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Catherine Anderson

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Catherine Anderson
Catherine has always had a deep love for animals, particularly horses, which is reflected in her artwork. After immigrating to Australia from the US in 1980, she competed in rodeos in Adelaide, where she was drawn to capture the vitality and power of animals in motion through sculpture. Her first pieces were commissioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to commemorate its 40th anniversary.

Since then, Catherine’s work has featured in a number of exhibitions and private collections, and her work has gained recognition through awards and commissions. Her piece “Flow” is held in the permanent collection of the Tweed Regional Art Gallery at Murwillumbah, and she has done public artworks on commission for the Scenic Rim Regional Council, Queensland Emergency Services, Queensland National Parks and Wildlife, and has created a bronze at Wyaralong Dam commemorating the RAAF history of the area.

In 2016 Catherine was chosen to create a life-sized sculpture of an Australian Navy sailor as commemoration of the Far East Strategic Reserve corps which was unveiled by the Chief of Navy at Memorial Park in Brisbane’s Southbank Parklands. In 2017 she created a dynamic portrait of a working kelpie dog for the town of Bonalbo, which now forms the focal point of the town’s centre. In 2018 she created a “Key to the Scenic Rim” in bronze to be given by Scenic Rim Shire to distinguished citizens in the future.

In 2020 Catherine completed a series of native wildlife pieces entitled “Sharing Space” depicting local fauna which was installed throughout the public spaces in Boonah. In 2024 Catherine was commissioned to create a series of endangered and indigenous wildlife bronzes which feature in the redeveloped Davidson Park in Beaudesert.

Catherine’s sculptures are cast using the traditional lost-wax method of bronze casting, chasing and patinizing each piece by hand in her studio, situated in Boonah’s Old Butter Factory. Catherine is a regular participant in the Open Studios program, when she welcomes visitors to her busy studio.

Awards:
Australia Day Cultural Award 2004
Winner, sculpture section, Just Nudes Exhibition- 2005 and 2006
Finalist, Lexus Mortimore Art Prize 2007 Finalist, Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards 2014
Finalist Stanthorpe Art Prize 2018
Finalist Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards 2019
Grand Champion Sculpture Royal Queensland Brisbane Art Show
Exhibitions:
Swell Sculpture Festival, Currumbin 2005 2006 2023-invitation only
Linden Gallery, Gold Coast-joint exhibition with Harold Lane Boonah Regional Art Gallery-“Quintessence”
Rotary International Art Show-invitation only
Old Courthouse Gallery-inaugural “Just Nudes” Exhibition 2005 and 2006 Boonah Regional Art Gallery “Factory Girls”(four artist exhibition) Queensland Sculpture Society Mt Coot-tha exhibition, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2023
Winner, 3D section, Ipswich Art Show 2021
Queensland Royal Brisbane Art Show 2015 and 2019

Paquita Fadden

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Paquita Fadden, a former accountant and IT professional, finally allowed her creative side loose. She happily paints in watercolours wherever she happens to be travelling the world photographing wildlife and landscapes, playing with her identical twin granddaughters and new grandson in Canada, boating and fishing around the Broadwater, or just hanging out in her art studio on the Gold Coast.

She recently won the 2024 WSQ Avant-garde Award and previously was awarded Highly Commended for her artwork in the 2021 and 2023 Watercolour Society of Queensland (WSQ) annual exhibitions.  In addition, as both author and illustrator, her first children’s book, Chicky Chases was published in 2022.

Winners – 2024 Biennial exhibitions: Queensland Figurative and Young Artist Award

The Royal Queensland Art Society would like to congratulate all the winners in the 2024 Biennial exhibitions: The Queensland Figurative and Young Artist Award.

Thank you also to our judges Jenny Rodgerson, Zoe Porter and Peter Hubbard (FRQAS). Please scroll down to view the winning artworks and judges’ comments.

Queensland Figurative – Judged by Jenny Rodgerson

First Prize

Sleep Tight

by Dylan Jones

JUDGES COMMENTS

There is a strong energy in this painting which displays the artists love of paint. It is competently handled with perfect foreshortening, tone and proportions whilst displaying vibrancy and the strong marks of the maker. The soul of the sitter is evident as you feel the weight of the body and the dreams of the subject. This painting is alive.

Second Prize

Reading in the Drop Sheets

by Lara Cooper

JUDGES COMMENTS

This small painting has echoes of Vermeer. A delicacy of brushwork with tone and proportion making the painting sing.

Highly Commended

In the Studio

by Glen Gillard

JUDGES COMMENTS

Very competent self portrait displaying the skills of the artist.

Young Artist Award – Judged by Zoe Porter

First Prize – Section 1: 18 to 30yrs

The Edge of Seventeen

by Catherine Maticka

JUDGES COMMENTS

Strong composition and technical use of colour and tone to create mood. Reflects young adult’s use of technology and captures an intimate scene. The colour is somewhat eerie and exaggerated – the reflection of the phone screen fills the room and highlights a young adult fixation on phones.

Second Prize – Section 1: 18 to 30yrs

Ladies in the Garden

by Lou-Anne Clancy

JUDGES COMMENTS

This watercolour displays a playful and expressive approach to watercolour. A somewhat recognisable domestic scene, the gardens and chickens have movement and energy. A sweet and lively narrative work.

Highly Commended – Section 1: 18 to 30yrs

Holding Blue (Model’s name unknown)

by Jenny Hjertquist

JUDGES COMMENTS

A skilful and highly resolved life drawing using cross-contour line to suggest volume and form. Drawn from life, technically an accomplished drawing and the use of foreshortening is successful.

 

First Prize – Section 2: 17 years and Under

A Night to Remember

by Amy Miller

JUDGES COMMENTS

An original and energetic artwork reflecting a youthful and imaginative atmosphere. Working from life and photographs the work is emotive through the use of colour, varied scale and perspective. Partly realistic and somewhat dreamlike, this work displays a playful approach to art making.

 

First Prize – Section 2: 17 years and Under

Still Mum

by Lilah McMahon

JUDGES COMMENTS

A confident and highly resolved drawing that captures the subject. The strong use of detail in combination with less detailed sections creates a contrasted composition. This work suggests competent and highly skilled approaches to drawing the figure.

 

Fellows Recognition Award (Young Artist Award) – Judged by Peter Hubbard (FRQAS)

Rina

by Xeniya Girs’ka

JUDGES COMMENTS

Very proficient artwork. I’m amazed by the effect, unreal.

 

Fellows Recognition Award (Queensland Figurative) – Judged by Peter Hubbard (FRQAS)

Defiance

by Peter Fung

JUDGES COMMENTS

Good study from life. I have worked with this particular life model before, the artist has recreated her spitting image.

 

Peoples Choice Award

Beauty in Bloom

by Johnny Huang

 

Alison Greenway

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Alison has been an artist for over 30 years and chooses to create vivid colourful garden and tropical scenes using acrylic paints on canvas, she also enjoys drawing character homes, buildings and cottages found throughout Southern Queensland and uses mixed media.

Alison has a website which offers a wide range of quality reproduction prints in Black & White, Sepia and Colour. Below is an outline of past exhibitions and collections she has participated in over the years.

 

Solo Exhibitions

David Jones Store ‘Floriana Festival’ – both Sydney & Melbourne

Broken Hill Regional Gallery – NSW

Cobar Regional Gallery – NSW

Art of Broken Hill Gallery – NSW

Group Exhibitions

Pro Hart Family Touring Exhibitions – Orange, Frankston, Toowoomba, Victor Harbour

List of Galleries – and Selected Group Exhibitions

Miller & Hart Fine Arts Gallery (Adelaide), Anvil Gallery (Wodonga), Libby Edward’s Gallery (Melbourne), Hart Family Collection – Ant Hill Gallery (Broken Hill), Eastend Gallery, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Rosalie Shire Gallery (Goombungee), White Patch Gallery (Bribie Island), Greenhill Galleries (Adelaide) , Duke Gallery (Melbourne), & Gallery 631 (Brisbane).

Awards                                                     

Tamworth Art Affair—2nd Place Award Open Section

Rosalie Shire Gallery—Goombungee Qld.

Teaching Art – Contracts                            

Mission Australia – Art for Disengaged Youth Program Toowoomba, Qld.                                 Skills Centre Inc. – JPET Youth Program  NSW

Morgan Street Public School – Broken Hill NSW

Teen Challenge Drug & Alcohol Rehab Centre -Toowoomba, Qld.                                              Private Lessons – Studio in Toowoomba, Qld.

Collections Represented In

Henry Nineo – Former Lord Mayor – Adelaide S.A.

Broken Hill Regional Gallery – NSW

John Ayers House – Adelaide, S.A.

Jacquie Comley – Author – N.S.W.

National Mutual – Finance Centre – N.S.W.

Association Memberships

RQAS – Royal Queensland Arts Society – Brisbane

NAVA – National Association for Visual Artists

ACA – Australian Counsellors Association

CDAA – Career Development Association of Australia

Study

Regional Arts Administration Training Course – College of Fine Arts (University of NSW)

Cultural Heritage Studies- Bachelor of Arts – CSU

Anthropology Studies- Humanities – CSU

Advanced Major – Creative Therapies – AIPC

Bachelor of Vocational Education – CSU

Graduate Certificate Vocational Education—Communications – CSU

 

Alison Greenway – 0405 179 479

alisongreenwayart@gmail.com

www.alisongreenwayart.com

 

 

Trish Evans

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Trish Evans is an oil painter living and working in Brisbane.

Trish’s paintings combine abstraction and representation of Australian landscapes or settings that she has personally experienced alongside the people depicted in the scene. She paints to capture both place and a particularly human experience of the place. She aims to record colour and light in a way that encourages the viewer to look into the canvas and recognise the place or a similar real or desired experience of their own.

Trish undertook a brief period of formal training at the South Australia School of Art in the early 1980s under Dr Jolly Koh, and then again while travelling at San Jose State University in California, USA. While maintaining her art interests during her professional career her art practice has only resumed in recent years.

New to exhibiting, Trish was a finalist in the 2023 and 2024 Brisbane Rotary Art Shows, the 2024 Harden Art Prize, the 2024 Fairholme Art Prize, and the 2024 Doyles Art Award. She also has a growing number of works in her private collections.

To see more of Trish’s artwork, you can visit her Instagram @trishevansart

Winners – 2024 Salon des Refusés

The Royal Queensland Art Society would like to congratulate all the winners in the 2024 Salon des Refusés exhibition, which is run in conjunction with the Brisbane Portrait Prize.

Thank you also to our judges Scott Breton (FRQAS), Craig Tuffin and Phil Brown. Please scroll down to view the winning artworks and judges’ comments.

Petrie Terrace Gallery Award – Selected by Scott Breton

Emerging from the Shadows

by Holly Field

JUDGES COMMENTS

This painting offers a rich and expressive use of medium, while focussing on the essential content: a sincere and human treatment of a unique protagonist.

Petrie Terrace Gallery Award – Selected by Craig Tuffin

Keeping Up with the Heelers

by Alissa Lamb

JUDGES COMMENTS

The Heeler family seems to have captured the attention of parents around the world. It’s overwhelmingly ‘Aussie’ and regularly promotes iconic Brisbane locations. However, by illuminating what good and perfect parenting should look like in a progressive nation, it also ironically sheds light on a standard that’s impossible to maintain. There is no doubt that Alissa’s technical skill with acrylic paint and canvas is outstanding, but the strong narrative that her work is built upon is its cornerstone. This allowed me to make personal connections to the despondent pose of the self-perceived ‘imperfect’ father.
Whilst many portraits give the sitter direct power via a more traditional static pose, Alissa has disarmed the audience by capturing her husband disengaging. Tension is elicited by the combination of a smiling mask and his discouraged facial expression.
I find gravitas in this insightful painting that communicates a new vision of what parenting looks like, and the associated challenges it reveals.

Petrie Terrace Gallery Award – Selected by Phil Brown

I Am Still Here (Self Portrait)

by Zoe Willey

JUDGES COMMENTS

I like the simplicity and the honesty of this work and it is obviously about overcoming adversity, but it is ultimately optimistic. I think the fact that it is uncluttered helps.

 

Peoples Choice Award

She Remembers

by Lara Cooper

 

Juanita Sanganithy

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Juanita is an Australian artist who enjoys being immersed in nature, observing the colours, light and textures, and bringing these to life on the canvas. Capturing images from the natural beauty in her surroundings and painting these to incredible detail serves as a meditation for her. Juanita loves to use vibrant colours in her creative work, preferring acrylics to express her style, ranging from realism to abstract.  

 

Juanita is an award winning artist and finalist in numerous Australian and international art competitions, including the Holmes Prize for Excellence in Realistic Australian Bird Art, John Villiers Outback Art Prize, The Doyles, RQAS competitions at Petrie Terrace Gallery, Light Space & Time Online Gallery (Special Recognition Award, Special Merit Award), Grey Cube Gallery (two Honourable Mention Awards), Artist Space Gallery, and Art Room Gallery.

 

Prints: https://www.buyartnow.com.au/artist/juanita-sanganithy/

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Winners – 134th RQAS Members Annual exhibition

The Royal Queensland Art Society would like to congratulate all the winners in the 134th RQAS Members Annual exhibition.

Thanks also to our Judges Todd Whisson, Stephen Newton and Sam Creyton. Please scroll down to view the winning artworks and judges’ comments.

First Prize – Section 1 (Oil and Acrylic)

Brink

by Laura Phillips

JUDGES COMMENTS

Simple, clean, confident and direct.

Second Prize – Section 1 (Oil and Acrylic)

Colourful Corner

by Esther Austin

JUDGES COMMENTS

Great composition! A love of the subject and a good rendition of pictorial space.

 

First Prize – Section 2 (Watercolour)

Kenilworth Pastoral

by Tony Walker

JUDGES COMMENTS

A wonderful combination of wash and sharper marks depicting the landscape. Strong composition and colour.

Second Prize – Section 2 (Watercolour)

Cleveland Grandview

by Katia Strounina

JUDGES COMMENTS

Small but mighty depicting a ‘grand’ view. A delightful invitation to come and sit a while.

First Prize – Section 3 (Photography, Digital Painting and Digital Manipulation)

The Dark Side

by Christine Hall

JUDGES COMMENTS

Motion captured and duplicated with an invitation to explore darker spaces. Great composition and play with light.

Second Prize – Section 3 (Photography, Digital Painting and Digital Manipulation)

Under the Bridge Number 2

by Glenda Markwell

JUDGES COMMENTS

Wonderful digital and analogue exploration. Strong composition and expressive use of colour.

First Prize – Section 4 (Sculpture and 3D Artworks)

Totem Tangle 3

by Jennifer Long

JUDGES COMMENTS

This is a meticulously designed, constructed and presented sculpture. It demonstrates a poetic integration of material and process, and a harmonious balance between the complexity of the process and the spontaneous arrangement of the final composition. The sculpture also has potential to be seen as a model for a much larger public art application.

Second Prize – Section 4 (Sculpture and 3D Artworks)

Let’s Go!

by Katia Strounina

JUDGES COMMENTS

This is an intimate and playful sculpture reminding us of our beloved canine companions, and their spontaneous energy which is always available on command. Let’s Go! demonstrates a consummate understanding of construction, modelling and patina application. The work also balances a knowledge of canine anatomy with a gestural energy that is present in the final form.

First Prize – Section 5 (Drawing, all media)

For You Brother

by Helia Smith

JUDGES COMMENTS

Engaging, emotive and expressive (the three ‘E’s!). Beautiful lines and marks conveying the emotion within.

Second Prize – Section 5 (Drawing, all media)

Amelia

by Belinda Stokes

JUDGES COMMENTS

Expressive and Intimate. The work draws you in and is as if you are reflected in the pupils. Fantastic Technique.

First Prize – Section 6 (2D Artworks, all other media)

The Rockpool

by Charlotte Wensley

JUDGES COMMENTS

Fantastic colour and composition. Wonderful detail and layers forming the rockpool.

Second Prize – Section 6 (2D Artworks, all other media)

Quilted Memory Scape 1

by Jennifer Long

JUDGES COMMENTS

Strong composition and printmaking technique. The grid expands the narrative thread for this lovely work.

First Prize – Section 7 (Pastels)

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by Kathy Sullivan

JUDGES COMMENTS

Beautifully crafted and composed. This invitational work elicits the opportunity to ponder with the subject. Where is this avian beauty going?

Second Prize – Section 7 (Pastels)

Blue Haven

by Renuka Russell

JUDGES COMMENTS

Strong composition and colour creating this inviting scene. A light cubist nod to wistful scenes.

Young Artist Excellence Award – Sections 1 and 4

Grandma

by Dorothy Huang

JUDGES COMMENTS

Good Composition! It has a strong feeling of connection to the subject, and it has soul.

Young Artist Excellence Award – Sections 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7

Flora Inferno

by Seth Green

JUDGES COMMENTS

Technically fantastic with expressive composition and colour.

Peoples Choice – Sections 1 and 4

You Can Almost See Forever

by David Ladley

Peoples Choice – Sections 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7

Amelia

by Belinda Stokes

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I was born in Turkey in 1989. I have been living in Australia for 15 years. I am a artist whose work breathes life into imagination. Through a palette of colours and strokes, I weave stories on watercolour paper, inviting you to explore emotions, dreams and the beauty that resides within the intersection of reality and fantasy.

Education

2006 – 2010        Bachelor of Fine Art, Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey

2013                     Brisbane Institute of Art, Expression Watercolour

Kate Hessling

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As a self-taught artist I enjoy challenging myself and experimenting with different ideas and subject matters.  These can range from expressionist to impressionist, to just strange abstract ideas and concepts that pop into my head.

My art is original and hand-painted using a variety of tools such as brushes, scrapers, palette knives, fingers and sponges etc. So expect to see brush, texture and tool marks.  If you are very lucky you might find a rare, stray brush hair embedded in the paint.

My influences are mostly from the stunning abstract and expressionist work of the mid-20th century which have such a feeling of raw intensity.  However, I also love abstracted and moody impressionist landscapes and see no conflict between such diverse styles.

I grew up in a creative family around the visual and written arts and experimented with a range of creative activities including sculpting, clay hand-building, and glass fusing before moving into watercolour, and now acrylic painting.  I hope you enjoy my art because I really enjoy making it.