Current Studio Artists


Aaron Anderson

New York, USA

Aaron Anderson was born in Kansas (USA) in 1976. After receiving his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, Michigan in 2002, he moved to New York to pursue his art career. Making art in New York while also working for established galleries and artists allowed him an inside look at all sides of the art business and how art shapes and is shaped by the world at large.

While his education emphasized photography, Aaron’s work does not adhere to any particular discipline, instead attempting to present 2-D and 3-D creations that “live” in the same imagined space. Photographs and drawings exist as objects, alongside cast resin and otherwise constructed sculptures in an attempt to create a complex, yet readable visual vocabulary.


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Drew Bickford
Sydney

Born 1974 at Penrith, NSW, Bickford studied Fine Arts at the University of Western Sydney from 2000-02. He primarily works with illustration and sculpture to explore his ongoing obsessions with crime, deformity and horror. He has participated in exhibitions at Blacktown Arts Centre, MOP Projects (where is a committee member), Art Sydney at Fox Studios, Firstdraft Gallery, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Loose Projects, Greenhill Gallery, Adelaide, and Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne. He has worked as a secondary visual arts teacher and is currently based at Campbelltown Arts Centre as the Education and Public Programs Officer.

www.pinkfit.net



Mark Bolotin
Sydney

Mark Bolotin is an award-winning director, multimedia practitioner and the founder and artistic director of Synarcade Audio-Visuals. At 17 he was named ‘Young Writer of the Year’ by The Sydney Morning Herald and went on to write and create numerous short films and live visuals for local and international music acts. As director of Synarcade, he has produced challenging, interactive and multimedia work for events such as the Sydney Festival (2006- 2008), Sydney Writers Festival (2006), Cockatoo Island Festival (2005) and many more. Most recently, Synarcade Audio-Visuals created the ground-breaking interactive show “Emergence: Build Your Own Being” (Sydney Opera House, Canberra Street Theatre, Melbourne Arts House, 2007) in which audiences came together to create an ideal human being and then watch it come alive. Emergence drew great critical acclaim and audience response and is now being developed for a worldwide audience.

www.synarcade.com.au


Zoë MacDonell
Sydney


Zoë MacDonell is a full time artist based in Australia. She was born in England, and lived in Africa and America before settling in Australia in 1993. Zoë received an honours degree from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW and her work explores painting, drawing and new media. Zoë has exhibited her work across Australia and internationally. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Grantpirre Window, Chalk Horse and BUS Gallery, Artist Run Initiative, in Melbourne. She has completed artist in residency programs in Hill End, Bundanon: Arthur Boyd’s property and aboard the Marina Svetaeva in Antarctica. Zoë has received numerous grants, including from the Australia Council for Arts and the National Association for the Visual Arts. In 2007 she was a finalist for Helen Lempriere, the Landerer Arts Scholarship and Realise Your Dream British Council award, and in 2008 the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award. A portrait of Zoë, by Angus McDonald, is included in this years Archibald.

zoe@zoemacdonell.com



Bob Negryn
Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Bob Negryn lives and works between the west coast of Ireland and the Netherlands.

During the early eighties he studied Photography, printmaking, sculpture and painting in the Netherlands.  The first years after leaving Art School he used these mediums to create a series of installations exploring the social and aesthetic legacy of late 20th Century Holland.

The last few years the emphasis in his work has moved more and more towards photography.  In these images he focuses on the landscape, urban, rural and remote. Exploring how the cultural, historical and social development of a country shapes the physical landscape of the region.

www.bobnegryn.com

Bob Negryn's residnecy is supported by Fonds BKVB, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.


Fiona Lowry

Sydney


Sydney-based artist Fiona Lowry has exhibited her work throughout Australia as well as internationally. She was the recipient of the 2008 Doug Moran Portrait Prize and in 2006 she was recognised with a trilogy of awards, including an Australia Council New Work Grant, the ABN Amro Employee's Choice Award and the acquisitive Collex-Primavera Prize. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections including Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, Artbank, UBS, and ABN Amro.

Fiona Lowry is represented by Gallery Barry Keldoulis.



Recent Studio Artists


Bennett Miller

Perth


Bennett Miller is a sculptor and installation artist from Perth, Western Australia. Bennett has been prolific exhibitor throughout Australia for the last 8 years, contributing major installation works for group exhibitions such as Winners are Grinners, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2006); Grudge Match, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (2006); Flux2, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth (2005) and Hotel 6151, Perth (2002). In 2006 Bennett undertook a residency at the International Art Space in Kellerberin where he presented the solo exhibition Ed Devereaux, having also held solo exhibitions at the Breadbox Gallery (2003); and Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2007). Miller is a recent recipient of an Australia Council New Work grant and was featured in Australian Art Collector in March of this year. Forthcoming exhibitions include Silver at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Linden1968 at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Art in Victoria.


Hiraku Suzuki
Tokyo, Japan

Hiraku Suzuki is a Tokyo artist who works with an ‘excavating method’ of understanding and engaging with the urban environment. His practice is based in drawing, but embraces installation, video, live performance, street art and experimental music culture. Much of Suzuki’s work hinges on the vast library of signs and heiroglyphs he has developed by focusing on the shapes, forms, rhythms and materials of his immediate environment, which might be understood as the base units of the ever-changing hidden language of the city. These are then adapted to a range of formats, including large-scale wall drawings, gallery installations, painting performances and presentations in public space. Suzuki is also known for his video and performance collaborations with experimental musicians. In Sydney, as in Tokyo, he will present a large-scale wall painting, in addition to video and performance works developed in residence.

Hiraku Suzuki is participating in the exhibition Between Site & Space at Artspace 13.03 - 18.04.2009