ARText

Sandy is a self taught illustrator and designer. She spent 25 years running a graphic design business from home before she decided to pick up the paint brush. Her passion lies in water colours and photography. She sells photographic cards and is often found at a chalk board doing local menu's around about Daylesford.

Eric is best known for his cult novel Snail (Penguin, 1996). He has also spent a lot of time exploring the art form of humorous comics. The first of which was published in Cordite, although inaccurately credited to Evan Dando. He has self published several small zines of his work and has stopped writing to spend more time in the garden.

Newbury based artist, Lawrence Finn is passionate about two things – printmaking and the need to communicate.

“When I was a kid, I never had a voice. I came from a difficult upbringing and I didn’t have the words - but I slowly developed the language through pictures.”

Peter is from Daylesford, Victoria. His big bold artwork explores a variety of typographic styles and mediums.

He works in a variety of mixed mediums and styles, with a base layer of paint, some found objects all assembled together to create unique works exploring, text shape and colour.

Eloise Grills is a writer and artist. Her illustrated memoir, big beautiful female theory, is out now through Affirm Press.

Her art, comics, poetry and essays have won various prizes and awards. Her work has been funded by Creative VIC, Regional Arts VIC, the Australia Council and the Copyright Agency. @grillzoid

Julie is an artist and graphic designer from Daylesford Victoria. Having worked in the design world for many years as a creative director, manager and designer she has also fostered her love of art. For TEXTart Julie has contributed illustrative works with paint and plaster, plus collage using old posters and various mixed mediums.

Mahalia Kluwer is a graphic designer and illustrator from Elevated Plains, Victoria. Mahalia studied graphic design at RMIT and graduated in 2018. Since doing an internship with Antimony Agency she has been freelancing. Her work for TEXTart is a playful, poignant range of packaging with political & social statements.

Dave went to art school at the North Adelaide School of Art in the early 90s and majored in sculpture.

Since then he has always kept an art journal and that’s where his collages come from. He loves using found materials, either on paper or as sculpture. There are a range of Dave’s latest postcards in the Radius store.
Follow Daves Instagram here

Joanne Mott is an Australian artist who makes a broad range artworks including Collage, Sculpture, Installation, New Media and Site Responsive Art. Her works engage the themes of ecologies, environment, sustainability and placemaking, and her practice includes creating Social and Community Art projects, often with text.

Peter O’Mara is a local writer and maker of things. His work explores the word / image / object. He lives in Hepburn Springs, Victoria. Being a long term resident of Hepburn Shire has seen him involved in many community projects over the years. His work explores typographic interplays of text and graphic elements.
See Petes work here

As a visual artist, Kim works within the intersection of image, space and identity. Her primary practice includes photo-based exhibitions and installations; with a penchant for floating photo works on the surface of lakes. Playing with image and space invites her audience to reconsider aesthetics and social conditioning.

John Power specialises in time-based artwork. With a focus on animation, installation and interactive live performance, John uses digital mediums to explore Generative Art techniques. His work for ARText stems from years of live VJing. Cascades of video feedback are used with the patterned electronic pulse of a crowded night club.

Jeff Stewart is a long time creative. He paints, draws, writes and makes sets. His current project Little Theatre is with partner Kath. He writes the shows and Kath read the words. He is currently in conversation with friends about things and our relation to them, words have always been a part of his art practice.

Erin views and values scientific theory through the lens of myth and creation stories; her work references ecological survey techniques and botanical illustration to find a confluence of scientific document and intimate engagement with the natural world and her home environment. Erin holds a BFA and a Masters of Art, Design and Environment.

Since the 1970s, Peter Tyndall’s paint­ings, draw­ings and prints engage with recur­sive rela­tion­ships between art, lan­guage and mean­ing. He is known for his use of graph­ic lines, text and com­ic-style illus­tra­tion. Peters art reflects and dis­rupts his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tives on art. His ongo­ing project (since 2008) is a blog enti­tled bLOGOS/​HA HA

Morgans passion is art and design, it always has been. His brain is hardwired to notice everything visual: from an edgy new font to a new contemporary artist. This obsession is in his work as a designer and artist.

Recently he has been writing poems and turning them into animated memes. These are the works included in ARText.