David Stocker - Ceramics in paper clay
They sit still as stone
Waiting for the rain to start
To wash their thoughts away
Once again the quirky Mr. Stocker has captured life in miniature. These action sports figures include players of Tennis, Cricket, Aussie Rules, Lawn Bowls, Discus, Quidditch (the Harry Potter game played on broomsticks) and even a few spectators.
Stocker, who at present is doing Ceramics IV, is one of the founding members of the Cuttagee Artists Group. He has been on sabbatical in Bega for a few years.
Stocker, who at present is doing Ceramics IV, is one of the founding members of the Cuttagee Artists Group. He has been on sabbatical in Bega for a few years.
I am a textile artist and I began by printing and painting cotton and silk fabric using synthetic dyes. My current passion is for dyeing fabric with plants. Spending half the year in the tropics of NQ and the other half here in the temperate south, I have a wide range of native and cultivated plants to experiment with. The temperate regions have fantastic plants for dyeing as you can imagine and some of the most effective are the weedy natives that you see everywhere. The tropics is also a fantastic sources of plants, the weeds being the mangroves and their companions, the native hibiscus. I first thought that the hibiscus might have good colour properties when I noticed that the windfall flowers left blue stains on white concrete. The rest is history and a lot of experimentation.
I use flowers, leaves, bark, roots and fruit and mixtures of these to create marks and colours on natural fabrics and also make liquors of quantities of flora, like the wattle, callistemon, hibiscus, geranium, roses in the south and Burdekin plum, Ixora, bougainvillea etc etc in the north and there are still plenty to try. Even the humble old red cabbage has fantastic results, not to mention the ubiquitous eucalypt which has to be the foolproof favourite. 
I dye lengths of silk of various kinds as well as cotton, linen and hemp which can be used for clothing or just wearing as a wrap or sarong, furnishings, on sofas, walls, beds etc or as really special gifts for someone (or yourself!). Everyday I find new plants that might give me colour so if you see me wandering looking at the treetops, please don’t run me over!
Surajo Frith - Bird Baths
My passion and my work is creating gardens. Creating a peaceful and soothing environment gives me great joy. Watching the myriad of birds that bathe in our handmade birdbath in the evenings is thoroughly entertaining, some of them ever so tentative about taking their first jump into the pool!
For this exhibition I will be creating more of these pools. These birdbaths for the exhibition ‘Poetry of Form’ are inspired by my travels in Asia.
John Gosch - Metal Sculpture
I was born in Bega in 1969. I have lived in the Cobargo area for most of my life. I am a boilermaker/welder by trade and have had vast experience in the building and construction industry.
All of my artworks are created entirely from recycled materials. When I create a sculpture I look for certain characteristics in each individual piece. I try to achieve balance, simplicity and representational form in my works. I believe that my art is a reflection of the era in which we live, with great emphasis on recycling and the environment.
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| Ned Kelly |
I enjoy the freedom of choice when I am creating, which is limited only by the materials I have at hand. I find that the unexpected unity that objects can make when brought together both challenging and rewarding. I feel a great sense of achievement when I create life giving values to the ordinary manufactured objects in my sculptures.
Premo Schafer - Painting
I started to paint a bit in the 1970's while living with a family of artists in Guatemala. Many years later I came to live on the Far South Coast and was inspired by the energy of so many artistic people and the splendour of the environment. There is so much natural beauty in this area and I try to capture the colours and textures of the glorious coastline, the bush and the forests and the lush green hillsides.
The poetry of form is resonant both where nature is undisturbed by development and where farming country has been cleared. In the curves and shapes of the land we see the beauty of its form. I passionately want to share in the beauty of the spectacular Far South Coast. The coastline, the forests, the rivers and the high country inland – there is magnificence here, and it inspires me to try to capture some of its splendour by painting what I see around me. In the beauty of nature I see The Poetry of Form.
Jan Ward - Painting and Mixed Media
I am a practising artist living on a property next to the Brogo Wilderness Area on the far South Coast of NSW. My working life was as an art teacher at a college in Canberra where I also undertook classes in Advanced Painting Techniques at the Canberra School of Art. I work mainly in watercolour and acrylic, combining collage and drawing into my works to create richly textured grounds. I have exhibited in many group and solo shows over the past 30 years and currently run art workshops from my home at Brogo. Information about these workshops is available on the website www.brogoart.com
For this exhibition, the 16th for the Cuttagee Art Group, the theme is "The Poetry of Form". I have always enjoyed the Japanese poetic form, haiku, where the poet renders in verse direct observations of nature and the passing of the seasons. My paintings for this exhibition will be mixed media works where my inspiration has come from the forests, shrines and natural world of Japan. In 2010 I travelled for 5 weeks in Japan where I walked the mountain trails of the Kumano Kodo, the Pilgrims Way, through ancient forests of cedar and pine and visited temples and shrines hundreds of years old. The shape and form of the pines and 300 year old cherry trees particularly exemplified to me the harmony and balance in nature when left untouched.
Vibhuti - Painting
Shaz Davey - Bird Baths and Sculpture
- Tanja, Bush potter
- " developing artist"
- ceramics qualification - Ceramics Cert III and IV., TAFE NSW
- background - zoologist, ecologist, conservationist
- present - carer
I like the work to speak for itself, rather than talk about it. These are works in progress....
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| Birdbath - Greenware (unfired) |
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| Birdbath - Greenware (unfired) |
My work can be described as contemporary art with particular focus on art for contemplation. I create unique spiritual art that can help transform a special corner of a room into a sacred space. My art is often inspired by the richness of old cultures and traditions, their colours and symbols, as well as my lifelong interest in meditation. My paintings create a calm, harmonious, contemplative atmosphere and bring qualities of silent presence and stillness to a home or work space.
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| Seeds 1 and 2 |
Many of my paintings reflect my interest in the spirituality of the organic mechanics of nature. They are a calligraphic expression of the relationships of the worlds of DNA, star orbits, circuit boards, movements of subatomic particles, flow of hormones, patterns of language, layers of history.
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| Peace Flowers |
I have worked as an artist all my life and have participated in many group shows and had a number of solo shows. my work can be seen on my website : http://www.evacockova.com/
Robyn Williams - Painting
Anneke Paijmans - Ceramics
I am a ceramicist and a painter/printmaker and I aim to combine these mediums in my ceramic sculptures. The imagery of the Torres Strait Islander artists such as Denis Nona and Billi Missi influences me. Their connection to the earth and sea is essential to their livelihood and survival and informs their art. Their heart connection to their art is what gives their work its strength. I hope my heart and spiritual connection to the earth is conveyed to the onlooker through my sculptural pieces.
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| Smoke-pod |
I use smoke from sawdust, leaves and seaweed to give my pod forms their dark earthy tones. “Smoke‐pod” is the latest in a series of these smokefired pieces, and in it I combine the ceramic shape with scraffito markings that suggest spiritual symbolism to both modern and primitive sensitivities. This is a still and reflective piece.
Paul Fletcher - Sculpture
I've lived at Cuttagee for 5 years. I was delighted to be invited to participate in this exhibition, Cuttagee being such a lovely place and it's wonderful to be able to express my ideas about that beauty. Through my life I have done many Art-based courses, but over the years, have taught myself to sculpt, works I like, but mostly as gifts for others, but I have had, and do take commisions. I have taken part in a number of exhibitions in Sydney, for Mardi Gras, and other events. 
Most recently I have completed three large works. The tallest, at 3 metres, is of the Lady Galadriel, (Cate Blanchets' character), from the 'Lord of the Rings', which has a positive message, on it's name plate, which reads "Hope Remains", in the Elfen Sindarin script, which Prof Tolkien created for his epic book. Other sculptures, include a Gothic garden gate, and buttress, and a Celtic Cross, proportioned on St.John's Cross, on the Holy Island, of Iona, in Scotland. This piece was donated and dedicated, to the All Saints Anglican Church, in Bermagui, for it's Centenary, last October. 
My work in this exhibition,was inspired by the juvenile leaves of the Blue Gum, a very organic shape, which has always reminded me of The Olgas, and the Cycladic culture, of Ancient Greece. I first made it as a small ceramic, some years ago, but due to kiln size restrictions, was unable to realize it in it's current proportions, and have incorporated other elements, such as water and shells in a tiny spring and Indeginous midden. But equally the recessess can be used in other ways, such as a planter or outdoor vase. Mahesha Dan Philpot - 3D Sculpture and Dioramas
Art comes into one’s life at many junctures. I can remember when young pulling apart windup clocks and together with a little glue, creating little sculptures.
Then during the 1970’s music was my way of creativity. My work as carpenter/joiner put me to work lock fitting on New Parliament House, where I found great joy in learning how to split a pencil line in half. Around this time I also learned how to make Japanese style lamps and also Crystal Wands which I still create today. More recently I received an Ass. Degree at UTAS in Furniture Design and attended two years of a BA in Contempary Arts(3D Sculpture). From the Furniture Design, I discovered miniatures. Before making furniture often a miniature is made to see the dimensions easier and to test the stability of the project.
I now spend my time between making coffee and making Miniature Dioramas and 3D Sculpture.