Lyndy Lord - In Someone's Shadow - etching
Elisabeth Scott - etching
Amanda Thompson - wood engraving
Amanda Thompson - wood engraving (detail)
Elisabeth Scott - etching
Amanda Thomson – Artist Statement
The large scale woodcut ‘Latrobe Valley Vista’ represents the duality which exists in humanity’s relationship with the natural world. I live in the Latrobe valley which is a part of Gippsland. This region is known for its picturesque rural landscape but is also home for electricity production. My immediate environment contains the idyllic rolling hills, dotted by stands of trees butted up against open cut mines and power stations belching out toxic clouds. These are the disparate elements which inhabit my images as seen in “Latrobe Valley Vista”. I tend to source my ideas from my immediate environment and the Latrobe Valley is a showcase in revealing our exploitation of our precious natural world. My work is concerned with our dependence on nature for our survival but our inability to fulfil our duty as caretakers for the environment.
Amanda Thomson – CV
Born 1956, Vic.
Education
1989 Yallourn TAFE. Yallourn, Vic. Advanced Certificate of Art and Design.
1994.Monash University. Gippsland. B.A. of Visual Arts.(Printmaking-Major)
Solo Exhibitions
1999 Latrobe Regional Gallery. Morwell – “Recent Works”
1998 Firestation Print Workshop. Armadale, Vic. – “Works on Paper”.
1997 Art Resource Collective. Yinnar, Vic. – “Works on Paper”.
Group Exhibitions
2011.Art Resource Collective, Yinnar, Vic. – “Counterparts”
2010.Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Caufield.
“2010 Silkcut award for Linocut Prints”.
Art Resource Collective, Yinnar – “Prints from Gippsland’.
2009 Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek. – “Girl Friday”.
Elisabeth Scott - Artist Statement
Animals have appeared again in my current work. They act as anonymous vehicles to convey my observations and conclusions. Many of these animals represent the people in my life and the traits they demonstrate, how they interact and connect. Just don’t ask me who is who.
Elisabeth Scott – CV
Born September 12, 1969.
Education
2008-2010 Monash University, Gippsland Campus – Masters in Visual Arts
Monash University, Gippsland Campus – Diploma of Education
Monash University, Gippsland Campus – BA Visual Arts
East Gippsland Institute of Tafe, Bairnsdale – Diploma Visual Arts
Victoria College Prahran, Melbourne – BA Fine Arts (Incomplete)
Academie Van Kunst Breda, The Netherlands – Diploma European Art History
Exhibitions
2011 Counterparts Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Yinnar
Thistledown Gallery, Traralgon
Elizabeth Stoney Gallery, Middle Park
2010 Arc Gippsland Printmakers, Yinnar – Group Show
Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek – Group print show
2009 Yinnar Drawing Prize Exhibition, Yinnar.
2008 Meeniyan Gallery, Printmaking show with Lyndy Lord.
International Print Exchange Program, Portland, USA
2007 Nicholson Street Gallery, Bairnsdale – Themed Group Show
2005 Switchback Gallery, Churchill – Graduate Exhibition
Rural Women in Art – Travelling Exhibition
2003 Nicholson Street Gallery, Bairnsdale – Graduate Exhibition
2002 Nicholson Street Gallery, Bairnsdale – Group Show
Lyndy Lord - Artist Statement
Inspired by my immediate environment and literature, I continue to explore the relationship between humanity and the natural world.
These wood engravings are the result of my investigation into our disengagement from nature and the extreme detrimental effects that this has had on our world ecosystem. My approach has been a personal one, whereby I have used the knowledge of the impact on my immediate surroundings to address more universal concerns. Thus my very last image of this series, ‘Where the heart is’ is an appropriate end point. My deep connection to place is reflected in the comforting garden protected by a wall which delineates the two areas of my concern, the personal, immediate environment and the rest of the world.
This imminent threat we now face with climate change must inevitably inform my work. My change of medium from copper etching to wood engraving has given my images a more restrained quality. The process involved in wood engraving is cleaner and less toxic. The directness of making marks in wood is more in keeping with the connectedness to nature inherent to the philosophy behind my work. I believe in leaving copper and other heavy metals in the earth where they are supposed to lie.
My approach to image making is inter textual. I enjoy the inventive and imaginative side of constructing designs. My images are figurative and generally narrative. Along with personal references and my immediate environment, I gather further inspiration from music, popular culture, poetry, literature, and other visual artists. Over time I tend to build up visual symbols to create a personal language. Art for me is this language which I use to communicate and explore ways of understanding.
Lyndy Lord - CV
Education
2011:) Master of Visual Arts – Monash University
2008: Bachelor of Visual Arts – Monash University
2003: Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts) GippsTAFE
1982-’83: Diploma of Fine Art (course not completed) RMIT
1976: HSC Buckley Park High School, Essendon(school purchased 2 paintings for acquisition).
Exhibitions
2011:
Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Curator, Lisa Sullivan, Geelong Gallery
Solo exhibition at ‘Dalliance Chocolaterie’, Mirboo North
’Mirboo North Art Show, group exhibition, Mirboo North
2010:
‘Prints from Gippsland’, group exhibition, Jenny Peterson, Curator, Gallery arc.
’Mirboo North Art Show, group exhibition, Mirboo North
2009:
“Girl Friday”, Gecko Gallery, group exhibition with 3 other selected artists, Fish Creek.
“Different Voices”, Sharon Anderson, Curator, group exhibition of invited artists, Albert Street Primary School, Moe.
“Etched in Nature”, Dick Bishop Memorial Prize, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Julie Adams, Arts Director, Latrobe City.
“Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking Exhibition”, Jackie Hocking, Collingwood.
2008:
“Different Voices”, Ken Downs & Sharon Anderson, Curators, group exhibition of selected artists, Albert Street Primary School, Moe
“Natural Connections”, Meg Viney , Curator, Lyndy Lord & Liz Scott at Meeniyan Art Gallery.
‘Green It!’, Jan Tulloch, Curator, group exhibition, ARC Yinnar.
’Mirboo North Art Show, group exhibition, Mirboo North.
ARC 23rd Annual Women’s Exhibition, Jan Tulloch, Curator, group exhibition, ARC Yinnar.
2007:
“Different Voices”, Ken Downs & Sharon Anderson, Curators, group exhibition of selected artists, Albert Street Primary School, Moe
“ARC 25th Anniversary”, Jan Tulloch, Curator, group exhibition, ARC Yinnar.
“Jenni & Lyndy”, All Fresh–to-go Cafe, Morwell.
“Studio Sisters”, Julia Crawford, Curator, group exhibition with three other Gippsland artists, Warragul Arts Centre.
2006
“Degree Exhibition 2006”, Julie Adams, Curator, group exhibition, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland.
2005
“ARC Summer Show”, Jan Tulloch, Curator, group exhibition, ARC Yinnar.
“Mirboo North Art Show”, group exhibition, Mirboo North.
Prizes
Best Fine Art Print, Mirboo Nth Art Show, 2011, judged by Fiona West and Colin Suggett
Best Fine Art Print, Mirboo Nth Art Show, 2010, judged by Celiea Rossita
Best Fine Art Print, Mirboo Nth Art Show, 2009
Dick Bishop Memorial Prize 2009, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
Finalist in (& work sold on opening night) Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking Award 2009
Best Etched Bookplate 2008, Keith Wingrove Bookplate Design Award
Best Fine Art Print, Mirboo Nth Art Show, 2008, judged by Rodney Forbes
Publications
2009/10 ‘Creative Gippsland’ magazine by Victorian Tourism Centre, image on page 4.
2009 Artist Talk, Radio Interview with Kath McAloon, ABC Gippsland, Victoria.
2008 Copper Etching, ‘Headlands’ & artist blurb, Art Guide Australia, July/August 2008
2007Painting, “Organic Connections”, selected for cover of 2007 Monash University Diary
2006“Degree Exhibition”, catalogue, forward by Julie Adams, Head – Gippsland Centre for Art & Design, Monash University
2005 Painting, “Jettison”, selected for cover of 2005 Monash University Student Diary.
Collaborations
2008: Hippocratic Oath Print Exchange Project
Monash Gippsland and Portland Community College, Washington
Part 2, Diptych
2007: Hippocratic Oath Print Exchange Project
Monash Gippsland and Portland Community College, Washington
Part1, Poster