NorthSite Art Market Print Edition by NorthSite Contemporary Arts

NorthSite Contemporary Arts

NorthSite ART MARKET PRINT EDITION 17 DECEMBER — 29 JANUARY 2022

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Claudine Marzik, Corymbia Dawn, 2020

Billy Missi, Bommie Patterns, 2009

BILLY MISSI Arone Meeks, Irukandji II, 2008

ARONE MEEKS Arone Meeks (Kuku Midigi, 1957—2021) grew up near El Arish and Yarrabah, FNQ, although his Country is the area around Laura, Cape York. He completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the City Art Institute in Sydney in 1984 and forged an impressive national and international career. He was a founding Member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, Sydney, won an Australia Council Fellowship to study in Paris and went on to exhibit throughout Australia, Europe and North and South America. Arone’s practice included painting, sculpture, drawing and public art commissions as well as linoprints, etchings and monoprints. His work appears in many national and international collections, both public and private.

Billy Missi, 1970- 2012, was a Maluilgal man from Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait. Billy is known as one of the leading printmakers of this region, having exhibited widely and achieved both national and international acclaim. He comes from a respected family of art practitioners and choreographers, from the tribes of Wagedagam, Geomu and Panai in Malu Lilgal (Western Torres Strait).

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CLAUDINE MARZIK Originally from Basel in Switzerland, Claudine Marzik migrated to Cairns in 1988 and as “a real Swiss turning a true blue” she has stayed in the Far North. She lives, works and creates art from her homebase in Cairns. Claudine’s work is in major public and private collections including the Artbank Australia collection. She has held major exhibitions within Australia and overseas and has been a finalist and winner of a number of art awards. She’s best known for her large abstract works influenced by Queensland’s unique and distinctive landscape. The recent screenprints presented in this exhibition reduce the atmosphere of Australian native forrests surrounding Cairns, Savannah and Tablelands to their most elemental forms.

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BRIAN ROBINSON Brian Robinson is a multi-skilled contemporary artist, whose practice includes painting, printmaking, sculpture and design. His approach to printmaking in both etching and linocut is linear in composition and appearance. These prints illustrate Brians’s depth of connection to heritage paired with his aesthetic and intellectual exploration of Western art iconography in relation and connection to Torres Strait culture. His work has been widely collected both privately and through major institutions both in Australia and overseas.

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Brian Robinson, Fretted Shell, 2019

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David Jones, National Bubble, 2016

Dian Darmansjah, Vulnerable, 2021

DIAN DARMANSJAH Dian Darmansjah is an artist and collaborative printer who has completed post graduate studies at the prestigious Tamarind School of Lithography in New Mexico, USA. Before starting Firebox Print Studio in 2006, Dian spent six years working in the Charles Darwin University’s printmaking studio as a Lecturer and as the Workshop Manager of Northern Editions. As a collaborative printer, Dian has worked with many artists both nationally and internationally. Dian has maintained his own art practice throughout his career in the arts and he is currently completing his Master’s at the Queensland College of the Arts.

Darren Blackman, Gangga (the white bellied sea eagle), 2016

DARREN BLACKMAN Darren Blackman is a proud Gureng Gureng/ Gangalu man from Queensland’s central coast with Kanak South Sea Island heritage from Vanuatu. Saltwater themes, personal cultural subjects, birds and powerful text-based messages feature in his artwork. Darren’s passion is printing, whether it be a monoprinting, linocuts, etchings or screen printing. He’s currently undertaking a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Queensland College of Arts (QCA), Griffith University, Brisbane.

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DAVID JONES David Jones explores Australian culture and society from a perspective that incorporates his Dalungbarra and Anglo-European heritages. David’s Dalungbarra heritage informs his art process and work, it is the resolve that drives his visual practice. His art, though at first aesthetically seductive becomes more disturbing as it is read, until the viewer is left with uncomfortable questions regarding the ‘peaceful settlement’ of ‘Australia’. David askes the viewer to reflect upon their own understandings and assumptions regarding the ongoing struggle for survival and autonomy that Indigenous peoples face each, and every day.

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Danish Quapoor, Unreliable Narrator, 2021

Danish Quapoor was born in Ipswich, in Southeast Queensland and is currently based in Townsville, North Queensland. He works across a variety of media, including illustrative paintings, ceramics, and collages. Danish employs wordplay, re-contextualization, and personal iconographies to craft intricate and humorous vignettes. His works often explore contradictions and nuances within relationships, religion, sexuality, and morality. Organic, geometric, and stylized figurative forms often float amidst sparse compositions, reflecting personal, observed, and imagined experiences. The giclee prints produced for this Art Market are indicative of Danish’s wry humour and laconic style.

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Debra Murray, Water Story, 2011

Ruth Hazel Saveka, Wongai Season iv, 2021

Nancy Cowan, Kingfishers talking to each other, 2011

Kassandra Savage, Into the Deep, 2021

Brian Robinson, Fretted Shell, 2019

HANNAH MURRAY Hannah Murray is a Cairns-based contemporary artist and arts educator. Hannah works in a range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, and more recently, product and fabric design. Her tropical vanitas and floating worlds are deliberately idyllic, almost cliché representations and attempt to capture the beautiful, fecund, yet often hostile duality of living in the hot, humid, and volatile tropics. On the surface, the work appears strangely seductive and evokes wry notions of beauty or utopia. However, beneath the surface, the work also aims to provide a bittersweet reminder of the fleeting and fragile nature of all worldly delights, and themes of loss and melancholy are ever-present.

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HANNAH PARKER Hannah Parker lives in Cairns, Far North Queensland, and her art practice includes printmaking, textiles and watercolour painting. Hannah received her art training at the University of Wollongong where she majored in printmaking and writing. Her recent works explore place and identity using traditional stories, personal narratives, and local landscape imagery. Hannah has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions since mid 1990’s. She has been winner of People’s Choice awards, and in 2018 she won TPG Architects Prize for 3D work, at Inkmasters Inc Cairns Exhibition for an 8-metre length of printed fabric installation. She has participated in projects with local and Indigenous artists, Italian printmakers, and interstate artists.

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GIRRINGUN ART CENTRE Girringun Art Centre is located in Cardwell, Far North Queensland. Representing artists from nine Traditional Owner Groups: the Nywaigi, Gugu Badhan, Warrgamay, Warungnu, Bandjin, Girramay, Gulngay, Jirrbal and Djiru people. The traditional country of these groups covers over 25,000 square kilometres of rainforest and coastal Country. Artists in this exhibition include Eileen Tep, Debra Murray, John Murray, Ninney Murray, Nephi Denham and Nancy Cowan.

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INKMASTERS CAIRNS InkMasters Cairns has promoted and presented printmaking as an accessible and professional art form for the past decade in Cairns, running the much-loved biennial InkFest festival of printmaking including Big Print and InkMasters Print Exhibition, an international printmaking exhibition that attracts entries from across the globe. The Upside-Up exhibition includes the work of emerging senior Indigenous female artists Sheryl J. Burchill, Kassandra Savage, Ruth Saveka, Kay Williams and Heather Tait, who each participated in the 34-week professional printmaking program run by InkMasters that provided access to Print Workshop facilities, studio time, and tailored mentoring in printmaking as a visual artform that offers future creative career opportunities.

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Hannah Parker, Systems, 2020

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Laura Castell, Coffee with Friends, 2020

LAURA CASTELL

Joel Sam, Karrmui, 2018

JOEL SAM

Laurel McKenzie, Le Venus nouveau est arrivée, 2015

LAUREL MCKENZIE Dr. Laurel McKenzie works in traditional and digital print media as well as producing mixed media installations. Her imagery is based around feminist issues involving the parodic re-representation of women’s bodies in art and popular culture. She has exhibited widely since the 1970s with solo and group exhibitions within Australia and internationally. Her work is represented in public and private collections in Australia and overseas. She has been an office-bearer for arts organisations and has curated exhibitions and managed many art projects and programs, most recently managing InkMasters, Cairns. She holds a PhD in arts and taught visual arts in the post-secondary sector in Victoria for over 30 years.

Joel Sam’s family live in Bamaga, Cape York and Cairns, originally from Saibai Island in the Torres Strait. Born on Thursday Island, he currently lives in Cairns, having finished his art studies in 2005 with a Diploma of Art from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Visual Arts Course at the Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE. Since then, he has been developing an art practice and technical skills in the media of linocut, sculpture and etching. Joel’s artworks are inspired by his culture and the sea creatures that live in and around the Torres Strait, such as stingrays, squid, the fish of the reef and the shells and corals of the Coral Sea.

“I am an artist in the making, enjoying the process very much and becoming more serious about art every day. My main training was as a biologist. I discovered art in 2005 while taking a drawing course at TAFE and in 2014 decided to quit my job and become a full time artist. I live in North Queensland, Australia.

Joel published several iconic series of prints through Djumbunji Press, Cairns. His works are held in the collections of the Australian National Maritime Museum, the Burnie Regional Art Gallery, the Cairns Regional Gallery and the Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra.

I work in a variety of media with lots of printmaking, drawing, and other media. The human figure and its social environment is a recurrent topic in my work, but I am also very attracted to the beauty of nature, so a combination of these two themes gives me a nice balance. Within printmaking I mainly work with relief methods (woodcut and linocut) but I am quickly expanding to include other media.”

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Jonathan McBurnie, King Kong Bundy, 2018

JONATHAN MCBURNIE Jonathan McBurnie is an artist, arts administrator, writer and cartoonist, based in North Queensland. McBurnie began self-publishing comic books at the age ten, and his life has been a series of constant projects ever since. Completing a PhD at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, in 2014, his thesis and accompanying studio works explored the shifting role of drawing in the digital age. Jonathan approaches his work as a collision of high and low forms and seeks the narrative propulsion and dense visual language that lies in the tension between these forms. He is a prolific artist, continually drawing, writing and producing zines. His recently published graphic novel titled Floodland, brings together personal and natural disasters and this illustrative publication is available alongside the affordable risographs in this exhibition.

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Michael Marzik, Der Wald (edition 9), 2019

MICHAEL MARZIK Michael Marzik is an Austrian photographer, born in Switzerland and based in Cairns. He has worked as an arts administrator, curator and regularly documents artworks for fellow artists. His photographic practice invites contemplation and various interpretations of a subject, whether it be person on scene. He has an innate ability to capture the essence of an individual through portraiture and has photographed many of the artists practicing in Cairns over the last two decades. Photographic prints in this exhibition, from the alluring series Überfluss, a German word meaning abundance or glut, are vignettes of kitchen detritus and implore the viewer to consider consumption.

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Lynelle Flinders, Courtship, 2021

LYNELLE FLINDERS Lynelle Flinders specialises in hand-printed textiles using traditional and alternative materials to achieve her designs. As a descendant of the Dharrba Warra Clan from the Starke River area north of Cooktown, Cape York, Lynelle takes inspiration from her rich cultural heritage and produces textiles based on knowledge and passion for her Country and culture. With a growing repertoire of collections and exhibitions under her belt, Lynelle’s work as a design and textile artist exemplifies the growth and potential of Indigenous-led fashion and is regularly part of First Nations Fashion Design (FNFD) runways, also working with artists in Queensland’s remote art centres to produce new prints on textiles for showcases such as CIAF. Lynelle holds a Diploma in Indigenous Visual Arts from Tropical North Queensland’s Institute of TAFE (2012), and now lectures at TAFE Far North along producing art and running her own fashion label “Sown in Time”.

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Tahmana Misick, Bottles 6 of 8, 2021

MOA ARTS Moa Arts (Ngalmun Lagau Minaral) is an Indigenous owned and operated art centre on Mua Island in the Torres Strait western cluster of islands. One of the primary aims of the art centre is to keep Muglal traditions of Zenadth Kes arts and cultural strong for everyone through the production and sale of art. The reputation of Moa Arts is built on the calibre of its limited edition lino-prints, etchings, weavings and island-style jewellery. Creative inspiration for these works comes from Mualgal ancestral stories, totemic representation and connections to sea, land, sky and family. Mua’s artists don’t have to look far to be inspired. The island and its surrounding waters and reefs hold a diverse set of land and marine ecosystems with niches for many rare and unique species such as dugong and sea turtle. Artists exhibiting in this exhibition from Mua include Babatha Nawia, Danie Savage, David Bosun, Fiona Elisala-Mosby, Fred Joe, Paula Savage and Tahmana Misick.

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Lenore Howard, Conversation About Curiousity, 2020

LENORE HOWARD Lenore Howard was born and raised in North Queensland, travelled the world and eventually returned to Cairns, drawn back by the beauty of the area and sense of community. She has been dedicated to her arts practice for over 40 years, working formerly as a Surrealist painter she created artworks with strong political and social content and an interplay between recognisable objects that delivered more questions than clearly defined answers. Then, many years ago, a dramatic shift in personal circumstances propelled the artist towards a new style of working, whereby she began creating artworks with a new visual language, and her practice transformed into pure abstraction. Lenore recently held a major solo exhibition at NorthSite, where her pursuit for artistic excellence and continual exploration of an expanding horizon, is evident in each artwork.

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Neil Binnie, Flinders Street #183, 2021

NEIL BINNIE Neil Binnie is an exciting artist working out of Townsville, North Queensland. Though his art practice, he studies and dissects the urban landscape with a reflective approach. He typically combines observations from life in public spaces and takes this inspiration into the studio where geometric relationships materialise via reductive techniques. Neil has been a finalist in the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing and recently completed post-graduate studies investigating space and the built environment.

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Peter Morrison, Clams (Tridacnidae), 2018

PETER MORRISON Peter Bertie Morrison was born on Thursday Island and grew up in Cairns. After he finished school, like many Torres Strait Islanders at the time, he moved to Western Australia to work for many years, before he returned to his family’s place Wug Village, Saint Paul’s Community on Moa Island in the Western Island Cluster. “This is where I learnt our traditional customs, on the island. My mother is from Darnley Island and her tribal group is Zagareb, which is on Murray Island. My father is from Mabuiag Island, he worked as a Skipper and Pearl Diver on the lugger boats around many Islands. Family is important to me. I am very passionate about learning and teaching and I hope my images will inspire and help others appreciate the beauty and significance of our natural environment.” Peter commenced studying at TAFE in 2010 and has completed Certificates and a Diploma in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Arts. He works across drawing, etching and fabric design.

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Mollie Bosworth, Rainforest Gatherings 2, 2021

Napolean Oui, Mundu (Spirit), 2016

NAPOLEAN OUI Napoleon Oui is a Djabugay man who explores his connection to rainforest bama (people), landscape and culture through his art. Inspired by the ancient tradition of rainforest shield designs and totemic motifs, Napoleon’s bold designs are iconic and indicative of a style only found in the rainforest region of Far North Queensland. “A father will make his son a shield and the father will sit up one end and the son will sit up the other end. Whatever the father would paint on his side, the son would paint the same on the other side. But the son will add something. It is like a father–and–son diary and he will cherish that shield for his life. Only certain men knew how to make shields and paint them, not everybody could do it.”

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MOLLIE BOSWORTH Mollie Bosworth is a visual artist working in fine porcelain and cyanotype processes, with a studio based in Kuranda. She has exhibited widely during her 30 years of arts practice. Her work in both mediums reflects a strong materials and process-driven approach. Her artwork often explores complex layered surfaces that reflect her rainforest environment. Her recent cyanotype work uses gathered botanical specimens from around her studio as well as further afield and utilises the collected material as a starting point of image making with the sun as an important element in the process. Mollie holds a Diploma of Art (Ceramics) 2003, from the Australian National University and has artworks in several public gallery collections.

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Rhi Johnson, In Retrospect, 2021

RHI JOHNSON Dr. Rhi Johnson is an Artist and Lecturer in visual art printmaking. She makes work using various methods of two-dimensional art practice including Lino printing, screen printing, artist books and mixed media techniques. Rhi has been a practicing artists since 2007 and has exhibited nationally and internationally, with works held in a range of public and private art collections. She has studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and holds a PhD from the University of Southern Queensland (USQ). Rhi is currently represented by Alexandra Lawson Gallery, Toowoomba.

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Robert ‘Tommy’ Pau, Mabo, 2021 Rhonda Stevens, T/P Crossings 5 Suite 1, 2011

ROBERT ‘TOMMY’ PAU Robert ‘Tommy’ Pau is a descendant of people from the Eastern Torres Strait Islands, Aboriginal Australia, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Islanders and Asia. He was taught about the need to keep culture strong through cultural practice by his father and has a strong commitment to keeping old traditions alive and believes that culture must remain true to the past and move with time to exist in the future. Tommy has considerable experience in the arts and his art forms of choice include printmaking, painting and sculpture. He is currently completing a BA in New Media at James Cook University, Cairns. He was a semi-finalist in the 2017 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award and was the winner of the Works on Paper section of 2016 The Telstra Art Award. His works are in major public and private collections in Australia.

RHONDA STEVENS Rhonda Stevens is a visual artist living on Magnetic Island in North Queensland. As part of her ongoing artistic journey, she explores various mediums and processes including photography, sculpture and printmaking, using them as a vehicle to present her ideas & concepts. She is investigating the common humanity that underlies cultural differences and seeking notions that touch the essence of people and how we respond to each other. Taking inspiration from the organic forms of nature’s sacred spaces, she is seeking to create a moment, a pause, a space for the viewer to reflect and to feel the reverberations elicited by the wonders that surround us.

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TAMIKA GRANT-IRAMU Tamika Grant-Iramu’s relief-printmaking practice focuses on minute areas of native flora that often go unnoticed. Through up-close observations of the natural environment, she creates a diverse range of organic patterns and forms. She graduated from Queensland College of Art (Griffith University) in 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Interdisciplinary Print Media. Tamika’s work shot to prominence in 2018 as one of the finalists for the prestigious 2018 ‘Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards’ (NATSIAA). Through her creative practice, Tamika is interested in exploring identity and finding ways of connecting with the different threads of her Papua New Guinean, European and Torres Strait Islander heritage. The carving techniques and storytelling aesthetics of Torres Strait Islander and Papua New Guinean culture combined with the Western influences of Tamika’s upbringing converge in her emergent practice as she explores and grows her own story. Prints from her recent collaboration with esteemed Torres Strait artist Brian Robinson are available as part of this exhibition.

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Tamika Grant-Iramu in collaboration with Brian Robinson, Carving Country IV, 2021

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NorthSite Contemporary Arts is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. NorthSite is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Tamika Grant-Iramu in collaboration with Brian Robinson, Carving Country VIII (detail), 2021, vinyl-cut on hahnemühle paper, 740 x 475 mm