Jahne Rees
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Mr Rees has undertaken a series of successful art commissions, including a sculpture at St John of God Hospital in Midland, an artwork in Brighton Plaza in Mandurah and the Seventh Avenue Bridge public art commission for Main Roads.
The sculptor Jahne Rees studied at Curtin University 1986 - 1989 and has worked on many public artworks throughout Perth
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Simon Gilby
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Simon Gilby graduated from the Claremont School of Art in 1989 with a Diploma of Fine Arts.
Simon continues to participate in regular group exhibitions, undertaking public art commissions, sculpting the human body, mostly, and lecturing at various Universities.
He has worked with towns and communities across Western Australia. Simon has worked with Aboriginal communities as artist in residence.
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Rick Vermey
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Rick Vermey is an accomplished visual artist, based in Fremantle, Western Australia. His is a wide-ranging visual art practice, incorporating print, photography, painting, sculpture and public artworks.
Vermey’s primary field of endeavour is site specific commissioned artworks for the public realm. He frequently works in collaboration with architects and other professionals on artworks for integration within the fabric of buildings.
Vermey’s public art projects are often distinguished by innovative exploration of new materials, design technologies and manufacturing techniques. His artworks have received industry recognition locally and internationally, attracting various lighting, glazing, colour and architectural awards.
Vermey has a substantial exhibition history and maintains an ongoing studio practice. His artworks have been widely collected by Western Australian public collections. With a career spanning over 25 years in public art, Rick Vermey has created a public art portfolio that reflects his talent for integrating art with a diverse range of architectural spaces.
The Cooling Brothers team has had the pleasure of collaborating with Rick on numerous projects, including Wanneroo Cultural Centre, Bunbury’s SWIT Automotive Training TAFE and St John of God Hospital, as well as the award winning Wexford Apartments. Many of Rick’s projects showcase the possibilities of using glass to transform public spaces.
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Dawn Gamblen
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Dawn Gamblen creates from the collected, arranged, readymade and often banal, emphasising the nature of materials being used to poetic effect in her artworks. Transcending their humble origins, she orchestrates common objects into sculptural arrangements capable of inspiring a sense of wonder from the simplest of means.
Gamblen graduated with a BA in fine art (sculpture) from Curtin University following three years of study at Claremont School of Art. She has exhibited in shows locally, nationally and overseas and has completed a variety of large-scale, public art commissions in and around Perth.
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Phil Gamblen
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Phil Gamblen is an artist whose work spans multiple mediums, with numerous public art projects and collaborations to his credit. Inspired by science and nature, his art often explores themes of geometry and the natural world. Phil’s innovative approach and dedication to merging artistic expression with scientific principles have made his work both thought-provoking and visually captivating.
Phil was born in the UK in 1964, arrived in Perth 1991 and studied at the Claremont School of Art and Curtin University.
He is a sculptor who uses form and light to change the environment. Working with Dawn Gamblen he has art installations at the Perth Bus Station, Leederville, and UWA.
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Lucy Vader
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Unsurprisingly for someone whose family has farmed for generations, Lucy Vader conveys a landscape that has been both seen and felt.
She applies paint in thick, sumptuous layers blurring the boundary between abstraction and representation.
Stand close to one of Vader’s works and her brushstrokes draw you into a richly textured world of deep colours – green, yellow, red and blue. Move away from the canvas and wide, grassy paddocks emerge, frequently populated by sheep – golden and camouflaged against parched yellow land, or with bright white fleeces that contrast with rain-restored grass. Vader’s sheep graze, run off or just look inscrutable, contributing a light-heartedness for which she has become known.
Lucy is also a sculpture with several pieces chosen for Sculpture by the Sea
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Jessee Lee Johns
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Jessee Lee Johns is a multidisciplinary artist.
Jessee is the creator of the short lived Commonwealth of New Bayswater which was establish for the duration of the 2021 Fremantle Biennale. The small ephemeral nation included The Inverted Museum of History, Public Works, Embassy, and commercial centre. There were “live performances from international acts, culture, public toilets, a Motor Inn, views of bridges and carparks, free potable water and more.”
He is a set designer, Muralist, and creator. He has traveled
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Coral Lowry
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Perth based Australian conceptual and public artist, Coral Lowry, is well-known for her dynamic, large-scale installations and sculptures in many prominent locations across Western Australia and overseas commissions in Singapore and China.
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Bradly Eastman (Beastman)
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Bradley Eastman (Beastman) is a multidisciplinary artist from Sydney, Australia.
Influenced by the biodiversity, symbolism and design aesthetics of organic growth patterns and natural landscapes, Bradley’s vibrant and energetic paintings, digital illustration, commercial projects and public mural artworks explore a unique visual language, depicting future environments of abstracted geometric landscapes, potential new life forms and human intervention with nature.
A distinctive and prolific contemporary Australian artist, Bradley has exhibited his artworks extensively around the world, has curated and produced numerous international art exhibitions and projects, and has created commissioned artwork for clients such as Facebook, Mini, Hyundai, Apple, Westfield, Adidas, Red Bull, Stockland, Marriott, GPT, Vicinity, Merivale and more. His artwork has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, and his large solo and collaborative mural and installation works can be found all over Australia and around the world.
Born 1980 in Sydney, Australia.
James Giddy
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James Giddy is a multidisciplinary artist who has gainedrecognition for his large-scale public art works both domestically andinternationally. Based in Boorloo (Perth), Giddy was initially recognisedthrough mural work for Form WA’s Public Project (2015) and completed a Bachelorof Fine Arts at Curtin University (2016 Degree Show).
With foundations in watercolour painting, Giddy pays homageto contrast and composition, looking to the natural environment and his nearsurroundings for inspiration. The immediacy and sense-of-place achieved by theFrench motif of ‘en plein air’ painting, translates through a lot of his muraland studio work.
Giddy’s works encourage the audience to question and bringtheir own contextual understanding to the composition, whilst providing aplatform of familiarity in the subject and its action. Through these dynamicsof a subject and its ground, Giddy often visits themes concerning the every-dayand the common civilian, whilst using the public reach of his mural work tolook at environmental awareness and conservation, drawing focus to nature in anurban environment or on a man-made structure
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Chen Wenling
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Chen Wenling (b.1969, Fujian, China) is one of the most globally acclaimed contemporary sculptors. He has achieved international fame from the late 1990s with his characteristic ‘Red Memory’ series of sculptures featuring laughing, naked boy figures covered in shiny, bright red vehicle duco.
Chen was trained at the Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. Chen’s works have been selected for Sculpture by the Sea multiple times in both Cottesloe and Bondi Beach in Australia. His works are in the permanent public collections of National Art Museum of China; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, USA; Denver Art Museum, USA; White Rabbit Collection, Australia; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark; National Gallery of Korea, Korea; Seoul Museum of Art, Korea, etc.
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Paul Caporn
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PAUL CAPORN
Lives and works in Perth Australia.
Paul Caporn has exhibited nationally and internationally in over 40 group and 9 solo exhibitions, making art primarily in the realms of sculpture, animation, video and installation.
His work often engages with themes that circulate notions of industry and science. This can involve a nostalgic play, dealing with technologies in what is often a low-tech manner, describing the relationships between people, memory, time, space and places. This play is often negotiated through an uncanny sensibility, where familiar domestic or industrial objects are brought together in a way that feels both comfortable and unfamiliar.
Work featured in group exhibitions includeThe Collective, Vasse Felix, Margaret River (2015),Tropheum, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle (2014),Worth Its Weight in Gold, Moana Perth (2014) and in the Atelier Mondial Opening, Basel Switzerland (2014).
Caporn’s work can be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Parliament House Canberra, WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Art Bank, Janet Holmes a Court Collection, The Stokes Collection, Ipswich Council, City of Swan, City of Melville, Curtin University of Technology, Central TAFE, Sunset Events, and many private collections.
He has been the recipient of various grants from Department of Culture and the Arts WA (including a Visual Arts Craft Strategy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2008) and the Australia Council. In 2014 Caporn spent six months based in Basel Switzerland as recipient of the ArtSource Christoph Merian Foundation Basel Artists Residency, and in 2004 undertook an Asialink Visual Arts Residency at Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan.
In addition to exhibition work, Caporn has participated in several public art, collaborative and residency projects.
Caporn holds a BAVA First Class Honours from Curtin University of Technology. Additional to making his art he has held positions as a university lecturer, technician, worked in schools and for festivals, and as a designer and installer for numerous museums and art galleries.
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Dune Haggar
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“Hi my name is Dune, I’m a graphic artist, who loves creating artworks both on paper and on products. My final form is collaborating with great companies and people to get my artwork out into the real world. I’ve gravitated towards the gaming, esports, music, apparel and skating sector but I am happy to collaborate on anything.
Yes Dune is my real name…no really, it is.
I’m named after the book series by Frank Herbert. Its Sci-Fi landscape suits my weird worlds I create. I reside in Dunsborough Western Australia, I try to not tell too many people how cool it is down Southwest so shhh.
I am a graphic arts who loves drawing, painting, creating madness on canvas, computers, gaming gear, skateboards, beer cans, wine bottles, guitars, promotional material… anything. I love creating with markers, paint brushes, vinyl transfers, toys, pixels, vector and chaos. When I am not drawing, painting, designing I am playing guitar or making music.
I live for collaborating with future thinking companies and really love to push a product into the stratosphere. Be it a custom product for an event, a dream guitar, custom skateboard or a fully siiiick cut ‘n’ sew hoodie for grandma. Sometimes the only perceived extra added value you can add to a product… is art, uniqueness, character and creativity! I have enjoyed working on products by Kidrobot, SteelSeries, Fortress Melbourne, Aftershock PC, Intel and Colonial Brewing Co. Every time adding my own character and eye catching quirkiness.”
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Peter Zappa
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Peter Zappa is a professional artist specialising in sculptures.
Peter’s interest is perception. He explores perception by taking familiar objects and themes and reconfiguring them into whimsical variations of the original. The reimagined sculptures have an uncannily plausible appearance.
Peter’s favoured medium is metal, specifically stainless steel which he hand crafts in a uniquely recognisable style. Peter has been working as a professional sculptor since 2006 when he completed a degree in Fine arts at Curtin University at the age of 48 as a mature aged student. Peter commenced an Honours program in sculpture in 2007 but left academia to pursue his passion as a practicing artist, preferring the creative atmosphere of his workshop in preference to an institution.
Perhaps it was the 25 years working with his hands as a plumber that drew Peter towards sculpture or maybe it started as a boy watching, entranced as his father, Guglielmo-also known as Bill to his friends, magically worked metal with a hammer, fire and anvil in the back garage on the rare occasions when Bill’s chisels needed re-sharpening.
Peter’s father had acquired his blacksmithing skills as part of his own apprenticeship as an idraulico or plumber as a boy back in Italy in the 1920’s.
But Peter likes to think there is another possible reason why he became a sculptor, it’s through his Italian heritage. Peter’s family originates from Sondalo a small town located up in the northern Italian Alps near the border to Switzerland. Sondalo is also only 30 Kilometres away from the Swiss town of Borgononvo, the birth place of the sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Perhaps there’s something in the alpine water?
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Rodney Glick
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Rodney Glick is an Australian artist currently living and working in Indonesia whose sculptures combine real, spiritual and imagined realms.
Glick’s practice is intriguing on many levels – from his ingenuity with material, rigorous exploration of subject matter, intelligence and wicked sense of humour.
The people in Rodney Glick’s sculptures are people he knows, but he calls them ‘everyone’, and then assigns a number for the practical purpose of distinguishing the works from one another.
Dressed in contemporary clothing and with physiques that align them with people in our own lives, Glick’s subjects are like anyone we might pass in the street or sit next to on a plane. They are anonymous, ordinary people, not above us in any social or spiritual sphere, and not below either. They are simultaneously familiar and foreign. This gap between the known and the unknown is increased by the way Glick has depicted his ‘Everyones’ with reference to Hindu and Buddhist iconography.
His use of Eastern religious art in the Western contemporary realm pushes the work into a contentious space of questioning around what is sacred, and what is right for use.
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Tim Howe
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Tim Howe grew up creating artworks inspired by the southwest’s rich surf and music scene.
Originally a graphic designer by trade, a chance encounter led to the gift of an old school tattoo machine.
This opened doors to the tattoo industry, which since 2007 has been Tim’s medium of choice. Tim has showcased artwork in multiple exhibitions within Australia and has several art pieces in various publications.
His artistic interests move between tattoo art and large paintings using acrylic on wood, which reflect tweaked, semi realism with a dark edge.
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Jack Bromell
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Jack Bromell is a self-taught, Italian-Australian artist who has been working professionally since late 2015. His work is characterised by an intricate, illustrative style and is inspired heavily by native flora and fauna. Jack’s art combines timeless imagery with colours and tones that complement their enviroment.
After attempting to study creative based degrees at two separate universities in Western Australia, Jack left his studies to work various jobs around the Perth area. While working for an industrial cleaning company in October of 2015 and pursuing art as a hobby, Jack was given an opportunity to paint a mural on a business in Mandurah. The mural was well received and led to more public art opportunities in the South-West region as well as the Perth Metropolitan area and abroad. He is now based in Perth where he continues to evolve his public and private art practice full-time.
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Minaxi May
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Maxxi Minaxi May is a multidisciplinary artist who works with sculpture, mixed-media, printmaking, and installation. She remixes the Anthropocene/Symbiocene through interrelationships between the industrial and the everyday, the environment, representation, consumerism, and popular culture. Colour, play, humour, repetition, objects, craft, design, and juxtaposition are often seen in her works.
Their work is currently being shown at The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Perth. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Art Collective WA have featured Minaxi May's work in the past.
Minaxi May seeks to repurpose surplus objects, challenging their inherent meaning and making them into art that will be considered and treasured as abstract sculptures, rather than throwaways.
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Alan Meyburgh
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Alan Meyburgh is a Western Australia visual artist with both local and international repute, with works ranging from simple school entry statements through to complex public installations as well as pieces held in the corporate and private collections of the Royal Family of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Internationally.
"My art is designed to create meaningful connection. Connections between the heritage of the past, the excitement of the present and anticipation for the future that are experiential, engaging and memorable. Artworks created from a diverse range of media enhance the character of their settings and create a focal point for discovery by people of all ages."
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Elio Mercado (Evoca1)
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Born in the Dominican Republic (1984), Evoca1 spent his childhood drawing and playing baseball, until eventually moving to Hollywood Florida at age 11.
As an autodidact figurative painter, muralist and sculptor, he has received his art education from the compulsive study of the old masters works and techniques. His works are a personal reflection of his life experiences, as well as from observation of human behaviors and social struggles.
He is currently living and working in South Florida, where he continues to develop his craft.
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