Sioux Tempestt

In This Moment

122 x 152 cm

Mixed media on canvas

Transcending creative disciplines, Perth artist Sioux Tempestt creates abstract, mural, sculptural and digital art. Traversing across different mediums and scale of works enables Sioux to push creative boundaries.

Through materiality and physicality, her expressive abstractions intuitively fuse colour and form. Her work aims to create a narrative and connection as Sioux believes art plays an intrinsic contribution to our wellbeing, health, and happiness.

Sioux has delivered 10 solo exhibitions and exhibited in numerous group shows. Recent achievements include Finalist – City of Melville Art Award, 2022; Finalist – 2022 City of Joondalup Invitation Art Prize and Finalist – Minnawarra Art Awards, 2022.

Sioux’s work is held in public and private collections. Sioux also composes music video and writing.

Karen Chappelow

Serpentis

122 x 122 cm

Acrylic and ink on canvas

Karen Chappelow has been painting and sculpting for more than 20 years and has collectors around the world.

‘I like it when I get a physical reaction from people when they view my art.’

The expressionist nature of her work blur the edges of reality and makes people smile, to think and create conversation –like squeezing a bit of lemon juice into a cut.

Karen offers a daring commentary on contemporary society. She draws heavily from history, anthropology, mythology and pop culture in a way that overthrows original gender dynamics and hands the reins of control back to women, or the oppressed, unapologetically adding a twist of sassy humour to the mix.

Inspired by the Australian flora and fauna, our girl Serpentis is transformed –her hair a river of snakeskin, naked as if the very skin has been renewed, she is surrounded by the flowering Christmas tree – her companions: spider orchids and Acacia flowers, languid, soft and fertile, is she.

Patsy Taylor

Crimson Forest

46 x 91.5 cm

Synthetic polymer on plywood board

Patsy Taylor creates stunning abstract paintings, with raw intuitive mark making and complementary tones.

Influenced by the rugged, native forest hills and gullys that surround her home in country Victoria, her compositions reflect the harmony found within these chaotic natural landscapes.

The fluid forms in her paintings suggest underlying patterns in nature. Lines are blurred, edges undefined, opaque shapes meld into one another. The transparent layers of paint resolve to balance the elements.

Patsy explains her process: ‘Weaving through accident and intention, addition and subtraction, avoiding the contrived, I look to capture the sublime, bringing out beauty from the abyss.’

Saren Dobkins

Reaching For Self

102 x 102cm Oil on canvas

Saren has been painting responses to her life’s experiences since 1982. Her subject matter explores the personal and the ‘universal’ through abstracted forms, layered metaphors, and symbolic iconography.

Her instinctive approach to painting is bold, expressionist and distinctive. A strong narrative underlies the works. Her interest in how we arrive at an integrated sense of our self and others is an underlying theme and she tries to capture these intertwined connections in her paintings.

Originally from Zambia, she has travelled widely and now resides in Tewantin, Queensland. Saren has exhibited in over 30 solo and group shows and her work is held in national and international collections.

Reaching For Self – She lies suspended, as if between two worlds of awareness as she reaches within and listens for the voice from the deep to rise up and speak to her. An expressive depiction of the fleeting experiences of connecting with the unconscious. A fish depicts the ‘self’ from another realm, as it rises from the depth, so close yet can never quite be ‘touched’.

Nicola Cowie

Floral Vase No 2

42 x 47 cm

Hand coloured lino cut on paper

Her art practice encompasses printmaking and painting with a focus on linocut and watercolour. Nature is a constant throughout her work with native flowers and birds as subjects and motifs.

Art Noveau and stained glasswork have been an enduring inspiration and are echoed throughout her pieces. Juxtaposing flat ink against textural and tonal watercolour washes create a tactility in her still life and botanical pieces.

Nicola is a Perth based multi-award winning artist with a BA Honours in Fine Art Printmaking from Gray’s School of Art in Scotland.