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Dominique has been a practicing artist for the last 20 years. She has extensive teaching experience and has lectured at National Art School, Sydney and Southern Cross University, Lismore. She has been a teacher and founding director of Art Workshops Australia and has held numerous painting, drawing and sculpture workshops in Australia and overseas. She has been represented by Olsen Irwin gallery and is held in local and International collections.

phone 0409 573 800
email dominique.sutton@bigpond.com
webstie www.dominiquesutton.com
Instagram @dominiquesutton_

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Petra completed her Master of Visual Arts in 2010 from Sydney College of the Arts where she was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) and a travelling scholarship. Previous to this Petra graduated from The National Art School and The College of Fine Arts in Sydney. She has been teaching at various art institutions and TAFE since 2002.

Petra has been running specialised Printing on Clay and Mould Making workshops at the WAC since 2010. Her work can be seen at Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown and Traffic Jam Gallery, Neutral Bay.

phone 0431 801 228
email petrasvoboda@hotmail.com
website www.petrasvobodaceramics.com

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Social Worker, Artist, Art Therapist
BA, B.SocStud, Grad Dip Art, MA (ATh), AThR

Phillipa has worked and volunteered for over 25 years in the health, welfare and educational sectors. She’s worked in hospitals, related health and welfare organizations and in adult education in Sydney and regional NSW. Providing individual and group support through to developing national support programs, these different work experiences have included working with adoptions, chronic and life threatening health issues, trauma, social skills deficits, grief and bereavement, with children, adolescents, parents/carers, adults, siblings and adults.

Along with bringing up 3 children, Phillipa has enjoyed an active and varied art practice where she has experienced the joy and therapeutic nature of the creative process. An inevitable joining of career and art making led to a Masters degree and work in this capacity. Her role in an Expressive Therapy Centre, a smaller Art Therapy private practice and co facilitating art therapy groups with women living with cancer have provided a rich experience of the benefits of Art Psychotherapy and ‘seeing things differently’. Phillipa is both experienced and passionate about facilitating creative self-healing opportunities for others.

email taylers5@bigpond.net.au

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Tony Tozer has a Diploma in Fine Arts from Claremont, Western Australia and a Diploma in Education from Sydney Teachers College. He is an award winning artist who has exhibited in solo and group shows. His teaching positions include workshops at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Royal Arts Society, Workshop Arts Centre and Northbridge School of Visual Arts amongst others.

His works are in private collections, corporate businesses, banks and municipal councils, including: The Reserve Bank of Australia, The Reserve Bank, London, Commonwealth Bank, Glebe Chamber of Commerce, Prudential Assurance, Macquarie Towns Art Collection, Trinity College – Sydney, Kimberly Clarke, Southerland Shire Council, Hunters Hill Council and Warringah Shire Council. Listed in 1990 Artist and Galleries of Australia Volume Two, Max Germaine.

Tony has been teaching regularly in Willoughby for the past 30 years.

phone 02 4382 6596
Instagram @tonytozer.art

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Born to a family of artists, Michael Vaynman has participated in exhibitions since the age of ten. He excelled in sculpture, printmaking, painting and drawing. However sculpture became his focus ten years ago and he has never looked back.

Michael has worked in numerous mediums such as clay, plaster, synthetic resins and steel. However stainless steel and bronze are his preferred mediums. Recently his sculptures were selected for, and now feature in the film 'Mao’s Last Dance'.

Michael produces all his own bronzes, overseeing each process from start to finish. His skill with the materials has led him to lend his expertise in bronze casting and patination to many of Sydney’s other well known sculptors.

website michaelvaynman.vpweb.com.au

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Natalie has worked in the ceramics industry for over 25 years and is well known for her dedicated teaching primarily at Hornsby Tafe Ceramics and the Willoughby Art Centre, Sydney.

In her own studio practice, Natalie is a maker of tablewares thrown on the potter’s wheel, small pieces of artwork which can be used every day becoming part of the warm, domestic ritual of the shared table.

Produced in her home studio on the northern fringes of Sydney surround by bushland, birdlife and waterways of the Darug and Guriangai country, Natalie finds inspiration in this landscape for the palette of her work.

Local clays hold inspiration in Natalie’s work as does ash for glazes and rust from objects that carry meaning.

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.

Ray Hughes: Africa

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