Dianne Longley
Dianne Longley grew up on a sheep and wheat farm in Central West NSW, which is where her sense of adventure and inquisitive nature began. Her curiosity continued throughout university in the late seventies, where she enjoyed classes in techniques and processes, morning coffee discussions about art, politics and literature and a weekend party or two with Patti Smith and Leonard Cohen playing in the background live! Dianne works across a range of media including printmaking; encaustic panels; artist books; on-glaze porcelain; and small-scale bronze casting.
Dianne opened Agave Print Studio in Trentham in 2014, offering printmaking facilities for artists as well as accommodation for residencies. It’s not just the fabulous studio space that will make you forget the city, the sweet bird calls in the magic garden and the curious kangaroos in sight of the studio will make you want to stay on and create your own work of art.
Studio visits by appointment
agaveprintstudio.com.au
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After being commissioned by the Danish Royal family, Andrew O'Brien rose to international fame to create an artwork for their last Royal Tour in 2013. The commission generated huge interest across the globe, and Andrew’s work went on to grace the covers of magazines and the walls of sets in television shows.
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Her paintings, drawings and prints are striking with layers of defaced surfaces and heavy paints. The raw energy and spontaneity of people and landscape jump at the viewer with a childlike joy wrapped in glorious amounts of detail.
Kim’s farm backs onto the Wombat Forest, where she can observe the change of seasons through the birds, animals, insects, flora and fungi behaviour. The texture of the nearby landscape is reflected in her works which can be seen hanging on the walls of the most luxurious establishments in Central Victoria.
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