Crossing Paths: Intersecting practices in regional Australia

Surya Bajracharya / Jon Beale / Julian Laffan / Kate Stevens

Closing Event: Sunday 18 March, 3–5pm
Artist Talk: Sunday 18 March, 3pm
Exhibition runs: Thu 8 – 18 March, 2018

Crossing Paths is a group exhibition where different media is used to explore concepts relating to place and time.  Living and making work in the small rural community of Braidwood, all four artists are influenced by experiences further afield and all use the role and power of the photograph to inform their unique visual language.

This exhibition demonstrates intersecting investigations including photography, woodcut, monotype and painting. These artists create images from their observations as travellers in regional and international landscapes whilst connecting regularly as practicing artists in the context of an historic town in NSW.

Curator: Julian Laffan
Closing Event & Artist Talk: Sunday 18 March 3 – 5pm.

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 Julian Laffan

Julian Laffan creates carved woodcuts on beech ply, finished off with a variety of mixed media to render the timber surfaces with colour and texture.  His themes explore history and identity.

Julian graduated from the Australian National University School of art and now resides in Braidwood. He’s a member of The Culture Kitchen, a Canberra based cross-cultural collaborative print group.

Jon Beale

For twenty-five years Jon Beale has produced silver gelatin prints using the darkroom development process.  These images are taken on annual road-trips from Braidwood to Adelaide documenting the evolution of change and weathered decay in hot rural communities.  John’s captures character and humour in the shots creating works that are as much figurative as they are landscape.

Jon resides in Braidwood NSW.  See more images of Jon’s work here.

Surya Bajracharya

Bajracharya attended the Canberra School of Art, graduated with honours, has been the recipient of a number of awards and now lives and works in Braidwood. His primary medium is printmaking. Bajracharya was born to a Nepalise father grew up in Nepal and then came to live in Australia when he was 4 years old. In 2005, Bajracharya was artist in residence at Megalo Access Arts in Canberra, where he produced monumental lithographic images based on a trip to Nepal. The images were constructed from nine panels each individually printed using a lithographic transfer technique.

The Surya Bajracharya “Mentorship with John Loane in lithography” saw Surya undertaking a 6-week mentorship in the medium of lithography with artist/master printmaker John Loane at Megalo Arts Access Inc and administered under Southern Tablelands Arts as part of the Regional Arts Fund – an Australian Government initiative to support sustainable, community-based cultural development in regional, remote and isolated areas in Australia. The funding is targeted at activities that will have long term cultural, economic and social benefits that develop partnerships and cultural networks and that provide skills development opportunities.

Kate Stevens

Kate Stevens graduated from the Australian National University’s School of Art in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with Honours. In 2002 she was awarded an ASOC travelling scholarship to Japan and in 2011 she won the Portia Geach Memorial Painting Prize. 

Kate has exhibited in solo shows in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Artist Talk: Sunday 18 March, 3pm

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Supported by an Inner West Art & Culture Grant

This Exhibition is part of the 2018 Inner West Open Studio Trail

This is an Art Month Sydney Event