ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE

The Flanagan Art Exhibition 2011

SEPTEMBER 7 - 11

Artist: John O’LoughlinTitle: Roadside Shrine, Closed Reliquary #1, 2011Australian Saints SeriesMedium: Stoneware, engobes, oxidesSize: 28x26x54cm

In the light of Mary Mackillops’ recent cannonisation. This latest series, using the incongruous juxtaposition of diverse symbols. The closed reliquary, the repository for the Saint’s relics, is inaccessible, heightening the sense of mystery.

Artist: John O’LoughlinTitle: Roadside Shrines, Closed Reliquaries, 2010Australian Saints SeriesMedium: Stoneware, oxides, engobesSize: 48 x 12 x 445

In the light of Mary Mackillops’ recent cannonisation. This latest series, using the incongruous juxtaposition of diverse symbols. The closed reliquary, the repository for the Saint’s relics, is inaccessible, heightening the sense of mystery.

Artist: Betty CollierTitle: The ClusterMedium: Alabaster on OregonSize: 40 x 28 x 45 (wxhxd)

Small, smooth, tactile and defined are features that are important in these cluster forms, which were originally inspired by mushrooms and rock fissures.

Artist: Ash LiebTitle: And I will keep you safe from the unknownMedium: Digital Montage Size: 84 x 59 cm

My art is about entertainment, tapping into the endearing quality that you might find in old films and humour because after all laughter is the best medicine.

Artist: Peter GeorgakisTitle: Your Excited, I’m SuicidalMedium: Silicone, glass, boneSize: 24 x 37 cm

This piece deals with the process of relationships, be it that of objects or human beings and how being seemingly connected to someone or something can sometimes slip away. This is shown here by conjoined twins

Artist: Lea KannarTitle: Future Dreamscapes U.SMedium: Solarplate, chincole, linocut & etchingSize: 54 x 40 cm

Part of an on-going body of work exploring the human relationship to its environment. Looking at where the land began and where its future lay and how we shape it to our needs or how it shapes us.

Artist: Michael FaulknerTitle: New LifeMedium: Oil on canvasSize: 45 x 60 cm

Inspiration comes from experiences and feelings in life and travel.

Artist: Cassandra ThomsonTitle: The Athletes SoulMedium: Collection of photographical imagesSize: 24 x 110 cm

The piece was inspired by my peers and the way they rely on their shoes so much. Whilst studying sport, and how many pairs they go through.

Artist: Paul SnellTitle: Pulse # 201010Medium: Lambda Metallic PrintSize: 120 x 120 cm

The primary intention of this body of non-objective work is to create a visual experience. The pieces invite concentration, quiet and even silence.

Artist: Sarah SandersTitle: Floating MutationMedium: Charcoal on paperSize: 77 x 57 cm

The forms suspended in time and space, are unremittingly deep and brooding- symbols of uneasiness and darkness, which shift, morph, intertwine and lead the viewer into a sense of discordance and intrigue.

Artist: Sarah SandersTitle: MorphingMedium: Charcoal on paperSize: 77 x 57

The forms suspended in time and space, are unremittingly deep and brooding- symbols of uneasiness and darkness, which shift, morph, intertwine and lead the viewer into a sense of discordance and intrigue.

Artist: Dr Gordon MonroTitle: Tree CircleMedium: Digital print (edition of 8)Size: 80 x80 cm

An image ‘grown’ by a computer program written by the artist, in this image the growth is not quite completed. Abstractly, the image is a tree in the mathematical sense.

Artist: Allan MannTitle: The Artist as Four Patron Saints-St Crispin; St Erasmus; St Bartholomew and St BlaiseMedium: Digital Tftra PytchSize: 40 x 120 cm

Who are we and also when considered, construed or constructed under different circumstances, who and what might we have become?

Artist: Jackie GorringTitle: Kiah NoelMedium: Relief print on canvasSize: 70 x 110 cm

Within the ordinaries of life there’s humour .The subjects used are snapshots from theeveryday malapropisms-the extraordinary things people find, make, do and say.

Artist: Tarli GloverTitle: Fading StarMedium: Acrylic charcoal on canvasSize: 138x138 cm

A work referencing age, the passing of the peaks of talent, power and skill. It is about losing favour, becoming unfashionable. The diminished and lack luster quality of a fading star.

Artist: Alister HeighwayTitle: Birthday Card From MungoMedium: Inkjet on LinoSize: 90 x 125 cms The deception of images, forms and elements if an image and the abstract perceptions of heavy grain.

Artist: Michelle ZuccoloTitle: The Eternal HorseMedium: Acrylic on canvasSize: 33 x 25 cm

Still life allows me to utilize my collection of personal memorabilia acquired throughout my childhood. I have attempted to evoke a sense of animation and gesture through a static object- the canvas.

Artist: Yasmin ColeTitle: Tightly Bound IMedium: Charcoal and pastel on paperSize: 55 x 70 cm

Portrays a woman’s secret desires, the things we dare not express. This artwork plays with the idea of clothing as a visual signifier of identity.

Artist: Jessica LedwichTitle: The BaptismMedium: Giclee printSize: 95 x 65 cm

This image is about the rituals of acceptance and symbolizes woman’s ability for rebirth and renewal.

Artist: Mark PetherTitle: The Unobserved Observed, VegemiteMedium: Acrylic on canvasSize:50.8 x 40.6 cm

Through these works, the viewer is invited to look, not glance, at normally unobserved items of everyday life whilst the artist documents aspects of contemporary life and culture.

Artist: Mark PetherTitle: The Unobserved Observed, MiloMedium: Acrylic on canvasSize:50.8 x 40.6 cm

Through these works, the viewer is invited to look, not glance, at normally unobserved items of everyday life whilst the artist documents aspects of contemporary life and culture.

Artist: Mark PetherTitle: The Unobserved Observed, Big MMedium: Acrylic on canvasSize:50.8 x 40.6 cm

Through these works, the viewer is invited to look, not glance, at normally unobserved items of everyday life whilst the artist documents aspects of contemporary life and culture.

Artist: Robert WaghornTitle: Sculpture No. 2Medium: Found objectsSize: 43 x 38x20 cm

This piece is made up of 1960s teachers aids used for sharpening metal lathe tools.

Artist: Simeon WalkerTitle: Blossoms (Part 1 & 2)Medium: Oil on Italian linen (framed)Size: 41 x 41 cm

This Diptych represents a meeting of Eastern and Western influence in which the fleeting beauty of winter blossom is celebrated.

Artist: Susan StevensonTitle: Fear (From Series White Women's Business)Medium: Acrylic on plywoodSize: 90 x 120 cm

The painter references Indigenous scarification overlaid with a network of fine white lace. The raised scarification's register only as slight obstacles as the lace contains the black ground. The white markings seem to transform into tattoos- fine white lines scratched into black skin.

Artist: Melanie TollidayTitle: Red Balloons – “Within Reach”Medium: Acrylic on canvasSize: 60 x 50 cm

This work portrays the feeling of getting what you desired but there is still something missing.

Artist: Lynette GuyTitle: Mosaic MadnessMedium: TextileSize: 106 x 109 cm

This work focuses on images inspired from recent travels to Barcelona, Spain.

Artist: Gail TrembathTitle: Fig Study #1 2011Medium: Hand printed Chlorobromide photographSize: 34 x 34 cm

I bought these figs at a seaside community market held earlier this year to raise money for Queensland flood relief.

Artist: Gail TrembathTitle: Fig Study #3 2011Medium: Hand printed Chlorobromide photographSize: 34 x 34 cm

I bought these figs at a seaside community market held earlier this year to raise money for Queensland flood relief.

Artist: Karen HollandTitle: HelaconiaMedium: Oil Size: 50 x 50 cm

When I see beautiful natural things I am filled with the desire to paint them, to enable that beauty to be held captive.

Artist: Stevan JacksTitle: Modern Relics on TrialMedium: Oil on linenSize: 150 x 50 cm

An origami painting that explores various themes and issues that reflect our world, in a still life form. Allowing the viewers to form their own interpretations.

Artist: Donna FearneTitle: SeriouslyMedium: Pastel, ink, pencil, gouache, charcoal on paperSize: 150 x 70 cm

The dignity, passion and sensitive integrity of animals and the infinite variety of their characters. Animal portraits engage the audience in an entire dialogue that reminds us that people don’t have a monopoly on personality

Artist: Irene SalmontTitle: Shadows Of The ForestMedium: Pen and chince graph pencilSize: 150 x 102 cm

My aim is to entice the viewer to consider the vulnerability and beauty of the natural world of the Australian landscape.

Artist: Anne-Maree CullinanTitle: Square Interplay TriptychMedium: Acrylic on canvas TriptychSize: 3 x 30 x 30 cm30 cm x 96 cm overall

An exploration in balancing and harmonising rich colour, texture and tone. The Triptych expresses my belief that we (humanity) areall the same, just on different canvasses.

Artist: James PasakosTitle: Victoria Dock, MelbourneMedium: MonoprintSize: 65 x 50 cm

The Docklands was part of my childhood and it still evokes a wonderful history and beauty. The landscape has changed dramatically since but it was once a wasteland, an area that the every day person did not know existed.

Artist: Debbie LloydTitle: What lies beneathMedium: Pigment ink on cotton rag paper, dressmakers pins, beadsSize: 43 x 43 cm

I have used everyday objects, repeated, reconfigured and recontextualised to provide the viewer with visual challenges that slow down and complicate the reading of the work.

Artist: Kiata MasonTitle: LeavingMedium: Watercolour paper ink immersion charcoal, chalk hand beading and collageSize: 79 x 46 cm

My subject matter revolves around life and death, and often relates to morphing and to journeys. Leaving is about life and the perpetual need to move forward.

Artist: Cody JoyTitle: Untitled (overflow)Medium: Dip pen & ink drawing on paperSize: 65.5 x 121 cm

I aim to make a space where the viewer will be temporarily absorbed and experience the sense of peace and reflections that went into the creation of the work.

Artist: Deanne GilsonTitle: We Come In Peace. Wathaurung Axe HeadsMedium: Oil on canvasSize: 80 x 80 cm

The title explores a loss of identity. Misunderstanding and conflicts between the early white settlers and the local Wathaurung Aboriginal tribe from which I am a descendant. Some of the marks have been borrowed from ancestral pieces held inThe Irish Collection, Museum of Ireland. The background text refers to a dreamtime story told to my Mum by her Nan.

Artist: Stephen DavidsonTitle: Ooddnadatta TrackMedium: Acrylic on canvas stretcherSize: 76 x 101 cm

This work is inspired from recent travels from Ballarat to Central Australia. Travelling in a 4WD to remote locations of awesome beauty.

Artist: Robyn CashinTitle: Red CavernMedium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 76 x 61 cm

I am moved to give life to images in new ways. Colour with its richness and subtleties is the most enthralling aspect of artistic expression.

Artist: Trudi HarleyTitle: Landmark IMedium: Pastel and carbon pencil on paperSize: 30 x 40 cm

The ‘path’ can be seen as a metaphor for the journey of life, embodying continuums and disjunctions, imperfections and anomalies.

Artist: Trudi HarleyTitle: Landmark IIMedium: Pastel and carbon pencil on paperSize: 30 x 40 cm

The ‘path’ can be seen as a metaphor for the journey of life, embodying continuums and disjunctions, imperfections and anomalies.

Artist: Trudi HarleyTitle: Landmark IIIMedium: Pastel and carbon pencil on paperSize: 30 x 40 cm

The ‘path’ can be seen as a metaphor for the journey of life, embodying continuums and disjunctions, imperfections and anomalies.

Artist: Pauline O’Shannessy-DowlingTitle: Urban LandscapeMedium: Ink on Stonehenge paperSize: 39 x 132 cm

This light hearted, whimsical drawing has been created with ink pen on Stonehenge paper. My art is a celebration of colour and freedom of expression.

Artist: Barry WemyssTitle: Crenellated RecollectionsMedium: Glazed ceramics, MDF board and pine. 240 volt power & sound track,Fired clay and soilSize: 920 L x 520 W x 550 H cm

These white ceramic gumboots are a metaphor and contrast to the dirty black gumboots of my childhood. They refer to my earliest memories of wearing gumboots.

Artist: Peter RobertsonTitle: The Discovery Of LoveMedium: Oil and acrylic gesso on woodSize: 40 x 80.5 cm

This artist identifies core experiences, moving through the discoveries of self-consciousness, fantasy, creativity, love and hope to those of chaos, force, loss and ultimately death.

Artist: Dan O’DonnellTitle: Was Never HereMedium: Acrylic, collage and shellac on canvasSize: 69 x 90 cm

The subdued brown and yellow sun bleached tones are influenced by the Wimmera landscapes of my childhood. This work is an ode to deliberate daydreamers, where one has a licence to wonder without reason.

Artist: Philip BerryTitle: Who Am I?Medium: Oil on canvasSize: 65 x 50 cm Some of our fond childhood memories remain with us for the rest of our lives. A sound, or an object can awaken a memory.

Artist: Edward ColeridgeTitle: Still Life – Nature MorteMedium: Oil on panelSize: 30 x 120 cm

A group of ancient river red gums make a natural still life. Standing well spaced on a flat flood plain, surrounded by constant farming activity.

Artist: Ruby PilvenTitle: Untitled (confinement print)Medium: Photopolymer print & magnifying glassSize: 18 x 19.5 cm

The dislocation of the human body in intimate confined spaces as a way of suggesting a collective psychological empathy towards historical events, thatare characterised by confinement and imprisonment.

Artist: Ruby PilvenTitle: Untitled (confinement archive)Medium: Silkscreened texts inside Type Press box & White GlovesSize: 82 L x 37 W cm

The dislocation of the human body in intimate confined spaces as a way of suggesting a collective psychological empathy towards historical events, that are characterised by confinement and imprisonment.

Artist: Prof David GreenTitle: The DelugeMedium: Ink on paperSize: 140 x 100 cm

Based on the 17th Century English Christmas Carol “I saw three ships come sailing in”. One of which was the Deluge. This illustrates the carriage of relics of three kings to Cologne Cathedral in the 12th Century.

Artist: Julie KeatingTitle: Great ExpectationsMedium: Oil on linenSize: 40 x 40 cm

The attentive and anxious couple brood over their discovery of an ‘egg’. A third bird approaches, curious. Their ‘egg’ is only a screwed up piece of notepaper that will never evolve into anything. We see exquisite origami birds in the joyous moment when appearance has deceived them of reality.

Artist: Sophie HaythornthwaiteTitle: Bowl Of LemonsMedium: Oil on canvasSize: 37 H x 40 W cm

My current work is a still life composition with a surrealistic edge.

Artist: Lars StenbergTitle: Midwinter Light: New GrowthMedium: Acrylic on linenSize: 80 x 100 cm

My paintings are born of a desire to dodge past my rational mind, and into something more meaningful.

Artist: Jan HarrisTitle: Full BloomMedium: Pastel on paperSize: 30 x 40 cm

This painting came about at sunset on Anza cDay 2011. The opulence and glory of the wide open petals, and the exposure of the stamens, provided a luscious example of a mature rose.

Artist: Leah BrightTitle: Thy Seek Eths Escape RouteMedium: Lino print on papere fabricSize: 1000 H x 450 w cm This artwork plays with the notion of identity and internal conflict. The mask suggests a conduit is formed between the woman and the bird of prey.

Artist: Virginia GraysonTitle: The Painter – Antonia AntoniouMedium: Charcoal and Gesso on paintSize: 85 x 75 cm

This work portrays a passionate artist whose enthusiasm for drawing and painting was inspiring to witness. I pay homage to the artists.

Artist: Janne KearneyTitle: (Neil Mitchell) Talkin MelbourneMedium: Oil on canvasSize: 120 x 90 cm

The newspaper refers to his life as a journalist. The sports page displays his beloved football team, and the front page headlines reflect his 3aw morning radio program called “Talking Melbourne”.

Artist: Sally MillerTitle: Skin Deep 1Medium: Graphite on paperSize: 137 x 84 cm

In my work I address both personal concerns and more topical social issues,seeking to explore and understand ways a society or individuals perceive themselves.

Artist: Sally MillerTitle: Skin Deep 2Medium: Graphite on paperSize: 137 x 84 cm

In my work I address both personal concerns and more topical social issues,seeking to explore and understand ways a society or individuals perceive themselves.

Artist: Catherine TaitTitle: Landscape ReflectionMedium: Oil on linenSize: 65 x 50 cm

After a deluge of rain, scattered bodies of water subtly resonate and distort the quiet beauty of the landscape.

Artist: Anastasia WiltshireTitle: Humean Figure No. 2Medium: Oil on paperSize: 140 x 137 cm

The figure in this work represents a confused state between being, and space in an attempt to attain a sense of place and definition. This work represents psychological states and transient moods.

Artist: Nicola McClellandTitle: Internal GeographiesMedium: Wax and mapsSize: 140 x 137 cm

These pieces may suggest floating vessels, biological forms or oceanic objects drifting away from their origins.

Artist: Kate BlandTitle: ForeignerMedium: Mixed media: Spray paint, ink, fabric, plaster bondage, acrylic paint on canvasSize: 120 x 90 cm Inspiration is found in music, mood and environment. Using paint to describe and create different qualities in all forms.

Artist: Duncan LannanTitle: MaryMedium: Oil on canvasSize: 36 H x 25.5 W x 4.5 D cm

My subject was taken from a celebrities without make-up shot of female pop singer‘Pink’. The more I worked over it the more ‘Pink’ began to look like the Virgin Mary, inadvertently allocating her with demigod status.

Artist: Grace BaileyTitle: Hear My CryMedium: Mixed media: Oil, acrylic on canvasSize:122 x 91 cm In this painting the distorted enormous lips signify the silence of so much to tell but novoice to be heard with. The eyes relay the pain that mankind should not have to bear.The texture across the face represents the scars and pain of those events.

Artist: Kirrilee BaileyTitle: Untitled 1Medium: Archival inkjet printSize: 30.48 x 45.72 cm Beauty and decay are inherent to the human condition. This notion is revealed in the humanity of the artists subjects.

Artist: John FergusonTitle: CrypticMedium: CeramicSize: 270 x 270 x 100 D cm

An ongoing inquiry into both the development of the enclosed thrown form and the examination of contrasting textures.

Artist: Catherine McKeonTitle: Tree MystiqueMedium: Charcoal on paperSize: 117 x 90 cm

I am intrigued by the expressive language of trees- the bulky stoic masses of limbs defining shape and form. Of spindly branches creating voids and chaos.

Artist: Liz WalkerTitle: Table For TwoMedium: Recycled corrugated iron, found object, polymer paintSize: 96 x 36 x 32 cm

This piece examines the role of women within the home. Inspired by the current climate of celebrity chef worship amidst an overproduction of TV cooking programs.

Artist: Amelia KingstonTitle: Valley Of The Dolls (Cooked version)Medium: Stoneware, resin coating, wooden frameSize: 36 x 25 x 10.5 cm

A piece of ceramic work that has incorporated other materials into the ceramics that has been framed.

Artist: Kim AndersonTitle: Curl UpMedium: Ink On PaperSize: 20 x 27 x 17 cm A playful attempt to bridge the gap between the “white page” and the “white cube” by folding, curling and cutting holes in the paper. Transforming the flat page into a miniature three-dimensional space where the figures appear to interact.

Artist: Kim AndersonTitle: Hide And SeekMedium: Ink On PaperSize: 21 x 25 x 60 cm

A playful attempt to bridge the gap between the “white page” and the “white cube” by folding, curling and cutting holes in the paper. Transforming the flat page into a miniature three-dimensional space where the figures appear to interact.

Artist: Ying HuangTitle: KellyMedium: Oil on canvasSize: 76 x 91 cm

This work is a highly personalised portrait based on the death masks of prisoners executed at the Old Melbourne Gaol.Kelly invites the viewer to explore the difficulties of condemning the ‘criminal’ whilst simultaneously accepting the States power to take life.

Artist: Stephen PlebanTitle: Tinterlands IIMedium: Oil and wax on canvasSize: 140 x 149.5 cm

The shifting moods created by weather, light and the elements that fracture the focus and touch on the sublime.

Artist: Katy WoodroffeTitle: Crystal LightsMedium: Oil and wax on canvasSize: 82 x 71 cm

The myth of Persephone and Demeter has formed the basis for this work. These legends and the ancient Greek culture always seemed to be just beneath the surface of this beautiful island.

Artist: Joanne SissonTitle: Tree Section - DunkeldMedium: Oil on canvasSize: 113 x 140 cm

The age of this eucalypt in Dunkeld has been estimated at 500 years.This artwork attempts to describe the gentle, slow progress of growth and the immensity and weight of these branches.

Artist: Pierre MolTitle: Mongrel Farm # 4Medium: Oil on canvasSize:120 x 62 cm

Half a cow, the back of a bicycle, the head of a dog, the tail of a horse. Why is it that we must always see the world in wholes? In the rounding out of things? However we see it, the order of the world is at odds with what we want to do with it.

Artist: Becky GuggisbergTitle: The Boat Came, But I Am Not ReadyMedium: Oil on boardSize: 105 x 127 cm framed

This painting is considering the movement of our souls an unseen individual spiritual journey

Artist: Debbie HillTitle: The Testimonial Medium: Ink on Paper Size: 41.5 x 34 cm

Testimonials (cups) were often presented to dignitaries in the 1800's and were adorned with scenes from myths,heroic tales and the then current ideals. Testimonial is the first in a new series of works borrowing from this time and juxtaposing imagery that is relevant to world issues today.