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Steve Oatley

Steve's landscape website

During the last few years of teaching, I assisted an art school friend who had just commenced a Japanese landscape design and construction company. Like art I fell in love with it and as a consequence I studied Japanese Landscape and architecture and during the next 8-year period I built some wonderful gardens in collaboration with my art school friend Ken Lamb. I continued my sculpture, painting and drawing practice and exhibiting my work during this period.

I decided to take the plunge into establishing my own landscape business with an emphasis on contemporary gardens.

During many years of landscaping, I designed and built some exciting landscapes with sculptural waterfalls and water features, made with the same sensibility as making a painting or a sculpture. During this period, I studied botany and horticulture which fed into my art practice.

About 28 years ago my passion for painting reawakened, which led to painting canvases every weekend and when time was available. During this period, I entered art prizes and exhibited my work.

VISUAL ARTIST

Education

1972	Hornsby TAFE teacher Clem Millwood
1976	National Art School at Darlinghurst

Teaching

1976	Wollongong TAFE
1976	Penrith TAFE
1977 - 1985	Teaching sculpture and drawing at NAS Darlinghurst, Avoca St Campus,
1977 - 1985	sculpture and drawing at NAS Darlinghurst Seaforth Campus

Business

1990 - present day

Living Colour Landscapes

Elena Larkin

Elena's Website

grants & commissions
2022 William Fletcher Foundation Support Grant
2021 Artwork commission for The Greens MP Tamara Smith office cards

artist residencies
2025 Eramboo Artist Residency, NSW
2019-21 Dunmoochin Art Foundation, VIC
2018 Beverley Station Arts, W

published writing / accolades
Antithesis,
‘Shine on La Mama Theatre’ article, online, 2021
Antithesis,
‘A painter’s reflections’ personal essay, online, 2021
Antithesis,
‘After fire, with rain’ artwork & essay: Mental, 2020

Voiceworks,
‘the thirst’ short story: Echo, 2015
Judy’s Punch,
‘the moon’ poem, 2014
Shortlisted for the Monash Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing 2015

writing for performance
Writer/performer: ‘Do not collect $200’
, 24 Moons, Melbourne, 2017
Writer/performer: ‘PARLEY!’
, The Butterfly Club, Melbourne Fringe, 2016
Writer/performer: ‘Do You Want To See Something Beautiful?’
, Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide
Fringe 2016

VISUAL ARTIST

Solo Exhibitions

2022	With light, Project Gallery 90, Sydney
2021	Between Us, Project Gallery 90, Sydney

Awards

Winner 2024	Residency Prize, Paddington Art Prize, Art Leven Gallery, Sydney
Winner 2024	East Sydney Doctors Scholarship, The National Art School, Sydney
Winner 2022	9x5 Landscape Art Prize, Waverley Art School, Sydney
Finalist 2022	Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize, Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC

Education

2024 - 2025	Master of Fine Art (Drawing), National Art School
2023	Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), National Art School
2018	Bachelor of Arts, First Class Honours (Creative Writing), University of Melbourne
2017	Oil painting with David Moore, Montsalvat

Business

Penny Harkness

Her Story

Listen, I still feel fear every time I start a new painting, but I’ve learned to trust the creative process. Knowledge really isn’t everything, no matter how much you think you know or don’t know, it will take something else. It takes a combination of guts and willingness and a sense of curiosity and fun that will allow yourself to make plenty of mistakes and failures.

Aside from the tips and techniques, I talk about the inner struggles and that can inhibit our art. Join me for a worthwhile journey

VISUAL ARTIST

Group Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions

Coventry Gallery, Gary Anderson Gallery Ray Hughes Gallery, Steve Morie Gallery, Stephanie Burns Gallery ,National Art School

Awards

	Archibald Prize, Finalist
	Blake Prize Finalist

Education

1974	Diploma Fine Art, Painting South Australian School of Art

Teaching

various between 1981 - Now	Sydney College of the Arts
various between 1981 - Now	National Art School
various between 1981 - Now	COFA
various between 1981 - Now	Seaforth TAFE and Penrith TAFE

Business

Sung Hee Ahn

Her story

When I was about 7 or so, I saw a photo of Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Crows in an old art book. The painting moved me so much, that in many ways, the moment was imprinted and changed something in me that defined a path for me. Since my Vincent Van Gogh fever has passed, so many artists have inspired, moved and taken me back to that moment in my childhood that motivated me to keep painting.

Where do you currently find inspiration?

Over the last couple of years or so, the late Robert Juniper’s art has inspired me greatly and taught me in many different ways how to tell a story in landscape.

Do you have a theme or favourite subject that you are exploring in your art practice right now?

The compositions of many great artists at the moment, especially Degas and Margret Woodward, their ways of grouping figures/shapes and colours to make an interesting composition as well as John Wolseley and Julie Mehretu’s kind of floating composition to depict the nature and urban environment with various mediums on different surfaces.

What have you been working on lately?

Colours and textures from the nature always fascinate me. My recent focus in art making has been building up surfaces with part random, part studied textures and exploring these layers with the visual elements observed, creating a vestige of a landscape

VISUAL ARTIST

and teacher

Solo Exhibitions

2020	Wandering Solo Exhibition, Gallery on Darling
2018	Landscape Recollections, Solo Exhibition, Ethel St Gallery

Group Exhibitions

2020	Mosman Art Prize - Finalist Group Show
2020	Thienny Lee Gallery
2019	Vault of Asia, Thienny Lee Gallery
2019	Mosman Art Prize - Finalist
2019	In Profile, Mosman Art Gallery
2011 - 2019	Headland Artists Group Exhibition, Landship Gallery

Education

1991-1994

Bachelor Fine Art, Hong - Ik Uni. Seoul, Korea

Teaching

2018	School of Fine Art, Georges Heights.

Business

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Kristin Coburn

Her Story

What inspires you to paint?

Art and life are deeply interwoven, not only in my life, but I believe in society at large. My earliest memories of art are sitting in my father’s studio and watching him mix paint. I was completely mesmerized by the rhythm of the pounding and turning of the squishy substance and watching it magically transform from one colour to another. I am still excited by this transformation.

What are you working on now?

Currently I am renovating my kitchen and bathroom and I am so surprised at how creative a process it is. It’s like creating a giant artwork that you can live and cook and bathe in. It conforms to all the processes of art making and feels enormously satisfying to me.

I am looking forward to getting back into the studio though, and starting some new work.

Her Curriculum Vitae

VISUAL ARTIST

DIRECTOR SCHOOL OF FINE ART

Solo Exhibitions

2021	Audrey Fine Art Pyrmont
2012	Landship Gallery Georges Heights
2011	Landship Gallery Georges Heights
2008	Newport Artworks
2000	Ku-ring-gai Community Gallery

Group Exhibitions

2008 - present	Various group Exhibitions with Headland Artists in the Landship Gallery Mosman
2014	Bird Art In The Park Landship Gallery Georges Heights
2009	Group Show Kristin Coburn Chantal Mahoney Gini Quinn Private Gallery Balmain
2006	Graduation Exhibition NAS Gallery Darlinghurst
2005	Drawing Exhibition NAS Gallery Darlinghurst Drawing Exhibition NAS Gallery Darlinghurst

Awards

2009	Blake Prize Finalist
2006	Portia Geach Prize Finalist

Education

2002 - 2006	BA Fine Art NAS Darlinghurst
1973 - 1975	Dip Art Alexander Mackie

Teaching

2008 - Now	School of Fine Art
1993 - 2002	Private Teaching
1979 - 1984	Ku-ring-gai Community Art Centre

Business

1976 - 1986

BK Graphics Screen printing limited edition fine art screenprints

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Melinda Kelly

Her Story

I enjoy the process of slowing down, paying attention to the detail and beauty of the objects. Taking the time to really observe creates a greater connection. I aim to approach my subjects with sensitivity and respect, evoking quiet calmness amongst the fast paced everyday.

I have always loved to draw and paint and whilst holding on to the passion for art, and after studying a degree and pursuing a career in business and having a family, I have managed to find the balance to pursue my preferred creative path.

VISUAL ARTIST

Visual Artist

Group Exhibitions

2013	Landship Gallery – Headland Park Mosman
2014	Landship Gallery – Headland Park Mosman
2016	Collaboration Exhibition – Warringah Creative Space North Curl Curl
2017	Earth Four Elements- Warringah Creative Space North Curl Curl.

Education

1987	UTS - Sydney - Bachelor of Business Electives in Marketing, Communications and Employee Relations.
1996	Lorenzo De ‘Medici Lingua Arte Cultura Florence Italy; Certificate in Painting and Drawing
1998	School of Colour and Design Australia Diploma in Colour and Design
2013	School of Fine Art Mosman; Renaissance Painting Techniques

Teaching

2020	Quirky Birds
2020	School of Fine Art
2021	School of Fine Art

Business

School of Fine Art (SoFA) is the studio art school of Kristin Coburn, situated in the spectacular Headland Park at Georges Heights Middle Head, on the Lower North Shore suburb of Mosman.

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