Soldiers Hill Artist Collective will again open their private studios for tours and art displays at annual Art Walk event on two weekends: April 27-28 and May 4-5, 2019 10am – 4pm Join us at the Launch of our 2019 Art Walk event on Friday April 26th at 6.30pm at Ballarat North Bowling Club, to…
I am a self-taught artist who moved to Ballarat three-years ago (2015). I usually paint in oil but have always loved bronze sculpture, particularly of the Art Navo and Art Deco eras. My background in dental technology taught me lost wax casting, a technique that I have used to make these three fairy wrens. I…
Soldiers Hill Artist Collective will again open their private studios for tours and art displayed in shop windows during annual Art Walk event in May this year. Soldiers Hill Art Walk 2018 will see several artists exhibited in the suburb’s private artist studios and businesses from Saturday, May 19 to Sunday, May 27 and will…
Elaine is a talented painter, printmaker and illustrator. Her work is often inspired by living as a small child, inside the secure fence of a beautiful garden. The painting shown here is “Storm Alert”.
“I’m getting old” That’s it. I feel it in my body, my bones ache. Surrender. My current works come from a deep need to transform pain into a still form of art. One more time, trying to find a simple beauty. One more go at accepting fate realizing I know very little of this world……
“I gather inspiration from organic and architectural forms and relish the opportunity to produce fine furniture that will appreciate in value. Furniture should be pleasing to the eye, it should be functional and it should reflect the skills of the designer/maker. Many hours go into the hand-cutting of dovetails and mortise and tenons and I…
James Pasakos Artist Biography TACIT Contemporary Art: Jimmy Pasakos is a practising visual artist. His core theme is ‘sense of place and identity’, one that has been largely influenced by the Melbourne Docklands, Australia. The artist spent his childhood exploring the industrial docklands of Melbourne – that polluted artificial landscape reflected in his earlier artwork,…
Magdalena Kazmierczak, Polish-born Artist.
Sustaining permanent disability following an accident was the impetus for Christine to leave behind her field of Calligraphy and Manuscript Illumination and embrace the challenges of exploring other mediums. Her interest in Art as Therapy and the Outsider Art movement stem from her own experience as a fringe dweller. Her recent works have been explorations…
Lorraine is now our ‘go to’ media person as well as our font of knowledge, on all things to do with the history of buildings and towns. She is one of our photographers and in particular specialises in digital, photographic art.