How about joining an Art Tour through Melbourne’s laneways, or through the galleries in South Yarra & Prahran?
now showing > deborah zibah
Deborah Zibah is an exuberant character, driven by passion and purpose in an irrepressible quest for excellence in her work ethic and personal life. Born in Zimbabwe, Africa, Deborah works and lives in Perth, Western Australia. Currently, she is working extensively with bitumen and grass tree resins, which she collects herself from the Australian bush. She is a prolific painter and is constantly experimenting with new materials and concepts. Though she has a strong sense of form, not to mention exceptional drawing skills, the process of surface texture takes priority for her at the moment.
Deborah’s work exudes strong form, with no apologies for the intensity of colour bombarding the viewer’s senses. There is constant longing to experiment with new materials, to discover new concepts and fuelled impetuousness as each boundary is blistered and fresh ground is ravished. It is Deborah’s passion, her love, and what she does best.
For me, life has to be lived extravagantly, to the nth degree, and I am constantly striving for better, more effective ways to visually demonstrate me experience and appreciation of nature and its Creator – Deborah Zibah.
Deborah has 5 artworks on exhibition and for sale at one hundredth gallery until 10 July 2011.
now showing > wolfgang glowacki
Wolfgang Glowacki is a Tasmanian and Australian wilderness landscape photographer. He specializes in Tasmanian landscape photography and wilderness photography. Be inspired by the amazing landscapes, intricate details and incredible macro. His photography has received numerous awards and his photographs have been published extensively in a large variety of media ranging from calendars, books, advertising and the publications of Australian Geographic, Wild magazine, 40 Degree South and many more.
“Thank you for having a look at my photographic art. I’d like to introduce you to the natural world I know. Come follow along on my journey. Explore, consider, and take something with you. This is nature through my eyes. These photographs do not arise from any particular desire to see the world through a lens, but rather from my deep passion for this land we call wilderness. It has shaped every aspect of my life. I wish to show you the amazing, beautiful and powerful forces that have created the Earth we live on.”
I particularly enjoy doing macro photography. I find myself looking at the world in a completely different way than with any of my other work. There is so much in the small details of nature that can be missed if you don’t REALLY stop to take it all in. For this kind of work you have to sit back and absorb the wilderness a while, clear your mind from the office stress, the traffic and mobile phones you left behind and then the details begin to reveal themselves. Sometimes, I find, the beauty is in the little things.” – Wolfgang Glowacki
Wolfgang has three framed works on exhibition at one hundredth gallery until Sunday 26 June.
it’s a partnership
I’ve had some great conversations with about 20 artists during the past fortnight.
A question that is asked by the more savvy artists is, “How does one hundredth gallery get people into the gallery?”
This is a quite an interesting and multifaceted question, and one with no simple answer.
Like any other business, we could do endless advertising and promotion to get people through the doors; however if there is nothing of quality for them to look at, then they won’t be back and the exercise would be a huge waste.
one hundredth gallery aims to partner with aspiring and emerging artists to 1. provide a space to exhibit, and 2. determine the best ways to commercialise artists’ work (if that is the artist’s objective).
Rather than use a blanket approach to advertising and promotion, we will work with artists to define the objectives of their exhibition and devise the best plan to support those objectives.
We aim to keep our rental fees and commission as low as possible so that we can provide artists with an opportunity to determine what works and what doesn’t when it comes to comercialising their art.
It’s a partnership.
open day for artists
As you know, one hundredth gallery in Porter Street, Prahran is positioning itself as the Australian gallery for aspiring creatives to exhibit their work.
This Saturday (25 June) we will hold an open day for anyone who has ever thought about showing their pieces to the public. Creatives across all mediums – photography, film, paint, digital, sculpture, fashion (the list is endless) are encouraged to come and talk about the commercial potential of their work and what it takes to have an exhibition.
You’re invited, even if you have never exhibited before.
Who: Aspiring and emerging creative types
What: Gallery open day for future exhibitions
Where: one hundredth gallery | 49 porter street | prahran
When: Saturday 25 June 2011, 12 noon – 4pm
We look forward to seeing you there!
now showing > michell guo
Born in Beijing to an artist father and actress mother, Michell was immersed in classical music and fine arts through her childhood years and was formally trained as a concert pianist.
Moving to Melbourne in the early 1990’s from a foreign country resulted in the inevitable language barrier. It was during this period of adjustment that Michell learnt to rely on her non-verbal senses, expressing herself in pictures with a simple point-and-shoot camera. It was during her architectural studies that Michell’s passion for photography blossomed. In 2008, Australia and the GFC crossed paths and she suddenly found herself unemployed with a bruised confidence and unsure about the future. At this point, Michell truly immersed herself in photography. She packed a digital SLR camera and left for Japan to find herself…
The ‘eye for detail’ inherited from her late father and no formal training in photography resulted in a refreshing and sensitive approach. Years of classical still-life, life drawing and oil painting combined with strict architectural training have given Michell an innate ability to find the ideal composition, angling and lighting to sublimate any subject matter. She is able to quickly hone in on the soul of an image and turn it into a reflective, meaningful piece of work that evokes feeling and thought from the viewer.
Michell has three artworks on display and for sale at one hundredth gallery until 26 June 2011.
now showing > kylie mouat
Born in New Zealand and now residing in Melbourne, Kylie is a very strong, passionate and eclectic artist who has lived all over the world. She has a background in both visual and performing arts and her artistic pursuits have many common threads. It is her ability to use these in her paintings that gives her abstract work a point of difference. She creates both a sense of movement with her juxtaposition of texture and colour, often rendering the viewer with unexpected emotion.
Kylie has very strong environmental principles and creates her paintings using existing materials, such as the last two inches in a tin of house paint and timber off-cuts from a construction site. Her inspiration comes in many different forms including street characters, popular culture, human expression, advertising layouts, and multicultural philosophers – it’s all part of the fabric of life and the decisions we make.
Kylie has five artworks on display and for sale at one hundredth gallery until 26 June 2011.
now showing > kate hursthouse
Originally from Auckland, New Zealand Kate has been travelling and living in different countries, in between studying and working, for the last 5 years. Trained as an architect, Kate’s passion for photography began with a course in black and white film photography 5 years ago. Kate still continues to pursue the art form that is black and white film photography as she finds nothing more satisfying than developing her own photographs, but has also moved into the world of digital photography.
Each country she places her feet down in provides a new opportunity to create and capture new memories. Photography allows her to discover as much as she can about each place through the eye of her lens. Kate has a particular interest in exploring the effects of light on places, buildings and objects. Combining her passions of travel and photography has broadened Kate’s horizons and she strongly believes that “art is not about what you see, but what you make others see”. She hopes through her photographs she can share some of her experiences.
Kate currently resides in Melbourne, a city with one of the most interesting art and design cultures she has experienced. She recently exhibited at the Build New Memories fundraising exhibition for The Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal to help those affected by wide spread flooding in Queensland. She also exhibited at the 10th Annual Traditional Darkroom Printmakers Exhibition at Michaels Gallery where she was selected to exhibit at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale later this year.
Kate has five artworks on display and for sale at one hundredth gallery until 26 June 2011.
You can see Kate’s gallery by clicking here.
now showing > pete goodlet
At Muskvale, on the edge of Daylesford, Pete Goodlet paints in his violet coloured studio, an original miner’s cottage. Pete’s whimsical paintings invite you to share his observations and perspectives of the world and the characters inhabiting it.
Pete’s paintings are full of joy and the celebration of life and just looking at them can make you smile. Pete has lived and travelled to many places along the East coast of Australia. Many of his paintings reflect time enjoyed in places as diverse as Apollo Bay, St.Kilda, Sydney, Daylesford, Noosa Heads and Murwillumbah, and one day has plans to have a large garden in the sub-tropics.
Pete lives in Daylesford with his partner David. Pete also draws inspiration from his large family and two great kids, Jack & Lily and Thelma Louise his very funny dog!
Pete has five artworks on display and for sale at one hundredth gallery until 26 June 2011.
