Picture: Matt Newton. Background on TT: HERE: They arrest angels in Tasmania
Opening night This Friday Night.
At Hogan Gallery, Smith St, Fitzroy Melbourne.
Free Speech and Tasmania’s Forests On Trial
Freedom to Speak A Corporate Unmasking
Gunns 20 Fundraising Collaborative Art Exhibition – 20 Artists
15 Jan – 28 Jan 2010
Opening Night 6pm 15 Jan 2010
A selection of the artists involved in the exhibition
Kevin Perkins
Born in 1945 in Launceston, Tasmania, furniture designer-maker, Kevin Perkins takes inspiration in conservation issues and a sense of place elicited by the history, traditions, forests and wildlife of his
home-state. Perkins is passionate about demonstrating the rich diversity of Tasmanian timbers – in contrast to bland plantation timbers – and continues to highlight the natural beauty of these materials through the strong sculptural forms of his work. He studied Joinery at Technical College in 1965 and studio sculpture in 1973. He has established a reputation over four decades as Australia’s foremost maker of fine timber furniture. He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, recently including Material Culture (2005) at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Convergence (2005), which toured to Hobart, San Francisco and Chicago. Perkins’ work is included in many important collections including the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Tasmanian Wood Design Collection, Launceston. His collaborative commissions date back to 1980 and include the extraordinary refurbishment of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta. Perkins retired from teaching in 2006, after lecturing at the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, for twenty-five years, to work full-time on his own furniture production.
Matthew Newton
Matthew Newton is an independent photographer based in Hobart. He works with both moving and still images. He has shot documentaries that have been broadcast nationally and regularly photographs for editorial and news publications throughout Australia.
www.matthewnewton.com.au
Awards
Finalist National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010
Finalist Hutchins Art Prize – works on paper 2009
Finalist Olive Cotton Portrait Prize 2009
Finalist Head On Portrait Prize 2008
Finalist Walkley Awards for Journalism excellence 2007
Finalist Leica/CCP Documentary Award 2007
Rob Blakers
Rob has worked as a landscape photographer in Tasmania for almost 30 years and has seen both extraordinary beauty and profound loss in the island’s wild places. The quest to find images that might represent the loveliness and the tragedy of the endangered natural world underpins Rob’s photographic work.
http://www.robblakers.com/
Elizabeth Barsham
Elizabeth Barsham has had paintings hung in the Blake Prize and other major exhibitions. Her paintings have won many awards and have been acquired by private collectors world wide. Elizabeth teaches Adult Education classes in drawing and painting, and you can see recent work on her website,
www.tasmanian-gothic.com .
Andrew Donohoe
Andrew Donohoe is a printmaker living in the Upper Huon Valley. His work is influenced by the natural environment and the magnificent and majestic forms of the Ancient threatened and quickly vanishing
forests.
Michael Schlitz
Michael Schlitz is a printmaker based in Huonville, Tasmania. He makes work about, environmental and psychological issues he encounters in this region.
Wolfgang Glowacki
Wolfgang is a multi award winning nature and wilderness photographer based in Hobart, Tasmania. He is passionate campaigner for the protection of wild places and his images have been used in many campaigns over that last seven years in Tasmania. See his work at
www.wolfgangglowacki.com.au.
Selena de Carvalho
Selena de Carvalho is Tasmanian based artist and maker of things. She moved to Tasmania in 2002 and has (not in-) bred with an Apiarist allergic to Bees.
Aviva Hannah
Aviva Hannah is an eco-scientist and artist, a visual ecologist. She has participated in many exhibitions and protests in relation to deforestation in Tasmania. Aviva Hannah also travels and performs
whilst journaling and drawing.
John McColl
John McColl has been sculpting professionally in the mediums of ceramic, wood, bronze and ferro cement for the past 28 years. Being a passionate surfer, he draws much of his inspiration from the natural world.
Marcus Tatton
Trained as a furniture designer, Marcus has worked as a full time sculptor in Tasmania over the last 15 years. He camps in the clearfell coupes and carves large hollow vessels from waste logs insitu. Marcus also creates public sculptures in cast concrete, steel and other industrial waste. The works are mostly shown in National sculpture forums like Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi, NSW and Helen
Lempriere Sculpture Award in Victoria.
Nishant Datt
Nishant is a photographer and forest defender based in Tasmania, originally from India. Nishant documents Tasmania’s threatened wilderness and forest defense actions, from the frontline, often from
a tree sit perch.
Peter Van Der Pasch
Peter is a photographer, aborist and forest defender based in Tasmania, with a passion for trees and wilderness. Peter documents life in the tree tops and on the frontline and forest actions. Peter
is based in Tasmania, originally from New Zealand.
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