"I was first attracted to glass in the studio of stained glass master Stephen Moor, and it has remained so even after 36 years in the profession. For most of that time I have produced stained glass windows and panels for churches, residences and public buildings, as well as restoring old painted glass, though I also like to draw, paint and create collages and sculptures." he states
Hiromi Tango - performance artist
"DUST STORM" -
"Interested in the therapeutic qualities of art, Tango creates immersive installations with sculptural and performance aspects that invite audience interaction and response to their environment."
Hiromi Tango - performance artist
NEW MEMORY -
Hiromi Tango - performance artist
"PROMISED"
"The basis of “Promised” is what Hiromi describes as the “promises I could not keep and the promises you could not keep.” As well as being an intensely personal expression of loss and separation inspired by her own life experience, the exhibition explores the threads of emotional pain that permeate the lives of all human beings. On a more scientific level, “Promised” is an investigation of the meaning and effect of light and colour."
Hiromi Tango - performance artist
"MOON JELLIES" -
The exhibition was the culmination of a community project facilitated by Hiromi, whose work explores the healing power of art, using the ocean ecosystem as a metaphor for the brain.
"Moon Jellies, a type of jelly fish, has a meditative and therapeutic quality for many, which connects to the concept of Art Magic, the act of wrapping through sound, aroma and physical movement" - she states.
Tony Albert - painter
"Albert questions how we understand and imagine difference.
Weaving together text appropriated from popular music, film, fiction, and art history, along with clichéd images of extraterrestrials, photographs of his family in Lucha Libre, and an immense collection of “Aboriginalia” (a term the artist coined to describe objects that feature naive portrayals of Australian Aboriginal people and their culture). SSFA.
Martin Sharp - painter + social commentator
Sharp influenced pop art and culture in Australia and around the world for half a century. Hailed as one of the world's top pop artists he was the acknowledged king of the UK poster scene; his famous psychedelic posters of Hendrix, Dylan and Donovan rank as icons of the genre.
He returned to Sydney in 1969 and set up the Yellow House in Kings Cross.
Perhaps his most recognised artwork from this period is the face of Sydney’s Luna Park.
Val - cancer survivor
Michael West - chef
Favourite chef's tool?
"Me! Not to sound arrogant - I think the thing which helps chefs cook great food is tasting, smelling and even listening to the food as it cooks". MW.
Peter Brock - race driver
Known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brocky" he was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years.
In 2006, while driving in the "Targa West '06" car rally, near Perth, Western Australia, he skidded off a downhill bend and hit a tree. The 61-year-old Brock was killed instantly.
Christine
Nadege Desgenetez - artist
"For the past decade, reflections on memory, identity and belonging have informed her artistic practice. From childhood recollections to ideas of connection to place, her work draws from an array of autobiographical considerations to explore the sculptural language of glass.
The physicality inherent to the processes of glass blowing has lead her to feel ‘connected’ to her work, but also to consider herself a beneficiary and custodian of the long history of the medium". ND.
Colin Mansfield - pastoralist
Melinda Willis - glass artist
Melinda's recent work, has been developing a series of kiln-formed glass sculptures that examine the materiality of architectural glass through its transparency, reflectivity and optic qualities. These enquiries have built upon a body of work that investigates sheet glass as a vehicle for experiential and perceptual encounters. She surveys ubiquitous urban spaces by way of their reflections and transfers these digital observations to fused and slumped sheet glass planes that are layered one upon the other, building complex, almost live imagery.
Tim Pac Poy - master chef
Even among his peers, Tim Pak Poy is singled out as an artist. He's legendary for his detailed, almost obsessive care in the preparation of food - especially with promoting truffles.
Known for his success with Claude's and The Wharf, Tim now operates a consultancy business assisting a wide range of food service clients.
Mitsuo Shoji - master ceramist
Mitsuo is a Japanese born internationally renowned ceramist who was trained at Kyoto University, Japan.
He has lived in Sydney, Australia since 1978, and was a lecturer in ceramics at Sydney College of the Arts for 29 years. He retired and is now an Honorary Senior Lecturer. He has held over 43 Solo exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Mannequin
Aedan Harris - ceramist
Bernadette Foster - artist
Merran Esson - ceramist
Earl Owen - micro surgeon
"Owen was one of the earliest and most enterprising pioneers in the field of microsurgery. He caused considerable controversy after conducting the world’s first successful finger replacement on a child, and was subsequently discharged from the Sydney Children’s Hospital. Later, he co-led the first successful hand transplant, trained the team that completed the first double-hand transplant, and completed the first reverse vasectomy and complete fallopian tube ligature". BN - Limelight.
Jenny Orchard - ceramist
Andrew Lavery - artist
Gabriela - psychologist
Shona Wilson - visual artist
Shona is a contemporary Australian sculptor, utilising natural and plastic found material and ceramic to create both abstract and representational, 2-D assemblages and 3-D sculptures.
Her current work increasingly responds to and reflects upon the cross-pollinations between nature, humans and culture, referencing in particular, plastics' invasion into the 'natural' world.