Inner West Contemporary Art Exhibition

Tobias Clack / James Needham / Carmel Byrne

The unique industrial areas in Marrickville provide industrial zoning that give artists the space and freedom to thrive.  This curated exhibition highlights selected Artists that work in the Inner West.

This Exhibition is part of the EDGE Creative Trails Event.

Opens Wednesday 24 July 2019
Runs 25 – 4 August 2019.

The final weekend for this exhibition is part of the 2019 Inner West Creative Trails Event on the 3 & 4 August 2019.

James Needham

James Needham was born in Rugby, England in 1983 and currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. He studied at the Oxfordshire College of Art in the UK, graduating with a Diploma in General Art & Design in 2002 and received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Sydney’s National Art School in 2018.

Tobias Oliver Clack

Tobias Clack’s drawings are an effort to evoke the human figure as an entity shaped by its internal reality. To him the work, and the way it is made, is a metaphorical parallel for the nature of human existence. Just as the experiences that come through living transform and shape us every day, Tobias shapes the work with decisions to accept the marks as they are, as steps taken towards the final piece.

Tobias uses a sculptural approach to his drawing practise. Using tough 300gsm cotton paper he begins the drawing with charcoal as a first step to ‘pulling out’ the image. He then collages layers of paper over the drawing and keeps applying charcoal continually finding the form.

An orbital sander is used to carefully take off the surface cotton paper to either blend the collaged edges or to get through to the charcoal layer buried beneath creating very textured, nuanced drawings.

Carmel Byrne

In 1990 Carmel Byrne began her art studies at The National Art School and in 1997 went on to study for a Bachelor of Fine Art (1C Hons) at the Australian National University. She completed a Masters of Fine Art (Research) with a full scholarship at UNSW Art & Design graduating in 2010.

This work is part of a series of drawings and paintings looking at the many forms of ‘feminine’ from the beatific, to resentment and revenge.