THE DOG EXHIBITION

December 17, 2023 - January 28, 2024

Hahndorf Academy’s inaugural dog exhibition is perfect for dog lovers and art lovers and includes South Australian artists who’s art works range from paintings, ceramics, dog jewellery and animation. We expect up to 20,000 visitors to view the artworks in the galleries.

Closing Finissage: January 28th, 3 - 5pm with guest speaker Sally Hardy - Arts Officer for MBDC. We’ll also have activities including a Doggy Fashion Parade and Walk the Dog competition. everyone is welcome, bring your dog dressed up!

Dog Drawing workshop with Ellie Noir DOG DRAWING WORKSHOP WITH ELEANOR NOIR — Hahndorf Academy

Dog Collar workshop with Olivia Kathigitis. MAKE YOUR OWN DOG COLLAR WORKSHOP WITH OLIVIA KATHIGITIS — Hahndorf Academy

As part of The Dog Exhibition we ran a dog photo competition to find the “Hahndorf Hound” and we are pleased to announce that Tashi won this prize. Tashi’s portrait will be painted by Nicola Semmens and will be shown in the exhibition. Thank you to all the dogs who entered this competition, we received wonderful photographs which we will display during this exhibition period.

In GALLERY 1 – ADELAIDE arts

Group exhibition of Adelaide artists in gallery 1 include Wendy Dixon–Whiley, Zoe Freney, Harriet Geater-Johnson, Olivia Kathigitis, Ellie Noire, Rosina Possingham, Thomas Readett, Nicola Semmens, Deb Twining, John Bannerman, Claire Wildish and the Cucumber Project.

In GALLERY 2 – TWINING arts                                 

Young artists from the kid’s art classes with Twining Arts will be exhibiting their artworks in gallery 2. These amazing young creatives are guided and taught by artist/arts educator Deb Twining, so we expect some dog crazy imagination and fun with their collaborative works.

In GALLERY 3 – Arts Community

We sent a call out to the community for South Australian artists to enter and exhibit their dog artwork and we received a great response, we will provide a list of all the artists soon.

Make a Collection of Ceramic works with Marie Littlewood.

This 6 week course will focus on making a collection of works that relate to each other using both wheel thrown and hand building techniques.  e.g., a cup, bowl and plate set, a small production run of mugs or a set of platters.  Previous experience is required. 

Tuesday October 31 – Tuesday November 28

10am – 1pm
$360pp

Small class size with maximum of 6 participants

All materials and firing for the course are included

Wear clothes that can get a bit dirty!

Join as a member and get 10% discount on workshops

We’re back for the new term! Learn new pottery skills with Lotte Schwerdtfeger.  This 8 week course with 2 hour classes is suitable for everyone, whether you’re just starting or want to extend your skills.

Beginners can learn the fundamentals of throwing on the pottery wheel, whilst those with experience will have the opportunity to practise and refine their skills with encouragement and guidance. 

Lotte will share her approach to throwing forms for tableware or sculpture, with the focus on altering thrown forms and adding hand built features to your pots. 

Small class size with maximum of 7 participants

All materials and firing for the course are included

Wear clothes that can get a bit dirty!

Join as a member and get 10% discount on workshops

Image courtesy of the artist

Learn contemporary ceramics practice with Sam Gold. Develop your wheel throwing and hand building expertise in this 8 week course with 2 hour classes suitable for all skills levels. Embrace making in a supportive and experimental atmosphere using traditional and contemporary techniques.

Small class size with maximum of 7 participants

All materials and firing for the course are included

Wear clothes that can get a bit dirty!

Join as a member and get 10% discount on workshops

In Stillness and Movement

Christina Gollan, Sophie Horvat, Tom Keukenmeester, Lauren Murphy, Xanthe Murphy, Holly Phillipson, Bridget Saville, Lotte Schwerdtfeger, Tom Summers.

Curated by Debbie Pryor for Australian Ceramics and JamFactory

October 14 – December 10

EXHIBITION LAUNCH - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21ST AT 5PM

ARTIST TALK - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 AT 2pm

An exploration into the duality of connectivity. The art of making is to communicate, to connect the inner and outer worlds. 

In stillness and movement investigates the action of creating artwork as a way of connecting with others and with oneself. Connectivity may lie in the design of an object, from the form and function of a cup in the hand, to the exploration of materiality, or the human relationship with the natural world.

 Duality also lies in the materials we use, the transformation.

Cedric Varcoe: Nganawi Ngarrindjeri ruwi

Feeling like a bird

Flying over Country

October 14 – December 10

Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art 2023

Exhibition Launch Saturday October 21st at 5pm

Cedric Varcoe is a Narangga-Ramindjeri and Ngarrindjeri artist.

Nganawi Ngarrindjeri ruwi translates to feeling like a bird, flying over country.

“Through art I want people to look through our eyes when they visit these places, I want them to feel connected to their miwi. The miwi is like our spirit that makes us and shapes us as we are as a person and connects us to our totems and life that belongs to country.

I’ve made it my purpose to share stories and keep them alive, my responsibility as a custodian is to share that knowledge with younger people about belonging and caring for country, and some significant sites of our lands and waters.” Cedric Varcoe 2023

BIO

Cedric Varcoe was born in Adelaide in 1984 and is Narangga/Ramindjeri of the Ngarrindjeri language group. He has lived in Adelaide, Meningie, Raukkan and Point Pierce, his Fathers community, and as an adult in Port Pirie and Port Elliot.

As a child Cedric’s mum would take him to the beach to collect river rocks and shells and paint on them and he would listen to Ngarrindjeri stories from his aunties, uncles, and mum’s cousins. He started painting at 8 years old, mostly snakes and country and as an adult he was known for painting little men and corroborees.

He lived in Port Pirie when he became a dad and studied literacy and art at TAFE and he set up an art group. In 2015 he received an ArtSA grant to research his practice and colour theory and during this time, he visited the Adelaide Museum where he looked at a photograph of a corroboree and turned it over to see his family names Peter Campbell his Great Great Grandfather and Leonard Campbell his Great Grandfather and this is when he realised that for years he had been painting these men and the corroboree without ever seeing this photograph or knowing about it.

Furthering his career Cedric teamed up with Betterworld Arts who support his arts practice by selling his work nationally and internationally. He exhibits his work regularly and is also an experienced mural artist and Cultural Leader on his Country.

No booking necessary

Come along and play with our dress-up costumes and props this school holidays (6th, 7th, 13th, 14th, 15th of October from 10:30 - 1:30pm) in a fun and friendly environment, led by artist Zinia King!

What will you come up with?

Naomi Hobson: Adolescent Wonderland

September 1 - October 8, 2023

“Today photography needs to push the boundary. I feel it doesn’t need to be picture perfect and as a fine art – I’m using the medium to tell real stories that I feel don’t get told or haven’t been told. I want people to see who our youth really are: fun, playful, smart, savvy, proud, adventurous and witty.” – Naomi Hobson

Naomi Hobson is a Southern Kaantju/Umpila woman who lives in Coen, a small town of 360 people in the centre of Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland. A multidisciplinary artist, she regularly works across the mediums of painting, ceramics and photography. Inspired by her immediate environment, Hobson’s works express her ongoing connection to Country and her ancestors’ ties and relationships with their traditional lands.

Through her work, she references her family’s political and social engagements as well as her own personal engagement with her Country and community. In Hobson’s photographic series Adolescent Wonderland, she is working to empower young people in her community, to encourage them to be themselves and to celebrate their uniqueness.

Adolescent Wonderland is a series of photographs that tell the real-life stories of young Aboriginal people in remote Australia. The title of this series was inspired by the classic children’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Themes of youth, playfulness and childhood memories are evident in Hobson’s photographs. The brightly coloured figures and their props lure the viewer into a dream-like reality, much like the way Alice follows the white rabbit.

“I think young people are getting crazy adventurous with all the apps and photo settings in their mobile phones. This is certainly highlighting their personal characters. They’re just really connecting with how they want to share their story ... Young people are so advanced in using technology and they also love getting their photos taken, but let them show you their story, their way; that’s what Adolescent Wonderland is all about.” – Naomi Hobson

This regional South Australian tour is presented in partnership with the Art Gallery of South Australia and Country Arts SA.

Adolescent Wonderland series was first commissioned by the Cairns Art Gallery with funding from the Queensland Government through the Arts Queensland Backing Indigenous Arts initiative.

The current, expanded exhibition was created for Tarnanthi, presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia with Principal Partner BHP and support from the Government of South Australia.

Learn new pottery skills with Lotte Schwerdtfeger.  This 8 week course with 2 hour classes is suitable for everyone, whether you’re just starting or want to extend your skills.

Beginners can learn the fundamentals of throwing on the pottery wheel, whilst those with experience will have the opportunity to practise and refine their skills with encouragement and guidance. 

Lotte will share her approach to throwing forms for tableware or sculpture, with the focus on altering thrown forms and adding hand built features to your pots. 

Small class size with maximum of 7 participants

All materials and firing for the course are included

Wear clothes that can get a bit dirty!

Join as a member and get 10% discount on workshops

Image courtesy of the artist

Learn contemporary ceramics practice with Sam Gold. Develop your wheel throwing and hand building expertise in this 8 week course with 2 hour classes suitable for all skills levels. Embrace making in a supportive and experimental atmosphere using traditional and contemporary techniques.

Small class size with maximum of 7 participants

All materials and firing for the course are included

Wear clothes that can get a bit dirty!

Join as a member and get 10% discount on workshops

Image courtesy of the artist

CYNTHIA SCHWERTSIK IN COLLABORATION WITH ROSINA POSSINGHAM

HOW TO EXIT A REALITY

in 7 Chapters

July 31 – October 8, 2023

SALA FESTIVAL 2023

exhibition opening Saturday August 5 at 4-6pm

Guest opening speaker Andrew Purvis, Curator at Adelaide Central Gallery

IT IS EASY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE !

HOW ?

WHEN YOU MAKE THE FUTURE !!

                                                                        Peter Weibel 15/04/2016

Can the same be said about reality?

Cynthia Schwertsik’s practice is one that praises open the cracks of reality. With compassion and humour Cynthia tests Tim Ingold’s claim; that the world is shaped through the choices we make, as we inscribe ourselves into the world through our actions.

The hypothesis that memories bound in objects can be dislodged is at the heart of the collaboration with Rosina Possingham. An attempt to use the stuff that surrounds us as portals to exit a reality.

Artist Bio

CYNTHIA SCHWERTSIK art practice includes visual art and contemporary performance with a focus on activating public space through poetic participatory inclusion. At the heart of her process is collaboration. Cynthia’s generates diverse projects through interactions with people and place, informed by the absurdities of contemporary life.

Cynthia has been a recipient of grants both from Austrian and Australian government bodies and completed residencies, such as at Flinders University Art Museum in collaboration with Guildhouse and at ADHOCRACY by VITALSTATISTIX, in Adelaide. She has undertaken further residencies in Johannesburg, South Africa; Monthelon, Burgundy, France; Broken Hill, Kangaroo Island and Mount Gambier in Australia. Cynthia has collaborated with OSCA and completed commissions for Australian city councils such as the City of Sydney, City of Unley, City of Port Adelaide Enfield and The Broken Hill Regional Gallery. Schwertsik has exhibited and performed in numerous solo and group exhibitions and interventions throughout Europe, South Africa and Australia.

Schwertsik holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (2016) from Adelaide Central School of Art. She also earned a Dance Diploma (1990) from TanzQuartier, Vienna and a Diploma of Textile Design (1987) from the Higher Technical College for Art and Design in Graz, Austria.

https://cynthiaschwertsik.com/

ROSINA POSSINGHAM is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist, designer and photographer who values collaborative environments where ideas and conceptual thinking are shared. Her evolving practice incorporates various forms of participation through collaborative processes and digital strategies that focus on photography, scanning, drawing and abstract mapping. Her work is focussed on our human interrelationship with the natural world through notions of place and the local. Her knowledge and incorporation of digital platforms and software programs underpins her research and creative outcomes, and is extensively utilised within her community and youth workshops. Rosina is motivated to challenge, observe and rediscover the way people connect and experience the landscape and environment. Rosina is a current studio member of Post Office Projects and Floating Goose Studios. www.rosinapossingham.com

Nicola Semmens: Weather, Wonder and Whimsy

July 28 - August 27, 2023

exhibition opening Saturday August 5 at 4-6pm

Guest opening speaker Andrew Purvis, Curator at Adelaide Central Gallery

SALA FESTIVAL 2023

Weather, Wonder and Whimsy explores wonder of wild weather landscapes and themes of whimsy in still life painting.

Weather and wonder

Explores our connections to the landscape and how we exist alongside the natural world. Take a walk to find yourself transported by nature, its changing moods, ethereal fluctuations and moody themes of darkness and light.

Whimsy

The overarching theme of my still life painting explores elements of the everyday and includes food items, flowers, and commonplace things, I like to call it a complex simplicity. I hope to elevate these items out of their everyday-ness giving them a high art aesthetic- a Cinderella like status.

 Tinspiration

This series of work is inspired by vintage biscuit tins. Look Inside the tin to find painting and the palette nestled inside, you get two paintings in one. The Painting process is exposed with the chaos of the palette juxtaposed with the realism of the painting.

Artist Bio

I am a practicing artist, and Iyengar yoga teacher, based in Adelaide and currently have my studio at the Collective Haunt, an artist run studio situated in Norwood. I am surrounded by many talented artists practising in various mediums. It’s a very stimulating environment of fresh ideas and concepts for any artist.

I graduated from the South Australian School of Art in 1991 where I studied Sculpture, painting and drawing. I also completed an Honours degree in Screen Studies at Flinders University and have worked in the film industry as a Production Designer.

Over the years I have exhibited in many venues across Adelaide such as Art Images Gallery, The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, One Rundle Trading, Hahndorf Academy and at Collective Haunt.

I have been a finalist in the 2017 Emma Hack Art Prize, the 2017 Prize winner at the Friends of SASA ‘Journey’s Exhibition at Gallery M and a finalist in the Adelaide Hills art Prize at the Hahndorf Academy.

As a painter I like to work in the genres of Landscape and Still life.

I am inspired by painters such as Anna Platten, Clarice Beckett, and Margaret Olly. Painting for me is a mediative activity, I enjoy the discipline, to find pleasure in the simple sensory acts of observation, of mixing colours and applying paint to canvas.

Nicolasemmensart (@nicolasemmensart) • Instagram photos and videos

Rita Hall

Comfort

July 28 - August 27, 2023

exhibition opening Saturday August 5 at 4-6pm

Guest opening speaker Andrew Purvis, Curator at Adelaide Central Gallery

SALA FESTIVAL 2023

Artist Talk Thursday August 10 at 6-7pm

If I could play the piano, I would play Erik Satie’s Gnossienne Number 3 but instead I have made a new series of prints on paper to express my thoughts.

These art works started as a visual response to the arrival of the Covid 19 Pandemic in March 2020. At the time it felt like a puzzling shock, unbelievable, there seemed to be no way to assimilate what it meant or what to do.

Making work was the only way I could ever resolve situations which seemed out of control. I, along with many other people suddenly felt vulnerable, so I read everything, watched TV, listed to the radio, discussed it with others, and finally decided I needed to find some peace from the emotional turmoil.

There was nothing I could do but make new work. I could express in a new way subjects and arrangements which gave me comfort. The simple and ordinary objects in my life and home, familiar and comforting as a starting point. The kettle, the teapot, tools, loved pots and anything normal. Nothing new there, many artists look to their environment to make art, but I also wanted to explore some original techniques I had developed over 20 years previously. But there were to be various tough restrictions I placed on myself. Keep it simple, straight forward, dead pan. Draw only from the objects within the genre of still life. Use no colour at all, only black and white, tones allowed, exploit materials already to hand like ink, rollers, papers, water colours, and no new art shopping. No gratuitous decoration or sentimentality. And, above all, have some fun!  

It seems appropriate to show my new exhibition in my hometown at the Hahndorf Academy.

Rita Hall, October 2021.

Rita Hall Bio

Rita Hall is a South Australian artist living and working in the Adelaide Hills. She has conducted a full time professional visual art practice in her home studio since 1976. She holds a Master of Visual Art and has specialised in printmaking, drawing and painting and has taught extensively.

Rita has exhibited widely within Australia and is represented in National Public Collections across the country.

Though varied in subject, her work is easily recognized through a unique visual language developed in her work.  

Irina Nazarova

The Flower of the Fern

June 9 - July 23

Exhibition launch Friday June 9 at 6-8pm

Guest opening speaker Sarah Feijen - CEO Guildhouse

In Estonia, where I was born and lived most of my life we have a beautiful well treasured traditional holiday, called Jaanipaev, celebrated on the summer solstice. The cities become empty whilst people camp in the forests or by lakes, lightning thousands of bonfires throughout the country. We celebrate the beginning of summer by jumping over the campfires, but most importantly we look for The Flower of the Fern.

There is a myth, that only once a year, on the night of 23rd of June, the Flower of Fern blooms in the forest for a very short period of time. The flower will bring fortune and happiness to the person who finds it. I remember, as a child going to the forest with my family and friends in the night looking for a flower and how intrigued and happy I felt.

The duration of my exhibition coincides with this magical celebration and so I take it as a sign to call my second solo exhibition at Hahndorf Academy 'The Flower of the Fern'.

I adore the mystery of the darkness of the night, the freshness of the forests and uniqueness of the flowers. Through my latest artworks I explore the nature of flowers, the feelings they give you, the comfort and beauty, against backdrops of darkness and light.

Living in Australia for quite some time, I unavoidably fell in love with Australian flora, however the simplicity and tenderness of European flowers are deeply rooted in my heart. I depict a collection of Australian indigenous flowers and plants that I find incredible and fascinating, along with the European flowers that I grew up with. Spring forest grounds covered with the carpet of tiny Forget-Me-Nots, the smell of Lilies of the Valley, endless handpicked bouquets of Daisies, Bluebells, Lillac and Mock Orange, all these are tender memories of my childhood.

I present a body of artworks that unites two worlds, magical and real. I dream up and create new flowers, play with the colours and shapes of the artwork. I find inspiration in the little things, walking in nature with my family, finding intriguing looking flowers and plants.

I am one of many who is trying to find the magical 'Flower of the Fern', sometimes I feel I am the one who is attempting to create it.

BIO Irina Nazarova

Irina Nazarova is a visual artist born and raised in Estonia, residing in Australia for over a decade. Irina has developed over this time a stylised, stark and iconic depiction of botanicals, with the use of acrylic paint on timber.

Whilst much of the topic matter is of indigenous flora, the traditions and folklore of northern Europe are there to be seen. There are hints of medieval tapestries and wooden block carvings. Feelings of the iconic and the mythological fill the room. The tree becomes an altar and a focus. All the stages of life can be represented on the one living plant, by way of juvenile flower through to barren seed pod.

Much of the work is informed from the inquiry and adventure of collating a breadth of floral specimens for her “Flowers In Your Hair”jewellery which has developed in parallel. One can see that the jewellery is influenced, by the painted artworks, with a careful sense of how the flower is framed and composed with other clippings of floral specimens. Conversely the paintings of botanic matter are seemingly influenced by the act of pressing floral specimens. The works whilst living in a three dimensional sense, of shade and light, posses aspects of the hyroglyphic art, with layers of two dimensional shapes overlapping to produce striking images possessing a power.

Irina has succeeded as a visual artist with entrepreneurial ventures abroad. Her works are found in numerous regional galleries, large scale art and design markets, and boutique shops focussed on the 'maker' and 'artist'.

https://www.irinanazarovaart.com/

https://www.instagram.com/iranazarovaart/

https://www.facebook.com/flowersinyourhair.oz/

Amanda Westley

Ngarrindjeri Ruwi

June 9 – July 25, 2023

Exhibition launch Friday June 9 at 6-8pm

Guest opening speaker Sarah Feijen - CEO Guildhouse

I am a Ngarrindjeri woman and artist, born in Victor Harbor, South Australia in 1985. My totems are the whale, pelican and black swan. Growing up I experienced the best of both worlds living the farm life 12kms out of coastal country town of Victor Harbor. My father was a boat builder so the water and the ocean have always been a big part of my life. My painting style is dot work and the bright colours from my coastal country hometown and the ocean are represented through my paintings. I have been painting from a very young age and my style is contemporary Aboriginal dot art, I have always enjoyed painting and the calm that it brought. My paintings represent country, for Aboriginal people land has a spiritual and cultural connection and is so important to our identity and way of life. With my painting I have used a combination of pinks, yellows, blues, greens and oranges to represent how I see my Ngarrindjeri country, the small country town near the ocean. My family is one of the oldest Aboriginal families here on the south coast so this land I call home has been a part of my family for a very long time, and by creating these paintings I am acknowledging the important connection my family have with this land.

Amanda Conway-Jones (@amandaindigenousartist) • Instagram photos and videos

Cecilia Gunnarsson

MEMORIES OF SOMETIME

June 9 – July 25

Exhibition launch Friday June 9 at 6-8pm

Guest opening speaker Sarah Feijen - CEO Guildhouse

Oceanscapes and landscapes by Adelaide based artist Cecilia Gunnarsson. View them up close and see bold brush strokes and shapes or stand back for a totally different visual experience. 

The intimate paintings of swimmers, including herself add a deep layer to her dreamlike oceanscapes with shifting light and rich colours that capture figures floating in the ocean. 

“We mostly see our bodies sitting or standing, swimming is not how we usually perceive our bodies. There is the feeling of movement and suspension, freedom and tension, and there's the fear of water, we can’t breathe underwater.”

Gunnarsson also immerses herself on land, walking in the Adelaide Hills, Skye and Kangaroo island. The tranquil landscapes are thoughtful with beautiful hues and tones that mimic the South Australian colours seen through the eyes of a Scandinavian who has walked and swam in South Australia for over 25 years. 

BIO Cecilia Gunnarsson

Cecilia is an artist originally from Sweden. She grew up in a small country town where nature and the forrest were always close. After half a lifetime in South Australia, its landscape is now also part of her with its smells and sounds, the colour and light, the seasons. Still, she finds the Australian bush beautifully exotic, full of wonders and strangeness. She is trying to capture this in her artwork, with trees especially close to her heart.

Cecilia paints mainly in oils, expressing the light and form with patterns of colours and brushstrokes. Close up her paintings have an abstract expression but when stepping back the motif of the paintings become clear.

Cecilia studied Graphic Design and Illustration at University of Göteborg, Sweden. She also has studied printmaking and painting at art schools in Göteborg. Her work has been a finalist in art prizes such as Adelaide Hills Art Prize and Tatiara Art Prize. She recently had a successful exhibition at Newmarch Gallery in Prospect.

instagram - cecilia_gunnarsson_

Andy Rasheed: Nature Portals

June 9 - July 23, 2023

Exhibition launch Friday June 9 at 6-8pm

Guest opening speaker Sarah Feijen - CEO Guildhouse

“Nature Portals” is an engaging new exhibition of abstract macro photographs of Australian plants by Adelaide Hills-based art and commercial photographer Andy Rasheed. Fascinated by the world of plants, Andy has been shooting unexpected and evocative macro photographs for over 30 years. 

"I wanted to create a body of work that journeys through fantastical scenes of intense light and colour, captured through a sensitive observation of plants. Each piece needed to have a distinct individuality and mood. I feel this is my most fully realised body of macro art photography to date. 

I find great satisfaction in the pursuit of refining techniques within set boundaries so these images were created through simple parameters. I chose to shoot Australian plants in sunlight, using a macro lens at 1:1 magnification, with the aperture wide open (only a thin slither of the image is in sharp focus, this is called shallow depth of field). Each subject was just 70mm from the lens and viewing an area 35mm across. These criteria gave me a solid framework to build what I feel, is a very cohesive body of work. What was in my view finder is more or less what is on the wall. These are full frame, single exposures with only very minimal post production. I’ll pick a section of a plant, investigate it through the lens and react to what is in front of me. Then I refine how the elements and light interact until everything settles into a cohesive whole. Because there was a real sense of immediacy through the process of making these images, I feel there is an openness and accessibility, to the photographs.

Bio Andy Rasheed

Finding photography was a node point in my life for both my personal expression and career. For the last 30 years I have been making photographic art and for 25 of those years I have made my living as a freelance photographer, through my business, eyefood. I feel immensely grateful to have developed a viable creative career through harnessing many of the various aspects of my personality. 

After so long as photographer I have a highly refined skillset as a craftsperson. The way I see it, for my work to qualify as art needs to transcend both technique and pretence, or I’d consider it as craft. An artwork must have a strong identity, it needs to feel exciting, unexpected, and emotive. To be good art it needs to be dynamic enough to grab hold of my full attention. 

I find working within strict parameters is very creative so I keep things very simple when making this artwork. Using a macro lens in one setting, shoot Australian native plants in sunlight, to make the most personally satisfying imagery that I could. With only these elements and these tools, I have to problem solve my way to stronger and stronger images. I “may” have a tendency towards fixating on projects… I love the satisfaction of overcoming challenges and broadening my capacity. The process of making these photos was a great joy and I’d hope that intent is evident in my work. 

I am physically affected by beautiful light and fascinated by the structures and intense colours of plants. I made this work through deep engagement and careful observation. I wasn’t fleshing out a planned set of ideas, I was searching and each of these photos are my little discoveries. Visiting and revisiting plants until I was able to uncover each image. Acting from the premiss, that regardless of the circumstances, there is always a strong photograph to be had, I just have to be willing to take the time to find it!

 To find out more about my commercial and art photography www.eyefood.com.au

Wheel throwing composite forms

Join Marie Littlewood in this 6-week course to learn wheel throwing composite forms. This is an intermediate class for people with some wheel throwing experience.

All clay & firing included

Wear clothes that can get dirty!

Join as a member for 10% discount on workshops

Wheel throwing pottery course

Like to get your hands dirty? Our potter Karl Brasse will teach you to throw pottery on a wheel over this 8 week course with 2 hour classes. Enjoy the shared pleasure of working with clay in a supportive and fun environment.

Small class size with maximum of 6 participants

All materials and firing for the course are included

Wear clothes that can get a bit dirty

Join as a member for 10% discount on workshops!

Wheel throwing pottery course

Like to get your hands dirty? Our potter Karl Brasse will teach you to throw pottery on a wheel over this 8 week course with 2 hour classes. Enjoy the shared pleasure of working with clay in a supportive and fun environment.

Small class size with maximum of 6 participants

All materials and firing for the course are included

Wear clothes that can get a bit dirty

Join as a member for 10% discount on workshops!