, which often prompts people
to ask, "what is the story?" - he prefers to allow the images
to invoke their own deep, dark stories in the mind of the viewer. Article in 'The Age' on winning the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2007 |
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| Zorica Purlija | Zorica's work revolves around emotions, truth and the human predicament, often
photographing her family with great beauty and sensitivity Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries within Australia. Awarded highly commended prize The Olive Cotton Award August 2007.(Director's choice award and aquisition for photo."Evida".) |
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| Ben Ali Ong | Recurrent in Ben's work is the sandwiching of negatives and the use of inscription and scratching within the image itself. The artistic textural effect created represents the dreamy nature of the subconscious. Whilst these images appear to explore darker themes, they become a mixture of the extraordinarily beautiful and the frightening. At just 26 years of age, Ben Ali-Ong is a promising photographic talent. He has won prizes and awards and exhibited widely both solo and in group shows. His technique involves shooting, scratching, scanning, retouching and layering film and his own images and the result of his intensive practice emanates from his mysterious black and white prints. He has also been invited to contribute works from this series to the Viewfinder Photographic Gallery in London later in 2009. |
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| Bronywn Rennex | Rennex's body of work, Small Fires (2004) employs one of the oldest photographic techniques, the cyanotype, to give voice to contemporary concerns. She takes the literal shadow, captured in the cyanotype process, and turns it into a figurative shadow - a suggestion of the unconscious and unspoken. Difficulties and confusions are made explicit. Gentle tendrils of grapevine form words, a headless torso holds a head at arms length and an x-ray of a smiling child houses an open safety pin. There is a tension in the works, as the title of the series suggests. Small Fires can become big fires or they can go out. They are small and intense - dangerous yet fragile. As in previous bodies of work, Rennex takes ordinary elements and transforms them into extraordinary suggestions. Strange, poetic and comic, Rennex's 2001 show at Stills Gallery Always Hungry focused on appetite. Appetite as a state of yearning, as a condition, a perpetual cycle. The images of prosaic objects which proliferate in the work suggest a fleeting satiety. Underlying the work is a knowing sadness which affectionately pokes fun at our Always Hungry condition. As in her previous of work,The Approximate Place of the Heart (2001) Rennex finds universal themes articulated through the everyday made unfamiliar. Rennex's work has been featured in Smart Art in Australian Art Collector Magazine (2001). She has also been included in the Australian Photographic Portrait Prize at the AGNSW both in 2003 and 2004. Her work is held in many private collections. |
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| Moshe Rosenzveig | 4D photography is run by Moshe Rosenzveig who specialises in studio and location photography using high-end digital equipment or film. Moshe's studio is located in Bondi, at the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. Areas of work range through architecture, industrial, portraiture, corporate, performing arts and other commercial photographic work. Moshe Rosenzveig is a photojournalist, commercial photographer, educator and an award winning television producer/director, whose career in the visual arts and the media spans over 30 years. Moshe's recent personal photographic work has been exhibited in 2007 Sydney Now at the Museum of Sydney, at the 2004 Sydney Festival, in Sydney Looking Forward in 2003, Sydney Life 2005 and 2006, in Cross Projections in 2004, 2005 and Best Of in 2007 and in FotoFreo 2006. Moshe is the founder and the curator of Head On Portrait Prize, one of Australia's major innovative annual photographic portrait competitions. As well as doing photography, Moshe is currently teaching photojournalism at the University of Technology (UTS), Sydney. He is also a speaker and a regular contributing writer to Digital Media World. |
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| Lisa Sharkey | Lisa has had a long association with curating exhibitions ansd having her own exhibitions. Next month Lisa celebrates her long association with Tibetan Buddhism with an exhibiton of photographs taken in Sydney at significant spiritual events. | |
| Peter Solness | Peter Solness has over 25 years experience in editorial and corporate photography, and has worked for every major magazine and newspaper in Australia, as well as completing assignments for overseas publications such as the London Independent, Conde Naste Traveller, German GEO, Forbes and the Hong Kong Post. His corporate clients over the past few years have included; Qantas Airlines, N.R.M.A., Commonwealth Bank, AGL and Channel 7. He has been the principle photographer for over 8 books, the writer of 1 book, and a contributor to at least another 10. He also exhibits photographs on a regular basis. His images are held in the collections of the National Library Canberra and the State Library of N.S.W. |
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| Some of the photographic art for auction viewable here | ||
All proceeds go to Life Force Cancer Foundation, a not-for-profit charity providing emotional and psychosocial support to people dealing with the experience of cancer
