Melbourne Affordable Art Fair 2023 Bluethumb Catalogue

Catalogue

Bluethumb acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land we live and work on. We extend our respects to the ancestors of all First Nation peoples and Elders past, present and future.

George and Ed Hartley, Bluethumb Founders

10 Years of Supporting Australian Artists

We represent over 20,000 emerging and established artists from Australia and work with 20 of Australia’s most remote Aboriginal Art Centres to give you access to more Australian artists and their art than anywhere else in the world.

We have sold over 90,000 original Australian artworks to everyone, from first-time art buyers to established collectors.

Alina Hayes

BUNBURY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Alina Hayes is a full-time painter living and working in Western Australia. Before discovering her passion for fine arts, she worked as a Fashion and Jewellery Designer. Alina’s signature subject matter features Still Life compositions illuminated by morning light.

Corinne Melanie Watson

DANDENONG RANGERS, VICTORIA

Corinne Melanie Watson creates captivating works of art and abstract formations of skies using light and colour. She specialised in mixed-media artworks with canvas, ink, acrylic paint, tints and glazes.

Ivvy Derman

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

Ivvy Derman is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia, who has been painting for several years. Her creative career began in Digital Advertising before she found her place in the fine arts world. Her signature style has evolved from using alcohol and ink to brush on canvas.

Karen Lee Mungarrja

SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES

Karen Lee Mungarrja is a Wiradjuri (People of the Three Rivers) artist of the Tubba-Gah clan who lives and works in Penrith, NSW, Australia. Through her art practice, Karen explores her Elders’ tangible and spiritual legacy and their lasting contribution to culture.

Kirsty McIntyre

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

Kirsty McIntyre is a Melbourne-based artist working mainly with a palette knife and oil paint on canvas. Her Australian-themed Still Life compositions are infused with light and feature beautiful native flora and bird life.

Lisa Nooin

SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES

Lisa Nooin is a full-time artist born and raised in Sydney, NSW, to Vietnamese parents. Her signature style originated from a background in Graphic Design and is often likened to “stained glass” due to her distinctive use of black lines and the separation of colours.

Peter Tankey

DARLEY, VICTORIA

Peter Tankey is a Melbourne-based artist known for meticulously rendered hyper-realistic oil paintings. Winner of the Bluethumb Art Prize 2022 Still Life Category Award, his artworks feature non-conventional compositions of unusual and unrelated objects.

Joanna Wolthuizen

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

Joanna Wolthuizen is an emerging contemporary artist from Melbourne, Victoria. Joanna builds her paintings from the simplest elements with a vibrant palette, defined lines and pure colour-blocking technique; she creates bold geometric compositions.

Charlie Nanos

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

Charlie Nanos is a Melbourne-based artist who has been on a contrasting journey from a tradesman to a full-time artist over the past few years. A congenital heart condition diagnosed at 34 years old meant Charlie had to give up his career, and thus the art of healing began.

Katie Wyatt

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Katie Wyatt is a South Australian-based artist who paints impressionist, highly textured landscapes, seascapes and botanical pieces. She uses brushes and palette knives to create thick, impasto textures that are almost sculptural.

Shannon Camden

BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND

Shannon Camden is a 27-year-old emerging artist based in Brisbane. She works out of her home studio in Ashgrove with her studio helpers/rescue cats, Mindy and Marlow. Shannon says they aren’t much help and usually just sleep while she works; lucky they are charming.

Brad Gunn

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

Brad Gunn is a Melbourne sculptor working in a range of contemporary materials and techniques. His works are often figurative and explore the psychology of interactions and identity through surreal characters and imagery.

Marian Quigley

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

After losing confidence in her painting ability at college, Marian Quigley stopped painting for 40 years. It wasn’t until retirement that she rediscovered her love and soon developed a distinctive style incorporating vibrant colour, minimalism and hard-edge abstraction.

D.M. Ross

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

D.M. Ross is a self-taught artist who began painting to satisfy a creative urge. Thirty years on, he embraces the emotive power of colour, combining Cubism, Fauvism and Impressionism elements, creating a visual language beyond realistic representation.

Carrie Matheson

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

Carrie Matheson loves exploring the relationships between colours and the randomness of nature. Her artwork showcases the necessity of negative space to create balance and harmony (both visually and psychologically).

Greg Mount

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

Greg Mount is an artist based in Bentleigh, Victoria, who paints items, places and people in a strong graphic nature, be it through colour or composition. Greg captures and communicates the beauty of the mundane, everyday urban streetscapes and automobiles.

Claire McCall

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

Originally‚ Claire McCall picked up the palette knife to loosen her painting technique. With a brush in hand‚ she was often tempted to agonise over the detail. Claire loves the loss of control that the knife provides and the application of oil paint with its buttery texture.

Paula Starrs

SWAN HILL, VICTORIA

Paula Starrs is based in Swan Hill, where she spends most of her days painting with acrylic on canvas, gardening and making the occasional martini. Born and raised in Mallee, Paula is obsessed with capturing the colours and shadows of her surrounding landscape.

Sharon Monagle

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

Sharon Monagle is a visual artist from Melbourne, best known for her portraits and abstracted figuration. Working predominantly with acrylic paint, she also likes experimenting with oils, pastels, ink and collage.

Jennifer Prior

THE BASIN, VICTORIA

Jennifer Prior’s garden studio is at the foot of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne’s outer east. She mainly works with oils but enjoys exploring different techniques and mediums, including watercolours, drawing and photography.

General

Melbourne Gallery

Adelaide Gallery

330 Bridge Rd, Richmond VIC 3121

Bluethumb Adelaide Gallery

72A King William Rd, Goodwood SA 5034