Born in Midland, Western Australia, Stuart Elliott studied Fine Art at Claremont School of Art and Curtin University.
Elliott has had 16 solo exhibitions and numerous group shows - including 'Silver' (PICA, 2008), 'Cross Currents' (Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007), 'Perspecta' (S.H. Irvin Gallery, 1997), 'Bravo 469' (Singapore National Museum, 1992), 'First Sculpture Triennial' (National Gallery of Victoria, 1984) and numerous 'Surveys' and related events. His work is represented in most major collections in Western Australia, including the Art Gallery of WA.
Stuart Elliott has lectured at a number of institutions (currently at Swan College), curated, undertaken art residencies, conducted major public and private commissions.
A major monograph about his work written by Dr David Bromfield, was published in 2004 under the title ¨Fakeology: The Work of Stuart Elliott 1964 -2004¨.
While originally known as a sculptor, Elliott has tended to work in more open-ended ways in terms of material and format, experimenting with digital/photographic/collage and text-based works over the last 5 years as a means of investigating the core study of Fakeology.
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Graham Taylor was born in England and immigrated to Australia as a young child. Having obtained his Trade Certificate in carpentry, he then worked as a Project Manager for a Perth based building company for the next ten years.
After resigning his job in 1993, he travelled extensively around Europe before returning to Perth and setting up his own manufacturing company. The company grew rapidly, and in 2003 the majority of the manufacturing process was outsourced to a Melbourne factory allowing him the opportunity to pursue new ventures.
His lifelong fascination for electronics, which had many years previously led to an (according to some) unnatural obsession with computers, now presented him with a new career path. Inspired by the graphics and imagery of computer games and the technical wizardry of movie special effects, he set about teaching himself 3D animation.
His first project in 2007, assisted the Perth Observatory’s successful funding application by creating a fly-through animation of the proposed Lowell telescope enclosure.
He currently spends most days (and nights) working on a range of projects, including CG animation, web design and construction, graphic design and programming.
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Patrizia Tonello was born in Perth, Western Australia to Italian migrant parents. Unable to reconcile herself with reality’s lack of imagination, she enrolled in a two-year experimental arts course at the WA College of Advanced Education (now Edith Cowan University), which offered a range of diverse classes covering creative writing, poetry, painting, ceramics, photography, film and television production, and theatre design.
She went on to do a Fine Art degree at Curtin University, graduating in 1986, and has been exhibiting her work since 1989.
Known mainly for her paintings of surreal architectural scapes, her more recent work concentrates on sculptural forms. Having had five solo shows and participated in numerous group exhibitions in WA, NSW and Canberra, her work is represented in various corporate and private collections including The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, and the Parliament House collection in Canberra.
Her experiments in digital photographic collage in recent years has enabled her to utilise her skills in this medium as part of the Underpass Motel project. She is currently working toward a solo exhibition to be held at Gallery East, North Fremantle in March 2010.
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Amanda Williams was born in England, her family immigrating to Perth when she was a pre-schooler.
After studying mathematics at UWA, she left to work on the first 3D CAD software deployed in the WA mining industry, initially with the mapping of underground ore deposits and later in process control and electrical drafting.
Leaving the mining industry in 1989 she launched her own business providing computer-based art, design and pre-press services to the printing industry, pioneering the emerging technology of postscript graphic imaging in the WA printing industry.
After working for nearly 20 years in commercial art she came to the realisation that designing business cards wasn't really art and promptly enrolled at TAFE to study Environmental Art and Design.
More recently her sculpture has won awards at the City of Melville and Mindarie exhibitions and her prints have been widely exhibited in Perth. She is currently studying towards a BA (Fine Arts) at Curtin University while actively pursuing a late, but better than never, second career as an artist in traditional media.
Underpass Motel for Amanda has been a new and challenging convergence of hand-made puppetry, stop motion and computer animation.
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Born in Warrnambool, Victoria, Peter received his Diploma in Fine Art from Claremont School of Art in 1985. Since then, he has participated in over 80 group exhibitions, state and nationally. International shows include 'Small Scale Sculpture Show' Budapest, Hungary, 'Bravo 469' (Singapore National Museum,) and 'Tugmaan: Ties That Bind' Australian-Filipino Exchange, Salustiana Towers, Makati MM, Philippines.
He has had 6 solo shows (one in Melbourne in 2006), acted as curator for numerous exhibitions in and around the state, and has undertaken numerous public art commissions, some as collaborations.
Awards include Australian Institute of Landscape Architects National Projects Award-category: 'special Initiatives' (Landcorp, Hames Sharley and Peter Dailey). His work is represented in many public and corporate collections including The Art Gallery of Western Australia, the University of Western Australia and the Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria.
Peter is currently a part-time lecturer at Swan TAFE's Midland Campus. While working on the Underpass Motel project, Peter is constructing his next solo exhibition, based on food and it's consumption, to be held at Turner Galleries in 2010.
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Born 1975 Perth WA.
A painter, drawer, sculptor, graphic designer, mac jockey.
Lives and works within the boundaries of the greater City of Fremantle, Western Australia.
Currently involved in Public Art to the detriment of a private practice.
Artistic influences include old comic strips, country blues music, old painty bits of tin, broken concrete, polyhedra, bikes, skateboards, enamel paint, rust, hairy string, old children's encyclopaedias, forests, ATARI, illustration by hand(!), Captain Beefheart, R. Crumb, Charles Burns, Barry McGee, Reb Brown, animals, swap-meet, sign writing, Applecross art cronies...
Included in numerous private collections and a few public ones too.
Exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in Perth and a couple in Melbourne.
Aspires to move to the country accompanied by his darling wife Buffy, Cat, Chicken and Fish, buy a goat and a donkey and accumulate a field of rusty aircooled VW's.
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After completing the Special Arts Program at Applecross Senior High in Perth, Rich's work appeared in two prestigious young artist's exhibitions mounted at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, 'Year 12 Perspectives' and 'Young Originals' in 1992.
He completed a diploma in Fine Art from Claremont School of Art followed by a degree in Arts Design at Curtin University of Technology, and had his work included in the 1998 'Hatched' exhibition at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2000, Rich participated in 'Little Rippers: Australian Fringe Pop' at the Outré Gallery in Melbourne.
Rich spent two years working as a free-lance illustrator, and as a storyboard artist for a short film titled 'Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home', and the SBS animated TV series 'Quads' as well as numerous television commercials.
He's worked for an online business developer doing design, illustration and animation for educational computer games.
His decision to become a live-in carer at a drug-rehabilitation facility in Northam, Western Australia, interrupted his art-centric M.O. for the next six years.
His participation in The Underpass Motel project has hailed a return to the pursuit of his art career. His next project involves work on a zero-budget independent film to be shot in Chengdu, China, later this year under the working title 'The Writer'.
Sculptor and painter, Si Hummerston, was born in 1975 in Western Australia.
Si attended Applecross Senior High School on a Special Art Scholarship then went on to study at the Claremont School of Art.
Si currently lectures at Swan TAFE. Spreading his love of art, he has run over fifty “Artist in Residence” Workshops all around WA with participants of all ages, cultures, backgrounds and abilities.
Constructing with a broad range of materials from wood, mild steel, aluminium, copper and bronze to many reused items such as car panels and street signs, Si creates both 2D and 3D works. Vivid, bright and humorous elements entice the viewer, hoping to catch a smile or even a giggle. Car culture, skateboards, monsters and dogs appear regularly. Kinetic, interactive and mechanical elements also feature in some of the sculptural works.
Commissioned artworks vary in relation to the subject matter and act to tie the significance of the site to the surrounding environment.