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From Canvas to Community: Silent Art Auction

Our Silent Auction, featuring three stunning original artworks by renowned Sunshine Coast artists John Nelson and Marie Farr, was a wonderful success. 

All three paintings sold, raising over $2,500 to support the campaign of our grassroots community movement for a better future.

Both the artists talk about their work on our YouTube Channel

John Nelson

John Nelson, born in 1951, is an Australian postwar and contemporary painter based in Buderim. His work has been showcased in various galleries and museums, including the Pratt Institute's Manhattan Gallery. In early 2021, his exhibition "The Floating Crust #2" was displayed at the Banana Shed Gallery from January 29 to February 24. He has been busy preparing a new collection for an upcoming exhibition in Canberra in April.

Painting 1 -  Back Home on the Motorway - measures 167 x 120 cm

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Painting 2 - Mapleton state forest walk - measures 140 x 107 cm

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Hear John speak about his artwork 

Marie Farr
Marie Farr is a printmaker and artist based in Flaxton. She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, where she focused on painting with Gareth Sansom and printmaking under the guidance of printmaker Bea Maddock. Her artist books, "Memory: a fractured history" and "Traces - Presence in Absence," were selected by the jury for the InkMasters International Print Exhibition in 2021 at the Tanks Art Centre in Cairns. 2021 the print “Kimberley, Land and Language” was selected by a jury for the Awagami International Miniprint Exhibition, Japan.

2022, her multi-plate lithography titled "Bella...deadly Belladonna" was featured in the Compact Prints exhibition at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts.

The Hippos of Troy 4/8 ed. 2022
PRINT DIMENSIONS 700 X 500 mm
Unframed
3 stencil screenprint and gold leaf
Edition of 8 prints

Watch Marie talk about her artwork and process here.

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