2019 ‘Artworks! PLAY’ – artworks

Artist: Marianne Foster
Mediums: Acrylic on canvas
Dimension: 50cm x 50cm x 4cm
Artist Statement:

The Bird cage in the Darwin Botanical Gardens is a popular place to go with children. It has a very zen aspect to it when you are alone there. The bright green of the cage contrasting with the fallen tree which is utilised in the design, interests my facination mixing organic with man made shapes. I’m currently experimenting with colour schemes and brush.

Artist: Veronica Hodges
Mediums: Acrylic
Dimension: 40cm x 50cm x 2cm
Artist Statement:

Local artist Veronica Hodges paints in a variety of mediums and loves the NT for inspiration in flora and fauna

Artist: Mandy Rains
Mediums: Paper clay, acrylic paint and wool
Dimension: 20cm x 15cm x 25cm
Artist Statement:

Homage to our family dog.

Artist: Anne McMaster
Mediums: Watercolour
Dimension: 50cm x 38cm x 2cm
Artist Statement:

Organic aesthetics of stones found on the Noosa tide line are placed formally into a collective shape of adornment. The medium of watercolour create puddly transparent washes.

Artist: alisondowell@aapt.net.au
Mediums: mixed media
Dimension: 30cm x 20cm x 20cm
Artist Statement:

There they go, that pair of scrubfowl, messing up my garden…!
Wait, is that their mound? You’re kidding! Its the size of my car!! Are they really chasing away their own young, and why are they screeching at them so loudly? And why in the middle of the night?! Why do they need to dig such a huge hole with those giant orange feet in the middle of my veggie patch? Why are they so indifferent to my efforts to make things nice?? Why???
Because they are native to this place. Indifferent to me, my garden, my borders, my rules… simply doing their own thing. On a land which after all used to be all theirs. Let them be.

Here is my loving tribute to the scrubfowl in all their messy, loyal, head bobbing, hesitant, natural, naughty, indignant, imperious, sleek, cheeky, noisy, beauty. ARGLE ARGLE ARRRRRK! ( …not that they care)

Artist: kim boardman
Mediums: Paper clay
Dimension: 20cm x 30cm x 20cm
Artist Statement:

Kamahi’s workshop sculpting dogs was lots of fun

Artist: Amber Reid
Mediums: Acrylic on canvas
Dimension: 123cm x 6cm x 108cm
Artist Statement:

This work explores the colours and atmosphere of the water and human interaction within it.
There is nothing more freeing than jumping in to open water, a brief moment of flying through the air and having zero gravity when you hit the water. I want to capture a sense of movement and playfulness in the figures jumping through the water full of flecks of sunlit colour.

Artist: Marianne Foster
Mediums: Acrylic on canvas
Dimension: 25cm x 60cm x 2cm
Artist Statement:

Jingili Skatepark is such a fun place to hang out

Artist: Marianne Foster
Mediums: Acrylic on canvas
Dimension: 50cm x 60cm x 2cm
Artist Statement:

Dogs have their own view on the world. I played with colour, fantasy and realism. I tried to capture that moment after a big walk when the dog is too puffed even chase a butterfly.

Artist: Samantha Galletly
Mediums: Cardboard, wire, paper, liquid nails
Dimension: 30cm x 20cm x 25cm
Artist Statement:

Sculpture of my second born ‘Darwin Brown’, Boondie.

Artist: Kym Tucker
Mediums: Satay sticks, carboard, masking tape, sticky tape, toilet paper mache
Dimension: 24cm x 39cm x 25cm
Artist Statement:

Made during the Camp Dog workshop.

Brownie is my pet Beaglier that I adopted from a family that could no longer care for him. He has become my best mate and life is so much better with him in it.