From the artist: The finalists
Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2024 | Various dates | Facebook
Join us for five exciting From the Artist online events, where you can watch, comment, and ask questions live! Each session features a finalist from this year’s Sunshine Coast National Art Prize, showcasing professional artists from across Australia. Dive into their creative processes, explore their stunning works, and get a glimpse into their vibrant lives. Don’t miss this chance to connect with some of the country’s top artistic talents!
Winsome Jobling
Jump online to hear Gallery Director, Jo Duke, in conversation with Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2024 finalist Winsome Jobling.
Darwin-based artist, Winsome Jobling, works primarily with handmade paper and experimental printmaking as well as sculpture and drawing. She uses many local plants to make her paper such as Spear Grass, Banyan Fig, local Kapok and the declared weed Gamba Grass. She has developed many innovative sheet-forming techniques.
Her work is a haptic collaboration with the natural world and a response to our impact on it. Recent works explore the impacts of bushfires and climate change on the Top End Savannah.
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| Wednesday 4 September, 12pm | Interview with Winsome Jobling |
Sarah Hickey
Jump online to hear Gallery Collections Curator, Nina Shadforth, in conversation with Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2024 finalist Sarah Hickey.
Sarah Hickey’s series of idols and still life vignettes are expressions of an internal world of dreaming and reflection. The complex layering of imagery and patterns depict beauty, spiritual iconography and the divine feminine/masculine.
A Griffith University Queensland College of Art graduate, Sarah holds bachelor’s degrees in fine arts and education. She has participated in 10 solo exhibitions and participated in over 30 group shows. This year she is also a finalist in the Percival Portrait Award.
| Location | Date and time | Stream Now |
| Wednesday 11 September, 12pm | Interview with Sarah Hickey |
Paul Snell
Jump online to hear Gallery Senior Collections Curator, Nina Shadforth, in conversation with Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2024 finalist Paul Snell.
Paul Snell is a contemporary abstract artist based in Launceston, Tasmania. His work is characterised by the use of digital techniques to explore the possibilities of abstraction and minimalism within contemporary photomedia.
His images are abstract, yet also declare a certain concrete recognition of their own material substance. He intends to create visually arresting works that allow viewers to enter into a contemplative, or even transcendent state.
Snell has exhibited his work extensively throughout Australia, and selectively in the United States, Asia and Europe.
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| Wednesday 18 September, 12pm | Interview with Paul Snell |
Karen Coull
Jump online to hear Gallery Collections Curator, Nina Shadforth, in conversation with Sunshine Coast National Art Prize finalist Karen Coull.
Karen Coull is an artist with a 30-year plus art practice that embraces a continuous obsession for honouring recycle/reuse within her practice. She celebrates the found, the unwanted and the discarded, and is especially drawn to incorporating vintage books, papers/carboard and found objects in her artwork.
Karen uses collage, mixed media, found objects and needlework to make new stories. She fossicks through the notions that devalue the female/domestic sphere and emphasises the anecdotal and the ‘small’ story in her practice. This sits parallel to her current art practice, which speaks to her personal journey of ageing and the cloak of invisibility that relates to ageing women.
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| Wednesday 25 September, 12pm | Facebook event |
David Creed
Jump online to hear our our Collections Curator, Nina Shadforth, in conversation with Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2024 finalist David Creed.
David Creed is a Naarm / Melbourne based artist whose practice combines humour, DIY aesthetics, recycling and social commentary.
David works across different media such as performance, digital media, textiles, painting and sculpture. Since 2016, he has hosted The DC Style Fylez, a video fashion blog where he assumes the persona of DC, a fashionista who offers styling tips in response to viewer fashion dilemmas.
| Location | Date and time | Link |
| Tuesday 1 October, 1pm | Facebook event |
Suitable for all ages. Will be streamed live on Facebook and available to watch afterwards on the gallery's website and Facebook profile.