Archives: Artists

Rebecca Agnew is a painter, sculptor and stop-motion animator. Agnew’s work explores the human condition in our expanding cultural economy, reflecting on these themes through referencing history, art and artefact she uses the figure and traces of human intervention as a centrepiece. Most recently her work has focused on exploring the variety of social and physical worlds connected by the supply chain of mobile phones. “My recent stop-motion animation 3 channel work ‘I like the way you like’ is a non-linear exploration of the social and physical worlds connected by the supply chain of mobile phones. This concept informed my humanoid, surreal characters and material choices of recycled phones, paper leaves and glitter. The materials I use reflect ecological impact of human actions and the interpersonal narratives that play out between people when faced with conflict.”

Rebecca Agnew lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. In 2004 she completed at Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Otago, Dunedin, before relocating to Australia and completing a Master of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne in 2012. In 2015 she was awarded the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, with residencies undertaken with Waaw, Saint Louis, Senegal and Theertha Red Dot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Agnew was a Studio Resident at Gertrude Contemporary in 2018-19 and in 2013 was commissioned by Artbank to complete a Stop-motion animation for their permanent collection. She has led Animation Workshops for the inaugural Melbourne Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and previously received an ArtStart Grant from the Australia Council for the Art in 2014.

Recent exhibitions include Pink Frost, Tinning Street; Gertrude Studio Artists Exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary; Melbourne International Animation Festival; Waaw Gallery, Saint Louis, Senegal; Immaterial, Articulate Project Space, Sydney; Interior 2.1 (TRAMA Centro), Guadalajara, Mexico and Video Arte Australia Nueva Zelande, M100, Santiago, Chile. Agnew’s work is represented in the collections of the University of Otago, Dunedin; Artbank and private collection in Australia and New Zealand. Rebecca Agnew had a recent residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Vermont and is currently on a residency at Varda, Sausalito Bay, California.

hannah goldstein has been working as an artist for the past 15 years with her main medium being photography. She is drawn to work with archives and concepts of memory, and thus the questioning of authorship. She moves freely in the realms of self-documentary, narrative portraits and staged photography with political headings. She also works with collage, installation and video.

goldstein has a B.A in photography and human rights from Bard College, New York. She spent one year in residency at the Royal Collage of Art in Stockholm, as well as doing a one-year Master class with Arno Fischer at the Ostkreuz Schule für Fotografie, Berlin. Her work has been exhibited in various countries, most recently in France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. In 2013 goldstein self published her book family business. She is part of the feminist art collective Die bösen Mösen with Thérèse Kristiansson. goldstein is also the co-founder of Kaetha, a curatorial collaboration with Katja Haustein.

Andrew Gritscher is an Austrian/Australian artist acutely attuned to Contemporary culture, his ideas and musings on people and the world we live in are complex, informed and intriguing. Due to his innovative and inventive approach to his artistic practice it is not always possible to immediately comprehend what is being said or presented, there is a coded language in his work that is explicable only after a certain amount of the pieces of the puzzle are located. Gritscher’s intrinsically narrative works reward the patient mind – and eye – yet they are also so bold and overflowing with visual information that they arrest the viewer and invoke a sense of visual excitement on coming in contact with his multilayered constructions.

Through his measured use of colour and line Alex Hamilton’s lyrical yet structured drawings pulse. Aesthetically intriguing and riddled with illusionary play, Hamilton allows us to see subliminal tones and rhythms literally streaming through the staid and static urban environments he depicts. Hamilton’s unique visual language, selection of subject, and the cues he layers one upon another, invite the viewer to delve deeper into his complex drawings in search of coded syntax, hidden persuaders, or just an alternate vision of an underlying reality always present. The intersecting lines and free shapes Hamilton places no longer abide by standard rules such as ‘this is up’ ‘that is down’, standard associations don’t quite fit, we are in a different place – harmonious yet hyper attuned, futuristic yet very much from now – a sense that in our day to day world this parallel perspective may hold more truths than at first glance.

Hamilton has exhibited consistently since the mid-1980s throughout the world in solo exhibitions most frequently in London and New York; institutional presentations including the Edith Cowan University (Perth, 2017), Millennium Gallery (Sheffield, 2017), Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna, 2011), Tate Britain (London, 2006); as well as at major International Art Fairs including Art Basel (2018), Art Rotterdam (2018), TEFAF (2017), Art Chicago (2006) & Drawing Now Paris on numerous occasions since 2010.

Hamilton is represented in numerous major Collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Saatchi Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Library, Baltimore Museum of Modern Art, Denver Museum of Modern Art, Gino Gigi Archives, Milan, Judith Hoffberg Archives, Paragon Press, the Charles Booth-Clibbon Collection, as well as Private Collections in Australia, Scotland, France, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, Russia, UK & USA.

The Art practice of Sean Hogan spans painting, print and sculpture. Hogan creates system based works by developing sets of rules that utilise formal aesthetics – geometry, colour theory, proportion, material – to reciprocate algorithmic thinking and as a result, highlight ideas relating to human engagement with both tangible and digital spaces. In 2022-2023 Hogan was included in the NGVs survey of Contemporary Art Melbourne Now with his large scale work Volume I (2022).

In addition to that major institutional presentation Hogan’s work was shown at Spring 1883 at the Windsor Hotel in August this year & early in 2024 he will be shown in a Solo presentation at the Melbourne Art Fair, both Premiere Art Fair forums in Australia.

Data Fields is Hogan’s third Solo Exhibition with Jacob Hoerner Galleries. Hogan has also exhibited at LaTrobe Art Institute in 2018 and was a part of Spring 1883 & Sydney Contemporary in 2021. Significantly, in the last 12 months the NGV & Artbank have acquired works for their permanent Institutional Collections & currently Hogan has a new work Commissioned by Video Game Developer Tantalus that is on Public display in Inner Melbourne.

In addition to Hogan’s Visual Art practice he has been the recipient of five major awards in recent years; the 2021 Australian Book Design Award, Royal Australian Institute of Architecture Award in 2020, & 2021 as well as the Australian Graphic Design Association Award in 2020 & 2021. Hogan has also worked with Wired Magazine, Apple Music & the New York Times as well as having given industry lectures at National Gallery of Victoria, Victorian College of the Arts, Typographics 2021, Swinburne University, RMIT University & the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

Petra Kleinherne came to Australia from Germany in 1981 and since that time has lived and worked in Melbourne. She studied painting privately, then Visual Arts at Victoria University (2006), and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting from Monash University (2010).

Colour and the landscape drive her painting, man made structures and the figure may appear. The work lies between abstraction and figuration. It is process driven and is transformed by the alchemy of oil paint, and unexpected results happen through an interplay of the viscosity of paint, the brush and the canvas. The works happens spontaneously without regard for a certain outcome.

Transformations is Kleinherne’s second Solo exhibition at Jacob Hoerner Galleries’ New Carlton premises (2022, 2021) following on from an initial online Solo Exhibition (2020) and her inclusion in other online Group presentations in recent years. Kleinherne has also had solo exhibitions with the German Embassy in Canberra (2018), the Goethe Institute in Melbourne (2014/15), as well as consistently participating in group shows at a variety of galleries since her first foray into establishing her Artistic Practice at the Summer Academy for Visual Arts in Salzburg, Austria, in 1998.

Outside of exhibiting, study and research Kleinherne undertook a residency in Germany and Croatia in 2019, as well as in France in 2017, stemming from these International residencies and travel her works are in Private Collections in Australia, Germany and France.

John Lennox was an enigmatic, alluring and charismatic painter that sought to show beauty as well as delve deep into the psyche of a world more akin to a surreal dream. While Lennox was formally trained when one focusses attention away from the meticulously and exceptionally well painted idyllic sections of his works a more complex existential side reflecting his in-depth understanding of the human condition comes to the fore. Renewed interest in Lennox’ career comes at a time when many academics and critics across the world have once again focused their attention on the place of outsiders in art history – those that are under-discovered or part of alternate histories – those artists that on occasion are some of the best contributers to grand narratives in art.

Lennox is represented in the Queensland Art Gallery, Benalla Art Gallery, St Vincent’s Hospital and in numerous private and corporate collections in Australia, UK and Europe. Since 2014 Lennox has had three significant solo exhibitions – Manifold (2018), Key works (2016) and Enigma (2014) – participated in numerous group exhibitions, as well as having been shown at Spring 1883 (2018) and shown in the viewing room of Fort Delta, Melbourne. During his lifetime Lennox exhibited consistently from 1972 for 24 years until his premature death in 1996. Lennox studied under George Bell, was a finalist in the Wynne Prize (1974) and won the Camberwell Rotary Prize (1974) in that same year. In 2008 Lennox had a touring retrospective at Benalla Art Gallery (2008) and Castlemaine Art Museum (2008).

Monique Morter is a Melbourne based artist that has developed her practice and consistently exhibited in Australia and Internationally –  most notably Yogyakarta, Indonesia – in recent years. Since completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT in 2010 Morter has developed a style that immediately engages and captivates her audience, her work has an elegance and sophistication that is created through her application and appreciation of the materials she experiments with.

Since completing his Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT in 1980, and then his Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from VCA in 1982, David Palliser has had 25 solo exhibitions, participated in over 30 group exhibitions as well as having been included in 11 Institutional exhibitions, including in Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2013. Palliser has participated in numerous residencies including in Paris in 2009 and then Leipzig and Berlin more recently in 2015 & 2016.

Palliser is represented in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Australian National Gallery, Artbank, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Horsham City Art Gallery, Australian Taxation Office, Macquarie Bank, John McBride Collection, Phillip Morris Collection as well as numerous Private Collections in Australia and the UK.

Katya Petetskaya is a visual artist working across painting and performance art. Born in the Soviet Union, she grew up through the change of regimes in 90’s Russia which continues to have an impact on her practice today. Through her gestural abstract language, expressive mark making and love of high key colour, Petetskaya’s works represent deeply emotive responses to her own personal history as well as society’s broader trends and trajectories. In many ways, as a result of these influences and concerns, Petetskaya’s work embodies a way in which she is able to interpret, process and better understand the accelerated changes of a world that is constantly in the process of reaching yet another tipping point.

Petetskaya has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions as a visual artist and performance based artist at festivals and events in Sydney, Leipzig, Venice, Athens, Saas Fe and The Hague, as well as having participated in numerous International residencies in Guna Yala (Panama), Saas Fee (Switzerland), Chikatsuyu (Japan), Izhevsk (Russia) and Leipzig (Germany). Now permanently residing in Australia Petetskaya was a finalist in the Paddington Art Prize (2018) and the Contemporary Art Award Australia (2015). Petetskaya’s works are held in private and public collections in Australia and overseas, including the Macquarie Group Collection and Leipzig International Art Programme. Petetskaya holds a Master of Art (Painting – Award with Excellence) from the University of New South Wales Art and Design.