Due to unforeseeable technical difficulties, we temporarily cannot upload images to our artist profile or exhibition schedule. So to give you a preview of our exciting new show Hairjacked, we have uploaded a preview of works to this blog site.
Keep scrolling down to see all works in the exhibition. Feel free to call the gallery for more information on the show on (02) 66808825 or email staff at admin@retrospectgalleries.com
Christie & Kelly Turner
Bio: "Our names are Christie and Kelly Turner and we are identical twins that create fine art and graphic design on the Gold Coast. Painting together, each artwork we produce is created through the combination of both our efforts. We challenge each other through mistakes. A mistake by one can be transformed into a master piece by the other.
We have received numerous awards throughout our schooling: Certificate from the Education Minister's Awards for Excellence in Art, Marymount College Academic Award for Visual Art yr 12 along with a Certificate of Merit for Rivers Art Award. In 2008 we attended a graphic design course where we received a Diploma of Printing & Graphic Art, including a Student of the Year Award -for excellence in all aspects of the course and achieving the highest grades."
"Our main focus was on hair for the pure fun of taking something lifeless and giving it a life of its own. A personality/character through splashes of colour and lines, spontaneous and free in contrast to an unenthusiastic face. The hair is an extension of them, their inner world of expression bursting out into a dance of colour. Unveiling a hidden world of emotion, imagination and creativity, normally masked by a plain face. Lines and colour create their own rhythm and beat, each picture revealing the person's own unique melody. A bird, leaves, and flowers all establish a connection with nature.
Creating the hair as music played in the background we were able to forget about structure and just let the paint and brush dance together."
Title:'Mi'
Retail Price $690.00 including frame
Size: 760mm x 570mm (framed size 950mm x 750mm in a beautiful white box frame)
Medium: Ink and gouche on Stonehenge paper
Title:'Fa-So'
Retail Price $690.00 including frame
Size: 760mm x 570mm (framed size 950mm x 750mm in a beautiful white box frame)
Medium: Ink and gouche on Stonehenge paper
Title:'La'
Retail Price $690.00 including frame
Size: 760mm x 570mm (framed size 950mm x 750mm in a beautiful white box frame)
Medium: Ink and gouche on Stonehenge paper
Title:'Ti-Do'
Retail Price $690.00 including frame
Size: 610mm x 570mm
Medium: Ink and gouche on Stonehenge paper
Title: 'Do-Re'
Price $690.00 including frame
Size: 760mm x 570mm (framed size 950mm x 750mm in a beautiful white box frame)
Medium: Ink and gouche on Stonehenge paper
Title: Orange Cherry
Retail Price $550.00
Size: 500mm x 500mm
Medium: Ink and gouche on canvas with a white box frame
Title: Purple Cherry
Retail Price $550.00 Size: 500mm x 500mm
Medium: Ink and gouche on canvas with a white box frame
Title: Red Cherry
Retail Price $550.00 Size: 500mm x 500mm
Medium: Ink and gouche on canvas with a white box frame
Diddy Purple
$220.00
250mm x 250mm Framed
Ink and gouche on Stonehenge paper
Diddy Red
$220.00
250mm x 250mm Framed
Ink and gouche on Stonehenge paper
Do
$220.00
250mm x 250mm Framed
Ink and gouche on Stonehenge paper
Dum
$220.00
250mm x 250mm Framed
Ink and gouche on Stonehenge paper
Singing
$220.00
250mm x 250mm Framed
Ink and gouche on Stonehenge paper
Courtney Brimms
Bio: Courtney Brims is a Brisbane-based artist who graduated with a degree in interior design before turning her attention to illustration in 2008. Her drawings are influenced by Victoriana, ghost stories, old photographs, daydreams and nightmares. Working with pencils, Courtney creates dreamy worlds of lost girls and bewildering creatures, focusing on the beauty of nature and its dominance over time. Courtney had her first solo exhibition at Sydney’s Monster Children Gallery in 2008 as winner of the Mooks Artspace competition. Since then she has had solo shows at LA’s Black Maria Gallery and most recently at Brisbane’s Nine Lives Gallery as well as numerous group shows across Australia. Artist Statement
When people view my drawings I like to think I fill them with a sense of curiosity and a feeling of nostalgia. Drawing is my way of storytelling where I can take the viewer off the winding path and into the deep woods reminiscent of a fairytale. I primarily focus on themes of displacement, abandonment and loss of self, telling tales of neglected creatures trying to find their place in the world.
Title: Darkness Creeps
Retail Price: $ 750
Size: 430mm x 400mm Framed
Medium: Graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Description: This piece centres around the idea of dark versus light, of something sinister arising from something innocent. The animals and objects tangled within her hair bring to light the inner workings of her mind. What lies behind the innocent facade is quite unexpected.
Title: The Bowerbird
Retail Price: $ 500
Size: 330mm x 370mm Framed
Medium: Graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Description: I've always been fascinated by bowerbirds and the lengths they go to to make their nests look exceptional and attractive in the hope of luring a mate. I find this is a reflection of human nature in the way that we preen ourselves and obsess over our appearance.
Title: The Gothic
Retail Price: $ 700
Size: 300mm x 350mm Framed
Medium: Graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Description: Inspired by the Victorian age, "The Gothic" is a reflection of the beautiful details of gothic architecture.
Title: The Naturalist
Retail Price: $ 700
Size: 300mm x 350mm Framed
Medium: Graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Description: "The Naturalist" is inspired by the Victorian age when people were becoming increasingly curious about life across the seas and were discovering new species of fauna and flora around the world.
Michelle Dawson
Bio: Born in New Zealand, Michelle moved to Australia in 1985. She has been working as a professional artist since 1996 and has studied both in Australia and the UK at the UCL Slade Art School.
Michelle has been shortlisted for several major art prizes including the Bendigo drawing Prize and the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize. She has twice represented Australia at the Intercontinental Biennale of Small Graphics in Romania and is currently shortlisted for the CBCA 2009 Crichton Award for Best New Illustrator.
Hare-do 80cmx100cm
$1700.00
Charcoal and watercolour on paper. Framed
The Wreck of the Hesperus
34cmx39cm
$450.00
Gelatine print and mixed media on paper. Framed
Size: print size 270 mm x 200mm, frame size 370 mm x 300mm
Markings: Titled, Signed & Numbered by the Artist
Matt/Mount: White
Edition: 30
Medium: Giclee print on 290gsm Moab Entrada 100% cotton Archival fine art paper.
$90.00 print only, $190.00 each Framed.
There is a special price for the set of three prints Framed only $500.00
Size: print size 270 mm x 200mm, frame size 370 mm x 300mm
Markings: Titled, Signed & Numbered by the Artist
Matt/Mount: White
Edition: 30
Medium: Giclee print on 290gsm Moab Entrada 100% cotton Archival fine art paper.
$90.00 print only, $190.00 each Framed.
There is a special price for the set of three prints Framed only $500.00
Size: print size 270 mm x 200mm, frame size 370 mm x 300mm
Markings: Titled, Signed & Numbered by the Artist
Matt/Mount: White
Edition: 30
Medium: Giclee print on 290gsm Moab Entrada 100% cotton Archival fine art paper.
$90.00 print only, $190.00 each Framed.
There is a special price for the set of three prints Framed only $500.00
Braidy Hughes
Bio: Braidy Hughes is a young self taught artist and has been painting since the age of 15.
Born in Mackay in the early 80's, she has spent most of her life living in the country while dreaming of big cities. She currently lives and works in Brisbane, and hopes to one day move to New York.
Though her current day job is completely removed from all things creative, she finds sanity in her days off, which she religiously spends in front of her easel. To her art, in it's simplest form, is a like a movie condensed down into one moment, in one image a story of a hundred pages can be told. This is how her passion for art has formed, through the ability to provide the world with another escape into a altered experience. Her work is held in many private collections across Australia, California and New York.
"From a symbol of the feminine, to a belief formed from religion, hair splits down the path to many ideals. It can structure the telling in a story, & the flow in the wave of a curl can expel a harsh overtone and entwine an image in an emotion.
Personally as an artist, hair is a major tool in implementing the soft feminine nature of the girls that I paint. I find it interesting how we view a woman's softness. The elements of her outside appearance - the length and the movement of a woman's hair in an image can greatly lend to the overall feeling of a work, telling a story of who she is without any words. This is where I work from, my painting's concentrate on the way we perceive softness and innocence through a physical image.
The symbolic nature of hair is a great story teller in so many ways."
Title: Clementine Dressed in Orchids
Retail Price: $500
Size: 760mm x 760mm
Medium: Acrylic and ink on canvas
Title: He Called Her the Girl of the Sea
Retail Price: $500
Size: 760mm x 760mm
Medium: Acrylic and ink on canvas
Title: Penny in the Moonlight
Retail Price: $600
Size: 1020mm x 1020mm
Medium: Acrylic and ink on canvas
Title: The Healer
Retail Price: $650
Size: 1210mm x 910mm
Medium: Acrylic and ink on canvas
Claire Kurzmann
Bio: Claire Kurzmann is a young practicing painter and illustrator hailing from Brisbane, Australia. Having no formal artistic education, Kurzmann has developed a large body of works all featuring her unique and quirky characters. Influenced strongly by her companions and the intricacy of the human form and mind, the artworks never stray from the human form.
Kurzmann has exhibited in various group exhibitions and sold works throughout galleries in the Gold Coast and Brisbane region. She is constantly partaking in artistic projects; working with fashion labels, online developments and government funded projects.
"We can devote hours of attention to it and spend hundreds of dollars altering it. Sometimes we cannot control it; a bad hair day results in a bad mood. It's so important to most that when we loose it, we spend more on replacing it. We tear at it when in greif or when stressed. It gets in our food, on our clothes and always in our eyes. It's too hot during the summertime and the plumber hates pulling it out of the blocked drain. It's much more practical to be bald."
Title: Like wild swans, out of control!
Retail Price: $280
Size: 450 x 300
Medium: ink illustration on paper, Framed
Description: Sometimes it got so out of hand, so uncontrollable. He could've sworn there were wild animals living amongst it.
Title: Wisdom is in the beard, and sometimes the head.
Retail Price: $780
Size: 900mm x 600mm
Medium: Acrylic, ink, watercolour, spraypaint on board.
Description: Whether he be wise or not, there is nothing more intelligent looking then a man stroking his beard while deep in thought. Foolishness can easily be covered by the facial hair facade.
Nick Simpson
Bio: Nick Simpson moved to Melbourne after living in Brisbane for most of his life. He showed at a number of galleries and exhibitions in Brisbane (after completing a Diploma of Visual Arts) including Nine Lives, Joshua Levi, and the popular, annual I Used To Skate Once. The illustrations are character based and completely unbiased. Screenshots from imaginary movies featuring fuck-ups, weirdos, dwarfs, accountants, models, Germans and jockeys. It's not powerful, nor deeply moving, but it has humour and is rooted in real life.
Title: HAIRlip
Retail Price: $ 90
Size: 210mm x 150mm
Medium: Pen on paper, Framed
Description: I've got a strange fascination when it comes to harelips. Not sure why. Ever since reading Rules of Attraction where a boy has a thing for other boys with harelips...
Title: The Bassett Hound
Retail Price: $ 120
Size: 290mm x 210mm
Medium: Pen on paper, Framed
Description: When I grow up I'm going to buy a Bassett Hound and take him everywhere with me.
Title: Princess
Retail Price: $ 140
Size: 290mm x 210mm
Medium: Pen on paper, Framed
Description: The words sexual fetishism mean sexual attraction to objects, body parts or situations not conventionally viewed as being sexual in nature.
Title: Zanzabar
Retail Price: $ 140
Size: 290mm x 210mm
Media: Pen on paper, Framed
Description: You get one hair in your mouth and you pull and face, do your best to extract it quickly. Imagine that times one thousand.
Rachael Bartram
Bio: Rachael Bartram was born and raised on the Gold Coast and completed a Bachelor of Visual Media (major in Fine Art) degree at Q.C.A on the Gold Coast, in 2008. In 2009 she was accepted into the B.V.A honours program and achieved a first class nomination. Rachael’s work has been exhibited in a number of different group shows since July 2009, including Tales from the Cold Ghost III at 19Karen and B.E.A.F at the White Canvas Gallery. In the first half of 2010, her work was also selected by Brisbane City Council to be printed on vinyl and installed at King George Square in conjunction with Youth Week and she was a finalist in the Lethbridge 10000 award in May. Rachael’s current practice principally employs two-dimensional assemblage or collage as well as an intuitive style of drawing and mark making. The collection of materials specifically images, books and small objects is a key element within her work. Whilst consistently referencing identity, family history and memory - Rachael is also engaged with notions of visual narrative and story telling. ‘What excitements me about books and found images are the countless narrative possibilities, titles and conclusions that can be drawn from a re-contextualised illustration or segment of text.’
"For me hair always seems to resonate with a bound feminine relevance. Hair makes up such a significant part of our identity and self image and in turn, I think this becomes entrenched in sensory memory. The feeling of a friend running their fingers through it in the assembly line up at school, the stiff saltiness of it after swimming at the beach etc etc. In a way, the aesthetic character of hair often reminds me of water and wind. In contrast, the series of two-dimensional assemblages I produced for the Hair-Jacked exhibition, appropriate and reinterpret the female protagonist/narrative archetype in juxtaposition with animal furs and feathers. Whilst making these pieces I grew interested in the different types of hair, fur and hides in the animal world. There was parallel drawn between the sumptuous tactility of an animal's fur with a woman's beauty and self image. Whilst at the same time (as with the Hair-Jacked I piece) maternal/daughter roles are compared with the nestling, encircling warmth of a pouch or nest. Nevertheless, to get back to what hair means - one the whole I would place it within the context of identity and the feminine psyche."
Title: Hair-Jacked I - Venetian Beading Girls with Crimped Hair
Retail Price: $195
Size/dimensions: 190 mm x 230 mm, Framed
Medium: Collage
Description: This first piece hair and fur represent a symbolic intersection of maternal instincts - both animalistic and humanistic. A mother from the animal world grooms her offspring’s fur or feathers in the nest. The Venetian woman encircled by fur and tails, crimps her daughter’s hair as she arranges beads for a necklace.
Title: Hair-Jacked III - Number One Guy
Retail Price: $185
Size/dimensions: 140 mm x 175 mm, Framed
Medium: Collage
Description: I recently found a pile of young girl’s graphic novels dating from around the 1970s/1980s all of which contained hollow stories referencing disco championships, stereotypical female occupations (i.e. secretary, typist etc) and exotic locations. I decided to take the mickey out of the clichés inherent in the Number One Guy comic by cutting away the smug 1970s hairstyles of the two lovers on the front cover and replacing them with Turkey feathers and Beaver fur.
Title: Hair-Jacked IV - Ten Faced Brunette
Retail Price: $195
Size/dimensions: 155mm x 240 mm, Framed
Medium: Collage
Description: This last piece in the Hair-Jacked series, like Number One Guy, also derives its imagery from a 1970s girl’s comic. The multiple faces of the raven-haired protagonist were found in a story called ‘It started in Central Park’. What struck me about ‘It started in Central Park’ was that, out of all the comics I’d found it was the only one that did not revolve around a blonde, happy-go-lucky woman. Rather it’s central character was a dark haired single mother who spent most of the story throwing tantrums, crying and coming to terms with her rocky past. Ten Faced Brunette thus playfully exaggerates the visual metaphor of dark hair connoting a dark/emotional character.
Troy Archer
Bio: Northern NSW resident, Troy Archer is a self taught fine artist. His intricately detailed works are a reflection of his passion for capturing the essence of human emotion, fuelled by a need to escape the realities of life. Among other subject matter and styles, Troy ironically spends countless hours creating works depicting reality; real life situations showcasing bustling lives, confusion, stress and love.
Although a trained graphic designer, and inspired by most genres, his work is void of traditional or academically trained art styles, choosing to focus his energy of the creation of an objective and the release from everyday life.
"Hair, what does hair mean to me• That's actually a question I was hoping I'd never be asked. Thing is, hair confuses me, I mean, I fully understand what role it plays, but i'm confused because I have always hated hair, and now I spend countless hours drawing the damn stuff. Truth be told, i've hated hair for a long time, my first memory of hating it is of me at about 12 years old, enjoying my weet-bix only to be sabotaged by a stray hair, it got half way down my neck and i've never forgotten it. I'm super haunted by hair, which could be a result of that scene in Trading Places, where Dan Akroyd is dressed as Santa Clause and he eats a raw fish that's caught up in his beard, it's f**king disgusting. Above all, my personal life is riddled with it, Mum malts, my wife leaves her disgusting brush around the place, my chest is like a persian rug which is hell bent on setting the trend for the rest of me, it's everywhere, toes and all. At least, I guess, i've been able to take a positive away from all this by using it as a theme in my art."
Title: 'Invention of Dying'
Price $
Size:
Medium:
Title: Anita Avocado
Price $ 150.00
Size: 250mm x 250mm framed
Medium: Pen and pencil on paper
Title: Mary Mushroom
Price $ 150.00
Size: 250mm x 250 mm framed
Medium: Pen and pencil on paper
Title: Georgina Grapes
Price $ 150.00
Size: 250mm x 250 mm framed
Medium: Pen and pencil on paper
Title: Party Girl
Price $ 690.00
Size: 710mm x 910mm framed
Medium:
Title: Four
Price $ 690.00
Size: 710mm x 910mm framed
Medium:
