‘Connect to the Artist’ is a collection of interviews and information to inspire fellow creatives.
Q & A Art Journey
Bethany: Full time student at Macquarie University currently studying a bachelor of clinical science (pre-med).
Link to Beth’s work: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/insideartexpress/2021/bethany_dewhurst/?model=expressive-forms
Bianca: University student studying English and Neuroscience. She has worked on various projects as a writer, choreographer, dancer and actor and created her own multimedia Wellness installation in 2019.
Artist’s statement:
“Imagination, Dreaming, Creating, Working, Being. These states of “self” comprise the foundations of my major work which strives to capture the various stages one goes through in developing their sense of identity. In my film I aim to imitate the psychological activities that take place in one’s mind during the creative process—whether it be composing a story, challenging one’s values or simply having an idea. Rapid movement, seemingly random objects and overlayed maps and portraits symbolise memories, emotions and thoughts that arise when ideas are formed. By using a soft, warm colour palette I hope to create an atmospheric piece that evokes a sense of contemplation in the audience.
This is echoed in my paintings which stand as a product of the creation process. In my artwork the two mountains act as an interior landscape, symbolising how identity is built up by oneself and others respectively. Colours ranging from pastels to earthy tones represent the circumstances that have made me who I am today, creating a natural landscape that juxtaposes the coldness of the aluminium I worked on. This reflective surface highlights the hardships that can alter one’s psychological landscape and the dichotomies that exist in every person’s life.
Whether represented as a dreamscape, a place recalled from the subconscious or a landscape from real life, mapping the mind is a process where one is just as likely to be lost as found.” Bianca
Artist influences: Arthur Boyd, Kate Shaw
Mind-mapping: a moving painting (A password is required - contact Gallery 11:11 for details).
Teresa: Full time Artist and Business Owner
Link: Teresa Small Art
Lauren: Visual Arts Educator for Years K-12 and a course developer for Imagineer.me, School for the Imagination.
Melony: Founder and Director of Gallery 11:11 Studio & Art space & full time Artist.
Uncle Bruce Shillingsworth at Whale Rock
Bruce Shillingsworth is a Muruwari and Budjiti man, a talented artist and water for the rivers activist.
His country is the north-west NSW river lands that hug the Namoi, Barwon, Darling Rivers; Brewarrina, Bourke, Enngonia, Wilcannia and Walgett.
Bruce’s family are painters, dancers and rainmakers. Bruce is a cultural educator in Sydney and leads a cultural revival dance group in the north-west.
Murray Walsh “The Smell Before The Rain”.
This exhibition’s focus is on the recent breaking of a three-year drought that seriously affected the State. The works presented are predominantly of the Central West. When the drought broke in October 2020 the rains delivered an explosion of life and colour to the previously monotone landscape.
The exhibition comprises of a range of painting mediums and pays tribute to Murray's ‘love story with the Central West’ developed over a 30-year association brought about through his beautiful wife Roslyn who grew up in Manildra (around 45 kilometers from Orange).
