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In her studio practice, Natalie is drawn towards making functional ceramics, little pieces of artwork which can be used every day becoming part of and enhancing the constant ritual of eating and sharing. Produced in her home studio in the North of Sydney, her work has echoes of the sandstone and eucalypts of the Hawkesbury River. Natalie uses iron-bearing stoneware clay bodies, clay slips and soft talc glazes -firing to Cone 9 in oxidation. Areas of each work is left unglazed to exhibit the clay’s natural warmth and textures.

Natalie Velthuyzen gained a Diploma in Ceramics through Northern Sydney Institute, TAFE and has worked in the ceramics industry for over 15 years. She is well known for her teaching at both Hornsby TAFE, Ceramics and the Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby.

Her work can be found at ChinaClay Gallery, Clovelly NSW and by appointment at her Studio.

phone 0432 895 898
email nvelthuyzen@gmail.com
facebook NatalieVelthuyzenCeramics
instagram @nv.ceramics

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Nick Vickers BA Visual Art, Dip. Ed, M.Art Admin

Nick Vickers has been involved in the Australian art industry for over 30 years when he established his first gallery through UNSW Art & Design in 1984. Throughout Nick’s career he has championed the works of emerging artists by establishing a number of galleries through universities and art colleges. He has presented, curated and hosted national and international artists and he has lectured in tertiary, intermediary and secondary institutions.

Nick has contributed to the curatorial expanse of the University of Sydney Art Collection where, through his expertise as Curator of the University Union art collection, he added works of some considerable cultural significance. He established the Sir Hermann Black Gallery & Sculpture Terrace through which he hosted and curated ten years of highly rated art exhibitions and prizes that included The Blake Prize and The Freedman Foundation annual exhibitions.

On a local government level Nick has served on curatorial panels with the City of Sydney, Willoughby, North Sydney (Creative Spaces/ Spaces for Creatives) and Woollahara Councils (Creative Paddington and The Oxford Street Shopfront Festival). He was invited to co-ordinate The Art of Shakespeare, a fundraising touring exhibition of some of Australia’s leading artists that launched in the Sydney Opera House.

On an international level, Nick has served as President of the Slovenian/ Australian Institute that has hosted a program of international art ex- changes and touring exhibitions. In this role Nick negotiated sponsorships and partnerships at ambassadorial and ministerial levels.

During his career Nick has developed a strong network of arts and business professionals. He is panel member with The Freedman Foundation, advises on the artist studio for Curwoods Lawyers and has served as a board member with The Blake Society for over ten years and lectures in Museum Practices.

Currently, Nick works as an independent art curator and is a pro bono board member of the Sydney Art Zone. In 2016 Nick co-curated an exhibition called WAR – A Playground Perspective at The Armoury at Sydney Olympic Park and this year has been invited back by SOPA to curate an exhibition from the studio residency programme entitled Mining Pyrite. This year Nick has been invited to the panel of judges for the Paddington Art Prize.

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Lynn Vogel. Tutor of Willoughby Arts Centre

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Bronwen’s qualifications include BArtEd (COFA), Gd. Dip, Dip Fine Arts, MA and PhD from Macquarie University. She has taught in various University, TAFE and High Schools both locally and abroad.

She has represented Australia in Taiwan as Artist-in-Residence on two occasions in 2003, 2005. Bronwen has been a Board Member of the Workshop Arts Centre (President 2005/06, Hon Sec. 2007-09 and Director). Currently, she is the Co-Director of Steam Education Australia (STEAMAU) teaching adults and children how to integrate the creative arts into education.

Bronwen specialises in Eastern/Western art making including calligraphic drawing, Moku ink splash painting, sculptural forms and wall murals. Bronwen represented Australia at the Art & Society Conference associated with the following Biennales: Venice 2009, Sydney 2010, Liverpool, UK 2012 & Portugal, Madrid 2015 & Vancouver, LA in 2016.

phone 0422 211 645
email b.wade.leeuwen@gmail.com
website www.mokuartists.com.au
Instagram @wadeleeuwen

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Judith White trained at the National Art School, has a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Fine Arts through Sydney University and is a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute.

Judith has won over a dozen major awards including the Mosman Art Prize, twice, the Maitland Art Prize and the Fleurieu Peninsula McLaren Vale Prize.

Judith has been exhibiting and teaching throughout Australia for over 35 years. In 2015 she was invited to conduct workshops in Helsinki Finland, for their national artists association. She has collaborated with photographer Michel Brouet and musician Rachel Scott in several performance projects culminating in The Painted Bach Project at the City of Perth Winter Arts Festival in 2016

Her work is represented in public and private collections in Australia, Japan, the UK and New Zealand.

email studio@judithwhite.net
website judithwhite.net
Facebook judithwhite.5494
Instagram @judithwhite8030

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Born in 1955, Hadyn Wilson has been a practicing artist for more than thirty years and in that time has had over twenty seven solo exhibitions both here and overseas as well as participating in numerous group shows. He attended The Julian Ashton Art School and East Sydney Tech in the 70s and then did a post graduate degree at the A.N.U. and a Masters degree at the U.N.S.W. and has recently completed a PhD at the University of Newcastle.

He has travelled abroad on various scholarships, including the S.M.H travelling art scholarship and a Dyson bequest grant from the A.G.N.S.W. travelling and exhibiting in Europe. In the 1980s and later went to Europe again on an Amnesty International Art prize. He has won various awards including the Mosman Art prize, The South Sydney Sculpture Symposium, Art in the Rocks and Artist in Residency postings. He has exhibited in the Sulman, Wynne and Archibald prizes on numerous occasions, the Hazlehurst and Adelaide Perry drawing prizes and various invitational exhibitions including the Waterford’s Natural history prize at the Museum of South Australia and the Redlands Westpac exhibitions.

website www.franceskeevilgallery.com.au

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Shona Wilson is a contemporary Australian sculptor, who has engaged with natural found material to create both abstract and representational, 2-D assemblages and 3-D sculptures for over 20 yrs. Shona is the creator of the One A Day Ephemeral Art Project which has inspired people worldwide.

Shona currently lives and works on the NSW mid north coast and is represented by Arthouse Gallery in Sydney and Mossgreen Gallery in Melbourne – Australia.

website www.shonawilson.com & www.arthousegallery.com.au

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Helen Wok. Tutor of Willoughby Arts Centre

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Min Hong Xiao teaches art in Shanghai and Sydney. She graduated from Shanghai University of Fine Arts in 1982. She further studied at Sydney Art College, Meadowbank TAFE after moving to Sydney in 1988.

Ms Xiao endeavours to explore the characteristics of Western and Eastern cultures and methodology of education. Many of her students have won awards from school, as well as local, national and international art exhibitions. She has organised and participated in many national and international art exhibitions. She is represented in private collections both in Australia and overseas.

phone 0402 028 840 (English & Mandarin)