FairShare Exhibition Catalogue

MELINDA RODNIGHT NADIA KATE D ÜSSELBERG FLORENCE JO KITTY DYER CALVERT SIMON PALMER CHRISTINE ART EXHIBITION MINTER KATE QUINN

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JESSIE MARTHA FEITOSA LORD BREE PATRICIA MORRISON HEASLIP SARAH CHALIE DONINA ROWE MACRAE ASERA

This collection was to be part of the Melbourne Affordable Art Fair, which sadly has been postponed until 2022.

Instead we believe it’s only FAIR that we SHARE it with you. We hope you find some joy and happiness in this collection and help to support our local artists during these trying times.

KATE FLORENCE

What gets you up in the morning?

Depends how i’m feeling, it’s usually coffee, and the excitement of the fact I’m living a life I love and am excited to get on with my day of creating!

Who’s your favourite living artist?

Its impossible to choose one, I have so many.

I love Grayson Perry, and performance artist Marina Abramović and right now im obsessing over the dutch painter Peggy Kuiper.

Whats your star sign?

I am a cancer sun, Leo rising and Capricorn moon.

This is a combination I love, my cancer sun means I’m soft and sensitive, I wear my emotions on my sleeve, I feel it deeply then I move on (or try to lol). Cancers are naturally very nurturing and hospitable, I love caring for people and cooking for my loved ones.

My Leo rising is my very extroverted side, where my loud bubbly and fiery side can be found.

My Capricorn moon is my work ethic, I am very driven and hard working and love to get shit done! Sometimes it’s great and sometimes I need to know when to stop and let myself rest, I have very high expectations for myself.

Here You Will Find Me 152 x 202 Acrylic on Canvas $4800

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Sun Basker 65 x 81 Acrylic on Canvas $850

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Still Life II, Still Life, A Trip to Rome 65 x 81 Acrylic on Canvas $850 ea

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Reach Me 200 x 150 Acrylic on Canvas $4800

What really makes you happy?

FOOOOD, most of all sitting down to eat with my nearest and dearest humans, cooking is another creative outlet and expression for me and I can never be bored of eating.

What’s the strangest job you’ve ever had?

It was back home in the UK when I was 15, I used to be driven out into a field and left in a trailer to scoop ice cream for people walking their dogs.

I would sit there for 8 hours until someone came to collect me, i used to feed cones to the donkey and horses who would be walking past, at the time it felt totally normal, but now it feels hilarious.

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Finding You Here 185 x 173 Acrylic on Canvas $4400

CHALIE MACRAE What is your favourite thing about being an artist?

The freedom of no boundaries.

What really makes you happy?

Travel. I love adventure and experiencing the new. And, pasta!

What’s your star sign?

Aquarius

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Dreams We Dance 124 x 94 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw oak $2195

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What are you absolutely loving at the moment?

Listening to foreign music radio stations in my studio, it transports my mind and inspires.

What gets you up in the morning?

Those moments of early morning stillness and quiet, and the possibilities of what a new day brings.

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By My Side 84 x 84 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw Oak $1350

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CHRISTINE MINTER Who is your favourite living artist?

Colin Pennock, an abstract Artist from Noosa. I adore his soft landscapes, the texture and life in his paintings. I could gaze at them forever.

What is your proudest accomplishment?

My son Harry. I nearly didn’t get to be a Mum. I struggled on the IVF programme for a number of years and then we finally got lucky.

What really makes you happy?

Where possible I try to deliver my artwork in person. I really love to see my clients reaction when they receive the work. It is so fulfilling to experience that pleasure.

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Bright Darkness 143 x 143 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in White Oak $3700

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JESSIE FEITOSA What is the first movie you ever saw?

The first movie I’ve ever seen was probably a Disney movie or something, but the one that I remember going to the movies and seeing (when I was 8 years old) was the movie Titanic – and I felt all the feels.

What really makes you happy?

My creative flow and the process of painting brings me so much joy. It makes me really happy. When I start getting annoyed or complain, more often than not it’s because I need to paint – and my husband knows that and says maybe go paint.

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Two’s Company 40 x 50 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw $715

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Bela Vida 45 x 60 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw $815

What is your biggest fear?

I feel all the emotions from the things that I watch and I’d say my biggest fear is scary movies, or a lot of the time the news reports or bad news really play on my mind and it affects my creative flow.

What gets you up in the morning?

Honestly it’s my art that gets me up in the morning. Besides my two year old daughter, one of the first things that I think about every morning is my art, and it’s the last thing that I think about when I go to bed. It’s my passion.

Who’s your favourite living artist?

One of my favourite artists is Prudence Caroline.

I love her colourful fluid like artwork. About 4 years ago I drove from Adelaide to Melbourne to do her painting workshop and it was so worth it because it planted a seed in me that this is something that I really wanted... to be an artist.

Oysters And The Perfect Wine, Pouring Glasses Of Rosé, 60 x 60 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw $900 ea

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PATRICIA HEASLIP What is the strangest job you’ve had?

Hand painting billboards for Inflation Night club in the 80’s What is your favourite thing about being an artist?

The bliss and the absolute mess once it consolidates into something pleasing and seeing myself in it and the discovery that is painting What makes you laugh the most?

My girlfriends that have been my gang for 25 years

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Overflow 74 x 74 Oil on Canvas, Framed in Raw $1500

The Path to Treasure, Hill of Divergence 74 x 74 Oil on Canvas, Framed in Raw $1500 ea

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Stars Over Hill of Hope, Hill of Gold Diamonds 74 x 74 Oil on Canvas, Framed in Raw $1500 ea

What is your biggest fear?

Things that eat you in the Ocean ….I always hang back near the shore…Port Douglas has zero appeal …sharks and crocodiles NO THANKYOU Who is your favourite living artist?

Without hesitation David Keeling but my real love is William Robinson and his landscape perspective

MARTHA LORD About ‘Shimazu Gozen’ Titled female Samurai from the Shimazu clan I have depicted this unnamed Onna-Musha as a modern day unassuming warrior.

The Onna-Musha lived within warring cultures in pre-modern Japan. These women engaged in battle alongside Samurai men and acquired indispensable skills in martial arts, archery and horse riding. They not only defended the household, family and honour in times of war but took part in offensive battles.

They were considered members of the Bushi Samurai class and were just as courageous and capable as their male counterparts.

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Shimazu Gozen Photographic collage and mixed media on European poplar, Framed in Stained Oak $5000

Icon No. 14, Icon No. 10 50 x 50 Photography and Mixed Media on European Poplar, Framed $750 ea

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What is your biggest fear?

PUBLIC SPEAKING and being the centre of attention. I want my work to shine and be the focus. Not ME. Speaking in front of a crowd terrifies me. And I hate being photographed too.

If only I could be anonymous like Banksy....and as successful.

What is the strangest job you’ve had?

Working in a genetics lab at La Trobe University in the 80s part of my work required me to anaesthetise drosophila (fruit flies) and paint a coloured dot on to their thorax so that each fly could be identified in experiments. Valuable research at the end of the day.

What is your favourite thing about being an artist?

Art is in my soul, in my heart and in my head. It has always been and always will be. Despite the many challenges, both financially as well as creatively at times, the fact that I am in control of my own destiny (or so I think), I decide what I create and the very thought that my art will be around way past I have departed this earth is an incredible feeling. I am so grateful to those who appreciate what I do.

Icon No. 12 50 x 50 Photography and Mixed Media on European Poplar, Framed $750

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NADIA DÜSSELBERG What’s your star sign?

Gemini sun. Scorpio moon. Libra rising.

If you know anything about astrology, you’ll know I’m a good damn head case.

What really makes you happy?

I love anything metaphysical... Tarot, crystals, ghosts, energy, channeling, manifestation, you name it. I am very connected to my own spirituality and use it in my art everyday.

What is something people may not know about you?

I am one of those ultra sensitive people in all areas of my life, including food. I have over 10+ intolerances and an allergy that requires an Epipen. Urg it’s a sore spot but I need to stop apologising for it.

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Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 105 x 79 Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas, Limed Timber Frame $2200

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Plain Sailing 123.5 x 93 Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas, Limed Timber Frame $3200

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What did you do before you became an artist?

I worked as a prop buyer/dresser/decorator in Melbourne’s TV and film industry for over 10 years. I then started a boutique ceramics label called Bear and Bone.

Believe it or not, it was the day after getting a hot tip from a psychic medium that i first picked up a brush.

What is the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do?

Around that time was one of the hardest chapters of my life. I was met with equal parts of support and judgment.

I was lucky enough to be surrounded by those who help space for me while I was slowly building myself up from the void. I am also grateful to myself for being (weirdly) fiercely protective of my artist potential.

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Feels Like summer 79 x 79 Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas, Limed Timber Frame $1600

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SIMON PALMER What gets you up in the morning?

The third harassment of the ‘snooze’ setting of the alarm clock.

What is your pet peeve?

The fact that ‘common sense’ is now uncommon.

What is your biggest fear?

The state of the world that my kids will inherit.

What is the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do?

Resolve my artwork.

What are you absolutely loving at the moment?

COVID lockdown is almost like my normal state of isolation, but without the guilt.

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Conjunctions 90 x 90 Limed Timber Frame $1800

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Juxtaposition 90 x 90 Limed Timber Frame $1800

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Bushwalk, Temperature Rising, Brief Encounters 20 x 20 Acrylic on board, ready to hang $275 ea

Morning Fresh, Pond Life 20 x 20 Acrylic on board, ready to hang $275 each

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BREE MORRISON What gets you up in the morning?

My Kids and a STRONG cup of coffee.

What really makes you happy?

Travelling and seeing amazing places. I can’t wait until we can do this again.

Do you have a nickname?

Breeza, Breezie

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Many A Golden Summer Past 106 x 106 Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas $1900

What is your favourite thing about being an artist?

Every time I create a painting I learn something new about myself.

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What’s your star sign?

Sagittarius

Beneath The Diamond Sky 1 51 x 51 51 x 51 Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas $750

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Head into the Sunset 61 x 61 Acrylic on Canvas $800

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KATE QUINN What is the strangest job you’ve had?

I trained as a social worker and when I was in my 20’s I lived in the UK, and worked at a sexual health/ relationships clinic for young people. Whenever the young people came to an appointment, they saw the counsellor (me). It was my job to teach them all how to put on condoms. I had a big box of erect plastic penises next to my chair, in different skin tones, and would need to place one of them in my lap to do the condom demonstration! It was certainly one of the most awkward work roles I have had, and produced many funny moments!

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Garden Sprigs 43 x 43 Oil on Canvas, Framed in Oak $590

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Orange and Poppies 54 x 65 Oil on Canvas Framed in Oak $990

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Kitchen Window 43 x 43 Oil on Canvas Framed in Oak $690

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Do you have a nickname?

Yes, most of my friends call me Quinny! Even my teachers at high school used to call me Quinny.

What is your favourite thing about being an artist?

When I find ‘flow’. I love it when I get absorbed in a painting, and time passes by so fast because I am completely consumed by the technical creative task I am immersed in. Psychologists say this state of flow is really good for mental health, and I can see why! I feel so great when I have found flow for a few hours - but I can’t always achieve it if a painting isn’t going very well.

All the Pinks, Hydrangea 63 x 63 Oil on Canvas, Framed in Oak $1190 ea

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DONINA ASERA What gets you up in the morning?

Running! If it’s not a run day, I struggle.

What are you absolutely loving at the moment?

I’m loving the jasmine that I’ve picked locally during walks, and have stuffed into lots of little vases and bottles all over the place! The scent is such joy!

What really makes you happy?

Running endorphins and bingeing on excellent quality chocolate (preferably individual chocolates/truffles).

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The Tessellated Cliffs of Marsperr 92 x 122 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw $1925

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Lightning Strike over Area 17 75 x 100 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw $1395

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Hardwicke by the Wait Gate 90 x 122 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw $1925

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What is your pet peeve?

Bad grammar. I had a friend who used to go to cafes and restaurants with a red pen and he’d correct menus :-D I’m not quite that extreme, but bad grammar (especially in news articles) makes me grumpy!

What’s your star sign?

I’m a Metal Pig / Taurus

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Whistling Spring Chicken (In Autumn) 75 x 75 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw $1925

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Calypso Jack in the Fjords of Ullsprings 100 x 100 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw $1780

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Hunting Party (Roy & Stefano) 100 x 75 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw $1395

Dispute By The Arbor 122 x 90 Acrylic on Canvas, Framed in Raw $1925

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MELINDA RODNIGHT What are you absolutely loving at the moment?

Although life in lockdown is weighing heavily in so many ways, I am loving life slowing down and being able to interact with great intention with the things that bring me joy - art making, reading, being in nature, growing a garden.

What makes you laugh the most?

Little kids and dogs - they know how to live life with abandon and joy - seriously good time funny!!

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Head into the Sunset series 33 x 33 Works on Canvas, Framed in Oak $500 ea

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Forty Two Days, Thirteen Nights Series 30 x 38 Mixed Media on Paper, Float Framed in Vic Ash Box $490 ea

Who is your favourite living artist?

Ben Quilty, not just for his powerful and evocative work but because he is an artist with incredible social and political conscience and humility, who is motivated to speak out on behalf of people who are significantly marginalised and ill-treated in this world.

What is your favourite thing about being an artist?

Art making is so much about exploring and getting to the essence of who you are. It’s an incredible position to be in each day. Everything I do in the day feeds my art making in one way or another, consciously and unconsciously.

Forty Two Days, Thirteen Nights Series 30 x 38 Mixed Media on Paper, Float Framed in Vic Ash Box $490 ea

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KITTY CALVERT What is the strangest job you’ve had?

As teenagers, I worked in a chocolate factory in Paddington hand wrapping individual chocolates one by one, Mr Kitty made aquariums.

What gets you up in the morning?

Sunshine and a walk on the beach.

What are you absolutely loving at the moment?

The creativity that is happening under lockdown, individually and within businesses – so many new things are being uncovered and discovered.

Also how to live simply.

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The Artist’s Dilemma 48 x 38 Vintage toy gun and doll head with 1939 Dictionary words, Framed in Black $450

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Mek’ You Think That Heav’n 39 x 49 Vintage Marble Statue and Pianola Roll with key $450

Who is your favourite living artist?

Hmmm we do love the work and humour of Banksy and Yayoi Kusama.

What makes you laugh the most?

Mr Kitty (my husband).

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Where Do I Start 47 x 36 Vintage tin typewriter, antique doll arms with vintage tins $450

Blue Bayou Assemblage Sculpture, 42cm high $290 Robot Rock Assemblage Sculpture, 31cm high $250 Woodland Rock Assemblage Sculpture, 43cm high $290

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SARAH ROWE What gets you up in the morning?

I’m usually full of ideas. I very rarely write them down so it’s a case of whatever I happen to remember is what will be on the agenda for the day (I keep a very loose schedule) Ideas get me up in the morning.

The excitement of trying out something new whether it be a technique, a colour combination or a weird medium.

I delight in not knowing where an untrodden path will lead.

What is your favourite thing about being an artist?

It’s very flexible, working for yourself. I like that. Having three school aged children, it has meant I can be there when I need to for them. I also like that I’m the boss of me. I can work and rest when it suits me.

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Golden Lotus 42 x 52 Sealed Gouache on Canvas, Framed in Teak Stained Oak $950

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Scrap Quilt 123 x 123 Gouache and Collage on Canvas, Framed in Raw Oak $3900

Bright and Early 103 x 103 Gouache and Collage on Canvas, Framed in Teak Stained Oak $2900

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JO DYER What gets you up in the morning?

Coffee! But actually my dog Miff, who is always so enthusiastic about our walk to get coffee.

What is the strangest job you’ve had?

When I was a uni student I had a casual job as an actor. One role was acting as a simulator patient for medical students during their assessments.

Another role was part of a public health study about alcohol and involved me going to licensed premises and acting drunk to see if staff would refuse me service!

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Colour Sprigs XIII 43 x 53 Mixed Media on Canvas, Framed in Ash $795

What are you absolutely loving at the moment?

Spring weather and planning what herbs and flowers I’d like to grow.

What is your proudest accomplishment?

Being a full-time artist is fairly new for me, but it’s nearly been a year and I’m proud of what I’ve achieved so far and really excited to keep evolving and growing as an artist.

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Colour Sprig XII 28 x 33 Mixed Media on Canvas, Framed in Ash $485

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Colour Sprig XI 33 x 33 Mixed Media on Canvas, Framed in Ash $495

Colour Sprig XIV, Colour Sprig XIII 43 x 53 Mixed Media on Canvas, Framed in Ash $795 ea

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What really makes you happy?

It sounds boring but I’m really appreciating having a good routine at the moment.

Lockdown is so challenging but I’m enjoying maintaining little daily rituals - making sure I get out of the house each day, having one thing to accomplish each day (but otherwise keeping my expectations pretty low), and just trying to appreciate little things.

What is your favourite thing about being an artist?

I love being self-employed and having the freedom to structure my days as I need.

It’s also been really wonderful to have to prioritise creativity and inspiration in my daily life. It’s definitely helped me stay sane through such a difficult time and to focus on more positive things.

Colour Sprig XVI, Colour Sprig XV 60 x 60 Mixed Media on Panel $795 ea

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SEE SOMETHING YOU LIKE? Or want to know more about an artwork, please contact philippa@arttoart.com.au 0413 945 249 arttoart.com.au

YOU CAN BE A HERO Your donation will go directly and entirely towards CATA, (Creative Art Therapies Australia) a charity organisation providing person-centred, evidencebased Creative Arts Therapies to people living with diverse ranges of adverse physical, psychological and social life experiences.

CATA has worked with communities suffering from bushfire devastation, EOL and oncology patients at the Royal Children’s Hospital, people suffering from anxiety, depression, isolation and other struggles, and creative therapy support for those with physical/intellectual disabilities.

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