Dominique Smallcombe
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Dominique Smallcombe. Tutor of Willoughby Arts CentreBenjamin Stone-Herbert
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http://www.stoneherbert.com.au/https://www.instagram.com/stoneherbert/
Chris Suttie
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Chris Suttie. Tutor of Willoughby Arts CentreDominique Sutton
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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_
Petra Svoboda
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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
Phillipa Tayler
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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
Anyes Theau
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Anyes Theau. Tutor of Willoughby Arts CentreTakeaki Totsuka
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Takeaki Totsuka. Tutor of Willoughby Arts CentreTony Tozer
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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
Michael Vaynman
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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