Tasmanian Art & Design: The July Round-Up
By Art & Design Sub-Editor Elliott Nimmo
Every month, Art & Design Sub-Editor Elliott Nimmo brings his round-up of the artists and designers to watch (and invest in) in lutruwita/Tasmania right now. Here’s what's hot in July.
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JAMES KING
In the daubed quietude of Australian suburbia or the vastness of an empty landscape, James has the enviable ability to make you feel competing emotions as you contemplate his paintings. They are each a small universe, lushly painted and beautifully resolved.
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BENJAMIN GRIEVE-JOHNSON
Think of Benjamin's furniture as present-day heirlooms. They are exquisitely made with hand-tool, non-batch processes, and their beauty - he believes - can be found in their simplicity and functionality.
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PITT & GIBLIN
Pitt & Giblin's speakers have been known to elicit a bodily response. They are the Porsche of soundware: an achingly cool distillation of sound, sight and touch, that demand to be admired for their aesthetics as much as for their sonic sleekness.
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PHILIP JAMES MYLECHARANE
Here's a fresh take on portraiture. The identity of Philip's sitters aren't known to the viewer, but that doesn't matter. Their identity is reforged in the painting itself: beautifully executed, and painted with a self-assurance that belies his emerging status. This is a painter's painter, and his work should be snapped up.
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JANE HODGETTS
Adornments emerging as if from nature's foundry - Jane rebels against the polish of the mainstream.
Think patina, raw edges, and metals with soul. Highly wearable, elegant pieces that can readily be worn with other pieces from your collection.
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JOSHUA ANDREE
Each work is a rumination on the ebb and flow of light and tide. Technically exquisite, Andree builds on the Romantic tradition of landscape painting with a uniquely Tasmanian lens.
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DUNCAN MEERDING
Meerding draws on the rugged Tasmanian wilderness to create lights that suffuse your home with the quiet glow of a campfire.
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HELEN MUELLER
A beloved member of the printmaking community in Tasmania and on the mainland, Helen's woodblock prints evoke the lilting shadows of age-old trees or the play of leaves in the sun. Graphic, contemplative and gorgeous.
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JEAN MCGHEE
Jean's ceramics will make the time you spend imbibing all the more pleasurable. Her range of vessels and tableware take you to a not-too-distant past, and a not-too-distant home, a feeling of comfort and contentment.
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SIMON ANCHER
Simon draws on a midcentury lexicon to create his range of furniture and objects, but the result is uniquely contemporary. Solid structures curve and rise like household monuments, and add gravitas to any interior.
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VIVI AL AGO
A truly luxurious, sartorial experience, Vivi al Ago has glided onto the fashion scene like a sleek, black swan, bringing a European effortlessness to Hobartian wardrobes. These clothes are superbly constructed with premium fabrics for a timeless, minimal silhouette.
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EMMA BUGG
Emma takes a material like concrete - massive, industrial, structural - and downscales it to be worn on the body, often including remnants from significant sites to carry on memories. Her use of diamonds as a tool to polish concrete subverts their glittery vitality and makes them extremely wearable.
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