Sydney Exhibition
Chloe Mackinnon . Linda Phillips . Carmel Byrne .
Aliki Yiorkas . Betsy Marks . Sue-Ann Stanford . Jillian Gardner
Linda Drayton . Maggie Jane . Pearl Pietersen . Kate Riley
Opens Saturday 1 October / 2 – 4pm
Runs 29 September – 9 October 2022
An exhibition of figurative works including drawings and paintings from our life drawing group, resident studio artists, and associated artists.
Carmel Byrne
A process-driven artist, Carmel Byrne explores existential concepts through drawing from life with both figurative and landscape works. This approach is conducive to chaos & accidents where unplanned marks can, with the flick of a pencil, capture a unique gesture or expression, a surprise that is always outside of the realm of full creative control. It’s an expressive, collaborative act with nature.
Sue-Ann Stanford
Looking for a place where she could learn to draw, Sue-Ann joined the Scratch Art Space community in mid-2019. Fascinated by the contrast between “nature” and “person-made”, and illusions of permanence, her work focuses on encouraging forms to emerge, leaving an imprint as they pass through the drawing’s surface. For this exhibition, Sue-Ann is showing a series of drawings where she is attempting to mark what she senses is there as much as draw what she sees.
Betsy Marks
Following a four decade-long interruption in her art education Betsy Marks has in recent years been pulling together her own personally-designed fine art program by attending workshops and classes with artists in Sydney. Drawing is, and always has been, a fundamental part of her practice and drawing the human figure in all its guises is her preferred artistic expression.
Linda Phillips
An architect first and an artist second, Linda Phillips is drawn away from
the rigidity of the built form to explore the fluidity and fragility of the
human form that is life drawing. The collaboration of Carmel and fellow life drawing artists at Scratch Art
Studios provides a supportive environment to explore new ways of drawing.
