Consigned Artists

SHADES OF GRAY
Call it Aussie ingenuity, but New York’s Guggenheim Museum shop is selling rusty Daylesford fencing wire. Not that it’s recognisable as such once sculptors Peter and Chelly Grey have finished with it. The pair create bowls, fire screens, lamps, birdcages

MARGARET BEALE
After a working life spent teaching secondary school Art/Craft, Textiles and Ceramics, Margaret Beale has only recently become able to dedicate her time to the pursuit of her artistic passion – ceramics.

CHARLES BLACKMAN
Charles Blackman is a major figure in Australian art of the post-war years. His haunting and enchanting images of women and girls, absorbed in daydreams or games have an enduring appeal. Two significant themes in his work have been the Schoolgirl and Alic

KATHERINE BOLAND
Katherine Boland was born in the United Kingdom and immigrated to Australia at the age of four where she grew up on the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria. She has been a practicing artist since 1991,during which time she has exhibited extensively throughout Aus

SIMON BRUSHFIELD
Using mixed media and vibrant colours to produce emotive and imaginative works of art, Brushfield presents an illusion of other worldliness extending beyond the physical reality of the canvas, harmoniously exploring the beauty of the collective soul.

WENDY COHEN
Wendy Cohen produces dynamic and vibrant paintings that coalesce a series of styles, with hints of surrealist and cubist influence, into something truly of her own making. Playfully bright and whimsical, with a light-hearted spirit throughout.

MICHAEL COLL
Michael’s early childhood years were spent in Ireland and England prior to immigrating to Australia. He was educated in Melbourne and completed University studies in Education with majors in art and literature.

MICHELLE DAY
“I use the colours that I see in the earth and the atmospheric qualities of the sky, incorporating texture to represent a relationship with this land. The layering and scraping back of different mediums and colours represents the revelation of memory ...

KATE ELLIOTT
Melbourne artist Kate Elliott has recently been represented in several highly successful shows in both Melbourne and Sydney. Kate’s work is now held in private collections both in Australia and overseas.

JENNIFER FELLER
Jennifer Feller, an award winning modern impressionist, trained and worked mas a graphic artist in London and Melbourne. She has since engaged in many different forms of artistic expression, including production of highly successful home wares...

KEN GRIFFITHS
Griffiths works mainly in oils and acrylics and has begun to produce a series of etchings, mainly dry point copper. His highly developed drawing skills are deliberately enmeshed with painting, in the tradition of Klee, Edwin Tanner and John Brack.

JOY HELEN LEA
Joy Lea presents to you her latest voice in paintings. They are sung in a contented lyrical voice, rich in patterned vibrant colours. The content of this body of work has been developed from a visual diary covering the last eighteen months.

RUSS KITCHIN
Kitchin graduated in 2007 from VCA after completing a Bachelor in Fine Art and a Dimploma of Public Art at RMIT in 2004. He has been involved in numerous group exhibitions throughout Victoria...

RICHARD LAMPRECHT
Born in Austria in 1956, Richard started his artistic career as an interior designer. Light and shadow always fascinated him. He came to Australia in 1974 and after time started producing wax lampshades and wax paintings in the business he helped develop,

NERINA LASCELLES
After completing a degree in Visual Arts, Melbourne artist Nerina Lascelles was awarded a Post Graduate Diploma in Painting.  Since Graduating from Ballarat University...

MERI LJUBANOVIC
Meri Ljubanovic was born in Mt Gambier. After living for many years in the Western District on a farm, she now lives in central Geelong – a far cry from her rural background. Her first experience of painting was in Portland many years ago and this enc

CHERRY MANDERS
Cherry Manders is a regularly awarded painter, most recently winning the Norma Bull Portraiture Prize, 2011.

NADIA MERCURI
Nadia Mercuri was born in Melbourne in 1980. She has completed a Master of Fine Arts degree majoring in glass forming. Nadia is an active member of the Australian Glass Art arena...

TRICIA MIGDOLL
Driven by a of love of Classical Realism, Migdoll applies the techniques of the traditional masters in combination with contemporary approaches to express loveliness and beauty.

DONAL MOLLOY-DRUM
Dublin born Donal Molloy-Drum attended the Crawford school of Art, Cork, where he studied fine art, majoring in sculpture and graduating in 1988. After spending time in London, New York and Melbourne he returned to Dublin and for 4 years he worked in comm

KRISTIAN THOMAS MUMFORD
*NEWS* A regularly awarded artist, Kristian Mumford has just been shortlisted for the 2011 Fleurieu Art Prize, in the Vista Prize category for landscape painting of the Fleurieu peninsula region of South Australia.

WEST PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Local Daylesford residents Sarah & Robert Hewat present their collection of West Papua New Guinea Art in the magnificent Convent Gallery.

JOHN OLSEN
John Olsen is one of Australia's most significant and accomplished artists and is recognised for this both nationally and internationally for his energetic and distinctive art.

LEON PERICLES
Painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer and kite-maker, Pericles’ prolific artistic production has brought him wide national and international acclaim. He has staged many solo exhibitions throughout Australia and overseas and his work is held in numerous

YOLANDA PILEPICH
I have an inherited a sense of the dramatic from my Italian/ Australian family. Life is to be lived – the good and the bad – with energy and passion; people, issues, art and politics. Depicting anyone or anything is a sensual thing with line and colour...

ROHAN ROBINSON
Many of my colleagues will describe their pursuit in painting as “only really painting one painting” others seem to produce painting after painting that appear very similar and unmistakable from the artist, a bit like playing the same pop song over and ov

VICTOR RUBIN
Victor Rubin studied art under individuals such as John Olsen and William Rose. Beginning with his first exhibition in 1971, Rubin has held 36 solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide during this period.

KAREN SCOTT
At 16 years Karen painted her first Mandala after being introduced to Carl Jung’s ideas on Mandalas as a symbolic representation of a journey or cycle. This had a profound effect on her life and she began producing a visual journal of Mandalas. Karen beli

GARRY SHEAD
Garry Shead, winner of the 1993 Archibald Prize, is a noted painter and printmaker whose works highlight a distinctive love of the Australian landscape. He brings romantic and heroic elements to Australian scenes.

MJYRTJE SKIDMORE
In an abstract form, on a daily basis, through my art, I can’t help but express the emotive power of the diversities shown in nature. The contrary way society pushes the focus on wealth and possessions, as the ultimate joy, can make us overlook the si

DEAN SMITH
Crystalline glazes combined with fused platinum and bronze shows exceptional understanding and control of this difficult medium. The aesthetic quality of his work is outstanding, in both form and resolution.

PETRUS SPRONK
“The stories contained in my work are the result of extensive travels from which I continue to return with magical treasures. The stories related to this particular set of bowls have come about as a result of strong influences.”

DEB TAYLOR
What drew me to porcelain was the stunning interplay between light and the fine porcelain forms. I found the combination of the stark whiteness and translucency utterly captivating.

MARTIN THURNHEER
A pilgrim's photographic journey on the Camino de Santiago. A 33 day trek through Spain on this 1000 year old medieval pilgrimage following the “Way of St. James” shows its impeccable architecture, landscape and cultural...

LEE-ANNE TREWARTHA
Trewartha has just been selected for the Blake Director's Cut 2011. Powerful, evocative and bold, her paintings generate turmoil and passion.

KORDELYA ZHANSUI CHI
Whilst both instinct and intuition are themselves shaped by ones experience of reality, they all merge to shape, colour, inspire and pattern the creative outflow. The theme appears gradually while navigating the brush onto what at that point in time...

The Convent - Daylesford

Consigned Artists