2024 Printmaking, Drawing & Pastels
26. The Reds
FIRST PLACE AND
FRANK MILLS AWARD
Artist: Angela Parr
Pastels
Artwork size (in cm): 78 x 100
Artwork Price: $3,580
Contact for Purchase of Prints: ange@bingaragallery.com.au
Artist Statement: These stunning Forest Red Tails are sadly critically endangered due to losses of habitat, cars, nesting competition, animal attacks, and poaching. They mate for life, up to 50 years, but they breed slowly, so increasing the species’ numbers has proven difficult.
Their distinctive screech gave them their Noongar name, the Karrak, and is also old bush-lore indicating rain is coming. To see them fly overhead is an absolute privilege, and I hope to have paid homage to their beauty in my artwork.
Materials and process: I use high quality pastels and pastel pencils to create my detailed artworks. The base is always Pastelmat Board by Clairefontaine , and I have my works professionally framed with top quality UV glass (Tru Vue-Ultra Vue-UV70) to prevent the sun from spoiling the image and to lessen the amount of light reflection. The matte board is there for the archival purpose of drawing moisture away from the artwork. This way you can be assured of a clear and bright image for years to come. You may also like to know that a percentage of the purchase price will be donated to the The Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital, or Northern Rivers Seabird Rescue, as I support these charities with my art sales.
27. In the Forest Deep and Dark
Artist: Angela Parr
Pastels
Artwork size (in cm): 65 h x 83 w
Artwork Price: $2,280
Contact for Purchase of Prints: ange@bingaragallery.com.au
Artist Statement: This pastel artwork captures an Azure Kingfisher in a fragile eco-system, a deep and dark mangrove forest. My artwork has contrasted a monochrome background with the bright blues of the bird, thereby focusing on it and the purity of its environment, hoping to elicit in the viewer an urgent need to protect our critical coastal habitats for future generations.
Materials and process: I use high quality pastels and pastel pencils to create my detailed artworks. The base is always Pastelmat Board by Clairefontaine , and I have my works professionally framed with top quality UV glass (Tru Vue-Ultra Vue-UV70) to prevent the sun from spoiling the image and to lessen the amount of light reflection. The matte board is there for the archival purpose of drawing moisture away from the artwork. This way you can be assured of a clear and bright image for years to come. You may also like to know that a percentage of the purchase price will be donated to the The Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital, or Northern Rivers Seabird Rescue, as I support these charities with my art sales.
28. Nasturtium Room
Pastels
Artist: Katka Adams
Website: katkaadams.com.au
Instagram and Facebook: katka.adams.art
Artwork size (in cm): 68cm x 64cm
Artwork Price: $2,200
Contact for Purchase of Prints: katkaadams@gmail.com
Artist Statement: Recently I spent many hours beside my father in law as he lay in bed dying. At the age of 94 he was filled with grace, gratitude and peace. He told his family that he loved us and was ready to leave. As I held hands and sat with him I understood how special these final moments were. The memory of his empty bed stayed with me and I created this drawing in response to that time. Nasturtiums were blooming in my garden and I filled the still, empty room with their flamboyant shapes and colours.
Materials and process: I made this drawing on 300gsm Arches paper, using pastel and pencils. It is float mounted in a black stained timber frame under glass, with the edges of the beautiful cotton rag paper showing.
29. Asking for it
Drawing
Artist: Tia Scott
Website: https://tia-scott-art.square.site
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tia.scott.art/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TiaScottArt/
Artwork size (in cm): 51cm x 68cm
Artwork Price: $950
Artist Statement: Our reality is made up of myths and stories, some with more gravitas than others. “Truth” is based on perception, bias and common agreement.
22% of women experience sexual violence since the age of 15, yet our safety is constantly thrust back as our own responsibility.
“What was she wearing?” “Was she drinking?” “She should’ve known better.”
To be a victim and to have failed to follow these ever-changing “rules” results in the most prominent and common of myths: “she was asking for it.”
Materials and process: Graphite on paper.
30. Objects from Alice
Drawing
Artist: Claire Sleeman
Instagram: @claire_adds_colour
Artwork size (in cm): 96 x 340 (tryptich)
Artwork Price: $395
Artist Statement: Inspired by Alice in Wonderland since childhood, I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of escaping into a fantastical world full of adventure and alternate realities. My still life drawing, Objects from Alice, reflects this, capturing iconic objects from her journey. As an artist, I’m drawn to the simplicity and symbolism of still life, using a few carefully chosen objects to tell deeper stories and evoke curiosity in the viewer.
Materials used:
Charcoal
Prisma Colour Pencils
Canson 220gsm drawing paper
Framed by ‘Frameshop’ online
31. Enchanted Forest
Artist: Karri Ezart
Drawing
Artwork size (in cm): Width 95 x height 65 framed
Artwork Price: $600
Artist Statement: Inspired by the beauty and magic of the Northern Rivers’ rainforests, I hope to capture the divinity and surrealism of the nature here, through art which is healing, uplifting, peaceful and playfully innocent. I have done several short art courses over the last 10 years (Virginia Reid BCC; Daniel Mirante; Michael Cusack BSA) and presently am completing Cert III in Visual Arts at Byron Community College. This is one of 2 works which were my assessment pieces for the drawing project “Place”
Materials and process: On: White “Stonehenge” paper 250 gsm, 570 mm x 765 mm
Used:
Graphite Pencils 7B, 8B, 9B; Pencils various; Willow charcoal – black; Compressed chalk – white; Charcoal blenders; White pastel, soft
Timber green provincial frame with glass 650 mm x 950 mm
32. A Secret Place
Artist: Karri Ezart
Drawing
Artwork size (in cm): Width 95 x height 65 framed
Artwork Price: $600
Artist Statement: Inspired by the beauty and magic of the Northern Rivers’ rainforests, I hope to capture the divinity and surrealism of the nature here, through art which is healing, uplifting, peaceful and playfully innocent. I have done several short art courses over the last 10 years (Virginia Reid BCC; Daniel Mirante; Michael Cusack BSA) and presently am completing Cert III in Visual Arts at Byron Community College. This is one of 2 works which were my assessment pieces for the drawing project “Place”.
Materials and process: On: White “Stonehenge” paper 250 gsm, 570 mm x 765 mm
Used:
Graphite Pencils 7B, 8B, 9B; Pencils various; Willow charcoal – black; Compressed chalk – white; Charcoal blenders; White pastel, soft
Timber green provincial frame with glass 650 mm x 950 mm
33. Tallows
Artist: Rachel Dunn
Pastels
Artwork size (in cm): 33cm width x 44cm height
Artwork Price: $275
Contact for Purchase of Prints: racheldun333@gmail.com
Artist Statement: Finding solace in the environment, I wanted to reflect on my local beach and
surrounds.
Materials and process: Etching and aquatint.
34. Wallum
SECOND PLACE
Pastels
Artist: Rachel Dunn
Artwork size (in cm): 40cm width x 50cm height
Artwork Price: $335
Contact for Purchase of Prints: racheldun333@gmail.com
Artist Statement: My artwork is a celebration of the Wallum, the coastal heathland that graces Northern NSW, an ecosystem rich in biodiversity yet increasingly threatened by development. Through my lino reduction prints, blending the delicate beauty of this landscape with a deeper message about the need for preservation.
Materials and process: Lino Reduction.
35a. Mandala Art 1
Nirit Feinstein
Email: fnirit@gmail.com
Artwork size: (in cm): 33 x 33
Artwork Price: $150
Contact for Prints: fnirit@gmail.com
Artist Statement: Inspiration comes from the colours inside my soul that need to be expressed outside in the format of geometric shapes.
Materials and process: I use watercolors pencils black pants and acrylic paint it’s all come together to form a very deep and beautiful meaning for grammatics shapes.
35b. Dragon Eye
Artist: Poet Nemme Denby
Pastels and Drawing
Artwork size (in cm): 29.5cm X 41.5cm
Artwork Price: $20
Artist Statement: I’m 9 years old and I chose a Dragon Eye because I think that Dragons/Dragon Eyes are so mystical and colourful and I finally got to see one close up. I realised that Dragon Eyes are much more than just colourful. They’re beautiful, glorious, majestic and gracious.
And that’s my experience with a Dragons Eye.
Materials and process: Lead pencil and oil pastels on paper.
36. Eagle Sun Dreaming
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Artist: Peter Faulkner-Roberts
Website: https://www.sacredstuff.com.au/portfolio
Instagram:
Pastels
Artwork size (in cm): 70 x 90 framed
Artwork Price: $1,250
Contact for Purchase of Prints: Phone 0434435324
Artist Statement: I am a Bundjalung man from the Widjabul clan and I have lived around Lismore my whole life. Country talks to you. There are signs all around. Country speaks through signs from Nature, the patterns that emerge inform us of what’s coming. Our ancestors speak to us too through signs and shifts in energy. Sometimes you hear them dance and sing.
I come from both saltwater and freshwater people and islander people from the south seas. My artwork reflects this ancestry.
Materials and process: Linoprint on stonehenge paper, with additional hand-colouring in watercolour.
37. Saltwater Dreaming
Artist: Peter Faulkner-Roberts
Website: https://www.sacredstuff.com.au/portfolio
Instagram:
Pastels
Artwork size (in cm): 70 x 90 framed
Artwork Price: $1,500
Contact for Purchase of Prints: Phone 0434435324
Artist Statement: I am a Bundjalung man from the Widjabul clan and I have lived around Lismore my whole life. Country talks to you. There are signs all around. Country speaks through signs from Nature, the patterns that emerge inform us of what’s coming. Our ancestors speak to us too through signs and shifts in energy. Sometimes you hear them dance and sing.
I come from both saltwater and freshwater people and islander people from the south seas. My artwork reflects this ancestry.
Materials and process: Linoprint on stonehenge paper, with additional hand-colouring in watercolour.