Gary was born in Brisbane where he received private tuition under the late David Fowler. He also trained in illustration and has worked extensively in this field. His training and involvement in the graphics industry are evident in his use of colour and composition.
Beginning with his first one-man show in 1971 in the Harry Dunwell Gallery, Rowes Arcade, Brisbane, Gary has held over 45 successful one-man showings, including Shanghai and Brighton, UK. His works have been purchased for private, corporate, and educational institution collections across Australia and many overseas countries.
Currently he is represented in galleries across the eastern States including Tasmania. He exhibits on a regular basis with Kevin Hill as a Top Ten Australian Artist. He is an exhibitor and visiting tutor at Sydney Art School and occasionally tutors for various Art Societies as well as from his own Studio.
Gary has attained many awards over the last 50 years and most recently, he has been a finalist in the Clayton Utz, Hornsby, and the Sunshine Coast Art Prizes. Gary is a full-time artist residing in Maleny in Queensland’s beautiful Sunshine Coast Hinterland where his family dates back four generations.
Saturday 14th & 28th October 2-4pmTicket Cost: $20 members and $30 non-members. These wine and cheese events will be a chance to hear the artists, entrants and key individuals talk about their artwork and their art practice.
Congratulations to all the recipients of the Petrie Terrace Gallery Awards. Each Selector for the Salon des Refuses has chosen a work to receive this award. Visitors have also voted and chosen the Peoples Choice award.
Selected by Lizzie Reik
Portrait of a Queer Father as Icon
by Jeremy Plint
SELECTORS COMMENTS
Plint’s self-portrait immediately stood out to me. It’s deeply personal, its challenging, and it’s also familiar. What comes to mind is the ‘mother and child’ imbedded in art history, juxtaposed with that exaggerated masculine character from the movies – the ‘bad guy’ sitting in the loungeroom with a gun.
He looks at the viewer defiantly, showing that these symbols – the tiara, the floral chair, the gun, the tattoos, don’t have to inherently belong to separate identities.
Plint’s work is strong technically, and it is also thought-provoking – it makes us want to know more about the sitter, but also makes us reflect on our own preconceptions about others, and how we construct and constrain identity.
Selected by Dr Kay Kane
Purple
by Purple Chang
SELECTORS COMMENTS
Purple Chang
This self-portrait evidences a relentless intensity of looking and seeing. The viewer cannot help but gain a very real sense of the perceptiveness of the artist and thus the character of the subject.
I see here a soul laid bare, achieved through masterly use of the medium. Colour harmony, composition and exposition of edge are so well-ordered that to change anything would be, in my view, to spoil the whole thing. I will say no more except to quote one of Australia’s best contemporary writers on art, Christopher Allen:
“Talk is cheap in art, and the only ideas that have true weight in painting are those that have been fully assimilated and realized in the very handling of the subject matter and the shaping of the imaginary world, such insights reaching deep into the mind of the viewer.”
Congratulations Purple.
Selected by Laura Brinin
Self-portrait in the Morning
by Leo Liu
SELECTORS COMMENTS
Shadowing, dripping washes of colour alongside heavier brushstrokes of thicker paint and a relatable facial feature of discerning one’s own creative work strike the viewer with a real sense of witnessing a realistic and at once exaggerated version of a studio environment. The skill and dedication of Zheng Liu’s creative practice are evident in the paint application, witnessed with the mix of expressive marks, controlled shadowing and the use of colour to sway the timbre of the work. The self-portraiture genre is a sometimes damning and at once celebrated revelation of how an artist views themself; in this instance, the subject appears to be nonplussed with their creative results, looking upon their work with a critical but experienced view. A resigned stance, along with the title suggesting an early-rising and committed practising artist, adds volumes to the relatability of the piece for many viewers and artists alike.
Congratulations to all the artists selected in the 2022 Salon des Refusés, run in conjunction with the Brisbane Portrait Prize.
Exhibition on show at Petrie Terrace Gallery from Thursday 6th October – Sunday 6th November 2022
Opening Night is sold out, but get your tickets to our wine and cheese afternoons here. To find out more about our selectors click here.
Anna (Lady ‘C’) Leigh Schoenheimer Tired Chris England Queen of Drama Lindy Mackintosh Merging Worlds of Clairy Laurence Bronwyn Doherty Tarcisio Carol Oh Just a Moment Timothy Grey Muse in green Marijke Lambregtse Poet and Dog (Anthony and Benny) Julie Manning Stable Table Robyn Moon Monique Kirsty Dixon Art + Music = an interesting life Linda McInally 2021 Isolation and exhaustion Margaret Bending A Journalistic Researcher Christine Hall 5:19am Kirilee West Liz Preston: “Grandmother” to many Graham Preston Lounge Art Jo McFadyen Selfie 2022 Justin Buchner Damien Power Alison Mooney All That Glitters Elizabeth Barden Nature Nutures Nurse Lynne Day Outcomes of Introspection De Gillett Cox To Joh Sangeeta Mahajan Purple Purple Chang “I can’t wear yellow…” Carol Goodwin Born in the Year of Tiger Nam-Trung Nguyen Lost but now I’m Found Laine Walker Dylan Stephen Tiernan Seize the Clay Tania Carmichael Johnny in the Studio Min Jia Johnny Huang The Conduit Kris Anderson Portrait of Dr Andrew Amey Brett Poulsen Lingering Hannah Brouard The Show Must Go On David Wells Patience Cameron Seymour Andrew + HB4 Andrew Weil Camila Monique Baques The Profound Void of an Empty Stomach Charlotte England Steph Nadya Constantinidis Lighting up Change Carla Benzie Dr Young Zhi Peng Wu Nina Ginsberg and Leki The Flower Bike Dr. Ekaterina Strounina Buckley Mr. Casey Charles Floating Mind Reece Woodland Next Gen Claudia paints Keith, Emerging to Established Donna Gibb The Enabler Samantha Groenestyn This is Me. Self Portrait. Monica Batiste Decisions, Decisions…What Shoes Will I Wear Jamie Congdon Jamie Simon Brown The Colour Behind the Uniform Melanie Kilby Portrait of a Queer Father as Icon Jeremy Plint Marcel Daniel Butterworth Calming the Mind Wendy Fry The Bubblegum Blazer Amy Knie Buckley Natalia Bertelli Self-portrait in the Morning Leo (Zheng) Liu Unfinished Business Annette Raff Lineage Nicola Hooper In Her Eyes Amy Bridge
We are delighted to introduce to you our selectors, who have the unenviable job of choosing the finalists for the Salon des Refusés.
With so much talent on offer it isn’t easy and we appreciate their professionalism and expertise when faced with the daunting task of selecting approximately 60 works out of over 300.
Lizzie Riek
Lizzie Riek is the Collections and Curatorial Officer at Redland Art Gallery and has experience working in public and university galleries. Beginning her arts career with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking) at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Lizzie has gone on to recently complete a Master of Museum Studies at University of Queensland (UQ), and is currently undertaking a PhD (UQ) on contemporary archival art practices.
Dr Kay Kane
RQAS Fellow and former President, Kay completed a fine art degree at Central School of Art, London, in 1981, and has thereafter exhibited in international and local galleries, including solo exhibitions. She has long been active in the art world, conducting many workshops and has extensive experience judging art awards, including one in New York in 2017. Kay is an experienced portrait painter and her work is represented in art collections in Australia and internationally, and has been hung in many major Australian exhibitions. She has been twice winner of the Harold and Agnes Richardson Art award and received several first prizes including the prestigious Queensland Figurative in 2016, and was a Salon Des Refusés winner in 2021.
Laura Brinin
Laura Brinin is a Brisbane-based curator of contemporary art. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) in 2012 and continued her visual art practice overseas in 2013 in Canada with a Visual Art residency. Upon returning home, Laura has since pursued professional curatorial practice at QUT and Side Gallery in Red Hill. Laura has exhibited her own work both in Australia and overseas and as an independent freelance curator across Brisbane. This primarily focussed on engagement and activation of public spaces, as well as consulting for private interior collections. You can find her most days reading, playing with her sausage dogs, and visiting art galleries.
Congratulations to all the artists selected in the 2022 Salon des Refusés, run in conjunction with the Brisbane Portrait Prize.
Elisabeth spent her early years in Barcelona where she dabbled in drawing and painting from an early age. As an adult Elisabeth continued developing her art with watercolours at the Queensland Watercolour Society. She soon found that this didn’t define her as an artist and furthered her formal training at Brisbane Institute Art and Bremer TAFE focusing in painting in oils and acrylics.
Her first solo exhibition was at St Stephens Gallery, Brisbane City Hall in 2000.
Elisabeth likes to use her work in aid of community support exhibiting for Life Line, Mitchelton Community Centre, Qld Police Services, St Steven’s Catholic Gift Shop, View Club and Brisbane Ethnic and Multicultural Arts Centre [BEMAC].
Her style, expressionist abstraction, is meditative and at the same time energetic. It derives from observed reality and never looses all contact with it. Themes and locations are entwined so that everyday life is, not only urban, but also a mystical experience.
The Royal Queensland Art Society would like to congratulate all the winners in the 2022 Queensland Figurative Exhibition, part of the RQAS Biennial.
Thanks also to our Judge Ben Smith.
Please scroll down to view the winning artworks and judges comments.
First Prize
Dad at Home
by Greg Jessup
JUDGES COMMENTS
Conveys the high regard the artist has for his father and how their psyche both pervades the space and stands in wonder of it. An incredible, mad work with overwhelming sense of life. Deft lively brush marks on the figure. Playful colours in the skin tones. This is not just photorealism. Beautifully composed. I feel like various elements of the surrounding foliage have been manipulated to keep your eye within the picture frame. The background elements push the figure forward. An image that shocked me with its intensity the moment I saw it.
Second Prize
Patron Saint of Adventure
by Samantha Groenestyn
JUDGES COMMENTS
This is a highly original composition. You can see that every shape and form, each placement of an object in this picture has gone through the filter of a human mind. Very idiosyncratic. Who would have thought a bike on a shoulder would work so well. Love the light from behind. A lovely feeling of warmth and regard for the sitter.
Highly Commended
Oneness
by Anne-Marie Zanetti
JUDGES COMMENTS
I have a lot of respect for people who go beyond trying to paint what is before them. It is far more difficult than people imagine. The technical problems to be overcome are often huge and if done well the effort isn’t always apparent to the viewer. A beautiful thoughtful idea.
The Royal Queensland Art Society would like to congratulate the winners of the 132nd Members Annual,
judged by María Saurí, Julie Fay Brims and Julie Manning .
Exhibition continues in Petrie Terrace Gallery until Sunday 3rd July.
Overall Winner – Best Artwork
Vista #11
by Laura Phillips
Oil on Board
Judges Comments:
This painting has an intentional two-dimensional feel in its composition and presentation which is quite beautiful in its effect. The palette used is subtle and evocative. Although the work is a rendition of a traditional subject, i.e., a still life, there is no hint here of antiquity. The artist in this case has made it their own, creating a work which seems timeless.
SECTION 1: Painting – Oils & Acrylics
First Prize
Tim Page. War Photographer
by Joanne Brooker
Acrylic on Panel
Judges Comments:
This work is bold and alive, painted in eye-catching colour. It is well-rounded as a painting: the elements of a war photographers’ life surrounding the subject give his character authenticity. The figure of Tim Page is commanding from the centre of the composition and painted with genuine expression. It is technically accomplished.
Second Prize
Encounter at Coochie
by Peter Hubbard
Oil on Board
Judges Comments:
This painting emanates light and warmth. It is very successful in telling its story around an encounter at Coochie. The composition is appealing and very natural. The artist has been skilled in depicting the figures and their interaction within the landscape. Overall, this is an enticing and atmospheric work.
Highly Commended
My Country 465
by Max Butler
Oil
Judges Comments:
This work shows very skilled use of a bold colour palette, set out in a clever composition. The bands of foreground, middle and background reveal their details slowly on continued examination of the painting – it invites looking and re-looking to discover the elements in each part of its striking landscape.
SECTION 2: Painting – Watercolour
First Prize
Carnarvons Forever
by Tony Walker
Watercolour
Judges Comments:
This work shows excellent use of a limited palette and expressive line work. The use of watercolour as a medium has been harnessed to its full extent in skilfully depicting the landscape. Overall, this is an evocative work which is infused with light.
Second Prize
Duck and Lilly under the Milky Way
by Wilna TenCate
Watercolour
Judges Comments:
This painting shows good balance between the watercolour use on the figure and the duck and an illustrative approach to the background. The figure, face and animal are sensitively and expressively depicted, with good technical skill. The overall composition is very well balanced.
SECTION 3: Photography, Digital Painting & Digital Manipulation
First Prize
Bend It
by Di Cox
Digital
Judges Comments:
There is a very effective two-dimensional presence to this work. The composition is balanced, and the inclusion of chairs on the open space in the foreground gives the work a light-hearted summery feel.
Second Prize
Colour in the Fog
by Richard McLaren
Photography
Judges Comments:
The photographer here has captured a mystical and ethereal quality to the subject matter of a landscape in fog, which translates well as a larger presentation.
SECTION 4: Sculpture – 3D works all media
First Prize
Maggie
by Kathy Sullivan
Wirework
Judges Comments:
This wirework sculpture is delicately constructed. When it is hung and diffused with light, it creates an evocative shadow of a magpie, bringing the bird to life in the room. This is skillfully devised and when hung, a fluidly mobile sculpture.
SECTION 5: Drawing – All Media
First Prize
Ngoanga – Place of Figs Petrie
by Robyn Bauer
Charcoal
Judges Comments:
This charcoal drawing achieves excellent tonal difference and has an overall compositional balance. The fig trees are gracefully drawn, with depth and strength.
SECTION 6: 2D Artworks – Any Other Media
First Prize
“Flavigny 3, Ed1/6”
by Katia Strounina
Wood Engraving
Judges Comments:
This wood engraving achieves a wonderful chiaroscuro in its depiction of the town gates of Flavigny. The work exhibits excellent technical artistry, and the lines which create the texture of buildings, foreground and sky are beautifully rendered. There is much movement and light in the sky to balance the darker foreground and buildings. The scene appears ancient but timeless, with great depth.
Second Prize
Blue and Yellow
by Alan Fletcher
Watercolour, Acrylic and Pen
Judges Comments:
This work exhibits excellent skill in composition, and very effective use of the different media used. The delicate nest of lines in the middle are texturally and sensitively rendered, and the blue bar at the top provides requisite balance. Each of the three elements contrasts with the others in shape, media and texture, but successfully integrates into a very balanced and intriguing whole.
Highly Commended
Going About Living
by Wayne Singleton
Hand Coloured Linocut Print
Judges Comments:
This linocut print displays immense skill in the detail of the scene and in the delicate hand colouring of the birds. The eye of the viewer is drawn again and again to explore the intricacies of the scene. The work encourages full immersion into the forest that is depicted and the living elements within it.
