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BOA R D Monday 8 August - Friday 2 September 2016

August 2016

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ART PRIZE 2016 LEVEL 9 55 Hunter St Sydney

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Australian Artists Get Competitive to Support Cancer Council - Sydney THE SPACE Gallery, in Sydney’s CBD, will soon play host to the inaugural Yellow Board Exhibition, where more than sixty artists from across Australia will add a touch of yellow to their paintings, to raise funds for the Cancer Council.

The contest is themed around the Cancer Council’s signature event, Daffodil Day. “Over sixty artists will be on display”, says Gallery Director, Pascale Rajek “each adding a touch of yellow to their board to show support and hope for everyone affected by cancer.”

Participating artists create their work of genius on a 30cm square wooden board, using any medium, with proceeds from the event going to the Cancer Council NSW. It is estimated that over 130,000 Australians will be diagnosed with cancer this year.

The exhibition runs from 8 August - 2 September.

About the Exhibition: The Yellow Board Art Exhibition comprises the artwork of more than sixty Australian artists, who have entered the Yellow Board Art Contest. Proceeds from the event will go to the Cancer Council NSW.

2016-01 Hillary Waldman

2016-02 Philip Aspden

2016-03 Hillary Waldman

Revival Print, acrylic, ink $ 100

Brush Bird and Blooms Acrylic on board $ 220

Revealing Print, acrylic, ink $ 100

I have experienced a great sense of creative freedom and excitement in these abstract paintings.

The source of my inspiration is from nature in my environment.

I use photography to focus into this space, zooming into surfaces, shapes, textures and colours.

“There’s a bird in there And a brush as well Blooms on branches As far as I can tell A painting there On a square It’s show and tell”

I have experienced a great sense of creative freedom and excitement in these abstract paintings.

The source of my inspiration is from nature in my environment.

I use photography to focus into this space, zooming into surfaces, shapes, textures and colours.

- Glimpses of birds, bottlebrush and yellow blooms against a winter sky

2016-04 Marta Madison

2016-05 Helen Dubrovich

2016-06 Graeme Gordon

No Better Friend Pencil and ink $ 350

Nature’s Way Acrylic and watercolour $ 250

New Dawn Fine art Photography $ 395

This painting represents hope and love. Marta Madison was inspired by the Cancer Council Yellow Board Project to create this vibrant piece about the healing powers of dogs. The love between dogs and humans transforms lives by alleviating loneliness, reducing stress and accelerating the healing process.

The use of therapy dogs in hospital and aged care centres bears witness to this. By drawing the viewer back to a time when they had a loving pet in their lives, Marta hopes to inspire optimism and resilience though our connection with animals.

I’ve always found peace and comfort in nature, in gardens, parks and in the bushland. Even in downsizing from a house with a garden to an apartment, it was important to me to immediately establish a garden on my balcony which overlooks a beautiful park.

With the stresses of everyday life and at times life throwing the unexpected and unwelcome occurrences which can happen when least expected, I’ve found refuge in nature. In simply taking time out and observing bees in the garden, butterflies fluttering amongst the flowers, children playing on the grass and amongst the trees. Nature truly nurtures. The cycle of life goes on. Hope is eternal. Nature in all it’s splendour gives comfort to those seeking it.

I feel privileged to live on the Northern beaches of Sydney and experience the beauty of the place I call home. This was an amazing morning down at Collaroy ocean pool. With a storm closing in the sky turned these incredible colours with light that you get on few occasions. I have used a blur technique with the editing on this one to convey the surreal felling I was experiencing on this morning.

2016-07 Razel Navarro

2016-08 Louana Roy & Jeremy Kay

2016-09 Felicity O’Connor

Hope Springs Acrylic $ 120

Abstract Sunrise Acrylic, Inks and Resin $ 180

Fresh Lines Walking oil on board $ 250

“Hope Springs” was inspired by the artist’s love of blooms.

Lavender is a particular favourite.

This artwork is a painting version of the photo she took from Lavender Bay in Sydney’s lower north shore on a spring day when lavender flowers were in bloom. She loves the different seasons and witnessing the changes that take place in nature. The falling of autumn leaves, the tree silhouettes during winter, the new life forming during springtime ushering us to bright summer days. Life is a circle in which she finds beauty to be celebrated, whatever the season may be.

Inspiration by our challenge Competing to support the great cause, Cancer Council...

I hope that art can be a path to recovery for many people who are struggling with the impact of illness. Artist Paul Klei spoke about ‘taking a line for a walk’ and when I think of that I think of the freedom that an artist has.

To express their perceptions, experiences and feelings. When we face struggles of any kind be they physical, mental or emotional we all need to have the freedom to self express. Creating art has allowed me through out my life to release pain and express frustration. Being able to view other people’s art in many forms also allows a connection to human experience which is a key healing.

A touch of Colours improvise in blue recreates the mystical energy of waves and the chaotic decor of an ocean storm. The artwork at first inspire simple feelings such as joy, awe or fear, but as the viewer is invited further into their depths more complex emotions emerge.

2016-10 Astrid Bruning

2016-11 Meg Lewer

2016-12 Emma Rowland

For Calliopi Oil and Embellishments $ 900

Canola Reflections Ink $ 500

Oculus Cetus Acrylic and permanent marker $ 200

This painting is dedicated to my friend Calliopi who passed away last Oct 2015.

After considering what I could paint for this Entry, I drew my inspiration from the golden fields of Canola which line the road, as we travel to and from Dubbo.

Every year, come rain or drought, a lot of farmers in that area manage to get in a crop of Canola.

Other crops may fail but it is the Canola which sways gently in the wind and strikes an amazing contrast against a stormy backdrop.

I love to see it in season and it gives hope that maybe this will turn out to be a good season.

So in my mind, a crop of Canola gives hope and adds beauty to life.

When contemplating the theme for my artwork, I came across an article that described the use of Virtual Reality (VR) on patients undertaking chemotherapy as part of their cancer treatment.

Studies have shown that by experiencing VR during their treatment, patients felt that their sessions were significantly shorter than they actually were.

I can imagine the feeling of being totally immersed in a pleasant environment would be a lot better than simply sitting in a stark hospital room. I look forward to seeing the application of this technology in more positive ways, especially for children.

The significance of the word ‘Oculus’ in the title is a reference to the Oculus Rift, a well known VR platform. The name ‘Oculus Cetus’ comes from ancient Greek mythology, and referred to a terrifying sea monster. In this instance, it symbolises the devastating cancer cells that can hide within our bodies.

She courageously fought cancer for many years. Her mother died from cancer when Calliopi was only two years of age, her sister also died from cancer.

Calliopi loved cats and butterflies. She always wished to transform into a beautiful butterfly, which she finally did.

Unfortunately, when caterpillars/ pupas metamorphosis into a butterfly their lifespan is short.

I will always cherish her memory and let it live on. Whenever I see a butterfly I think of Calliopi (this may be her saying hello).

2016-13 James Mathurin

2016-14 Vicki Bosworth

2016-15 Graeme Gordon

Profile Pic of Sarah Bernhardt Indian Ink and Makers on paper $ 150

Illumination Oil $ 300

Golden Light Fine art Photography $ 395

This piece is based on ‘A Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt’ by Paul Emile Berthon, the Art Nouveau painter whose work I’ve been influenced by. Bernhardt was an incredibly famous actress of the time, both in theatre and early movies. She was also an artist and writer, and generally lived a pretty interesting life.

One of my chief loves in painting is the genre of still life using ordinary everyday objects to create a composition. I chose the cocktail glass for its interesting form and the shadow it casts: an echo and distortion of the original shape. I deliberately chose to paint in a high key so that the play of light became the main drama, the touch of yellow being the chief emotional highlight. I was also playing around with ideas that t he form of the glass with its positive and negative shapes alludes to presence, the glass suggests transparency and maybe ‘illumination’.

Golden light was captured on a recent trip to Karinjini National Park in Western Australia.

This little known gem is located in the Hamersly Ranges of Pilbara Region. It is best known for its waterfalls and sheersided chasms were the rocks are stained with rust from the iron ore. This image was taken in Kalamina gorge with this little cascade taking my eye with the brillant reflections from the light reflecting off the walls of the canyon.

2016-16 Marnie McKnight

2016-17 Greta Silvers

2016-18 Moya De Luca-Leonard

Fragments of Time Acrylic and gold leaf $ 170

The Yellow Dance Acrylic and Mixed Media $ 100

The Love of Flowers Oils on wood $ 500

My Yellow Board was inspired by a close friend who recently battled Stage Four cancer. Thinking of what she went through over the last year, I wanted to depict the backdrop of fear, the forefront of churning emotions, both good and bad with the gold leaf representing the fragments of life which come into focus so much more sharply at times like these. But I also wanted the yellow to be bright and cheerful - not only the glimmer of hope in the background, but starting to break strongly through the black.

The Yellow Dance is about seeing life as a party. Through the journey of recovery from Cancer, adding sparkles, glitters and sequins, you can overcome anything as long as you stay the way you are.

The Yellow Dance, life is about dancing listening to the sound of your soul.

The paintings have been done with my dear friend in mind.

Diane suffers blood cancer, and is so gracious, loving, and full of life and generosity despite her diagnosis and daily treatment.

The love of flowers and my dogs is the love I want to share with Diane. She has medical treatment and so all she really needs is love.

2016-19 Moya De Luca-Leonard

2016-20 Eleanor Anson

2016-21 Barbarella Frantz

The Love of Dogs Oils on wood $ 500

Dawn rising Acrylic High gloss $ 450

Truth Vibrations Ink and watercolour on 300gsm watercolour paper $ 125

The paintings have been done with my dear friend in mind.

Diane suffers blood cancer, and is so gracious, loving, and full of life and generosity despite her diagnosis and daily treatment.

For those with cancer, recovering from cancer, in remission and for their family and love ones each new day brings hope, each new day is precious, each moment of each day is golden and treasured. In my painting I have attempted to portray the joy of life that we all too often take for granted.

Through my practice I have realized the importance of staying present, of feeling all i can feel, now. Of not worrying about the future (final result), or being stuck in the past (being limited by previous experiences).

It’s all about enjoying the moment and being with myself and the mediums, not thinking about where I’m going but learning to trust wholeheartedly that I am exactly where I am meant to be. This has taught me the importance of staying present not just through my practice but through life. It allows for a gateway of infinite creativity to open, bringing with it an abundance of love, hope, gratitude and awe for everything that surrounds us, physical and non-physical. Ink and watercolour are my preferred choices of medium in exploring this moment, allowing me a freedom and spontaneity to communicate what it is I feel.

The love of flowers and my dogs is the love I want to share with Diane. She has medical treatment and so all she really needs is love.

I chose trees to represent life and the cycle of life, though cracked there is still a precious base beneath the darkness. The gold reveals all the love and joy our lives bring to others each day and the love and joy they bring to us, it is invaluable. The trees embrace the dawning sun with its yellow and gold expresses the blessing of each day and hope.

Hope for the future and hope for the here and now, a new day, new beginnings and new treasures to be experienced in the dawn rising.

2016-22 Leonie Lyall

2016-23 Matteo Bernasconi

2016-24 Rubi Cassidy

Sofala Landscape Oil $ 300

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Mixed Media $ 420

La Puerta Amarilla Oil on Board $ 445

West of the Blue Mountains is the old gold mining town of Sofala. Situated on the banks of the Turon River where miners panned for the elusive nuggets, Sofala remains much as it was back in the 1800s. Travelling over the Ranges the country consists of rounded hills and escarpments with scattered homesteads dotting the landscape.

The artwork represents of the duality of the human personality.

I try to describe this duality and contrast in all my portraits.

La Puerta Amarilla - The yellow door is symbolic of welcome and friendship offering warmth like the joy of a sunny day filled with hope. The old puts on a new face and looks out to the world while holding many secrets, such is the complex nature of our fascinating urban landscape.

2016-25 Pascale Rajek

2016-26 Trish Lacey

2016-27 Diana Prowse

Revealing each layer Acrylic, Ink and Pigment $ 250

Moonshadow Giclee fine art print $ 140

Trace Painted galvanised steel & perspex $ 550

In the midst of it all, we are revealing each layer, from the moment of turmoil to the space of deep serenity and peace. May the journey of healing be made of faith and hope, and be the connection from your heart to your soul.

My work, titled «Moonshadow», shows trees that feature stars instead of leaves, and pays homage to nature’s beauty. The massive full moon in the sky, a symbol of life’s renewal, frames a solitary bird and the stars at the base have been hand-coloured yellow with conventional printing inks. The branches and stars in the upper sky resemble fireworks and are an expression of joy.

This work is an exercise in ‘Drawing in Light & Space’ The piece is as much about the shadows and yellow hue cast, as the relief forms themselves .The fine bands of shiny metal and the bright fluorescent edges of the translucent Perspex, trace sharp lines in three dimensions.

The shadows and cast yellow hue, provide a further dimension and softer tones that significantly change with the direction or movement of light.

2016-28 Phil McKay

2016-29 Gill Cameron - Lineforawalk

2016-30 Aylie McDowall

Invented Beachscape Acrylic $ 400

Yellow polka dot bikini Watercolour $ 250

The healing, meditative flow of nature acrylic watercolour diamant - head piece on board $ 200

This work is inspired by the purpose of this exhibition.

The work is based on a rural townscape painted in 2014 that has been transported to a view past a building to a beach on a sunny, cloudless day which represents the view that cancer can affect anyone regardless of their location. The swimming flag in the water symbolises the need for safety and protection in a country where skin cancer is prevalent.

Beach views and female swimmers feature heavily in Gill’s work, and this artwork is a close up of one of these gorgeous girls. Painted in watercolour on board, using Gill’s trademark washes.

A line, a line, another line. This is how my practice starts. I am never sure what I will end up with. My art is not preconceived, the flow of a brush, a pen, a pencil, what ever I have on hand.

For this artwork I knew I wanted to do a face but had no vision in my head of what she/he would look like. A strong, determined, yet thought provoked woman emerged surrounded and encompassed by nature. Through the turmoil that life brings, the grey days, the off days one can find strength in letting nature surround, a meditative, flowing caress. In this painting I have highlighted her hair with a diamanté head piece I wore to my wedding. To ‘shine like a diamond’ even in the greyest of days. My father, sister and close friends are battling cancer, this painting is dedicated to them.

2016-31 Kerry Candarakis

2016-32 Carmen Martin

2016-33 Alex Snellgrove

Hope Acrylic $ 250

Explosions of Gratitude Acrylics on board $ 400

Surry Hills Corner Acrylic on wood $ 440

The abstract work ‘Hope’ is purely about Colour and personal engagement. Colour to me has a language that voices an emotion. For instance something yellow is instantly perceived as uplifting and ‘sunny’. This is the simplest song. When colours are combined together you have harmony or discord and a story is told.

«The piece depicts the energetic and explosive feelings of gratitude for life. The viewer, upon examining the piece will feel a surge of hope, thankfulness and appreciation for their personal experiences and for the journey they have been blessed with each day.»

Winter sunlight strikes the door of a convenience store. It also lights up distant trees, still in their autumn colours, behind a little house that was probably once a pub. In the middle of a busy city, here is a peaceful place.

The use of colour is primary in my work. Its intensity and interactive properties are fundamental to my practice.

Illness and cancer has now taken my practice into a vortex of illusory information, from personal experience. My aim is to allow the viewer to have a glimpse of what I believe is paramount to Cancer sufferers and that is to have ‘hope’.

2016-34 Andrea Boltresz

2016-35 Joni Simpson

2016-36 Kelly-Anne Love

Almost Home oils (on democratic board) $ 175

Gentle Giants Acrylic $ 250

Hope Springs Eternal Watercolour & Ink $ 250

Because the work itself must say a lot with little, I decided to present my statement in the form of a poem.

I’m a 32 year old mum of 4 soon to be 5. I grew up on the beautiful island of Fiji in a gorgeous little sea side town called Savusavu on the Island of Vanualevu. Alot of my art has been influenced by my upbringing and connection with the sea. I also began making seaglass jewelry about 3years ago as a way of helping clean up my local beaches in a fun and creative way.

Having a big family and working means i have to create time or seize an opportunity to paint or draw or just be creative when ever i can eg. painting at 4 in the morning before the kids are up and the morning routine of getting everyone ready for school begins, or painting/ sketching in the bath after teeths have been brushed and kids are all tucked up in bed and bedtime stories have been read.

Time is very precious and how we use it is a skill that i in particular had to master in order to enjoy being creative. my advice to everyone is ÂŤalways make time to createÂť

I have had family members diagnose with cancer, known clients who have been recently diagnosed donated artworks to help raise money for people trying to get treatment. This artwork is personal but rather then focus on the dark I like to focus on the light, healing the rejuvenation the human instinct to fight. I have focused on the cancer council Dafodil which symbolises hope and rebirth. It is a resilient plant that will thrive dispite the harsh conditions it endures. I have surrounded it with the support eco system it needs. The native bee pollinating moving from flower to flower generating regrowth and New life. The butterfly symbolises transformation and rebirth and the humming bird which brings a reminder of enjoyment of life and enjoyment of being.

I have always believed yellow to be my happy colour so happy to create an artwork based on this colour and the New buds symbolise New hope.

Almost Home

I hear the talkers talking, of My Start and of My End. I see the watchers watching, as They watch my spirit bend.

Will I live? Will I die?

I hear the talkers talk.

But talking will not help, I have to Walk and walk and walk The walk is long, the walk is sore, I mostly walk alone.

A walk that never seems to end, A walk that I must own.

I see the turning up ahead, the Last bend in the road.

Golden light glows all around and I am almost Home.

2016-37 Heidi Melamed

2016-38 Koko Loco

2016-39 Koko Loco

Orgaonic Parabola ‘a touch of yellow’ 2016 Acrylic $ 450

Daffodil Bees Watercolour paint and gold pigment on wooden board $ 180

Hummingbird of Hope watercolour and pigment on wooden board $ 200

In ORGANIC PARABOLA ‘a touch of yellow’ 2016, the symmetrical movements of a parabola’s trajectory, oscillates between the rigid paths of its traditional forms and the dancing plasticity of the natural form.

Presented as a series of arrangements the Organic Parabola series of paintings and drawings deliberates the creative potential of the parabola’s shape. Liberating the parabola’s form from its limiting curves and structures, the artworks reveal a pathway for mapping natural manoeuvres uniting freely and organically, unlike the distinct proportions and pathways of the familiar parabola. Using acrylic paint on board the transparency and translucency of colour and form are alternately layered, overlapped and blended to resemble the growth of a garden, metaphorising their shapes into ‘gardenscapes’. The parabolas fuse into a tapestry of abstract landscapes revealing inherent juxtapositions of form, where order and uniformity converge along with unpredictability and spontaneity, realized in the contrastingly and improvisational pouring of paint.

I choose bees as a subject for the yellow board because of their symbolism of strength, community and prosperity which reflects the spirit of the yellow board.

I choose the hummingbird as the subjoect for this piece as it symbolises great courage and determination, as well as reflecting on the beauty and joy of life.

2016-40 Marie Larraine Weir

2016-41 Ivan Goodacre

2016-42 Irina Gladushchenko

Cockatoo Island from Simmon Reserve Oil on board $ 420

Yellow Mound - Hill End Oil $ 420

The World in me Acrylic $ 210

This painting is one in a series from a recent residency at Hill End near Bathurst, in May 2016. I wandered around the dense bushland observing the remnants of gold digging activity.

I made sketches of sites and developed them into paintings in the studio. This particular mound is in a field that would have been part of the township, which had a population of about 30,000 people during the height of the gold rush period in the 1870’s.

The red earth, that has been dug over in the past, still contains large amounts of quartz and in certain lighting conditions appears the have golden colours.

I was trying to capture the idea of a digging site that has grown over with ground cover plants.

As I start to explore My Inner World, I become more aware of the reasons why the Outer World impacts me the way it does‌

Cockatoo Island is a dynamic connection to our recent industrial past.

The shores of Sydney’s magnificent harbour have been scarred by the forces of industry which in the past had little care for the impact industry would have on its surrounds.

Fortunately that period is in the past, impact studies are alive and well, this harbour its gradually being restored to its beautiful best.

In so doing it is important the recent past should not be forgotten. I love and take real delight in painting and drawing what is now the remnants of that past industrial history. I love the rich colours, the layering of the rust, the mysterious darks under the wharves and the bleached out greys of old timbers.

The dormant cranes stand watching with daunting splendour, but now silently, over the river.

I am drawn back to these locations around the harbour again and again, to paint ,to draw and to reflect on the workers of the past and their place in our industrial heritage

2016-43 Karina Vallins

2016-44 Karina Vallins

2016-45 Tony Giles

Whispers Mixed Medium $ 280

Wishes Mixed Medium $ 280

Bobby Girl Oil on Wooden Board $ 450

My art is a balance between, chance, control, light, dept, texture, and mutable layering, just like life. The work I create embodies the diverse nature of contemporary art in its honesty to outward appearance.

My art is a balance between, chance, control, light, dept, texture, and mutable layering, just like life. The work I create embodies the diverse nature of contemporary art in its honesty to outward appearance.

A little study in oils exploring an unusual pose.

Using any method, medium and style when fitting, rather preempting an outcome, I let the materials I use make their score and the picture evolve. I apply the paint quickly and other times painfully slowly, I allow each layer to make its own mark. Identifying the decisions I made during the moment of creativity and to be displayed in the finished work.

Using any method, medium and style when fitting, rather preempting an outcome, I let the materials I use make their score and the picture evolve. I apply the paint quickly and other times painfully slowly, I allow each layer to make its own mark. Identifying the decisions I made during the moment of creativity and to be displayed in the finished work.

I paint from my soul not to please everyone but to bring, interest and curiosity.

I paint from my soul not to please everyone but to bring, interest and curiosity.

2016-46 Verity Roberts

2016-47 Pascale Rajek

2016-48 Don Talintyre

The Pathway to Happiness Encaustic & Mixed Media $ 350

After the storm - time to heal Acrylic, Ink and Pigment $ 250

A Leap of Faith Acrylic $ 250

This encaustic work is about one’s journey through life and the pathways it takes. Some rough some easy, on tracks and on highways. The layering, translucency and texture of this encaustic work - such an ancient medium which has been around since the Egyptian and Romans helps to tell the story. Encaustic is a mixture of beeswax and damar resin (a natural tree resin from Indonesia) - it is impervious to moisture and therefore does not deteriorate: the beeswax acts as a preservative so that the hue of the pigments remains bright forever. It can be gently polished with a soft rag.

The moment we discover we have a dis-ease, your internal weather is turning into a storm.

Each day is another day to discover the path of recovery.

After the storm, it is time to heal and take the time we so need to look after ourselves.

Unfortunately I have had a deep personal involvement with Cancer. After losing a loved one and surviving my own battle with this onerous disease I have been a crusader, fundraising for Cancer Research.

Although it looks like an anachronism I have used the yellow in the Painting to depict the trauma and struggle associated with the disease.

By constant research and early detection and professional treatment many sufferers survive. The figure in the painting represents this aspect and hence the title: «A Leap of Faith»

2016-49 Sue McArthur

2016-50 Helen Dubrovich

2016-51 Kwan Chemsripong

Sweeping Yellow Skies photography $ 150

Loyal Friends Acrylic $ 175

Apricot Acrylic $ 370

From the ethereal collection, the “Sweeping Yellow Skies” is a focus on seascapes and the beautiful coast line from Sydney, Australia. The composition revolves around the horizon, the sea and sky. Above as below, the divine connection of the sky and sea (earth). The power of nature, the power of colour creating is a call out for solitude, peace and deep love. The introspective of our own journey.

Support from friends and family always give much needed comfort. Difficulties and problems don’t seem quite so insurmountable when shared with a good friend. Life can often throw unexpected curve balls and to know you have loving support from others and to know you are not alone, can give that much needed strength when running on empty, to find that light at the end of the tunnel. Thank heavens for friends.

My influences are drawn from Japanese manga and anime particularly work by Hirohiko Araki. Whose work has elements of dream, reality and companionship. Even when our eyes are closed, there’s a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.

This artwork, Apricot was to show the juxtaposition between human and fantasy creature but together as one.

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