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The Emerging Artists Development Program [EADP] works with referees from the Special Circumstances Courts in Brisbane and has been running on “less than average” funds for years now. The program is mentor and relationship based and aims for the participants to expand their arts skills into canvas work, screen-printing and drawing. This is a unique program that over the past 5 years has given leadership in the arts and social services sectors in Brisbane and plays a significant part in the development of troubled youth, the growth of emerging artists and a positive application of the rule of law through the judicial system. 50/50 is a fundraiser exhibition bringing together emerging mid-career and developing artists. These artists donate their work to be sold by Silent Auction beginning at $50 with the intention of supporting Jugglers and the EADP. The exhibition organisers and curators are Yannick Blattner, Clinton Cunningham, Jaclyn Bates and Char Chamez. The opening night is February 3rd 2012. |
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Sarah Hickey
Hickey’s series of female idols are inspired by images of women from a variety of contexts, histories and worlds. The complex layering of imagery and patterns depict beauty, spiritual iconography and the feminine.
After completing bachelor degrees in fine arts and education, and then five years of teaching art in Queensland high schools, Sarah Hickey started to produce art professionally after a long hiatus from her own creative practice. She attributes her ‘creative recovery’ to New York artist Julia Cameron, who has mentored artists through a successful series of workshops and books.
In four years, Hickey has held eight solo shows and participated in nineteen group shows. A recent finalist in the Clayton Utz Art Awards and recipient of the WLS Sponsors Award at the Art from the HeART exhibition; her work features in Curvy magazineand the 2009 Goddess series was chosen as the brand identity for Barossa Belle wines.
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Sarah Hickey, She was like a bull with two heads, 2011, (oil and mixed media on canvas)
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Sarah Hickey, Juanita had Waited long enough…, 2011 (oil and mixed media on canvas)
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James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1838 - 1903); Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1874).
(via wikipedia)
