At sunset on Boreen Point’s shore, local artists including Rowley Drysdale, Susan Coburn, Ellen Appleby and Michael Ciavarella will create, destroy and reveal through their performance incorporating fire and ceramics
McMahon’s art education started in Perth, going onto a fine arts degree at RMIT, Melbourne. After completing two years, he deferred to take up study at the Stadel School of Art, Frankfurt (Germany) and completed a three-year program of mentoring with various professors of art. On returning to Australia in 1994, he then completed a Graduate Diploma in Sculpture from the Canberra School of Art. Since then he has been exhibiting his work and has been involved in a number of site-specific art projects and public art commissions.
Elizabeth Poole runs her art practice from a studio/shed set in quiet bushland in South East Queensland, utilising found materials and subject matter from the surrounding environment, while also incorporating metal, paint and fabrics.
She works under the business name of Poole Design Company with her architect husband, Gabriel Poole.
Motoyuki is based in Wolvi on the Sunshine Coast. He works in project development and community cultural development across a wide range of art forms: visual arts, performing arts, community arts, public arts and community cultural development fields.
Moto’s professional training includes Western Oil Painting, Noh, Japanese Calligraphy, Japanese traditional textiles design and techniques with master artists and craftsmen for over three decades in Japan. After migrating to Australia in 1994 from Japan, he started making sculpture. Since then, he has explored various aspects of sculpture such as landscape, site specific installation, multimedia, mobile, totem pole, mask, etc.
Currently he works as cultural and artistic consultant including cross-cultural contexts, indigenous, disability, youth at risk, public art and environmental arts project. His role includes project developer, navigator, trainer, co-ordinator, sculptor, photographer, performer and sound artist. He also sits in member of Cultural Diversity Consultative Committee (Policy and Social Justice), also assessment panel for major and festival grants for Arts Queensland, State Government.
Matt Dwyer was exposed to art and design from childhood. His artist father held the position of lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in the Visual Arts department.
Dwyer’s interests expanded to encompass jewellery making when he undertook tertiary studies at Griffith University Queensland College of Art (QCA) Brisbane, Australia.
In 1998, during his final year of studies, Dwyer was a recipient of the national Object Magazine Award. Almost immediately after his graduation, Dwyer began to exhibit his work in Brisbane - then nationally in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.
In 2003 he was awarded the Craft Queensland Mentorship Grant for Emerging Artists, to work alongside Melbourne based designer Marc Pascal. Pascal introduced him to new materials and techniques for the design and production of a contemporary sculptural lighting series.
Early in 2004 Dwyer worked in a jewellers studio in Barcelona, Spain. The studio was based at the rear of the gallery Forvm Ferlandina Joies run by Tanya Fontane, a German trained master jeweller. Dwyer’s work is now represented in two galleries in Barcelona.
Although Dwyer has a strong focus on jewellery design, his professional practice has diversified to lighting and object design.
Rowley Drysdale was born in 1957 in Chaleville, Queensland. In 1993 he completed a Graduate Diploma of Arts at Monash University, Melbourne, and in 2001 was awarded a Masters of Arts, also at Monash.
Collections include: University of Southern Queensland, Brisbane City Art Collections, James Cook University permanent collection, Brisbane International Airport Collection, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Ipswich Art Gallery, North Queensland Potters permanent collection, Perc Tucker Townsville City Gallery, Queensland Potters Association permanent collection.
Commissions include: Ayers Rock Resort, Yulara (NT); Observatory Hotel, Sydney; Park Hyatt, Sydney; Oceanic Hotel, Coogee (NSW); Sheraton, Brisbane; Marriott Hotel, Brisbane.
Susan Coburn lives and works in Boreen Point, nestled on the shores of Lake Cootharaba. Using a variety of media and working from large to miniature (wearable art), she describes her work as abstract expressionism, hoping that it evokes an emotional response from the viewer
Ellen Appleby moved to Noosa from Brisbane in 2006, where she worked as an arts and environmental educators and community artist. She is currently completing her second year at the Sunshine Coast Institute of TAFE, soon to be awarded a Diploma of Visual Arts (Ceramics).
