Julie Payne
You have been short listed for the Glover Prize on several occasions. Can you explain your work, and a little about the Glover Prize? The Glover…
Jerusha McDowell
What led you to open a Gallery and go beyond being a freelance photographer? I studied photography and filmmaking at university and returned to…
Brian Davidson
Can you explain the difference between printmaking and watercolourist prints?Pambula Beach Unlike reduction Lino Printing where the lino (or other…
Kathryn Ryan
Recently you took a year off painting. A year to relook and reseeing and refocus. What led you to do this? After 20+ years of holding solo…
Harlinah Teoh
What led you to reconnect with ceramics in 2019?At the end of 2018 I was raising teenagers, working long hours in a demanding job, and studying a…
Leree Lindsay
Do you feel that your current environment in country Australia, is directly influences your, work? I live on a farm in the Northern Rivers my studio…
Fiona Hiscock
Are all the native Australian birds on flora that is specific to the bird’s habitat?Yes, I am really particular about composing the painting so…
Jonathon Westacott
What led you to set up your studio in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast? After completing University and traineeship at the Jam Factory Craft and…
David Higgins
You have had many residencies take two and expand on how the actual residency developed your art. It is hard to say which residency has impacted me…
Michelle Mischkulnig
Expand on your quote, “I am passionate about my art, created with joy”.Ramblers Garden 2, Detail I love starting each day with the sense of…
Sally Cleary
What lead you to Paris? I married a French man in 2014 and moved to Paris. It was unexpected but life changing. How has your Australian background…
Carly Le Cerf
Can you explain the different mediums you use in your work? My work would most accurately be described as mixed media. My staple materials are…
Peter Minson
You are a third-generation glass blower. Did you ever consider another career away from glass? As a 13-14 year old I would go to the factory in…
Clare Belfrage
Can you discuss your use of line and its relationship with nature? I have worked with the repetition of an element for many years now and most often…
Sam Michelle
Do you think having come from a creative family influenced your choice to be an artist? I think having encouraging creative grandparents along with…
Kati Thamo
You have been fortunate to win a Go Anywhere Grant discuss. Yes, I was very fortunate to gain a Go Anywhere grant in 2010. It was a privately funded…
Georgie Seccull
How did you become involved in the Art of Dining exhibition at the NGV (National Gallery of Victoria)? Briefly discuss how the ‘whole’ table setting…
Olivia Hickey
You are preparing for your upcoming Wilderness residency in 2019. Can you explain? I have been awarded a residency by Arts Tasmania for a 6-week…
Robyn Stacey
What lead you to still life photography? When I started working with historic collections the still-life tradition provided a working…
Belinda Wilson
Can you expand on your master’s Research, and relate the importance of art on current day issues – Climate change? The Master of Fine Art by research…
Cathy Franzi
Can you discuss how the Nelson Nichols Scholarship has affected your art practice? I received this award in my first year of a Master of Visual Arts…
Gunjan Aylawadi
Where did you first see paper art? Do you mean my specific way of working with paper? It’s a technique I came up with while experimenting with paper.…
Chris Chun, Painter- Plus
Explain how you have your feet in both countries, Thailand and Australia? My husband and I have been based here in Chiang Mai since 2010. Originally,…
Freya Powell
How has your background in fashion and flowers influenced your art? Before I started painting, my main interest was always fashion and…
Denise Faulkner
Denise Faulkner, Mudgee, NSW, Australia Nostalgia and Nature are captured together. Zoneone Arts brings Denise Faulkner to you… Mudgee is truly…
Jessi Wong
Rolls and scrolls, of paper and printing. Zoneone Arts brings Jessi Wong to you… Your work is in many Corporate Collections, please take one and…
Ray Besserdin
With years of working with paper, Ray Besserdin's paper truly becomes sculpture Zoneone Arts brings Ray Besserdin to you… Can you discuss and compare…
Trudi Harley
Don't give up your dream to paint - Trudi Harley testifies to this, proving the need to paint exists. Harley paints with honesty and maturity,…
Belinda Fox
Travel influences Belinda Fox's art. Living in Singapore brought bright colours, while pairing back colour in The Netherlands. Belinda Fox causes…
Neville French
Sumptuous-lavish, luxurious, opulent, magnificent, resplendent, lush, lavishly… These words only begin to introduce you to Neville French’s……
Kate Nixon
Give us your thoughts on the importance of collecting and having handmade objects large and small? Edith Wharton once said “an object is always more…
Anita Laurence
Explain how your career in art and printmaking began? I studied Fine Art Painting at Prahran College and when I met my husband printmaker Bill Young…
Lisa Cahill
What lead you to glass making? A love of design let me to Glassmaking. I never even considered Glass as a medium until I chanced upon it at an open…
Kevin Gordon
Clear Sea Urchin Expand on the influence your parents have had on your glass career? With both parents being artists, I guess they laid the seed, I…
Anton Thomas
Can you discuss how important research and preparation is to your work? I estimate that some 35-40% of my overall labour time is research and prep,…
Susan McMinn
Explain how you managed to link your PhD to a visit to Israel? My PhD research was around the horse in war during the Palestine Campaigns of WW1.…
The Melbourne Map
Melinda Clarke Can you tell us briefly of the history of the 1st Melbourne Map? Original: In my mid 20’s I headed off to explore the world and…
Nathalie Hartog-Gautier
You comment,’ My work is focused on the voyage between people and their environment ….’ Can you explain this in relationship to your art work? My…
Helen Earl
You currently are currently exhibiting work as part of The North Head Project curated by Katherine Roberts at Manly Art Gallery & Museum. Can you…
Nick Hollo
You are not only interested in location but the vegetation and land surface, expand on this and your work North Head Triassic Formation?North Head…
Emily Jones
You refer to your art as ‘Contemporary Representational’, can you expand on this? Yes, I use this term as my work is a synthesis of traditional…
Joseph Austin
You use copper plate for your prints, discuss briefly Copper is the best material for etching because its hard and durable, it also has manipulative…
Melissa Selby Brown
Discuss your series, ‘Outback’, taking us through the process from the road trip to the completed paintings. The prosaic fact of our daughter getting…
Shimara Carlow
Can you expand on your relationship to nature and in particular seed pods in your jewellery? While studying at Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, our…
Ruth Levine
Your art is about visual transformation of materials, discuss. I’m not intentionally an eco-artist. I see discarded and new materials in a…
Steve Axford
You are known for your photographs of fungi, how did this come about? By accident really. I had never been a photographer and I worked as, first a…
Steve Graham
Discuss how lemons have been so good to you?Lemon Coke, 30 x 30cm One of my first paintings to sell many years ago was a simple bowl of lemons on a…
Gail Dell
Your work is often described as ‘playful’ what are your own thoughts on this in relationship to your work? I find that life in the studio requires a…
Judy Drew
Between 1976 – 1984 you spent time on Bougainville Island and Papua New Guinea discuss the influence of this time on your work? In the beginning…
Mark Stoner
h4>‘In collaboration’, can be said quickly and flippantly, but in your work it becomes an integral part. Can you expand on this in relation to…