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Amanda Hardwick
Amanda is a 21-year-old Graphic Designer who loves photography, colour, typography and generally making things pretty. She is a proud Canberran, but is looking forward to soon escaping the A.C.T. bubble and seeing more of the world.
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Anna Nguyen
Anna is a budding Graphic Designer who is interested in type, packaging and photography, but her main passion lies in illustration. Anna likes to find beauty in the tiniest details of life and loves to find that quiet moment in the day where her mind can naturally wonder off to daydream and to create.
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Aspin
Aspin graduated from the University Of Canberra in 2006, with a Bachelor Degree of Industrial Design and a Minor in Graphic Design. With an avid interest in all things design, Aspin believes in keeping an open mind and really thinking outside the box in order to produce work that is not only intuitive but also aesthetically vibrant. Aspin loves to experiment and bridge the gap between different styles and formats of design found in pop cilture; be it product design, graphic, fashion, architecture and art.
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Barbara van der Linden
Barbara studied fine art at the first Canberra School of Art and Graphic Design at East Sydney Tech. Barbara has taught design and drawing at the Canberra School of Art. She later worked as a Graphic Designer for 20 years, during that time she continued with her fine arts in the area of portrait painting, illustration and experimental art. Barbara has recently taken up art full time. As a migrant with no extended family, Barbara found that not fitting in had the advantage of enabling her to explore not only her environment but her inner imagination. Her 2D work is very strong in colour and variety of subject and medium and is strongly influenced by the human form.
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Benjamin Ashe
Benjamin Edward Robert Ashe is a recent graduate from the photomedia department of the ANU school of art. Having been born in Melbourne but having lived for most of his life in Canberra, he feels that he has a foot in both camps. His art practice tip-toes around issues such as identity, gender and societal power structures. Benjamin’s non-art interests include social justice, baking vegan food and over-extended metaphor.
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Benjamin Forster
Benjamin Forster currently resides in Canberra ACT, where he has just completed an undergraduate degree with honours in Visual Arts at the Australian National University. Benjamin is interested in exploring drawing, both as a physical act and as a cognitive process. This interest has manifested itself in his recent Drawing Machine, a reduction of his own understanding of drawing into a computer program that can draw.
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Bianca Ugarkovich
“Hello, I’m a 22-year-old Taurus who enjoys Vegemite on toast and long walks on the beach. If I were a chocolate I’d be dark, because it’s better than milk. I’m passionate about colour, Kodak moments, illustration, typography, and iPods. I also like hoarding books and falling down the rabbit hole, it gives me inspiration. My imagination is as big as outer space and I often dream about the sea. The best kind of jam can be found inside jam donuts.”
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Brendan Henry
Brendan Henry moved to Australia from Canada in 2002, only beginning to explore his visual strengths when he was in high school. Brendan is a graphic artist who likes to explore many methods of visual expression. A self taught designer and photographer, Brendan tends to keep most of his work to himself. This is one of the few times it has been on public display.
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Catherine Bennetts-Cash
Catherine Bennetts-Cash was born in the Victorian town of Benalla in 1985 and grew up near the town of Mansfield. After completing the Victorian Certificate of Education in Melbourne, she moved to Canberra to study at the ANU. Catherine completed a double bachelor degree of Arts / Visual Arts at the ANU in 2006, majoring in Painting, Art History and Curatorship. In 2007 she completed an Honours degree in Art History and Curatorship. Catherine completed a second Honours degree in Painting at the ANU School of Art in 2008, under the tutelage of Ruth Waller, Raquel Ormella and Vivienne Binns. She currently works and maintains a painting practice in Canberra.
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Claire Cimbora
Claire is a professional Illustrator and Graphic Designer. She studied Graphic Design at the University of Canberra and has been working in the industry for five years. Claire recently began focusing her attention on illustrating and has just finished her first children’s book. After opening her online store through Etsy, Claire now sells her illustrations overseas. She one day hopes to become a full time children’ book illustrator.
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E.L.K
E.L.K is fast becoming well respected amongst his peers and in much demand nationally. The 29yo self taught stencil artist from Canberra, Australia has been producing work since 2003. Having recently won the award for most popular piece at the Melbourne Stencil Festival poster competition, being nominated for the Canberra artist of the year award and his latest exhibition selling out, his approach to photo-realistic stencilling can easily be referred to as world class. E.L.K’s works have been shown in diverse range of Group shows in the USA, Iran, UK and Australia with more on the horizon.
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Fernando do Campo
Fernando do Campo is a young emerging Australian artist. Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina in 1987- he migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1997. He completed a BCA (Visual) at UTAS in 2007, graduating from the BVA (Honours) program at the Australian National University in Canberra last year. Fernando’s primary practice questions abstraction and the spatial possibilities of pictorial space through painting. Such studio research expands his growing investigation into spatial exchange and the concept of ‘home’. Fernando lives and works between Tasmania and Canberra. He will be exhibiting at The Front Gallery, Canberra and M16 Artspace, Canberra later this year.
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Georgina ‘George’ Edwards
George loves frolicking in the park on sunny days, looking at other peoples photo albums and collecting tools to build large letters with. She one day hopes to be great and powerful, but would settle for being an inspirational designer and talking at design or art conferences: (whilst living at her artist retreat in the bush)
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Jane Whitten
Jane Whitten makes baskets out of just about anything. “If you have enough of something and you can work out a way of joining them together then you have a basket.” She has been lucky to have studied with some of the best basket makers in the world and her award winning baskets have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
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Jennifer Nagy
Jennifer Nagy is a professional photographer, artist and the proprietor of Exclusive Images. However, she would rather let my art work speak for itself. “Qualifications and CV’s do not, in my view, have much to do with the power and potency of artistic expression. My work comes from my emotional response to my interaction with the everyday world. I like to use my camera to capture, interpret and create situations that reflect the subconscious. It’s a subjective response to the external captured by my lens and presented through the filters of my perceptions. Art has no boundaries.”
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Joabie Lovett
Joabie Lovett is a 33 year-old Indigenous artist descended on his father’s side from the “Fighting Gournditchmara,” from South Eastern Victoria, and on his mother’s the Tahitian High Chiefs of Raiatea. By combining concepts of traditional Aboriginal dreamtime stories and universal symbolism, Joabie gives an overview of the shared knowledge of the fundamental principals of the universe and Dreamtime which are forever creating.
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Juliette Dudley
Juliette Dudley is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator who recently completed the Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design at the Canberra Institute of Technology. She loved drawing and painting from an early age, and in 2005 completed a Certificate IV in Art and Design. Juliette draws inspiration from nature, mythology, psychology, fashion, pop culture and history, and enjoys experimenting with a variety of traditional and digital media.
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Linzie Ellis
Born in Canberra in 1985, Linzie Ellis recently completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting) at the ANU School of Art. Linzie also spent 3 months in London, studying at the Slade School of Fine art in 2008. She was awarded the ANU School of Art Acquisition Award and has exhibited in several group exhibitions.
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Lydia Ashe
Lydia just completed an undergraduate degree with honours from the Sculpture workshop at the ANU School of Art. “I am attracted to Domestic symbols and imagery, and tend to use found household objects and materials in my work. I also have an interest in the representation of Psychological spaces, and have tried to explore this using miniatures. In my honours year I investigated my own reactions to domestic expectations by combining these methods.”
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Marion Jones
Marion moved to Canberra with her family from the UK, in 2006. After studying Graphic Design in the UK, Marion and her husband ran their own successful graphic design business for many years. They sold the company when they made their decision to develop a new business, ‘The Artworks’ in Canberra. “I wanted to make a move into the art world, having enjoyed the more creative side of my work most”. - Marion likes the instantaneous results of digital art - “Being quite impatient, it works for me, I like to get my ideas down quick and then see them evolve. I find inspiration through nature and colour as well as the “grotesque”.
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Michele Grimston
Michele Grimston is a mixed media artist with a textile background who completed a BA/BA(Visual) at the Australian National University in 2008. She aims to use art and creative practice to explore and facilitate connectivity between people and the world which they inhabit. She uses colour and pattern to create vibrant works which celebrate the potential for beauty and fun in everyday environments. |
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Natalie LeComte
Natalie is a 21-year-old photographer and video artist who enjoys working with a combination of very new (digital video, web art) and very old (polaroid, slide projectors) media. Originally from Sydney, she has spent the last four years studying a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the ANU School of Art in Canberra. She also spent four months at the beginning of 2008 studying at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. She screenprints in her spare time, and blogs far too much for her own good.
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Natalie Mather
Natalie Mather is a painting student at the ANU School of Art and will begin her Honours year in 2009. “I have a tawdry love affair with paint, plywood, and coloured paper and pencils, and I am
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Payal Sehgal Mahajan
“I have been a practising artist for the last eleven years. I look around in my immediate vicinity and work with that which evokes a response in me. In my last solo exhibition, les bleues et les rouges, I explored the self.I am fascinated by the notion of self being formed by experiences, whether one’s own or another’s—experienced through documented history, narration of stories, etc. It is as if the past seeps into the present, forming a new future for it in the process.”
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Stephen Harrison
Since graduating from the Canberra School of Art Bachelor of Art (Visual) in 1987 where he studied under Czech Printmaker Petr Herel, Graphic Investigation Department, Stephen Harrison has held 20 solo exhibitions and about 25 Group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Some noteable shows have been ‘Screaming Red Dingo’, ‘Blood on the Wings’, ‘Angels and Aeroplanes’, ‘Nights of Wine and Steel’, and ‘Mr Kafka’s Core’. Stephen has two sons, Oscar and Sam, and lives and works in Canberra, Australia.
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Steven James
“I was born in Cooma where I lived until I left to pursue my innate desire to study art. This led me to Canberra where I studied various art disciplines before deciding on a Bachelor of Graphic Design at the University Of Canberra, where I am now a recent graduate from. During my degree I lived in Mexico where I studied Spanish and continued my studies in design. My work is influenced by my time in Mexico, my own religious oppressed upbringing, environmental issues, and the struggle for human rights.”
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The Ripe Collective
The Ripe Collective is a innovative and exciting creative approach to a sustainable arts philosophy, with the aim of engaging with the wider community through a commercial environment. The pragmatic approach taken by founding artists, Ant and Marcus, has focused on commercial outcomes and sustainability in art and design. The Ripe Collectives unique approach places itself at the boundaries of the digital and the analogue. It merges design with both illustration and fine art techniques, achieving a new creative genre: Commercial Fine Art Design.
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Tesura
Tesura is an artist based in Canberra, Australia. He dropped out of art school in the 90’s and after working an office job he has been re-inspired by the world of street art to start creating again. He has moved away from his roots in photography, preferring instead to challenging himself to improve his drawing and investigate unfamiliar mediums such as paintings, stencil and screenprints. Tesura has recently exhibited at the 2008 Melbourne Stencil Festival and has work in collections in Australia, the UK, Japan and the Netherlands.
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Todd Gregory
“1983 - It was the year after the Year of Living Dangerously, the Nintendo Enterainment System was released, Microsoft Word was unveiled and dancefloors across the world resembled B-grade horror movie sets with Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ providing the soundtrack… It was also the year I was born… Who would’ve thought that these events would lead me to pursue a career in Graphic Design? But they did. And I am.”
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Tye McBride
Tye McBride is a painter, illustrator and installation artist. She has studied at both the National Art School in Sydney and the School of Art at the Australian National University in Canberra. Her interests lie in collage, assemblage and in the expanding of her paintings from the canvas’ surface onto the gallery wall.
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Yoko Yamaguchi
Yoko Yamaguchi is an artist based in Canberra who graduated Bachelor of Arts, Visual Art (Honours) in Print media and drawing at the ANU School of Art. Yoko was awarded an EASS residency with Megalo Access Arts and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the region. One particular aspect Yoko examines in her art is culture. Having spent her formative years immersed in Japanese culture, she explores the influence of Australian life and her cross-cultural identity in her printmaking practice.
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Yumiko Starke
Yumiko was born and grew up in a rural part of Japan. She enjoyed drawing when young and recently returned to full-time study at CIT. She is trying to improve her skills and hoping to work in the graphic art area. Yumilko has been working as a freelance graphic designer since 2002 and recently completed an Advanced Diploma in Design (Digital Media) where she was awarded a Student award for Excellence in graphic design & illustration for digital media production.
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Zoe O’Donnell
Zoe O’Donnell is a 25 yr old Digital Designer who recently completed an Advanced Diploma in Design (Digital Media). Zoe Grew up in Canberra and is now based in Bungendore NSW. Her design solutions are influenced by the Swiss grid, geometry, figurative landscapes, simplicity, modernity. She is currently working as a freelance designer for design agencies in Canberra.
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If you are an artist or designer from the Canberra/Queanbeyan region and would like to be apart of the art:house | art + design festival check out the submissions page.
art:house operates through a proposal system and exhibiting artist and designers are selected by staff on artistic merit and appropriateness to art:house themed group exhibitions.
