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Tricia Greinke |
Tricia practises as a studio ceramic artist from home making mostly functional stoneware on the wheel. Her off the shelf lines include some old favourite designs, including her Australian Grasstree a part of her work since 1990. She is constantly developing new designs, and also makes work to order for individuals and corporates.
Tricia is a trained teacher and has lengthy experience teaching clay to children of all ages, adult and people with disabilities.
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Maaret Sinkko |
Maaret commenced exhibiting in 2003 as an emerging artist. Maaret’s early adult work was selected twice for exhibition in the annual “churchie national emerging art exhibition” and Corinda Festival of Arts (prize winner). In recent years she has focused on printmaking. The goose permeates her work as it signifies a journey and the capacity to undertake a great life quest. Maaret describes the various printmaking techniques “ as a lifetime of opportunities” in terms of medium, application and colour. She values the importance of study as equally as drawing everyday. She has had a number of exhibtiions at the Mill Gallery, Yeppoon.
Maaret was born to Finnish parents in Brisbane, Australia, in 1965 and have been living at the Capricorn Coast for nearly 20 years. She is a first generation Australian.
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Kelly Cramer |
Kelly Cramer is a freelance designer based in Rockhampton. Kelly studied Visual Arts and Graphic Design at Central Queensland Institute of TAFE, and worked for Graphic and Web Design businesses as well as a local Photographer. These experiences have given her the opportunity to work in the fields of corporate branding, packaging, advertising, photo restoration, photo manipulation as well as a unique appreciation of design in all its forms.
Kelly enjoys painting in Watercolour and Oils, sketching in Pastels and Charcoal and anything Photoshop! Kelly is particulary inspired by Vintage Advertising and Illustration. Her art can be found on her website, as well as through Redbubble & Etsy. Kelly is available for commissions - please contact her to discuss.
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Sandra Fishlock |
Although Sandra was always art and craft oriented she began painting seriously in 1989. Moving to the Capricorn Coast in 1994 Sandra adapted her palette from the warm colours of the outback to the cool colours of her new environment.
Sandra experimented with different mediums, but watercolours remain an important unadulterated pure expression of her art. Sandra has had gratifying results, with several awards and exhibitions in Melbourne, Adelaide, Darwin and numerous venues in Queensland and the Northern Territory as well as in La Rochelle, France.
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Debra Munro |
I am a re-born artist, painting dolls to look like a real baby and it takes about a week to make one doll. I have won the reborn champion and reserve champion 3 years running at the Rockhampton Porcelain Dollmakers, Doll and Bear Fair. I sell my dolls to people all over Australia and I make and sell from my home.
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Peta Lloyd |
Peta is a Central Queensland artist creating art works using found materials and objects. Peta combines collage, assemblage and printmaking to create artist’s books, assemblages, shrines, wall narratives and box diaries.
Collecting has always factored in Peta’s life, others castoffs and natures offerings are brought together in her artwork. Peta combines similar and disparate objects…new with old…revealing stories from the past, about the present and of the future.
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Vera Fennell |
I was born in Dolni Sucha, Czechoslovakia, raised in post-war Austria and settled in Australia in 1970. I developed as a painter in Grantville, Victoria in 1978. Vera has been involved in a number of solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia and aboard. In 2006 together with her husband Robert, Vera moved to the Queensland Capricorn Coast where she paints as much as possible.
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Veronika Zeil |
Veronika Zeil was born in Germany and her travels have brought her to Australia, Central Queensland. Veronika’s artwork aims to connect the viewer with the environment, to examine the human relationship with nature and to express the impact of human actions on the land.
Veronika works in many media including recycled materials, glass, paper mache, acrylics, pastels and water colours. Her work is on display locally at the Mill Gallery, Central Queensland University as well as in businesses and private. Veronika works from her studio at Rockyview and visits can be arranged by appointment. Mosaic Workshops are also held regularly.
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Nob Creek Pottery |
Stephen Bishopric
Studio potter for 35 years and originally from Auckland NZ, Steve started Nob Creek Pottery in 1979. He specialises in wheel thrown forms, gas fired reduction stoneware and wood and pit firing. Has a selection of work in regional, State and International galleries and private collections.
Susan McBurnie
Art teacher and ceramic artist who specialises in ceramic slab forms and decoration, sculptural work, mid fire and stoneware reduction fired pieces. Susan has lived and worked in Sydney, PNG and Townsville and now Nob Creek Pottery Gallery in Byfield for the past 10 years.
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Gail Black |
Gail Black was born in Rockhampton and has been creating functional pottery with the Capricornia Potters Group (CPG) since 1990. Like most other members, Gail started “indulging in creating pottery” as she describes it, later in life due to family and work commitments. Although Gail describes herself as a functional potter, she also enjoys crafting character figures using wheel-thrown pieces as well as simple underglaze decoration on slab-built pots.
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Ainslie McMahon |
Ainslie McMahon is a practicing artist who works with impasto paint, mosaic, and found objects to create large-scale murals and assemblages, as well as smaller 2D works. Her work is bold, colourful and expressive and reflects the landscape and culture of Central Queensland. Her focus as an artist is to translate in a contemporary style, the vibrant colours and unique culture and landforms of Central Queensland through paint and mixed media.
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Bob Stack |
I like to call my paintings "happy paintings" they are very colourful and sometime feature houses, people, dogs, cats.
I like to tell a story when I paint, just like writing a book, sometimes I have only an inkling of what I am to paint, maybe a winding road and a house catches my eye and I start to draw it and as I draw the story develops I may add some people or some cars, maybe more houses, shops, etc.
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Carmen Beezley-Drake |
The sights, sounds and smells of the bush have been a major part of my life. I was born and raised in the bush, worked the land with family and continually return to the bush through various volunteer activities and family recreations. As a landscape artist I am constantly confronted with this vastly diverse landscape and to portray it with truth and feeling? How to get below the surface, to its very basic structure? The tone and textures, the colour and rhythm of a place are some of the elements I strive to portray. I do numerous sketches before making a decision on how I am going to proceed with a painting. The mood of a painting is a reflection of how I perceived the image and I rely on my visual memory of that image while painting.
I paint in a wide range of mediums and find a different medium often requires another approach this in itself creates different challenges for me. The outback and landscapes in particular have been a central focus for my artwork for over fifty years.
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Noel Brady |
Capricorn Coast sculptor and artist Noel Brady was born in Ballarat Victoria in 1946. He studied art at the Ballarat School of Mines and Industries (now Ballarat University) in the early sixties, but his studies were interrupted when he was called up for National Service in 1967. Noel attended Teachers college in 1970 and after being awarded his teaching degree began his career as an art teacher in 1971.
In 1983, Noel and his family moved to Rockhampton, Queensland where he took up a position as head of the art department at Emmaus College. During his 21 years at Emmaus College, along with numerous commissioned and exhibited sculptural pieces, Noel’s creative output also extended to include stage design and set construction for about 19 musical productions at Rockhampton’s Pilbeam Theatre.
After many years teaching, Noel retired in 2002 to concentrate on his own artwork with particular focus on sculpture. He now works from his bush studio at Emu Park.
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Brian Kehoe |
Brian Kehoe works from his studio overlooking the ocean in Emu Park utilising a variety of media. He has a special liking for watercolour because of its fluidity and the way in which colours can be mixed to produce very strong effects. He also favours use of contemporary media to produce vivid and fresh images.
Brian has exhibited his work regularly, more recently in Rockhampton but before that in Brisbane. He is a foundation member and president of the Fine Arts Society in Emu Park and conducts classes in watercolour and drawing. His work can be seen at the Emu Park Gallery and, by appointment, at his studio at 20 Bright St Emu Park
(phone 49388198).
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Lisa Gaze |
The ocean, reef and rainforest have always been a major influence on my work. This marine/environmental theme transposes well into my chosen artform of contemporary jewellery. I enjoy the processes in silversmithing and enamelling, from creating the initial design, to how it inevitably evolves and metamorphoses into a 3-dimensional piece.
Individual handcrafted pieces are created using a variety of materials selected for their uniqueness and expressive quality to enhance the initial design. Techniques that I enjoy using that compliment my marine/environmental theme are cuttlefish casting, repousse/chasing, bone carving and forging.
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Susan Head |
Susan is a member of the Emu Park Gallery as well as the Mill Gallery in Yeppoon. Susan’s interests are in mixed media using pastels,paint and collage and also printmaking. she also designs original tapestries which are worked as needle point tapestry.
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Phil McKone |
The Sundial of Human Involvement is a rare type of sundial that uses a person’s body to cast a shadow onto hour markers and to tell the time. The position of the person is adjusted throughout the year following a figure of eight pathway, or analemma - so this type of sundial is known as an analemmatic sundial.
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Nanette Balchin |
Nanette is a mixed media & collage artist textile artist and painter. She also creates artists books and boxes. Nanette’s process is to explore surface and the emotional response created by interesting textures, surfaces and objects, combined through collage, in unusual ways, to create an image or story. "I am intrigued by the creative possibilities of storytelling through constructing boxes and books and “reinventions” made from discarded artworks and objects."
Nanette has exhibited her work for 7years in Yeppoon, Rockhampton and Maleny. Nanette’s is also an active community artist and facilitator. Her newest project has been the creation of a new Arts event for this region: Wrapt in Rocky: CQ Textiles Forum held in 2008 and scheduled for 2010.
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Jet James |
Originally from Perth, Jet relocated to Rockhampton in 2005 and proceeded to win extensive prestigious awards in the region. He is a welcome addition to the Central Queensland arts collective as he brings with him an innovative, experimental style that reflects a maturity not indicative of his youth. Predominantly a printmaker, specialising in collography, Jet is currently a resident of Yeppoon where he is a member of the Mill art gallery and lives on a small rural property. He works proficiently from his home studio, creating highly original pieces that are sought after in both the local and international markets. As Jet’s horizon continues to expand there is no doubt that he has a successful artistic career in front of him.
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Joy James |
Joy is a local artist specialising in making her own glass beads with a technique called ‘lampworking’ or ‘flameworking’. This involves making each bead individually by hand by melting glass rods with a blowtorch. This was a natural progression from making beaded jewellery, after attending a two day workshop at the Walter Reid Cultural Centre in Rockhampton in 2007 hosted by talented Brisbane based glass artist, Tracy Brown. Since then Joy has honed her skills and crafted her own signature bracelets in an array of designs through the incorporation of her own original lampwork beads with Swarovski crystal charms to create one of a kind wearable art pieces. Joy welcomes custom requests to help reflect your own personal style and individuality.
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Anna Casey |
Anna Casey is a self-taught artist, who aims to capture the freshness and humour of life from the perspective of her imaginative ‘inner child’. A member of CQ Contemporary Artists since 2003, Anna has shown and sold her work many times with this lively local group. Her digital art work was shown in the Rockhampton Art Gallery Ergon Energy Art Awards 2007 and ‘How we see’ photography exhibition 2009.
Anna says “Trained as a children’s librarian, my work shows a strong influence from children’s book illustration. Line drawing has formed the basis of my art, having spent over 20 years creating quirky ink drawings which arrived as I drew straight from my subconscious. Published illustrations include subjects as diverse as Edward Lear’s poem “The Owl and the Pussycat”, hymns, childhood reminiscences and haiku poetry. During the last 10 years I have expanded into acrylic painting, and transforming illustrations and photographs in Photoshop, forming them into digitally altered artworks. I sell art prints and cards locally, and online worldwide through my own website, zazzle and Redbubble.’
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Donna Littlejohn |
Donna Littlejohn is a practicing artist and teacher who recently completed her Masters in Contemporary Art (MCA) through University of Tasmania. Donna completed her Diploma of Fine Art at Queensland College of Art in 1978 and Graduate Diploma of Education in 1991. She has studied under and worked with master sculptor Tom Bass, completing several large figurative commissions for the Catholic Church between 1996 and 2001 at Tom Bass Sculpture School, Sydney.
Donna completed an installation for her Master’s study which responded to the inextricable relationship that exists between the Capricorn Coast, the Fitzroy River and wider Fitzroy River Basin. She commented on the impact of development and industry on sedimentation and pollution of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. The installation was strapped to a palette, as if ready for transportation, to represent the commodification of our natural resources. A recording of the Singing Ship was included to add extra sensory depth to the installation as well as marking a different cultural impact on the environment.
Donna is available for commission work and is happy to discuss ideas you may have.
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Sarah Lewis |
Sarah’s work emphasises people and their interactions with cultural forms and practices. The land and city-scapes of the region play star roles as silent spectators to society’s show. Sarah describes her work as being about the connection of people with places and developing communities through cultural practices. On a broader level it is also about encountering the universal through the local.
Since returning to the Capricorn region, Sarah has been an active member of the Queensland Arts community. She is currently working on the COSMOS project – a living inter-disciplinary work which uses the local environment as a platform to explore and observe the cultural landscape of the place. Recently Sarah created and directed the inaugural Guerrilla Arts Alleyway Festival. Set in an alleyway, the festival included art installations, community art exhibitions and live music. Sarah also conducts visual art workshops for children and adults and works in the regions creative industries. Sarah can be contacted on 0432 567 503.
