Phlegm
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Phlegm is a Welsh-born Sheffield-bases muralist and artist who first developed his illustrations in self-published comics. The name ‘Phlegm’ comes from on of the four humours in ancient Greek medicine: blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. Phlegm was believed to be responsible for an apathetic and unemotional temperament.
Phlegm's work features in the urban landscape, and can mostly be seen in run-down and disused spaces. Phlegm creates surreal illustrations to an untold story, weaving a visual narrative that explores the unreal through creatures from his imagination.
Phlegm's storybook-like imagery is half childlike, half menacing, set in built up Cityscapes with castles, turrets and winding stairways. At other times the city itself is the setting for his long limbed half-human, half-woodland creatures. In this dream world a viewer comes across impossible flying machines and complex networks of levers, pulleys and cogs, set beside telescopes, magnifying glasses and zephyrs.
Working mostly in monochrome, his fine technique and intricate detail can be seen as a curiosity cabinet of the mind. Each drawing forms part of a grand narrative that extends worldwide, in countries including Norway, Canada, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, USA, Belgium, Poland, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Loompa Land and Australia.
His work has also appeared in a variety of objects such as airplanes, boats, buildings, vehicles and many street art festivals.
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Cerys Allerton
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Cerys Allerton is a mainly bronze sculptor from Eagle Bay, most of her sculptures are life size and can be found in multiple locations around Busselton
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Aleksei Bordusov (Aec)
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Born 1980 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Renowned for his striking visual imagery, Aleksei Bordusov aka Aec Interesni Kazki is a Ukrainian artist. His bright, intriguing works —inspired by science, religion, mythology, cosmology and myths — are filled with color, and often accompanied by black and white drawings . Aec’s highly detailed pieces appear like they come from a fairy tale populated by colorful imaginary creatures that often seem to be in motion. The comparison with fairy tale characters is not unintentional as part of his nickname Interesni Kazki literally means Interesting Fairytales .
Aleksei got basic knowledge and skills of drawing and painting during his studies in architecture at Art Academy. Upon graduation, he realized that he doesn’t want to pursue a career as an architect but wants to focus on art only. It was in the late 1990s that he started painting on the streets of Kiev as a part of graffiti crew. However, after several years of experimenting with graffiti, he got bored of it. In 2005, Aec teamed with Waone in creating pieces composed without traditional graffiti lettering. Inspired by murals from other parts of the world, and in particular, Brazil, Aec and Waone formed Interesni Kazki duo that became known for their unique style of contemporary muralism. Merging science fiction, fantasy, and ukrainian traditional culture, they created their own dreamlike universe inhabited by mysterious subjects. After more than a decade of fruitful collaboration and numerous street pieces made by Interesni Kazki, the duo split in May 2016 and both Aec and Waone decided to follow their dreams as solo artists
Over the years of artistic work, Aleksei has developed his own technical skills, and moved from stylization to more realistic/surrealistic and anatomic images, focused on colors, their shades and forms. Although he experimented with different techniques, he realized that the traditional paint brush technique gives him more opportunities than others, so today he mainly works with brushes and acrylics paints on the murals. But the main part of his time Aec dedicates to the studio working. He works on canvases and paper, using acrylics, watercolor, ink and oil paints.
Through his striking artworks, Aec shows an amazing artistic ability to create allegorical and figurative artworks without using direct imaginary, so people can understand it free, in their own way, according to their own imagination. He considers a creation of art as “an opportunity to understand mystical reasons of The Universe” as well as to rediscover topics that range from science and history to religion and myths in his own way. Aec’s signature narrative-like style works can be found on walls throughout Europe, as well as beyond, in Australia, USA, Puerto Rico, India, Brazil, and many more. Aec had his solo exhibitions in galleries in Italy, United States, and France. His works participated in many group shows in different galleries across the globe. Some of Aec’s pieces are represented in the museums.
Aleksei Bordusov aka Aec Interesni Kazki currently lives and works in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Marco Marcon
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Marco Marcon is a Perth-based writer and curator. He was the founding director of SPACED - then called The International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia (IASKA).
"As founding director of SPACED (formerly IASKA), "Dr Marco Marcon has made an enormous contribution to Perth’s and Australia’s arts community. Marco has grown SPACED, from a mere idea to an innovative arts institution, and overseen residencies by hundreds of significant local, interstate, and international artists, in dozens of locations across Western Australia" Elizabeth Pedler, SPACED Program Manager
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Joanna Lamb
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Joanna Lamb was born in Perth, Western Australia. She graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Edith Cowan University and a Bachelor of Arts (Design) from Curtin University in 1997. Since her first solo show in 1997, she has maintained a regular exhibiting schedule traversing the practices of painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture .
Joanna’s hard-edged and highly refined compositions depict spaces of (sub)urbanity as an ongoing exploration of place. Stylistically, the works waver between realism and abstraction. Joanna’s work draws on her family connection with printing and a preoccupation with the processes involved in the reproduction of imagery. Her work has a mechanical feel which often negates its handmade processes.
Joanna's work was included in Mix Tape at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2005 and in Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art in 2006. In 2007 Lamb was highly commended at the ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award, and was voted one of ‘Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists’ by Australian Art Collector. In 2014 her work was shortlisted for National Works on Paper at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and for the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize.
Joanna Lamb’s works are included in prominent collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Parliament House, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Macquarie University, La Trobe University, Edith Cowan University, The University of Western Australia and Murdoch University.
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Angela McHarrie
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Angela McHarrie is a West Australian artist with a multidisciplinary practice.
McHarrie's works are influenced by the potential she sees in formal aesthetic elements and visual symbols. This manifests in paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs which feature a reduction of signs to their elemental presence and take cues from reductive and geometric abstraction. Other works challenge perception or emanate from her interest in codes and text.
Her works are a three way partnership between idea, aesthetic and materials. Formally, they reflect her interest in shape, line, volume, colour and spatial relationships. They are also expressive of something personally intuited in the making process. She experiments extensively with colour relationships and proportion seeking to portray a sense of equilibrium. A palpable balance between forms, colours and space; a harmonious wholeness.
She places substantial value on making with an emphasis on precisely rendered works which strive to eliminate distracting elements that might interfere with the viewer's experience.
McHarrie holds a Bachelor of Art from Curtin University and is a member of the Vice-Chancellor's List. She maintains a strong commitment to exhibiting and her work is held in public, corporate and private collections. She has completed over twenty public art commissions over the past ten years, many in collaboration with Tony and Ben Jones.
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Jeremy Kirwan-Ward
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Jeremy Kirwan-Ward was born in 1949 in Midland, Western Australia. He completed his Associateship in Fine Art at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) in 1971. Jeremy’s first exhibition was with Giles Hohnen at Skinner Gallery in Perth and he has since maintained a regular exhibiting practice in Australia and overseas.
Jeremy’s work revolves around his connection with a coastal existence - paintings that that evoke the complexities of weather and the endlessness of natural phenomena. While predominantly determined by colour, outcomes are a result of problem-solving, allowing intuition to ride alongside formal structure. He has worked across mediums - using printmaking, sculpture and photography across his five-decade long career - however he remains, very much, a painter.
Travel has helped to shape new directions for his painting. In 1989 Jeremy undertook a six-month artist residency at Kanoria Centre for Arts in India, and has been awarded residencies at Artspace, Sydney, Institut fur Alles Mogliche, Germany and Point B, USA.
His work can be found in institutional and corporate collections such as the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Scotland, the Art Gallery of WA, Artbank, The University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, Curtin University, Bankwest, Wesfarmers, Office of the Premier, City of Fremantle, City of Perth, City of Stirling, St John of God Hospital, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Janet Holmes à Court Collection and Kerry Stokes Collection.
The artist monograph 'Jeremy Kirwan-Ward: You Can See it From Here' was published by Art Collective WA in 2017 and features essays by John Barrett-Lennard and Margaret Moore.
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Jeppe Hein
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Jeppe Hein is an artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen. His interactive sculptures and installations combine elements of humour with the 1970s traditions of minimalism and conceptual art.
Hein studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art between 1997 and 2003 and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt between 1999 and 2000 (while registered as an associate student of the Danish Academy). As a student Hein was co-founder of OTTO, a non-commercial organisation that organised art exhibitions at various venues in Denmark between 1997 and 2000.
In 2008, Hein collaborated with Dan Graham on a temporary pavilion in Cologne.
Between September 2009 and January 2010, Hein stayed at Alexander Calder’s studio in Saché, France, as a part of an artist in residence programme.
Modified Social Benches located in the Montenmedio Sculpture Park, Cadiz, Spain. These benches are also located in other places around the world, including Miami, Helsinki, Auckland and Thun, Switzerland. They are also found on the campus of Claremont McKenna College, his first work for a U.S college.
At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned an "artlandish" folly in a scale appropriate for a five-acre walled garden. Hein created a site-specific outdoor sculpture for this space. In all seasons, this jet of water surmounted by a ball of flame illustrates a 21st-century folly on a smaller scale than other contemporary land art pieces in the parkland outside the garden enclosure. The work is intended "to surprise viewers and make them question what they are seeing."Hein wants to elicit
"... an incongruous dialogue between the art and the viewer and to use humour to broaden the limits of conceptual art. I want to show that the work isn’t anything on its own, it is only what the public informs it with. The viewers’ role brings the piece to the centre of attention."
Hein is co-founder of Karriere Bar, a bar and restaurant in Copenhagen featuring site-specific artworks by international artists, which he founded with his sister Lærke Hein.
Hein has had solo exhibitions at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; and Art Tower, Mito; the Neues Museum, Nürnberg; Indianapolis Museum of Art (2010); Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus (2009); Sculpture Center, New York; and P.S.1 MOMA, New York (2004). He has participated in solo and group exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Tate Modern, London; Barbican Art Centre, London (2007); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; MOCA, Los Angeles; and 50th Venice Biennale (2003). Catalogues of Hein's work have been published by ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, Koenig Books, Villa Manin, and the Centre Pompidou. Hein lives and works in Berlin.
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Mark Heussenstamm
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It’s no coincidence that most of Margaret River artist Mark Heussenstamm’s studios were found close to great surf. For more than 50 years he has divided his time between creating art and catching waves.
Born in Los Angeles, the 68 year-old migrated with his wife Leslie to Australia in 1975. Known locally as “Heusso”, he says the surf is the simple reason he has stayed in Margaret River since then, though he has maintained studios in various cities in the United States.
“I’ve had studios in several cities in Hawaii, Northern California and several in Palm Springs, Ca.” Heussenstamm says.
Heussenstamm’s creation include a variety of large Cat, fish and surfing sculptures. “Most of the fish will be made out of surfboards or plywood with metal pieces,” he says. A self-taught artist, Heusso says his works are characterised by his use of recycled materials.
“I’ve made pieces out of everything, from old stoves to the front ends of cars. You find some things and you go ‘Oh, I’ll make that out of that’, and then other times you go ‘Oh, I’d like to make this’, and you start gathering pieces. It’s inspiring to find stuff that you can reconstruct into something that makes people smile. Hence why they refer to what I do as constructivism, a fancy word for a scrounger.”
His interest in giving new life to discarded materials sometimes takes him away from the surf. “A lot of people always say ‘You must be really inspired living in Margaret River because it’s so beautiful’ but you do your best work when you’re in the city because there is lots more junk there and there’s lots more stuff you can find.”
Despite having experienced widespread international success, Heussenstamm retains a relaxed outlook on life. Still loving the surf! And still loving Australia.
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Karin Tulloch
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Sculptor Karin Tulloch was born in Ballarat. She studied in London and at the East Sydney Technical School under Rayner Hoff. While in Perth she shared a studio in Howard Street with Connie Barrett.
She exhibited plaster busts in the 1930s. She moved to Melbourne with her mother and brother just before World War II where she met and married Neville Wigan. She worked for the Red Cross during the war as a 'Hand Craft’ teacher. She taught hand weaving and became fascinated with the craft, buying a large loom and making wall hangings. One wall hanging was purchased for the National Gallery of Victoria. Her 1937 sculpture of her neighbour’s nine-year-old daughter Judith was cast in bronze in 2008 and installed near to the entrance to the studio in Howard Street.
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Margaret Johnson
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Margaret G. Johnson, (1898 – 1967) was a Sri Lankan born Australian portrait artist.
Margaret G. Woods was born to father James Wood, a Scotsman in Kadugannawa, Ceylon. She was one of seven children who all had an interest in painting and drawing. At a young age her father immigrated to Western Australia. She was educated in Perth and after completing her schooling was sent to the Glasgow School of Art.
Johnson was fifteen years old when she attended the Glasgow School of Art, three years younger than the usual entrance age. Johnson studied under Maurice Greiffenhagen and Professor McKeller, concentrating on painting and modelling. Completing her four-year course in three years, Johnson returned to Western Australia after the end of World War I and married.
As a portrait artist she specialised in portraiture painting, especially watercolours, but also created works in pencil, pastels and oil. Her portraits would be found in the National Gallery of Australia, Parliament House in Perth, and at the Perth City Council. Her works include J.W. Johnson Esq., The Tartan Scarf, The Debutante and the Resting Model. Her portraits of Prime Minister John Curtin and Perth Art Gallery curator George Pitt Morison are found in the Art Gallery of Western Australia, while James Mitchell's portrait was in the Treasurer Building and John Kirwan in Parliament House. Johnson also exhibited her portrait of Pitt-Morrison for the Archibald Prize. Her other exhibits for the prize included General Gordon Bennett.
She was a member of the West Australian Society of Arts, and taught painting and art at the Busselton Technical School.
In 1934, her model for a portrait plaque of Edith Cowan was chosen from several local Western Australian entries to be the choice for a memorial work on a clock tower in Kings Park, Perth. The Cowan bust was in high relief above a wreath of gum leaves and nuts and was cast in bronze, above a bronze inscription on the eastern face of the clock tower.
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Charles Smith
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Charles and Joan Walsh-Smith are a team of Sculptors and Designers specializing in large scale public art projects based in Perth, Western Australia from where they work internationally. They met in art school, at age 17,in Ireland and have been working together ever since, principally creating large-scale public sculptures around the World.
Having spent most of their lives living ‘within’ nature, rather than cities, their creative responses are finely tuned to the elemental forces, driving the natural world around us.
They are constantly evaluating their personal context, within the awesome processes visibly shaping their reality on a moment to moment basis. As a result, over the years, their work has gradually tended towards expressing certain universal qualities of human experience, through metaphor and form; essentially attempting to reveal elements of the underlying qualities of the human consciousness that binds, not only us as human beings, but the entire Cosmos together.
Lofty notions, perhaps, but certainly the basis for their primary interest in creating spiritual markers and placing them, like sign posts, for those who follow down the river of time. They see nearly all their creative efforts as memorials of one kind or another, which they launch into history, like time capsules, hopefully carrying intelligible messages which will communicate something of what we, as a Culture thought, felt and acknowledged as being fundamentally important and therefore worthy of expending the necessary wealth and energy to create these objects and abandon them in time.
Albert De Boer
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Albert de Boer heads up the overall construction and fabrication arm of the design team. He has strong project management skills and adheres to all Quality Management Systems within the Australian Standards. Albert’s role within the team is to pull together the commercial, design and artistic disciplines of the project.
Albert has been involved in many major construction projects and has the capabilities to oversee entire projects from the ground up. He has designed and constructed complete manufacturing plants and has a deep understanding of engineering principles. Albert’s extensive engineering and design knowledge incorporates automation, fabrication, and structural, civil, electrical, chemical, and mechanical engineering. He has a large technical base and a hands-on approach to fabrication, design and use of materials. Albert directs graphics, drafting and fabrication teams and has experience in 3D modelling.
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Jackson Harvey
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Jackson Harvey is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Fremantle, Western Australia. His passion lies in creating large scale mural works and their ability to transform spaces.
Using walls as his canvas and aerosol as his medium of choice, Jackson has created a diverse portfolio of works revitalising spaces.
Jackson’s passion in art was encouraged from a young age, with drawing, painting and constructing grand LEGO structures his usual childhood pastimes. His aerosol practice is entirely self-taught, combining elements from a variety of unique influences, from his studies in architecture and painting, his tattooing practice and contemporary urban and street art. His work is characterised by bright, carefully selected colour palettes and soft flowing curves contrasted with bold pixelated textures.
Jackson’s mural practice has taken him across the globe, from his hometown in Perth to the United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas and parts of South East Asia.
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Jina Lee
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Jina Lee is a South Korean-born sculptor who has worked primarily with stone for 20 years. With contemporary, organic shapes and a deep connection to the natural world, her sculptures evoke a sense of calm timelessness and tactility.
Her artistic journey began in 1999 when she was accepted into the Kaywon School of Arts in South Korea. She undertook two years of intensive training in academic drawing and other foundational disciplines to prepare for art school. After entering art school, she discovered her passion for sculpture and focused on techniques such as clay modelling and plaster mould making skills which she still employs as part of her process prior to translating the forms into stone today.
Jina earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Korea National University of Cultural Heritage, where she focused on stone carving while studying Korean culture and traditional arts. The University is renowned for its exclusive focus on cultural heritage and its strong emphasis on hands-on training and traditional craftsmanship. She then went on to complete a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Kookmin University, further refining her artistic voice.
Now based in Fremantle, Western Australia, Jina is hands-on throughout the entire creative process, from conceptual design and material sourcing to sculpting each piece in her studio.
She forms a personal relationship with every stone she works with, believing that stone is not just a medium, but a living element that carries the Earth's history within it. Each piece is hand-carved and thoughtfully named, becoming a unique extension of her dialogue with nature. Jina has exhibited her work widely, both nationally and internationally, including Sculpture by the Sea, where she is a Decade Club member.
She has created and installed public artworks in Australia, Italy, Albania, France, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan. Her work explores the theme of connection, the interconnectedness of all things. Her sculptures communicate complex narratives and emotions through meticulous craftsmanship and heartfelt expression. Each sculpture offers a tactile, immersive experience, encouraging people to engage not only visually, but also emotionally and physically.
Through her art, Jina seeks to remind people of their bond with the natural world and with one another, encouraging a moment of pause, reflection, and reconnection in an often fast-paced world.
Claire Molloy
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Based in Fremantle, Claire is a multidisciplinary artist working across abstract acrylic painting, sculpture, and graphic design. Her practice is rooted in an emotional connection to nature, travel, and movement, drawing on these experiences to explore the beauty found within uncertainty.
Through misty, dreamlike landscapes and layered forms, she invites viewers into quiet, reflective spaces that echo the feeling of being both lost and grounded in the present moment. Her recent body of work, Lost Horizons, captures this sense of searching—imbued with colour, texture, and a deep sensitivity to the natural world.
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Takahiro Hirata
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Takahiro Hirata holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Oil Painting) from Nagoya University of Arts. He has exhibited in 10 solo exhibitions in Nagoya, Japan and is represented in many public and private collections including Asago Museum, Makurazaki City, Town of Cottesloe and a major private collection in New Zealand.
He was a finalist in the in the 24th Ube Biennale International Sculpture Competition in 2011 and won first prize at the 10th Asago Art Village Award Exhibition in 2011 as part of the Asago Biennale. Hirata has exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi seven times since 2012 and Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe eight times since 2014.
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Yoshio Nitta
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Yoshio Nitta was born in Aichi prefecture, Japan, in 1969. He studied a Masters in Sculpture at the Kyoto City University of Art, graduating in 1994. Prior, Nitta studied Japanese painting under his mentor, the Japanese painter Shingo Hoshino.
Nitta usually employs copper for his sculptures, often welding copper plates into a patchwork or into cushions. In spite of the harsh nature of metals, Nitta’s influence gives it a friendly and warm impression.
He has had several solo exhibitions in Japan including Kaede Gallery, Osaka and Art Space Niji, Kyoto. He has exhibited in many group shows in Australia, Denmark, Korea and UAE. Yoshio first exhibited with Sculpture by the Sea in Albany in 1998 as part of the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival. He has exhibited 10 times at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe since the exhibition’s inception in 2005, has participated regularly in Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi since 2004 and exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus in 2009.
The artist completed an Artist Residency in Korea in 2009 and has twice been the recipient of the Distinguished International Artist-in-Residence Invitation at Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park Annual Sculpture Survey in 2010 and 2012 where he has developed very good professional relationships with many local Perth-based artists including Ron Gomboc. Of the many artists he has become acquainted with and the many friends he has made over the past decade in Perth, where he has travelled most years to exhibit since 2005, he writes: ‘…the many great artists, kind staff and wonderful people .. they are my treasure … I feel very deeply touched’.
He has spoken of the fact that he was losing confidence as an artist prior to 2005, and that it was deeply moving for him to see people in Perth enjoying the sculptures and his work, with the experience helping him regain his confidence as a practicing and exhibiting artist: ‘…it was very moving for me when I saw people enjoying (my) sculptures during the (Cottesloe) exhibition (in 2005). I felt that the mental distance between the audience and sculptures was very small. I felt that the sculptures moved people’s minds as they were intended to, as works of art’ (Yoshio Nitta, 2018) Nitta’s work is held in many private collections in Australia and New Zealand and he is represented in public collections in Australia, Korea, Denmark and Japan, including Town of Cottesloe (2005), City of Melville (2017) and BHP (2007) in Western Australia.
In addition to his own artistic practice, Kyoto-based Nitta is also the Representative Director of ‘symArt’, a Japanese non-profit organisation that facilitates the exhibition of Japanese art overseas. Nitta also lectures for the Art & Design course at Osaka Sangyo University.
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DALeast
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DALeast is an internationally renowned artist most well known for the incredible painting of animals that he creates in public spaces and his unique metal rod motif in which his figures often seem made of flakes of shiny metal.
DALeast studied sculpture at the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts (HIFA), which is regarded as one of the best and most selective Schools of Fine Arts in China. He found the lessons focused too rigidly on technique and not enough on creativity. He met his graffiti crew at this time which allowed him to explore his love of colour and creativity. He left the school in his fourth year but credits both his studies in sculpture and his graffiti crew as heavy influences to his current practice.
DALeast was born and grew up in Wuhan, China. Wuhan is one of the largest cities in China, situated on the Yangtze River. He has also lived in Beijing, and South Africa.
His practice shows a recognition of the natural world and it’s impact on human life. This coupled with his playful creativity leads to amazing, largescale murals that fundamentally alter the human made environment.
He has been featured on the Art Affairs with Michael Faith.
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