Synergy-8 Invitation to Trapezium Gallery

 

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We hope you can join us for the opening night of Synergy-8, works by graduating students enrolled in the Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts at Nepean Arts and Design Centre, TAFE NSW-Western Sydney Institute. The exhibition will be opened by John Kirkman, CEO Penrith Performing & Visual Arts, Wednesday October 12 at 6pm. For info on how to find Nepean Arts and Design Centre, click here.

To read more about the exhibiting artists, keep scrolling......

Margaret Lewis

My work is about looking inside ourselves and finding the beauty that is within every one of us. The colour in my work represent the colours of nature where beauty surrounds us, where we receive warmth and fulfillment.

Sean Sweeney

The works I been doing using Marbling technique as a foreground or background. I use self-portrait with landscape with charcoal also background or foreground. I have been working on images of my Xbox 360 controller and me using the controller. The controller and console is always there in my works. I look at maps from the games I play. They have great landscapes. When I play the games I feel like I am in the game being the Character. When I control my character I feel like I am God with another reality.  I think our God is controlling us like a game.

Carol Ann Fitzgerald

In my work I look to my ancestors and their history this has led to an exploration of identity and relationship issues including concerns about family and those close to me. My latest works in encaustic are landscapes of places my ancestors have lived and are about my connection to country.

Ronald Frederick Horstmann

Manifesto

From the enigmatic, self-conscious, preliterate origins of art, in primal prehistory, to remote New Guinea, subsistence societies and their facture, to the vast technological 'wunderkind' of the Twentieth Century's Modernist edifice, all civilization's art, is both synchronous, and an historic phenomena.

Contemporary artefacts are not the works of punctured equilibrium, as dreams of aspirations, but the protracted ontological exertion of causal relation and revelation.

To reject the powerful claims of precedent, is to deny the originary, the tribal, the religious, the utilitarian and the celebratory.

Contemporary outcomes are distinguished by their relative current intellectual accessibility, but we can't interrogate the tribal mind, and ascertain primal incentives and compulsions.

Any artist, can verify through their own gestures, (positions and work) their indisputable deference, to the civilizing aspects of the monolith that preceded us, and the common affinity with all artistic endeavour.

Andrew Hickey

In my artworks I aim to have any type of storytelling, whether it be in a fully developed narrative artwork or one of abstract features. I love every facet of storytelling, I believe it is of the most importance to us all, from it we can conjure images for our dreams, and our hopes. I believe some stories from the past are just as important to be seen, heard, or thought about in our present and in the future.

barbara kenny

In my art practice my paintings reflect my travels, my memories and my life experiences.
My inspiration comes from nature. I like to combine the natural environment with the inner landscape, combining reality with imagination to create  a mixture of traditional and abstract paintings that capture the colours and textures of the Australian landscape.

Alexander Zou

I wish to allow imagination to roam the untamed.

 Talent can then regain the lost original magic to explore the world that is deep, underlying unconscious things, essence and illusory dreams.

Bruni Guenther-Tsapilis

 

I am a print maker and painter and I developed an interest in the philosophy of Zen. Zen can reconnect you with nature and the beauty of the mind. I look at elements of patterns in nature, foliage, light and shadows. The movements of clouds and water all have their own personalities.
With these influences I draw from experiences and memories and search for balance and harmony in our contemporary world. Colours can play an important role, because colours express a certain mood or make a statement.
Zen art embodies peace and harmony and less is mor and with an empty space on the paper, stillness is achieved.
I find the process of making an artwork and the discoveries that happens while making art, as important and enjoyable as the finished artwork.
Each person takes something different from an art work and if art is part in our life, art has the power to change how we view the world.